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Old news and new news — learn Annie’s deepest, darkest, secret which involves her trip to Healdsburg for the interviews at Bishops Ranch. I put a new definition to “Die-hard Quilter”.

Thanks to all who have entered quilts in the Quilting Stash Birthday Online Quilt show! PLEASE enter your quilts if you haven’t already. Midnight, April 30th is the deadline for entries, so don’t delay. Scroll down to Program #43 to view the details.

Upcoming: a project made just for the OLFA

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The final interview at Bishop’s Ranch retreat with Angie Kiker. Angie started the Yahoo Group for Home Quilters in 2003, which now has thousands of members. If you’re interested in joining, you can find the group at Home Quilting Systems.

This Yahoo Group is for everyone who does their own machine quilting on their domestic sewing machines. Angie uses the Brother PQ1500S sewing machine with a Hinterberg quilting frame. She is a wealth of knowledge and a machine quilting expert. Her quilting is amazing!

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture with Angie. But here is a group picture — can you even imagine how much fun they had?!

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What a delight to visit with Janet Shore, one of the original Quilt Guild founders of Northern California. Janet took her first class from Roberta Horton when Roberta taught at a community center in the late 70’s.

Janet has a wealth of information about her quilting adventures and she is fascinating to listen to. She is a fantastic quilter, too — and not a traditional one. She prefers the freedom of Art quilts. Janet is a founding member of the East Bay Heritage Quilt Guild and the Northern California Quilt Council and knows every national teacher/quilter on a personal level. In fact, her friends at the retreat lamented about how they can’t go to a quilt show with her without her stopping to greet nearly everyone she meets.

Janet is such a treasure! I hope you enjoy listening to her interview.

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More from Bishop’s Ranch retreat with Diane Ansel — Incredibly, Diane has only been quilting for THREE years. I almost fell off my chair when she said that she had only been quilting for that long. Her quilts are asbolutely amazing.

And here is Diane with her Best of Show Quilt

from Art Quilt Tahoe, which is her FIRST machine quilted quilt… (I’m trying not to be intimidated by Diane’s raw talent with quilting!):

Check out the close-up of her quilting detail:

I hope you’re inspired by this “new” quilter!

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As part of my Quilting Stash birthday celebration I’m placing a show each day this week. Today I’m sharing another interview from Bishop’s Ranch Retreat with Pat Marabella of Santa Rosa. I really hope you’ll enjoy getting to know Pat — who is a dedicated Art quilter who loves color.

Here is Pat with her tablecloth quilt:

And here is Bodega, the fabric-beaded fish:

Isn’t he great?!

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I had the unique pleasure of travelling to Healdsburg, California (about 60 miles north of San Francisco) to visit a quilting retreat in progress. Diane Perin Hock invited me to come and spend the day and meet this wonderfully warm group of quilters. As soon as I walked in, I was greeted with colorful quilts and happy quilters and I felt immediately at home.

Each of the quilters was working on delightful projects and I was inspired by each one. I’m so grateful that Diane invited me to come to the retreat and it was an even greater pleasure to meet this talented quilter, and blogger. Diane has written about the retreat in humourous detail, which you can share in by viewing Diane’s blog at Going to Pieces. You’ll love to see her photos of the retreat, too, and the projects that these talented ladies worked on.

Diane and I had a great conversation about many subjects, particularly Quilting Blogs. Here is a list of those Blogs, for your enjoyment:
Bishop’s Ranch – a great place for a retreat!
Brenda Smith’s blog New Zealand Quilter
Yarn Harlot
Melody Johnson’s website
Crazy for Fiber blog
Gabrielle Swain’s website
BlogHer

Wow! I am still reeling from the incredible time that I had during the all-too-short time that I spent with these quilters. I can’t wait until October, when I get to become one of them!

And, yes, Diane — you DO have to listen to your interview! ; ) It’s great!

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Hi. Please download and listen to this announcement regarding a surprise for the 1 year anniversary of Quilting Stash. It’s time-sensitive so don’t delay!

The QS Elf

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Happy Birthday Quilting Stash!

To celebrate, many things are in the works, specifically the first Online Quilt Show! To view all of the details and get submission guidelines to enter your very own quilts, go to Quilt Show.

If you have any questions, please email me at annie@simplearts.com.

Thank you for making this podcast so much fun to do! Stay tuned for many birthday surprises in the month of April.

Now, submit your quilts for the show!

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New Ideas about being a good student and being a good teacher, courtesy of listener, Diane Perin Hock — thank you Diane!

Anne Howe’s quilt for her son’s teacher — what a cute quilt!

Bag o’ Fun quilt project, sure looks like a load of fun to me. Visit Louise Thompson Schiele’s project at Weezeewear.com.

AQS quilt show in Paducah and feature LowerTown Arts District Quilt Walk organized by Aynex Mercado. Learn more about the Quilt Walk, Aynex, the Arts District by visiting these websites:
Paducah Arts
Aynex Mercado’s website
Aynex’s Galleria
LowerTown Quilt Walk

Quilter’s Fall Foliage Tour details

SimpleArts retreat #2 has been combined with retreat #3. View details here.

Quilting Stash is turning one year old! Stay tuned for special events. One such event will be an online quilt show featuring quilts made by YOU! Details will be available on Monday, April 3rd.

Until next time, happy quilting!

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My little girl turns 25! Happy Birthday Princess!

Kirsten and I went on a shop hop of our own to celebrate her birthday, and we recap our weekend in this program. We were very naughty and had a great amount of fun.

Here are the links to our itinerary:
The Granary
Carolea’s Knitche, Quilt Shop Extraordinaire
Fenton’s Old-fashioned Creamery
Stone Mountain and Daughter
Lacis
New Pieces
The journals Kirsten was talking about keeps her swatches close at hand.
Amy Butler fabric
Bride and Prejudice info and the DVD
The newest version of Pride and Prejudice, the website and the DVD

If you ever come to visit the San Francisco Bay Area, we highly recommend the places that we visited.