LDSF pins on sale

You can buy Mo's Hearts on the web now! This Spring the LDS Foundation took over the pins sales. They are offering pins and card packs with photos of the pins on the website. Please google LDS Foundation or try: www.loeysdietz.org for more information.

By the way..Mo is doing great! She graduates from 8th grade this June, turns fourteen on June 14th..flag day! and was interviewed on a local radio station for her involvement in raising funds for Children's Hospital in Milwaukee.

Busy!

As much as I would like to get to post everyday..that would mean I am actually finding time to create as well...I am taking the chance you will stick with me here through a busy time in my art world.

Since my last post several things have happened. All good. I have reduced my hours at my "real" job..not because I wanted to but the physician I work with has requested a lower payroll...even I know that working for free is not a good thing. So the twenty or so hours this frees up will now be put toward a new adventure for me.

I have started new beading projects as well..bezeling odd shapes and crystals. I have found I can peyote stitch just about anything and hang it on a wire necklace! Wait for the pictures they are coming!

I had the pleasure of spending time at the Chicago Quilt Festival in April with Bonnie and Lynne. We had an excellent show! The new Lizard pattern was a hit in Chicago!..patterns flew off the rack. BBD will have some new patterns coming out in the fall..some in cotton and some in wool. The new BBD pin sales are doing well. Check in late in July for the new patterns.

I will be having a one woman show at theWI Museum of Quilting and Fiber Arts in July-August-September. I will link the Museum's webpage for times and driving instructions. My show is entitled Pieces in Time..a display of my quilts from my early attempts in the 80's to my latest works. Each quilt has a history of it's own..colorful stories about each quilt will walk you through the journey from novice quilter to pattern designer and a better quilt artist. Some pieces will be for sale.

I am also participating in a MaRQ show at the Annaba Tea Room in Shorewood in August. I have designed (and am struggling to finish) a wallhanging size quilt which features BBD tea related images: tea strainer, tea cup, and two women sharing tea...a new pattern developed for the Fall! Again...check in July for the images. This little tea room is one of my favorites on the east side of Milwaukee. Great gardening store and wonderful views from the second floor atrium.