The Arizona Quilters Guild held its annual Spring meeting in Globe, Arizona this past weekend. Our theme was "meet me at the fair" and our guest speaker was Deb Karasik. What an absolute hoot! I love the fact that she doesn't take herself too seriously and certainly doesn't think of herself as a diva. But man, I'm here to tell you she is definitely a quilting queen!! We had a wonderful time seeing her quilts and hearing the stories behind them. And I learned a new word: schmatta. Deb seems to be under the impression that many of her quilts are schmatta. I disagree.
On Sunday I was lucky enough to take a class from her. We worked on her Ribbons of Hope pattern. You know, one of those that she claims only takes a day or two to put together. Holy cow! It took me from 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. just to do 1/16th of the quilt. Again, I'm in awe of the woman. She does reassure me that after doing a few more of the blocks I will love curves, I will love curves, I will love curves....
Stop by and visit Deb's web site at www.debkarasik.com. She also has a Yahoo group called DebKarasikQuilts.
Kudos also to Jeff Karasik. What a wonderful man!
I'll post a picture of my 1/16th of the quilt when I un-bury it from my class bag.
Happy quilting all!
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