Quilt Show Preparations

Hello Everyone,

 

I've been pretty quiet on social media this week.  I have a very busy stretch beginning next week with one lecture in Petaluma, a quilt show in Concord, two classes in Livermore at In Between Stitches, and three minutes of terror at NCQC (Northern California Quilt Council). 

 

I put the bed risers on the dining room table and cut fabric bundles for a couple of days.  Mr. Joe even got in on the action of folding fabrics.  However, he doesn't enjoy petting all of the fabrics the way I do!

 

Once I get everything folded, then it's time to make the fat 1/8 and fat 1/4 bundles, price, then enter them in the accounting spreadsheet.

It's never too early to start those kits for Christmas!

 

 Plaids, glorious plaids!!!!

This is just a small sampling of what is going to be in my booth at the Contra Costa County Guild quilt show in Concord on April 7th and 8th.  I would love to have a lot of you come by and see us!

I have my design wall up with the blocks for the Alaskan quilt on it.  I glanced over and saw the sun coming through my version of a Midnight Sun block.  Perfect timing.  I fudged and moved the block just a bit for maximum rays.

 

Now to explain my three minutes of terror at NCQC that I mentioned at the top of the post.  I will be presenting myself, my work, my lecture and workshop topics in 3 minutes at the Northern California Quilt Council in Pleasant Hill.  Three measly minutes to talk about a body of work spanning a decade.  A person in the front row will hold up a yellow card which signifies only 30 more seconds remain.  When the red card comes out, so does the hook just like The Gong Show from the 1970's.
The purpose of this talk is to book lectures and workshops at quilt guilds for 2019.  My 2019 is already starting to fill, so I'm wondering if I should subject myself to the 3 minutes stress test.  Too late to back out now.

More printing and stuffing patterns today.  I pretty much keep the printer running whenever I'm quilting.  Multi-tasking to the max!

Soon,
Lynn

 

Patchwork Math Class Was In Session

 

Hello Everyone,

 

It is always a good day when it is spent in the company of quilters.  I was with my home guild, the Independence Hall Quilters of Arnold, teaching Patchwork Math.

 

 

The group was delightfully fun and creative.

 



The classroom is bright, and airy. In a past life the building was a former school.

 Creativity at work.

 

When I said I was going to take pictures, Kathy grabbed her purse to find her lipstick.....then she struck a pose for me! 

I don't have pictures of everyone and their precise and beautiful blocks.  I was one busy person yesterday!

I'll be one busy person this entire week.  I'm preparing for a lecture on April 3rd for the Petaluma Quilt Guild.  I'll also be preparing for the Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County show on April 7th and 8th.  Lots of work ahead for me this week.  I'll be printing, cutting fabric, packaging, and kit making.  I hope Mr. Joe feels like doing the cooking!

Soon,
Lynn

 

My Week

Hello Everyone,

 

I had the pleasure of spending another day in the classroom teaching Grammy Squares at Quail's Nest Quilt Company in Sonora on Wednesday.  The girls were so pleasant and made some beautiful blocks.

 



It all begins with the center, and you build on it strip by strip, round by round.

We had bugs, and butterflies in the room!

 

You girls did a great job and I thoroughly enjoyed all of you.

 



I've been working on one of my quilts for the quilting cruise to Alaska.  I put my Aurora blocks on point.

I'm also making flocks of geese.  Since Canada geese mate for life, I have them traveling together in mated pairs.  They will make their journey through my quilt two by two.

This box of 120 yards of Fresh Cut Flowers by Kansas Troubles arrived from Cloth and Quilts on Wednesday.  This box weighs 55 pounds!

I'll be cutting up this fabrics to make kits for my Country Sampler quilt.  I'll be teaching this quilt on the cruise to Alaska as part of my Finessing the Figures class on the journey up to Alaska.

This quilt is made from the components in my Patchwork Math book.  The blocks are nine inches.....very doable.  I'm contemplating making a block layout sheet for each block.  As you make the components, they are placed on the sheet.  Whoever fills in their block layout sheet first, shouts "Bingo"!  This quilt may look difficult, but it really isn't.  Yes, it takes time, but all good things take a certain level of effort and creativity.  I like to enjoy the process.

 

It is supposed to snow again today and tomorrow.  During our last round of power outages, generator start ups and shut downs, our TV became deader than a doornail.  The repairman said our Smart TV wasn't smart enough to re-boot itself.  Since when did TVs have to reboot?  Who knew?

As a child, I remember our father replacing tubes in our TV.  He would have us sit in front of the TV and tell him what was happening while he was at the back of the TV tapping the tubes with a wooden dowel.  (It looked very much like the perch from our parakeet's cage.)  With our feedback, he would know which tube was the culprit.  If our input wasn't good enough, he would put a mirror in front of the TV to see for himself.  (I still have that big mirror.  Maybe I should put it in front of our un-booted TV, and knock it around a little bit to see what happens!)  We would then take the offending tube down to Harrison's Market, plug it in to the TV tube tester at the front of the store to see if it was indeed bad.....and buy another one for a couple of bucks.  Oh, the simplicity of the good old days.

Without a TV for several days, we were much better able to listen to the rain pounding on the roof.  We had 6" of rain in one day.  At one point in time, Mr. Joe thought it was time to commence building an ark.  It was intense, so intense that it melted most of our 40" of snow.  The runoff was really something to watch and hear.  Folsom Lake, a LARGE lake by Sacramento, rose 20 feet!  Now that's a lot of rain and runoff.

More quilting and pattern writing for me this weekend.  Hope you have a good one too.

Soon,
Lynn