New Article on Homemade Stitches!

Well, this is going to be fun! The online magazine, Small Town Living, will be doing an article on us for their April/May issue, coming very soon. Thanks much to editor, Tina Michelle, for thinking of us . . . it's a great little magazine featuring small town and rural life.

Meanwhile, I have two doctors' visits today. Ewwww. Getting old is no fun.

I would like to encourage you all to visit the links listed to your left for photographers. . .what a beautiful line-up of photographs of the Amish country and people! (See Randall Persing, Cindy Seigle, Bill Coleman.) Notice that a few of these artists offer photos for sale, even framed. Give yourself a real treat and check out their websites. You must appreciate how difficult it is to photograph the Old Order Amish up close. They don't like having their faces photographed, believing that it goes against their belief in remaining humble, renouncing prideful things, being "Plain People" as they call themselves. Notice also that Randall Persing's gallery includes photos of an Amish wedding procession. Really beautiful.

Welcome to Patches and Pieces!

I am so excited about the new blog! It will allow me to stay in closer touch with my quilting friends and my customers at Homemade Stitches, and make new friends here. I hope I can bring you lots of good information too.

It will also let me share with you the day-to-day goings on - some are pretty funny! - at Homemade Stitches. This isn't funny: Lately I am flat on my back after some necessary but rather painful and annoying surgery (you don't want to know!). Time at home lets me work on quilting though, and that is always good for the soul, right?

It also gives me time to read. . .and something really exciting is up here - HS appears in the new book by Meg Cox, The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource GuideI have received my copy and WOW, what a great book! It is so well-researched and written, and contains so much really useful information, tips and patterns. I am so honored to be a part of it. Thanks, Meg, and congrats on your great work!