Hello all, Mary Ellen back again.

By now I hope you all know that Pat Sloan is going to be our featured national teacher at our fall seminar this year (September 18-21). Over at her blog today she has posted some photos of student projects from a class she is teaching now for another group of quilters. If you’d like to see some samples of the work they are doing, in the same classes that Pat will be presenting for us, click here. Pat loves to share photos of the classes she teaches. That will be us in the fall (don’t forget your lipstick!)

Keep an eye on our visitor counter. At 35,000 visits (wow, I’m still amazed!) we’ll have several special things for you. Prizes, tutorials, etc.

What would you like to see us write more of in the future? AMQG activities, links to other sites, ramblings about nothing in particular?? Let us know–your suggestions will help me anyway, when I’m stumped for a topic.

Here’s one idea I’d like to try out. I’d like us to do an online “show and share” now and then. Send me photos (my e-mail is in the roster, or you can post in your comments) of whatever you’re working on, completed projects, new tools or books, anything quilting related that we could share. Or we could have themes for each upcoming show and share here at the blog. What do you think about that? Of course some of you would have to actually share!!

The first one, my photos to come soon, is going to be about scissors. Gather yours together and take a photo of your collection, or just zero in on your favorite pair. This is for all of you “cut-ups” out there!