Like my day isn’t busy enough with getting ready for IQA Houston. today I’m going to be interviewed
by Host Pat Sloan who has a cool Podcast on American Patchwork & Quilting
Radio. http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/radio/index.html
You can listen from your computer, subscribe by iTunes
(search American Patchwork& Quilting) or download to a player …
Grand Rapids, Michigan -August the 12-15 2015 AQS QuiltWeek in Grand Rapids is coming up quickly and it will be here before you know it.
One of my classes still has a few openings. Its the Summer Rose class on Wednesday Aug 12th. I have hand dyed 4 rose colorways for this class and i make extra so you can have your favorite rose color.
I am also doing a lecture on "The Power and Secret of Color" on Aug 15. This lecture is designed to build more confident in choosing colors.
I am very excited to be doing a Wearable Fashion Show which is a evening event on Thursday 13 at 7 pm. I haven't showed my wearable art at a big show ever. I will be bring them all for this fashion show! I cant wait.
So pack your bags and join me in Michigan. Its a beautiful, very artsy city with great restaurants right on the river. What could be better?
I’m working on a new sample quilt that was inspired by a
student. She had incorporated three of my patterns in one awesome
quilt which I am in the process of making. I’ll show you the finished quilt later in my next
blog.
Three patterns is a lot of cutting and my cutting arm/hand got tweaked by all the 50 pound bags I cart around the country. I was cutting out 45 small green leaves and I ran out of straight pins, which always happens. I don’t know where they all go, I just bought a new pack. I think they are friends of that odd sock that keeps disappearing in the dryer.
I don’t really like that the pins also keep bending as I push them through the pattern paper and the fusible web. I hate bent pins. Plus, when the pieces get really small and they do get really small, the pin are in the way when I cut. I need the pattern pieces to stay with the cut pieces until I lay it in its proper place on the pattern background fabric or layout guide so I know what number it is.
Light bulb moment! I jump up and grab my Wonder Clips! So much easier. Here is a short movie on how I use them. Give it a try. If you can’t find the Wonder Clips I am expecting a shipment next week for my web shop. $19.00 for 50 clips. Click on the Shop link above.
OK,
I have been in 7 cities in 40 days and that doesn'tinclude the 14 stops in Denver along the way. Yes, I am tired but it’s been so fun and
very exciting. When God answers your prayers you'd better be ready. It's all good!
Yes, Joe has
no underwear, as he told me today but he is getting so good at shopping and laundry these days. Yesterday, the checker at the grocery
story referred to me as “Oh, you're Joe's wife!”
Hey, I've been shopping there
for the last 18 years and now I’m somebody?
But
I couldn’t do any of this if Joe wasn’t 100 percent behind me - plus he loves that I make money now, so it all works out.
So here is a short video of my adventure in
Arkansas. I was there twice in 2 weeks.
When I got home, I went online and found that my grandmother and her sister and
their father, my great-grandfather Isaac Standlee, were all born in Arkansas.
Lois and Ruby Standlee
Enjoy
the clips and song and I'll have more of my adventures to come and, if you like BBQ, I highly recommend #Lindsey's in North Little Rock. Awesome food.
