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Darcy comes to T-Town!
Tulsa was privileged to have Darcy Ashton hold a workshop last month at Just Quilt It!
Darcy has a selection of retail patterns that are in high demand. Her use of "down-home" colors and fabrics in her quilts makes her patterns widely appealing. She recently has had her patterns added into the Keepsake Catalog.
The picture above was taken during her workshop on her Grandma's Bunnies book. Yesssss, that's her quilt top hanging on the back wall. Aren't those bunnies adorable? Here's another picture of it and the cover of her book: 30 bunnies in all.
Here's her Baby Bunnies:
Here's her Paper Cut Valentines: She will be holding a workshop on these on July 26.
Here's her Gingham Dogs and Calico Cats (workshop on August 23):
She has a brand new book coming out mid July. It is the 3 Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens. It has 5 projects in the book and will be in the Keepsake Quilting Fall Catalog. And she is scheduled to teach the Mittens class from this book here in late fall and in Oklahoma City in November.
These are just a few of Darcy's patterns. You can order these (kits, too) online from Just Quilt It or Quilter's Warehouse.com or locally at Just Quilt It!, 81st & Harvard, Tulsa.
Site seeing, anyone?
http://www.reddawn.net/quilt/circle.htm Easy Circle Cathedral Window Technique.
http://birdcam.kodak.com/cgi-bin/asCgi.pl?node=10&app=birdcam&laf=playground&instance=1 Another Bird Cam--Peregrine Falcons
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dstredulinsky/kids_patterns.html Snowflakes!
http://www.heritagepatchwork.com/lunchboxes.htm Quilters' lunch boxes.
http://quiltersreview.com/article.asp?article=/review/product/030623_a.asp Review and testing invisible, monofilament threads.
What's New?
Well, the 5th in the Short N' Scrappy quilt series is on the free block of the month page. Caddo River is the name of it. Kinda' looks like the Caddo, doesn't it? I remember swimming in that river when I was a little girl (longgggg time ago) when it was as clear as glass. We still hope to have this series available for purchase very soon.
Oh, Yeah, almost forgot. I had an "itch" to appliqué. A really BAD itch. So here's how I scratched it:
Should have taken a close up for ya'. It has some star-shaped beads on the rim of the vase, and some sequins and blue rhinestones in the center of the little blue flowers. Made this for a friend.
Karen Combs has a fabric collection out right now that is combinations of colors in wide stripes. I used her green fabric for the stems and leaves. Just a quarter of a yard yields a good amount of 4 shades of green. This is great for people who appliqué. She also designed it in other colors, pinks, purples, etc. The fabric is produced by Clearwater Fabrics. Each fabric gradates from light to dark across the width, so you get 11" of each of 4 colors. Solves the problem of trying to find a "light, medum, and dark" color all the time!
http://www.karencombs.com/texture_stripe.htm
I sure sound like a commercial. In fact this whole newsletter does! Well, I just like to share good things with my friends! :-)
May you always have a quilt in the hoop, I try to.
Cya,
Claudia
June 30, 2003
ARCHIVES: (Please note that some of the links on past newsletters
on the Site-Seeing Categories may have expired and are no longer available--in
other words--Its Not My Fault!!)
August,
2001- Premiere Issue: Explanation of Website Categories, Picture
of Author
September, 200l - Eden
Mennonite Sewing Society, Oklahoma MCC Relief Sale Link, New House Hunting
Pattern, New Ozark Mountain Night Pattern, Call for Guest Gallery
October, 2001 - Plett's Plot,
Sewing Society Follow Up, New Quilter's Alphabet Pattern, New My Stars &
Bars Pattern, Free Block of the Month Project - House Hunting
November, 2001 - HenryCat, My
Stars & Bars Free Block of the Month, New Easy Eights Pattern, Granny's Tip
of the Month
December, 2001 - MCC Relief
Sale, Enid, Oklahoma; Quilter's Corner, Auction Bay, Featured Quilt, Other
Quilts, 10,000 Villages, Twilling, Finished Simply Amish Quilt, Free Block of
the Month - Easy 8's, New Heart Trio Pattern - Appliqué
January, 2002 - New Year's
Resolution; Website Reviews: Bead Creative, Quilting with a Passion,
Webshots, Lancaster Gen. Store, others; Quilters Mall Crawl; Free Block of the
Month - Calendar Blocks
February, 2002 - Grandma's
Buttons Lap Quilt, weather box, Quilt University.Com, Fran Iverson Gonzalez,
Hawaiian Ice Breaker, Paypal Added, Connecting Threads, New Pattern - Proud
Mamas, Free Block of the Month - Heart Trio Table Runner
March, 2002 - Twilling Quilt
Update, Quilt Car, Worm Song, Alex Anderson's Chat Room, Out with Henry, In
with Frosty, Free Block of the Month - Simple Scrappy Pleasures.
