Allison has an Education degree from University of Winnipeg and many years’ experience teaching aquatics. Allison began teaching sewing and quilting while working at a sewing machine dealer in Calgary, Alberta. She also owned her own fabric store and sewing school for 6 years where she had the wonderful opportunity to teach a wide variety of classes to many sewers, young and old. She now has a studio and classroom in her home and does customer quilts and well as longarm machine rentals. She is a National Handi Quilter Educator. Allison teaches in her studio, locally and in North America. Allison has a very, very supportive husband, 2 daughters and granddaughter close by.
Yesterday I started quilting a lovely fall panel that I found from Northcott. “Pumpkins for Sale” is coming along nicely as I use WonderFil’s 12wt threads in rayon, Accent and cotton, Spagetti and Fruitti. I’m halfway through this project and can’t wait to finish it and hang it on my…
As I finish my week of playing with WonderFil‘s thicker threads I’m also planning for the fall. My mother asked me to quilt a fall wall hanging for her and I enjoyed it so much I decided to do one for myself. I pulled out my stash of WonderFil’s 12wt…
This week I’m sharing some small quilted projects and stitching with WonderFil’s Spagetti and Fruitti cotton threads and Accent rayon threads. There are times when I just want to sit and stitch. I may have a limited amount of time to play and I want a project that is super…
I’m back with the finishing steps to my little quilted bags for my knitting projects, but first I want to share some more pictures of my stitching exercises with WonderFil’s Accent and Spagetti and Fruitti. Fruitti Spagetti and Fruitti are 12wt Egyptian cotton threads that have been double-gassed and are…
This week I’m going to share some smaller projects that I often make and show how I play and experiment with free motion quilting and WonderFil’s thicker threads; Accent and Spagetti and Fruitti. These projects are the perfect size to stitch on my domestic sewing machine. These threads are thicker…