We're excited to announce that one of our classes (Kathy Sandbach) has filled and several others are approaching that point. If you and your friends are still considering joining us, do get your forms in soon to ensure you have a choice of teachers.

Watch for us in two new spots -
Quilt magazine has a full page spread about us coming out on December 5th in their first 2006 magazine. We are their first featured seminar event in an ongoing series called The Traveling Quilter.
Quilter's News Network where you will find us listed on the left-hand column of their home page, www.quiltersnewsnetwork.com . If you select our listing on this page, you will see highlights of our seminars.

As Thanksgiving approaches we are thankful for so much - your friendship, our love of quilting, our families, the cooler weather and the inspiration we saw in Houston.

Tidbit: This is a great autumn recipe that's simple and delicious. Use a favorite crisp apple.

Apple Dumplings
2 packages crescent rolls
2 large apples
2 sticks of butter (1 cup)
1 ½ cups sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 can REGULAR Mountain Dew

Separate crescent rolls into triangles. Peel, core and cut the apples into 8 wedges. Roll a triangle around each apple wedge and place in a 9 x 12 Pyrex or other baking dish. Melt butter in pan with sugar and cinnamon. Pour over the arranged rolls. Top all with the can of Mountain Dew. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Great served with ice cream! Serves 16.

Barbara has two longhorn steers (they were born bulls, but now they're not), named Liberty and Justice, who live with her on Freedom Trail. Three dogs of undistinguished pedigree - Agate, Topaz, and Garnet - protect the ranch. Awesome and Awestruck were the last two calves born to the mama breeders. A few unnamed antelope and dozens of white-tail deer comprise the rest of the family, if we don't count the skunks, porcupines, raccoons and other little critters that visit on their own schedule.

Katrina evacuees in Kerrville
While our small community of about 20,000 cannot come close to the support of larger cities, we have become home to about 60 evacuees from the devastating hurricane Katrina. The churches have banded together to provide housing, food, and other necessities. Our local fabric store, Creations of Kerrville, has sent quilts to the Houston area and continues to provide shipping for local quilters making donations. We are proud of our community for this outreach.

Rita evacuees in Kerrville
Although we wrote this edition of our newsletter on September 12th, our Houston-based web master wasn't able to update the newsletter page before heading off on a short vacation that week to a Hummingbird Festival along the mid Texas coast. On Monday, September 19th, instead of being able to update our newsletter, she found herself packing up to evacuate Houston to avoid Hurricane Rita. (Luckily she got out Tuesday evening well ahead of the traffic nightmare.) Kerrville once again became a temporary home for even more hurricane evacuees from all along the Texas coast.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those effected by both Katrina and Rita.

July 20, 2005
Registrations are coming in steadily and we are as excited as can be! Our early registration discount of $1095 is still open. One class is approaching full and three others are getting there. So if you are thinking of joining us, register soon to get your preferred teacher.

A very little about our teachers to entice you -

Karen Combs shares her Illusion and Transparency techniques for a truly unique quilt.
Alice Kolb combines her folk art interests, embellishments and some machine Sashiko.
Judy Mathieson simplifies paper piecing without stitching through the paper.
Barbara Olson gives simplicity to art quilts with high impact.
Gabrielle Swain highlights nature in her artistic appliqué quilts.
Sandi Cummings gives you confidence in moving outside the traditional block.
Jackie Robinson makes intricate piecing a breeze.
Kathy Sandbach gives you the skills and confidence to machine quilt without marking.
Karen Stone offers a studio class, using either one of her designs or your own.
Mary Stori shares her beading and embellishments techniques in a week of hand work.

Look at the Seminar Information page to see more detail on each week and the specific instructors, including links to their websites.

We're busy gathering photos, class supply lists, and class descriptions from our terrific instructors, so you will continue to see additions on our website. The wide range of class topics include traditional piecing, hand or machine quilting, appliqué, embellishments, paper piecing, creating art quilts. a wonderful array that excites us.

"Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe." Galileo

Today's weather report
It is bright and balmy: 56 degrees at 7am and 74 degrees by 3pm. Clouds are high and billowy and there is the slightest warm breeze. Already wildflowers are beginning to dot the roadsides.

One year from today, some of you will be with us in the Hill Country..we can hardly wait!

January 28, 2005
We're working fast and furious to get the website up and ready. We've had fun and frustrations, it has stretched our creativity, and we hope you enjoy it.

If you can't tell it from the numerous web photos, we are enamored with the spot that we have chosen to live. We think the Texas Hill Country is unparalleled in beauty. While we haven't had snow in Kerrville this year, the Texas coastline had a Christmas snowfall which left 3 inches on the beaches of Padre Island. The next morning they were back to 70 degree temperatures... a short and unusual white holiday.