Summary for 2025

I cannot believe we are at the end of another year. So much for me saying I will blog more! It’s something I will fulfill at some point but really I just love creating. I did turn 60 this year so that was a major milestone! We spent a lovely time visiting Oaxaca and Mexico City. Oaxaca is somewhere I would love to return to and take some workshops. It’s a city I would highly recommend visiting if you love a small town feel, color, textiles and great food!

I like to write here at the end of the year and document how I spent my year, my achievements, my travel and how many quilts I made! Looking back I see how my quilt production has gone down and my travel and teaching time has gone up!

Can you see me!

A courtyard inside the textile museum in Oaxaca, Mexico

2025 was a year when I achieved many of my “bucket-list” of quilting items. In May I visited the opening of the Quilt National exhibit in Athens, Ohio with my quilt guild friends Marylee and Lynn, and we saw my quilt ‘Let’s Talk Color’ on display. This quilt was actually sold towards the end of the show and is now traveling on exhibit and is at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. My other bucket-list items I will talk about later.

I made 15 travel trips for quilting, many involving a plane flight and some more local. I taught at the Festival of Quilts in the UK, Quilt Wyoming in Rock Springs, WY, Road to California in Ontario, CA, International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. I visited quilt guilds in Portland, Seattle, Eugene, New Braunfels and Blanco, TX, Paradise, San Diego and more. I was lucky enough to attend quilting retreats in Lake Tahoe and Capitola, CA.

I sold 7 quilts this year from exhibits and a lady at a quilt guild meeting in Portland. I sold: Lets talk Color, Baby Birds on a Wire, Three and a half Blue Chickens, Blue Chickens, Smooth Cat, Ruby the half Cow and Join me for Tea ( see below).

It’s always hard to say exactly how many workshops I taught and presentations I made this year but approximately 31 workshops, 15 lectures and 9 Zoom events. Three of these Zooms were workshops I hosted and arranged myself. This is something I wish to do more of and also to sell online more of my PDF patterns. These can be found both in my website shop and also my Etsy shop ‘Quilts from Clothes’. I have planned 2 upcoming Zoom classes for January and will make those available soon.

I have found a lovely studio in my home town where I am lucky enough to hold a monthly class and also host some multi-day workshops. These are at Auburn Sewing Studio, 1119 High St, Auburn, CA. Thanks Ellen for your support. If you live close enough to attend email me to be added to this email list for current happenings.

Poppy Inspiration and Collage work

I spent more time this year creating workshops that use handwork. I am making hand stitched samples using birds and flowers as inspiration. Poppies continue to inspire me but sadly this year I lost my Poppy jacket while traveling home from Ohio! I do have another one in progress to replace it!

Now onto the quilts I made this year. I am happy to report I caught up on all my T-shirt quilt commissions! I do have a few planned for next year but not having a backlog is a wonderful feeling. Since 2015 I have always had at least one commission quilt to make .

I made 12 T-shirt quilts and 2 pet portrait commissions.

I made 22 quilts that includes Stars and Stripes my Quilts of Valor donation, Ode to Freddie, the Foothill Quilt Guilds raffle Quilt for 2026, various class samples, finished a couple of UFO’s, made gifts for the family, and a bag or two.

I donated 5 quilts this year to SAQA, Stand Up Placer, Quilts of Valor and Foothill Quilt Guild.

A few years ago I wrote some of my quilty dreams… to get a quilt into Quilt National, teach at Asilomar, Australia or New Zealand and on a quilting cruise. All these have come to fruition in 2026 and 2027! If you wish to take a workshop from me these might be great places to find me. I will add the links to the websites.

Empty Spools Seminars in Asilomar, CA March 6-11th Session 2. Spaces available.

Reno Quilt Show June 9-13th and I will have an exhibit here too.

Garden of Quilts, Thanksgiving Point, Leih, UT September 16-19th.

Quilt Symposium, Christchurch NZ Oct 1-6th,

International Quilt Festival, Houston , TX November 9-15th,

World of Quilts Travel Quilting at Sea Holland America Cruise January 9-26th 2027

and finally May 2-8th 2027 Hudson River Valley Art Workshops

These are samples of my hand stitching projects I am working on for Quilt Symposium in New Zealand

Thanks for catching up with me in 2025 . And thanks to all my students and supporters, purchasers of my patterns and book, attendees at workshops and more, I really appreciate you all. Sign up for my newsletter if you want to stay in touch with my schedule and new offerings I will have in 2026

Happy Holidays

Visiting Quilt National May 2025

I was honored and surprised to have my quilt ‘Let’s talk Color” selected to be one of the 84 quilts in the Quilt National 2025 exhibit. This is a show of Contemporary art quilts that is a bi-annual, prestigious show. It is held at the Dairy Barn in Athens, Ohio. I have just returned from the opening weekend, which was a celebration for the artists with many activities. I think 50-60 artists must have been there and it was such an honor to meet many of them and hear the stories behind their quilts. I will share a few of the quilts but I really have too many photos to share here. If you follow quiltnational on Instagram; you will see many more photos.

