Thursday, March 11, 2010

title pic Goal Posts update and a guest blog

Posted by Kelly Smith on March 1, 2010

Goal Posts update for February
Last month I blew my writing goal out of the water! My goal was 16,000 words. I actually wrote 20,078. Sponsors! Do your thing and donate to First Book!
I have taken on some new writing assignments, so here is how it all breaks down:

5516 on my historical novel
6883 on quilt patterns
7679 [...]

title pic New class on Quilting Weekly

Posted by Kelly Smith on February 15, 2010

Photo by QThomasBower via Flickr

I’m preparing a new class for Quilting Weekly that should be starting near the end of March/beginning of April.
This will be a combination block-of-the-month / mystery quilt and I’m really looking forward to sharing it with you all.
Check out my teacher’s page over there for more information and keep an eye [...]

title pic Ten tips for teaching new quilters

Posted by Kelly Smith on February 5, 2010

Shoofly block from a recent project

My guest post “Ten tips for teaching new quilters” was just published over on Caron Mosey’s Michigan Quilts blog. Go take a look!

title pic Still time to register for quilt class

Posted by Kelly Smith on February 3, 2010

There are only a few days left to register for the beginning quilting class at the Box Factory in St. Joseph, MI. Check out this blog post for details.
Here are some pictures of the table runner we’ll be making.

title pic Upcoming quilting classes

Posted by Kelly Smith on January 25, 2010

Beginner’s quilting class: Table Runner

Beginning Quilting: table runner class
I’ll be teaching my first “official” quilting class on Wednesdays February 10 through March 3, from 6 to 8 pm at The Box Factory for The Arts in St. Joseph, MI.
I say “official” because until now I’ve only taught friends and family for free. It will be [...]

title pic New Etsy item – Valentine’s Day charm packs

Posted by Kelly Smith on January 15, 2010

Charm packs

I just added some cute little Valentine’s Day charm packs to my Etsy shop.
Each pack contains 48 5″ x 5″ squares. There is an assortment of ten fabrics, so there is some duplication in each pack.
Fabrics include two different pink batiks, some Alexander Henry fabric, some Moda fabric and others.
The red hearts on black [...]

title pic New Etsy item

Posted by Kelly Smith on January 9, 2010

Vintage Violets by Debbie Beaves

Yesterday I went into my very chilly sewing room and sorted through fabrics. I was supposed to be cutting a jelly roll for a friend, but instead I got caught up looking at all the gorgeous spring-like fabrics I have in my stash.
I pulled out a collection of fat quarters I [...]

title pic Hoffman Challenge 2010

Posted by Kelly Smith on January 8, 2010

Hoffman Challenge fabric for 2010

Have you ever wanted to enter the Hoffman Challenge? If you don’t know what it is, each year Hoffman Fabrics chooses one of their luscious fabrics and challenges quilters and fiber artists to create something amazing out of it.
This year’s fabric, Turquoise Gold, features a beautifully ornate pattern and uses the [...]

title pic Quilting for charity

Posted by Kelly Smith on January 7, 2010

The Grand One Quilt Bee (the bee I belong to in Grand Rapids, MI) will be quilting tops for Margaret’s Hope Chest this year, and with luck we’ll finish enough of them that we have time to make some quilts of our own for them.
The group was founded by the granddaughter of Margaret Herrema. In [...]

title pic Happy New Year!

Posted by Kelly Smith on December 31, 2009

I have spent almost all of New Years Eve working on class notes for a quilting class I hope to teach at the Box Factory for the Arts. It will be a beginner class and we’ll make this table runner out of both pieced and appliquéd blocks. Once I have dates and time scheduled for [...]

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