This weekend there will be fun times in McMinnville, OR, at the McMinnville Comunity Quilt Show. It runs September 18 and 19 from 10-4 each day at the Bethel Baptist Church, 325 NW Baker Creek Road, McMinnville, OR.  They will have over 300 quilts on display, door prizes and more. On Saturday, I’ll be presenting a trunk show at 2pm. If you’re in the area, stop by, we’ll be looking for you!

A good time was had by all–at least it looked like it to me! So despite one ridiculously long flight to Texas that day, and only 3 1/2 hours sleep, I proved to myself that I really can do anything for just one day! God bless my hostess, Sarah, who was up until after 3:30 am to retrieve me from the San Antonio airport.

We had a trunk show in the morning and a 3 hour class in the afternoon where we made Quilt-O-Grams.  Here’s a photo of the ladies sorting through the shapes for their projects. It reminded me of shopping the sock sale the day after Thanksgiving!

Today I’ll make my way to Portland, OR, so I can fly to Texas tomorrow. The New Braunfels Quilt Guild near San Antonio has invited me to teach and speak there and I’m really looking forward to my trip. We’ll be creating some fun, fused cards that are featured in my book Quilt-O-Grams, © 2008 C&T Publishing. The last 3 days have been spent preparing a slide presentation to supplement the quilts I’m bringing, and juggling those quilts and supplies so that every piece of luggage is the right weight.

 There was fabric to be fused and shapes to be cut out for the projects. We’ll be making Fantasy Flower cards like these:

All these are made with simple shapes cut with the Accucut die cutting machine–easy and quick!

This one has some couched yarns on it just for fun.

This is my class sample project. I’m sure we’re going to have a great time. Wish you could be there!