Feastival at Houston

Lauretta told me about a blog that did a wonderful job at displaying alot ofthe beautiful quilts that were at Houstons Feastival this year. She also mentioned that that Susan Brubaker Knapps blog, bluemoon river, mentioned my quilt so I had to go check it out now! Thanks Susan for such a thorough tour of the feastival. Congrats on your new book and I hope we can meet soon!

Houston here we come!

I am ready, I got everything plus more done in time thanks to all my sewing angels, Dee, Debbie, Karen, Shirley, Dawn, Randy, Marianne!! Thanks to all of you for helping to make my trip so perfect. I think one of the greatest blessing from having all these wonderful women here was that I got to visit with them and had such a great time just sewing with a friend. This is probably what the old sewing bee's were all about, sewing and visiting. I did manage to get this quilt thrown together, it also uses my fabrics and creates a non-western look, its called Bluebird Somersaults. I managed to remember to ship my "Sumi" artquilt to the Pacific International Show that is going on at the same time as Houston. I was afraid I might forget in all the rushing around that was happening here. I am leaving tomorrow and wont be back until next week. Be creative while I am gone!

New Pattern

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Well, I did it again. I had the quilt shop sign me up to teach something that I hadn't designed yet. I thought I would have time but that seems to be the illusive thing in my crazy life! Two days before the due date for class samples I started drawing. Mind you that I had been painting fabric in anticipation of the design but I still hadn't figured out how I would execute it. I finished and even had a few sign ups at meet the teacher night! Phew! I am making it into a new pattern and I think I may kit it up with hand painted fabrics for Houston this year. Here it is, I will be doing another in a square format and a few variations maybe as a show quilt.