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My thanks to Teresa Wiesendanger for asking me to speak to the wonderful members of her Guild. This video shows the wonderful members of SQG who stitched and quilted all of these quilts for donation to a local domestic violence charity. Excellent work, ladies. Keep it up!

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I finished piecing this quilt top just before my trip. I shared it with the audience during their Show N Tell.

With Teresa Wiesendanger

Check out the view from my host's back door. That's El Capitan Reservoir in El Cajon.

Over the past several years, I’ve donated lots of fabric to this wonderful charity and I even feature them in my presentations. But I thought this is the perfect opportunity to share their accomplishments with you.

AZ Blankets 4 Kids is a non-profit organization run by caring volunteers who make blankets for seriously ill or traumatized children. Their motto is that every child has the right to feel secure in the world — amen to that!

The organization recently passed an incredible milestone of 50,000 blankets/quilts delivered since their inception in 2001.

I recently had the privilege of joining this group for one of their fabric/kit cutting bees. Check out these photos!

Linda took over 100 photos from her New Orleans visit to speak to members of the Gulf States Quilting Association. Here’s just a few of the photos from Ilaine’s studio.

Enjoy!

Linda and the magnificent Ilaine Hartman

Beautiful costumes, and lots of Swarovski Crystals

Some of the gold shoes for those who appear annually in the Mardi Gras parade (there's LOTS more shoes!). Ilaine stores them all year long.

Queen of Mardi Gras? Hardly -- it's just Linda.

This is the cape that Rex, the King, will wear.

Get this -- rolling balls sewn into the underside of Rex's cape so that it rolls smoothlessly behind him in the parade!