Karen Kay Buckley

This past week I visited the Cottonwood Quilt Guild in Omaha, Nebraska. My contact, Nel, was wonderful. She and all of the guild members gave me a great Nebraska welcome! To learn more about this guild visit their website at http://www.cottonwoodquilters.org/

Here are some of the members who attended the evening….

and then the morning lecture.  A very large guild and the meetings were well attended.

Judy brought her finished “Garden Medley” project to share.  Judy took this workshop with me a while ago and thought I would like to see it finished.  She is right.  I love knowing they get finished.  Thanks for sharing Judy.

Nel said if we had time we should visit the University of Nebraska’s International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln. It was worth the hour drive north of Omaha.

There was a very nice exhibit of antique quilts.  Many of them were from Pennsylvania.  Here are just a few.

There was a fantastic exhibit of Michael James’ new work entitled: Ambiguity & Enigma.  I love his new work.

Some of the ladies from the guild said that while we were in Lincoln we should stop and visit one of their favorite quilt shops, the Cosmic Cow.  All I can say is “Holy Cow!” I did not think one could fit and tastefully display over 5,000 bolts of fabric in such a compact area. It was heavenly.  http://cosmiccowfabricsandquilting.com/

Under or over each grouping of bolts are smaller shelves with corresponding fat quarters.  I say, “Wow to the Cosmic Cow”!

Until next week……..

This past week I was back for the second year of The Kathy Dunigan Academy of Applique.  To find out more visit the website http://www.kathyduniganappliqueacademy.com/academyinfo/

I taught “Spring Time”, a machine applique project,  as a three day workshop.

Here are some of my most excellent students working very hard on their version of my project.

Hopefully each of my students will be sending me a photo of their finished project so I can share it with you.

Working with Kathy and her mother is a real treat.  If you love applique consider checking out the schedule for next year when it is posted.  I’ll be returning next year….not sure what I’ll be teaching just yet but possibly one hand and one machine applique project….each for three days.

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BOOK REVIEW

Just finished listening to Sue Grafton’s book “X”.  Kinsey Milhone is a PI living in California.  For those of you who are unfamiliar…the series started with “A is for Alibi” and we’re all the way to “X” now.  That’ a lot of writing on the part of Sue Grafton.  Kinsey always gets herself into some interesting predicaments and has some strange clients which makes for some fascinating story lines.  I thought the book was a little slow in the middle…sorry Sue…but I did enjoy the book.