April, 2002 - Finished
Shadow Quilt Top, Yoyo Site, equiltessence.com, Snoopy Dance, What Muppet
are You?, Free Block of the Month - Proud Mamas, In the Works - Train Quilt
& 9-Patch Wonders
May, 2002 - Nite-Nite Express Quilt
& new pattern, Mr. Skunk, Frosty Update, End of the Internet Site, Sewing
Genie Review, Ground Zero Quilt Site, Internet Bumper Stickers Site, What
Simpson are You?, Crazy Horse Site, 9-Patch Wonders new pattern and free BOM,
New Logo
June, 2002 - Eden Mennonite's Broken
Star, Stack & Slash Tutorial, Gauge your Age, T-Shirt Quilts, What Storybook
Character are You?, Holiday/Birthday List Link, Vacation Notice, Quilt Index.
Com Mall Crawl
July, 2002 - Our mention in Quilters'
Newsletter Magazine, Diana's 9-Patch Wonder Recipe #3, Diana's Simple Scrappy
Wall Hanging, Fractal Quilts Link, What Vegetable R U?, Smiley Reference Link
August, 2002 - Homeland
Pride Quilt, Winsome Wildflowers Quilt, Gag Gifts Link, What's Your Inner
Flower?, Quilters' Survey, Fireworks Link, WWQP Pattern Search Link, Funny
Valentine Link, Kansas Trouble Quilt Pattern
September, 2002 - Simple
Scrappy Pleasures Finished Quilt, Sharon Caligan's Simple Scrappy Quilt,
Friendship Basket Exchange Block, Nickel Cobblestones New Pattern, Kansas
Troubles New free BOM Project, Mini Munchkin land Link, Useful Items Link, Quilt
Costs Link, Useless Quiz Link, Jeanne Prue's Guest Gallery Link, The Mom's
Dictionary Link
October, 2002 - Book
One--the First Collection, Basket Luncheon Set, Friendship Basket Swap, Baby
Cobblestone in Progress, Site-seeing, 3 Barns Kansas show
November, 2002 - Cobblestone
Finished, Another Nite-Nite Baby Express Finished, Jungle Lone Star Finished,
Site-Seeing Links: Kaleidoscope toy, Funky Chicken, Quilt Lid Boxes,
Telephone Game, Which Villain Are You?, Weird Eyeball, Pickup Truck Cover, Quilt
Block Design Interactive, Movie Physics; Simple Scrappy Wall Hanging new
Free BOM Project; Bird Hunting and Pieced Flowers In the Works.
December, 2002 - Thirteen
Flowers Finished, 4th Nite-Nite Express Finished, Pat Katnik's Nite-Nite
Express, Site-Seeing Links: Quilts Stolen, Paint by Number, Sarah
Mylchreest, Snowmen, Giggles, Mugshots, Canon Cards, Twelve Flowers New Free BOM
Project, Snowball Poem
January, 2003 - Bird
Hunting Pattern and Quilt done, Site-Seeing Links: Google View Search
& Bill Coleman's Photographs. Addition of Guest Gallery, Beaded
Egg, Scrap Quilts in the Works
February, 2003 - Nancy
Adams' quilt, Juliana Winegarten's quilt, Tulsa Volunteer Blocks, Site-Seeing
Links: 71 Reasons to Buy Fabric, FBI Watching You, The Weedeater Quilt
March, 2003 - Just
Quilt It! Feature Story; Site-Seeing Links: 12 Flowers Block Swap, Quilt
Judges, & Where words come from; Plaid Mad in the Works, & Peacocks in
the Works
April, 2003 - Pretty-Boy
Peacocks Finished; Site Seeing Links: Owl Cam, Eagle Cam, Old-Fashioned
Living, People/Dogs, Armed Services Banner; What's New Decisions/Decisions
May, 2003 -
Muskogee Quilt Show, 2003; Site Seeing Links: Leather Thimble, Evil
Squirrels, The Weird Chronicles, Iraqi Information Minister, What's New Ducks in
a Row, My Stars & Bars free block of the month.
June, 2003 - Penguin
Quilt, Site Seeing Links: QuiltMaker program, Baby crib quilt racks,
Quilter signs, Carjacker raccoons, Avoid alien abductions, EQ4/5 Tutorials,
What's New Lone Star Basics Pattern
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