Another wonderful week at Lake Tahoe has come and gone. The one thing that we all enjoyed this year was the weather…and the spectacular moon on the lake Wednesday morning. Our thanks to Mark Larrea for getting up at 3 a.m. to take the attached photo. And, our deepest thanks to Mark for being our official photographer this year. We are very pleased to announce that Mark, and his wife Cat, will be teaching Digital Photography and Photoshop at Art Quilt Tahoe 2013. The photos from this year’s conference will be uploaded on our site soon, so check back!

Congratulations are in order!

First, to Cat Larrea and Suzanne Beck for winning this year’s “Baker’s Dozen” quilt challenge. We appreciate their participation and will soon announce next year’s challenge.

Congratulations to Sue Benner’s PDQ Challenge team for winning our second annual challenge. Each class collaborated on a theme for their block, appointed the team leader and helpers, and created incredible 12×12 blocks in one hour. The event was great fun, despite all the stress, and we’ll blog a photo of the pieces soon.

Congratulations to Pat Guthrie for winning the raffle for the 2012 Tuition Free Prize to attend Art Quilt Tahoe! We made her day!!

And, finally, congratulations to Carol Frocillo for winning the 2012 Ina Stentiford Scholarship. She is very excited to say the least and we will soon post her photo and pictures of her work.

If you haven’t signed up for next year’s conference, put it on your Wish List when you see Santa! Wishing you and yours a happy, warm and creative Holiday Season and New Year!!

My best to all….Judy