Hi Everyone

The holiday season is upon us and I hope you may have some time to sew with friends, make a holiday gift, wear an ugly sweater to a party or just hang out with your furry friends with a cup of tea watching the snow outside.

I came across this cute pattern online and made this table runner for one of my daughters who always comes home at Thanksgiving to cut a Christmas tree to take back to Oklahoma! So, then I designed another table runner for the other daughter.

Here is my FREE pattern for Winter Trees. You can make it up quickly to decorate a table or piano!

This is number 6 in my Slot Canyon series of quilts based on Antelope Canyon in northern Arizona. The sun illuminating the twists and turns of the canyon walls is spectacular.

It has traveled for 3 years with the SAQA show Primal Forces: Earth to many venues including the BYU Museum of Art where it was the large banner outside the museum to advertise the show!

It is now available in my online shop for sale.

Do you listen to podcasts? Well one of the best quilting podcasts around is the Quilter on Fire. Brandy Maslowski is a quilt maker and artist who travels extensively as a teacher, speaker and NACQJ certified quilt judge. She interviews fabulous guests each week and I have been invited as a guest on the podcast at the end of January! Watch my newsletter for more info.

My first teaching engagement of the new year will be with the new Arizona Fiber Art Center, If you live in the Phoenix area I hope you will join me!

My latest national park quilt was inspired by the same view of the mountains in Badlands National Park. One at sunrise and one at sunset. This piece is fused applique and was cut out using a digital cutting machine! It is for the 4 Common Corners call Juxtaposition.

Many of you have asked for patterns of my national park quilts. Well the time is near. I have been working on the first pattern - Yellowstone of course. It will be available in a few months after my pattern testers have tried it out. Stay tuned.

Don’t forget that I have on demand classes available on Skillshare (use my link for a free month) and Creative Spark. Please check them out.

I have just published a new class on Creative Spark on using Procreate to design art quilts. It covers all the basics of Procreate on the iPad as well as some fun bonus content on designing transparency and shadows.Take a look here.

I’ll be teaching again in 2025 at the wonderful Empty Spools Seminars Session 1. Registration is now open!

What could be better than waking up to a walk along the coast and then a 5 day class to dive deep into a design for your own piece of art!

Happy Holidays to all! Thanks for being a loyal follower.

Vicki