July
My quilts are all over this month. One in Knoxville, two at Quilt Odyssey in PA and two on their way to the Houston show.
I have a workshop at my home studio this month and next but am not out on the road teaching again till September. I love the summer as that is when I have the most time to do my own quilts. This is the quilt I just finished called Natural Wonders. Inspired by my love of tide pooling in the San Juan Islands. Mt. Baker looms in the background. This quilt has scraps from 123 different fabrics, all hand appliqued together.
Have a wonderful, creative summer. I love getting e mail from all of you. Hugs Kathy
May
Pass it On won Best Machine Workmanship at Denver National.
Now you can cruise with me to the Caribbean in 2011 or to Alaska in 2012.
see www.quiltcruises.com for more information.
My new quilt is done and I couldn't love it more.
Greeting the Golden Grandchild
April
Please come by and visit me at the book signing for the "2010 New Quilts from Old Favorites"
at the National Quilt Museum during the Paducah International AQS show.
April 23rd See you there!
Feathered Friends 1st Place large quilts at
American Quilters Society, Lancaster Show 2010
I am going to have to buy a lottery ticket. I am on a roll.
If you live on the west coast I will be teaching at Pacific International this year.
October 14, 15, 16. I hope to meet many new friends there!
March.
Crossing Calamity Creek
won Best Pictorial at the Mid Atlantic show!
A good week- Pass it On also won 1st in Large Applique at Indiana Heritage
see quilts in the gallery section
Did you see Quilter's Newsletter Magazine?
The March issue has a 4 page article about my Front to Back Pictorial Quilting.
If you are interested in a workshop, let me know. I am registered students for March 20 and 21 here at my home studio.
Take care everyone. Kathy
November
2nd Place
My best quilting friend and I collaborated on another quilt for the New Quilts from Old Favorites contest at the National Quilting museum. It is called Sun Flower duet.
The challenge was to make a new design with the traditional sun flower block. Geri Parker did the piecing, I did the applique and quilting.
We have a great time working together on our quilts.
August
Crossing Calamity Creek won Best Pictorial at Quilt Odyssey in Hershey PA.
It is always so exciting when you win something. At the national level of competition, all the quilts are beautifully done by master quilters.
I know that any one of them could be fortunate enough to be chosen.
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June
Quilt Raffle Update
THANK YOU
to everyone who participated
in our Quilt Raffle.
We had huge success.
With your generous donations and support we were able to raise a total of $5,045.00
which was 75% of the total hospital bills.
AWESOME and AMAZING!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!
This past Sunday, on Father's Day, we drew the winning ticket and are thrilled to announce that
Catrina Millikan of
Mission Beach, WA is the winner!
[Our friends Jessica and Joe were here visiting from California and as Joe has the least amount of affiliation to anyone who entered the raffle he was given the privledge of drawing the winning ticket. The drawing was recorded on video camera and is available for anyone wanting to see it.]
Hailey is doing wonderfully. She will be 6 months old in one more week. She is up to 13 pounds and still gaining steadily. She thrills her parents with huge smiles and giggly shrieks (especially when her bearded daddy blows raspberries on her tummy). She has mastered the trick of rolling from her tummy to her back and just this week discovered her thumb, which she now sucks like a pro. Shane and I feel incredibly blessed to have been given the opportunity to be her parents. No matter how big she grows, she will always be our tiny miracle baby.
We also feel incredibly blessed to have been surrounded by such amazing people during this somewhat challenging start of our family. Many of you who are recieving this letter are close friends and family, but many of you are also strangers. Every single donation that I recieved by mail came with not just a monetary contribution, but with a note of love, support, and prayer. Many of you shared personal stories of other babies born premature, their parents, and their successes. You will never know much it meant to open a letter from a stranger to find a check and a letter of love and encouragement. We know that Hailey thrived, and is thriving, from not only our love but all the love that came to her in the form of prayers, well wishes, good thoughts, and positive energy. It is an amazing thing to hold a tiny little person and be so filled with love that you feel that every cell in your body will burst and then to realize that it is not only you but a whole group of people that are loving her and cheering for her, and that that love just continues to multiply.
Shane and I THANK YOU from the very deepest places in our hearts for the donations that you gave in the forms of money, love, prayer, and support.
Shona, Shane, and Hailey Lowell
June 2009
I just returned from teaching at the Minnesota Quilt festival in Duluth MN. What a great show. This is the largest judged show in the US that is all volunteer. Lots of quilts from all over the country. Nationally experienced teachers, beautiful venue and an amazing staff of well organized, energized and nice, nice people. My Landscape students were probably the most diverse in style that I have ever had. They had better send me pictures of their finished quilts!
April 2009
Feathered Friends
