I am back from a wonderful teaching trip to Spokane Washington; our first workshop focused on sashiko and my Sea Life series, adding just a bit of applique for sparkle. The next day we worked on tropical flowers from my tropical Sashiko Sampler series. I gave two trunk shows; WSQG is so big they need to have an afternoon and evening meeting! Such an enthusiastiic vibrant guild. Thank you to all who made my trip so smooth and enjoyable, especailly Ginger and Kathy. Ginger took me to 5 quilt stores, so I came home with full suitcases and a new stack of exciting fabrics.
Back home, we are in the middle of major reconstruction to enlarge my studio and living space upstairs. The windows are in, siding up, and it is looking spectacular!The studio will be big, airy, and very light and we will have space for massive feasts upstairs.
My Hawaii retreats for 2013 are filling!; Indigo Niche, my Australian distributor, is bringing 12 quilters from the Brisbane area February 18-22th ; another group from Perth is coming April 14-19th, and I am holding an advanced design class March 4-8 with a group from Alaska. There are still plenty of spaces in the February 11-15th retreat.
I am home for the summer with no teaching obligations until the Fall, so I am going to concentrate on new designs. Here is a new quilt my mother put together from a series of Chinese Indigo Sashiko bird designs. The Two Owls is a popular kit; I will release more in the series this summer.
Sashiko Design Book is selling well; we are busy keeping ahead of the demand. I am contemplating making up the Moon and Wave design from the book into a fabric kit.

We are excited to finally  release our new book, Sashiko Designs, a Collection of 200 Motifs. It includes sashiko instructions, designs of foliage and flowers, borders, geometrics, corners, medallions and backgrounds. The 56 pages are easy to photo copy, so you can size and create your own designs.

Cost: $20.00 plus shipping