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Sew Red - Sewing and Quilting for Women's Heart Health
Last May I was in Kansas City at Quilt Market and was introduced to Laura Zander from Jimmy Beans Wool by Nancy Soriano at a lunch. (Nancy introduces me to some of my favorite people!) Later that...
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The Felted Rose and the Paper Pansy
Arlene BakerThis spring we are offering two beautiful flower workshops...Arlene Baker is returning one again, this time to teach her Felted Flower Workshop and Robert Mahar will be here for the first...
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Show us Your French General!
Beat-up, old chair found on Micheltorena Street in Silverlake, CA In need of some tender. loving care!Spanking new chair! Re-upholstered with Toulouse ticking from French General's new collection with...
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Meet Me in Boulder!
I'm off to Boulder next month to teach at the historic Colorado Chautauqua for The Makerie. This three day creative event is all about sewing and features such talented friends like Heather Jones, Amy...
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A Charming Time.....
For the past twenty years I have made vintage glass charm bracelets. Today, as Molly and I were preparing to make up a handful of new kits, she asked me how many bracelets I had made over the years....
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Petite Inspiration
If you happen to be visiting Los Angeles this weekend and need a bit of creative inspiration, head over to French General on Saturday, April 13th from 1-4 and learn how to make our Petite Beaded Crown....
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Spellbound...Deux!
Last November I was thrilled to be asked to teach at The Gilded Life's creative event, Spellbound, held at the Langham Huntington in Pasadena, California. The event featured four days of workshops,...
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In the Blue at Sew Makerie
A couple of weeks ago, I packed up my indigo and shibori bag of tricks and headed east to Colorado for a wonderful weekend of creating at Sew Makerie - a new addition to the annual Makerie Retreat that...
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Just in Case You Missed the Sunflowers in France....
Five years ago, we started taking groups of women to the South of France to learn to live like a rural Frenchwoman...while living in a 17th century chateau! We have just returned from our month in...
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The France I Know....
After taking women to France for the past five years, I have come to know a side of France that is all together different than what I used to know. I used to be intimidated by the French, worried that...
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Jewelry Making at Quilt Festival!
A couple of years ago at The Creative Connection in Minneapolis, I met a wonderful women named Judy Murrah who convinced me to come and teach at the International Quilt Festival. At first, I...
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Teaching at French General.....
I love a good teacher. And for the past ten years, all of the teachers at French General have been women. I'm not sure why or how or even when...but somehow, when we began the process of building the...
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Down and Dirty Indigo Dyeing
I've really taken to natural dyeing over the past few years and I am excited to finally teach a workshop at French General this summer. As well as building up indigo vats in the back alley at French...
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Nina Bagley is Coming to Town!
Ten years ago, my good friend Holly from Key West called and said she was headed to Montreal to take a workshop with an artist named Nina Bagely. My first response was "You're going where...to do...
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The Beauty of Lavender
If you have ever walked through a lavender field, you know immediately how calming and intoxicating the scent can be. Short of taking everyone to France to visit my friend Nadette who grows over eight...
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Learning to Make Jewelry
We've just finished our Fall 2013 Josephine bracelet and necklace kits, and have planned a workshop on jewelry making for all those who have been dying to make up one of our kits, but haven't learned...
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Moda Size Matters Blog Hop and Giveaway!
Today is the kick-off day for the Moda Size MattersBlog Hop and Giveaway! This has been a long time coming...and I'm excited to start the blog hop on day one, along with Edyta of Laundry Basket Quilts...
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Color Inspiration Workshop with Amy Butler
A couple of years ago, at a quilt market in Houston, I ran in to Amy Butler and her husband David and in passing I asked Amy if she would ever want to come to France with us to teach. David...
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Lucky Ducks!
Thanks to everyone for following the Moda Blog Hop these past few weeks...and for leaving so many wonderful comments! The overwhelming majority of you love sewing LAP QUILTS! I never knew! I think...
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Whooo's Felting Now?
We're excited to be hosting another Evelyn Neily Felted Workshop at French General on Saturday, October 12th. I first met Evelyn while teaching at a CHA Workshop in Anaheim a couple of years ago...you...
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