Author / iQuilt Showcase 2018

The Seasonal Sampler from BUILD A BARN

will be on display during the 2018 AQS Quiltweek shows!

Daytona Beach - February 28-March 3, 2018

Lancaster - March 21-24, 2018

and

Spring Paducah - April 18-21, 2018

as well as

Wendy Caton Reed from The Constant Quilter

Grand Rapids - August 22-25, 2018

Kevin the Quilter

Fall Paducah - September 12-15, 2018

Teresa Raleigh from A Quilt and A Prayer

and

Virginia Beach - October 3-6, 2018

Julie Post - one of the Secret Society of Barn Builders Charter Members

If you attend any of these shows

and visit with The Seasonal Sampler,

please get a photo of yourself with the quilt

and send it to me.

Cherie Moore - one of the Secret Society of Barn Builders Charter Members

It is SUCH fun to see your smiling faces!

Sharing Sad News

just-Spring by Katherine R. French

I am so very sorry to share news of 

the passing of one of our SSOBB Charter Members.

Collage - just-Spring by Katherine R. French

Kathy French passed away on November first

after being diagnosed with Stage Four lung cancer.

Kathy was an enthusiastic member of the SSOBB,

sharing many thoughts during the editing process

that made BUILD A BARN's process notes better.

She also shared barn photos from her 2016 trip to the UK.

She posted about this stone barn here.

She also shared a post about this stone barn in North Wales.

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And, if you've never seen 

Kathy's free pieced quilt named Roses for Rosita,

be sure to click through and scroll through the posts

she shared during the quilt's making.

Thank you Kathy for sharing yourself with us -

We will miss you!

Mari's Free Pieced Chapel

Mari from The Academic Quilter

has created her very first free pieced building

using the process notes in BUILD A BARN.

You can read her post about the block HERE.

Way to go, Mari!!!

Sandra's Newly-Quilted Barns

Sandra was one of my Folk School students earlier this year.

She created three barns during our week together.

This is the first of the three - quilted and bound.

This is the second now-finished quilt.

What really made my heart happy was

not only did she finish all three quilts,

but she shared them so that they were part of 

the recent Davies Manor Quilt and Fiber Arts Show.

This is the third finished quilt - The Psycho Barn.

If you double click each of these

you should be able to see more of her quilting.

She already has places chosen in her house

to hang all three quilts.

CONGRATULATIONS, SANDRA!!

Exciting!

I stopped by our new locally-owned independent book store

and look what I found on their shelf --

How exciting!

Lynne's Latest Barn Building Class

photo will supersize if double-clicked
Photo taken at Quilted Threads, Henniker, NH

Read all about Lynne Tyler's 

recent barn building class 

by clicking HERE.

AQS Des Moines 2017

SSOBB member Julie Post shared this photo

from the recent AQS Des Moines show.

I made The Seasonal Sampler 2.5 years ago

as the example quilt for BUILD A BARN's process notes.

Since the book's publication in early 2016,

 the quilt has been traveling from one AQS event to the next.

I took this photo in "the dome" aka "the Pavilion" 

during last month's Fall Paducah show where

I presented three times in the Author / iQuilt Showcase.

It was good to see the quilt in person again!

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With this year's series of shows at an end,

I suspect the quilt will be returning home soon,

at least for a little while.

Thanks, Julie P. for sharing your photo!