I have been working on writing a book with C&T Publishing for over a year. It is currently being printed and is available for ordering now!  Order it directly from C&T or from Amazon.

JUST LAST WEEK I received a call from radio show host Mark Lipinski asking me for an interview on his radio show Creative Mojo! Tune in today on Toginet Radio at 4:00 to hear me Live on Creative Mojo!!!!

Here’s a bit about My Book: Modern Quilting Designs….

• Over 90 unique quilting designs for borders, blocks, and fillers-many are continuous-line
• Fun, freeform shapes and lines give an imaginative spark to any quilt
• Quilting diagrams show you how to put designs together for the most creative effect

Be fearless with your free-motion quilting! This intermediate-level guide is filled with modern designs inspired by the world around us. Pebbles, waves, vines, and finials are just a few of the things you’ll find in Bethany’s hip and doodly quilting designs. You’ll also learn how to spot interesting patterns everywhere you look to translate into your quilting.

Hello everyone! I have missed you all! I promise to start blogging again soon! I am SO excited with all the NEWS I have to share. I only have about 5 minutes to post right now, but I wanted to say a quick hello!

First of all……drum roll please: I am getting married on December 18th!!! Jeffrey Sheets is the love of my life, and I cannot wait until the day that I am Mrs. Sheets! He’s one of the biggest reasons I haven’t been posting. (We’ll blame it all on him We hang out every weekend, and that’s typically when I used to blog! After the wedding, I will be purposefully blogging more. Stay tuned…

MORE EXCITING NEWS COMING VERY SOON….YOU NEVER KNOW….I MAY HAVE WRITTEN SOMETHING….

Isn’t he handsome?

Photographs done by the ever so talented Chip Henderson: See Chip’s Photography Website.

My talk at Bernina club went quite well. Two weeks ago, I spoke 3 days in a row: Thursday evening, Friday morning & Saturday morning for approximately 40-45 minutes. It was especially exciting to have a classroom filled to the brim at the Thursday evening meeting with roughly 50 guests! Ann, an employee at Bernina, commented that there were several new faces. A big thank you to all you readers and customers out there for coming to see my presentation! To be honest…I was slightly nervous about speaking for 3 back to back Bernina clubs. However, as soon as I began all the butterflys flew away, and I had such a blast! My audience was very inquisitive and felt comfortable carrying on a dialogue with me which I enjoyed.  Next time you are near Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh stop by and see the Bernina store. They have several classes, clubs, exciting events, huge fabric selection, sewing machines – basically, if you’re a quilt addict or wanna’ be, you’ll get in big trouble at Bernina the moment you set foot in the door.

My presentation:

1. Talked about my quilting  journey

2. Gave a slideshow of my inspirational sources

3. Demonstrated how I create new designs from my inspirational sources

4. Trunk show of completed quilts

5. Demonstration of free-hand quilting on the sewing frame

***Thank you Marilyn, Ursula, Ann, Carolyn for this wonderful opportunity! I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I will be speaking at Bernina Club this Thursday, Friday & Saturday!!! I cannot wait to share my inspirations and designs with you all! ***See below for more information:

Pick the time that works best for you to attend Bernina Club: Thurs. April 7 7:00Pm, Friday April 8 10:00Am or Sat. April 9 10:00Am

 
Location: http://www.berninaworldofsewing.com/
 
Bethany Pease – A Quilting Journey
“Please come join in the fun as Bethany Pease shares her quilting journey and talks about her machine quilting designs. In this demo, Bethany will talk about the inspiration behind her designs and demonstrate how they are created.
She will also talk about the brainstorming process she uses when deciding how to quilt a quilt, show a few inspirational photos and demonstrate how to translate a photo into a quilt design.
There will be a trunk show of quilts that will be used as examples for showing how the quilting process evolves from ideas on paper to a stunning quilted finish.”
 

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Pam loved her quilt. She has given me the opportunity to stitch several of her beauties! Her color composition is always so lush. The flowers in this quilt seemed to smile – the whole quilt sings “happy.” She usually tells me to quilt her quilts however I feel is best – I love hearing those words!

When I saw this quilt. I knew that I wanted to keep the flowers popping. Tight, close quilting in the background and loose quilting in the flowers accomplished this. In the end, the flowers actually looked a little 3D. In the photo below, you can see the poofy affect.

This quilt has a whimsical feel. When I first looked at it, I knew I’d put swirls in the background, but I was not sure what I’d do in the flowers themselves. Wiggle stitch was the design I finally settled on. However, after outlineing the flowers in wiggle stitch, they still needed further quilting – hence the swirls inside the flowers.

My favorite part of the quilting process was stitching in these curls with pedals in the green squares. They echoed the whimsical feel of the quilt and added a lively “bounce.” Thanks Pam for letting me go to town on this!