Me with Lets talk Color

Me and Shin-Hee Chin with her Best of Show quilt, Viriditas (Greenness)

Cindy Grisdela, Musings II, from Virginia. Jungeun Tark, Tea-bowl of Mama from South Korea. Beth Schnellenberger, Double Phoenix Rising form Indiana, Ann Houle, Bio-sphere on Fire from CA

The Quilt National exhibit is held at The Dairy Barn which is located in Athens, Ohio and is very close to Ohio University. Having never visited this area before I did enjoy the history of the area as we got to explore the University with its brick buildings and brick pavements. Another interesting area was The Ridges. These buildings were built as Athens Insane Asylum in 1874. They are now part of the University complex and house the Kennedy Art Museum. The Dairy Barn was part of this complex also and dates from 1914. There is a lot of fascinating history in this area.

As an exhibiting artist I was able to attend the opening reception, award ceremony, artists banquet, private viewing of the exhibit and artists talks. Many of us finally met up again at a local winery which was another fun event. It was great to meet artists that previously I had only met through their work on social media. I now have new friends from Germany, Switzerland, Australia, South Korea, China, as well as USA and California.

Artist gathering at Quilt National 2025

I travel a lot with my teaching and it was a treat for me to have two friends from my guild here in Auburn, CA travel with me. As art quilters, attending Quilt National was on their bucket list but to be able to attend with an exhibiting artist and friend was extra special. I enjoyed the company and the support. What fun chicken vests they made!

Exploring Athens was unexpected we found a great Farmers Market, Pleasant Hill Winery, the Kennedy Art Museum and Lancaster, OH was an interesting historic town. My favorite place was the Passion Works Studio and Gallery. It is haven of art, color and creativity. Passion Works Studio creates opportunities for all people to explore and socially connect through the process of making art.

With all that color and pattern I couldn’t help but take many photos and buy a few items to bring home.

Passion Works Studio.

Finally when it was time to come home I did something very foolish and while hand carrying my newly created Poppy jacket, I set it down somewhere and lost it! Who knows if it will be ever found again but I guess someone somewhere will have a nice colorful jacket that I hope they will treasure. It could possibly be in the Columbus airport!

It was an honor to have one of my quilts selected for this art quilt show and now I have attended this event once I am now thinking about applying again for the next show in 2 years time!

2024 End of Year Summary

Sitting here I have spent the last week in my bedroom after a Covid positive result! Not the way I imagined my year in quilting would end. I am well, a bit tired and lacking motivation but using this enforced quiet time to catch up on a few things.

My year has been super busy as usual. I did plenty of traveling and teaching, hosting lectures and classes on Zoom, making custom memory quilts and art quilts for clients and entering quilts into quilt exhibits. I like to show this summary as it allows me to record my numbers for the year that otherwise would go uncounted.

In 2024 I made 24 art quilts of various sizes. These could be new quilts, gifts, class samples, hand stitched pieces or quilted bags. I made 2 small quilts that I donated to the SAQA fundraising auctions. I also made 15 custom T-shirt quilts, and 6 custom pet portraits quilts. Every year I say I am taking on fewer custom quilts especially T-shirt quilts. The ones made were all ordered by either previous customers wanting family quilts for siblings or local customers. Again next year there will be fewer of these kind of quilts on my schedule.

As for my teaching schedule I hosted 9 lectures and 5 workshops via Zoom. This included Craft Napa and Mancuso’s Virtual Schoolhouse 9.

I had 20 different teaching gigs to guilds and quilts shows. Eleven of these I drove to and nine I flew to. Places in California included Santa Barbara, Capitola, Roseville, Sunnyvale, Tulare, Oakhurst, Clearlake, Brentwood, Sunnyvale and Temecula. I flew to Hampton, VA, Boerne TX, Augusta Maine, Houston TX, Raleigh NC, Omaha NB, Denver CA and Prescott AZ. This year it did feel like a lot of travel and when things go wrong at the airport it is not much fun!

Unusually I entered many quilts into exhibitions in various galleries or quilt shows around the country. I had 8 quilts accepted and 2 will be on show in 2025. My greatest and surprising achievement was having a quilt accepted into Quilt National which opens May 2025 in Athens Ohio at the Dairy Barn. My quilt is titled ‘Let’s Talk Color’ and is cheerful collection of colorful chickens.

In 2024 I did more hand stitching work than usual and have included in some of my new classes. My style is simple, down to earth, easy stitches including running stitch, cross stitch and seed stitch. I like to work on small pieces that I stitch on batting and then combine into a larger quilt. An example of this is Christmas Collage. Unfortunately I didn’t get it completed this year but I still plan on getting these patterns online for purchase. My intention is for people to work through them as a Block of the Month over the year, so by next Holiday season it will be finished.

If you are interested in fabric collage check out my website and shop at janehaworth.com Here I sell PDF patterns, kits and my books and have details of my teaching schedule. I have a FaceBook group called Fabric Collage School and this coming year plan to share more videos and online workshops.

Thanks for all the support from students, guilds and customers, Jane H