quiltcon – Quilting Jetgirl

02 Jan

Meringue {Shipping to QuiltCon}

Happy New Year! I hope that you have had a nice entry into 2023. To help facilitate a sense of ease for myself, I took last week pretty slowly. Speaking of easing into 2023, there were a lot of linkups to the #2023PlanningParty on the last few days of the year. I've extended the length of the link up party...

02 Aug

QuiltCon

QuiltCon Member Registration Opens Wednesday

Modern Quilt Guild members: if you are planning to attend QuiltCon 2022 in Phoenix (February 16-20, 2022), registration opens in just a few days on Wednesday, August 4th, at 10 am EDT/2 pm UTC! I wanted to take this opportunity to share about the workshops I will be teaching and give a few tips and tricks for registration. Playing with...

01 Mar

QuiltCon

QuiltCon Together

From my perspective there are many overwhelmingly positive things about QuiltCon Together. As I mentioned last week, I was thrilled to get to teach workshops in a format where students got to immediately learn more about their machines, and I've been blown away by the beautiful work that they have been creating. One big highlight for me was spending an...

06 Mar

QuiltCon 2020

Since joining the crew in 2017, to me QuiltCon represents a whole lot of hard work. It usually takes me a week or so to decompress, catch up on sleep and be able to sort out my thoughts about the event. I know many of you already know of additional personal details surrounding my time just after QuiltCon (here...

20 May

QuiltCon 2020

QuiltCon 2020 Workshop

Did you see the announcement of faculty for QuiltCon 2020 in Austin, Texas, last week? I’m excited that I have been asked back to teach another 3-hour workshop next year! As part of the crew, I can only sneak away to teach one 3-hour workshop each year. I have said in the past that I am passionate about the quilting...

27 Jun

Life

A little of this and that…

June 26, 2018
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
kitchen sink post, quilt along, quiltcon, teaching, Work in Progress, workshop
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When my oldest niece was about 3 years old, she and I were playing together and one of the phrases she used a lot at the time was, "This is this and that is that." As I was trying to come up with a name for this post, that memory popped to mind and I thought that a little...

15 Feb

Life, QuiltCon 2018

Thursday Things

February 14, 2018
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
#ThursdayThings, paper piecing, quiltcon
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I have been paper piecing a lot recently. I designed a block that uses paper piecing (my first design using the technique) that you'll see in April, and the quilt I am working on this week uses paper piecing. I thought I'd share the paper piecing tip or strategy that I came up with this week that has made...

28 Jan

Discussion

Dream Quilt Convention

January 26, 2017
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
dream quilt convention, quilt convention, quiltcon
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With QuiltCon East being held in Savannah, Georgia, in less than a month, I am excited to say that I will be there! I will be working behind the scenes as part of the "crew" that helps put on the show, so I will be very busy for over a week. If you are planning to attend, I hope...

27 Feb

QuiltCon 2015

QuiltCon 2015: Lectures and Workshops

April 4, 2016
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
how to publish your work, make to maker, quiltcon, quiltcon 2015, quiltcon lectures, quiltcon workshops, quilting negative space with angela walters
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Another aspect of QuiltCon are all the learning and hands-on opportunities available through lectures and workshops. I took lots of notes, and I thought I would pass on what I learned in the lectures and write a review of the workshop I attended. Lecture: "Publishing Your Work: Panel Discussion" The first lecture that I attended at QuiltCon was a panel discussion moderated...

24 Feb

QuiltCon 2015

QuiltCon 2015: People

February 24, 2015
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
meeting online friends, quiltcon, quiltcon 2015, quiltcon 2015 wrapup
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The biggest reason I was excited to attend QuiltCon was to meet online friends in real life. I attended QuiltCon in 2013, but I was not a blogger at the time. It was an excellent experience, and you can check out my post about QuiltCon 2013. Now that I have been blogging and building relationships with quilters around the...

23 Feb

QuiltCon 2015

QuiltCon 2015: Travel

February 23, 2015
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
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I am so happy to be home. QuiltCon was a lot of things: amazing, exciting, fun, and honestly a bit overwhelming. Nothing beats my own bed, my two boys (my husband and cat), and I am really looking forward to getting back to my sewing machine. I am going to break down my thoughts and posts about QuiltCon a...

22 Feb

Quilts

Sunday Stash: QuiltCon!

February 22, 2015
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
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One of my goals for fabric shopping at QuiltCon was to find fabrics to use in a baby quilt for my cousin. My mother and I will be collaborating on the quilt together, and she has chosen to use my Tessellated Leaves pattern to piece together the quilt top! The nursery colors are peach, teal, and white, and this...

10 Dec

QuiltCon 2015

Bummer

Well, neither of my quilt submissions were selected for QuiltCon (details can be found in my QuiltCon submission post). With over 1,350 submissions, this isn't too surprising. I am still very excited to attend QuiltCon in February; I hope to see you there! Did you get a quilt accepted into the show?

24 Jun

Life, MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild), QuiltCon 2015

QuiltCon 2015 Registration

June 24, 2014
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
Modern Quilt Guild, quiltcon, quiltcon 2015, quiltcon registration
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I knew that registering for the Modern Quilt Guild's upcoming mega awesome and exciting QuiltCon 2015 was going to be an interesting process with plenty of life lessons in patience. I was basing this assumption on how quickly the hotel rooms sold out for the event earlier this year (a whole year in advance!). With that in mind, I carefully...

Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
Quilter | Designer | Tech Editor | Blogger

Yvonne is a former aerospace engineer turned modern quilter, designer, and technical editor. She was introduced to quilting by her paternal grandmother in high school when her grandmother offered to hand quilt a twin-size quilt to use in her college dorm room if Yvonne made the quilt top. Now, over 25 years later, Yvonne has developed a style that bridges her technical background and love of bold color, specializing in curves, transparency color play, and bold, geometric designs. Yvonne’s quilts have been featured in numerous national and international magazines, quilt shows, and books.