Category Archives: Travel

Creative Nudge – On to Varanasi

Many of you who follow my travels and creative essays may have already figured out that I write and send these essays very spontaneously. It is a creative challenge that I made for myself when we started our midweek Creative … Continue reading

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Colorado Floods

  I am writing to you tonight from Agra in India, after visiting the Taj Mahal today. As you can imagine, it is very surreal to be reading about the flood devastation in Colorado, when I am on the other … Continue reading

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Road to Jaipur

I am writing to you from a hotel in the countryside, about a half hour outside of Jaipur in India. In a few minutes I?ll be leaving for our daytrip to Jaipur ? the Pink City. We've only been here … Continue reading

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Creative Nudge – Lady Liberty as Muse

When you read this, it will be September 11, the 12th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Towers. Because I had lived in the East Village in NYC for many years, even though I had started a new … Continue reading

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Birmingham Videos Part 3, India Trip

I am posting the last few videos from the Birmingham Quilt Festival in the next couple days, before I leave for my next big adventure on Friday the 13th. Did you catch my video interview with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon … Continue reading

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Creative Nudge – Kaffe Interview

One of the special things about traveling to quilt festivals is the opportunity to meet the talented celebrities of the industry. We were lucky have a chance to visit with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably at the Birmingham Quilt Festival, … Continue reading

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Birmingham Videos Online – Part 2

This weekend I have a 2nd batch of videos up from the Birmingham Quilt Festival. Bonnie McCaffery and I met up to make several videos about the art quilts and the artists at this big European quilt gathering. eQuilter was … Continue reading

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The Birmingham Quilt Festival is the largest quilt gathering in Europe, which is why I love to travel to the UK in August. There I meet quilters from Norway to Normandy and the Netherlands, and I discuss quilting with Russians … Continue reading

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Birmingham Videos Online

One of my favorite parts of my "job" is to travel to international quilt festivals, to take photos and produce videos. Bonnie McCaffery and I met at the Birmingham Quilt Festival, and filmed several reviews of the quilt show, plus … Continue reading

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Creative Nudge – Make it Your Own

In my Saturday night newsletter, I mentioned a quilt in the Birmingham Quilt Festival with a Scottish Thistle. Today I want to show you a detail of that quilt, because of the amazing quilting in the background. One of the … Continue reading

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