What’s Up?
HI Everyone, What’s up? How’s things?
I have been crazy busy. I didn’t actually realize how crazy busy until Saturday and I realized I only had a week left to get ready for Sew Expo in Puyallup, WA.
I am teaching 3 classes there and I am also a vendor.
If you are interested in signing up for any of my classes here is the Site.
I am super excited to be a teacher. I am teaching hand embroidery classes featured around wool pennies. :) I would love to see you all there.
Rob will also be there holding down my booth with a few of my friends.
I realized that I needed to get a bunch of my patterns printed. I am still cutting fabrics. Rob has been cutting kits every weekend. My BIL is also coming over a few days a week to cut kits. So things are moving along.
But on top of all of that I have 3 magazine quilts that I need to get done. My longarm work….and what is crazy is that in the month of March…I have 3 shows. One in Monroe, WA and one in Tricities, WA. :)
My dog, Kali, is also having her first leg surgery. It’s crazy fast but she has lost a ton of weight on her new thyroid med. My poor girl had been suffering with a bad thyroid and I kept trying different dog foods and eliminating treats ect thinking she was being over fed. A month on meds and she has lots a significant amount of weight. She is back to her old self and she is enjoying life a bit more. :)
Here is a link to my Etsy shop
So needless to say my March is CRAZY!! I will be running full speed ahead.
This is my Summer Mountains quilt. I have all 4 seasons designed. They are all on my list. But I started with Summer. :) This pattern comes in 2 sizes. A twin size and a wall hanging/baby quilt size.
Then in April I will hopefully get back to normal. But I will still have a little extra work than normal. I am trying to get my pattern business off of the ground and a few of my designs have been accepted at various booths for quilt market. So I will be making samples. I am super excited! I cannot wait to show you all some of these new designs. There are some really great fabrics coming out.
This is Magic Touch. I made this using Cotton Couture Solids from Michael Miller. I really love this quilt. I named it “magic Touch” because it reminded me of that iconic scene in E.T. when Elliot and ET touch fingers. All of that magic, love and energy in that connection.
I have been publishing a ton of patterns to try to get ready. Sometimes the patterns need to be published and other times I have to keep them a secret. But I am waiting for some yardage to make some of my cover quilts to arrive. It’s a crazy kind of life. LOL
I am trying to create line of pre-cut friendly patterns. All 3 of these are FQ friendly projects. I am very excited to get all of the samples made for these. :) The patterns are available in my Etsy shop.
I also designed this one:
It’s my modern take on a GrandMother’s flower garden quilt.
I also designed this more traditional pattern called Beautiful Bouquets:
I have a few more traditional designs coming out soon as well.
I also designed a quilt called Show & tell to showcase fabulous cuts of fabric:
My friend, Sally is officially retired now. She asked if I had anything for her to sew. Ummm, yes. So I gave her my bag of Michael Miller Fairy Frost and she made my pattern called “City Windows” in the planned colorway here:
What is funny about that is that she was not excited about this design. It was too simple, more modern than she typically likes…..but I told her it would be fast and easy.
So she took it. She ended up liking it and made her own version using her bag of Kaffe Scraps:
I love her version. It’s blended and beautiful and full of texture. I think I may someday bring her over to the dark side of modern. SHHHHH …don’t tell her.
I have so much more to share.
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
xoxox
charisma
