International Quilt Market Kansas City!

Wow, I can't believe Quilt Market came and went so fast! What a wonderful show and time we had.

Gather your rolling totes and bags, lots of walking and booths to see. From designers to fabric companies, notions and any and everthing sewing, it's all here at Market.

My booth was directly across from Moda United Notions. It was hard being surrounded by so much eye candy. Moda designers Minick and Simpson sat across the aisle all three days promoting their beautiful new fabric line and patterns. Laurie gave me a mini charm pack from their new line "Independence Trail", gorgeous! Beautiful and fun displays abound everywhere you turn.

Here I am in my booth chatting with two very nice shop owners.

Faces float by of bloggers and Facebook friends. I was super excited to finally meet my on line friends Kelly Ann of Kelly Ann's Quilting and her friend Melisa Morisson of Sweet Home Quilt Co. I also met Sharon and her hubby from Daisy Cottage Quilting but didn't get her picture :( such nice people, so fun!

Day 2 my Son Jon came to help for a little while. Look how happy he is

to be around all these quilters :) 

And Kelly Ann returned with a cute gifty for me, a sweet little Hello Kitty bag, purrrfect for the beach this summer. What a doll she is! 

My next door neighbor was Sandy Klop of American Jane fame. Here we are in her booth surrounded by all her beautiful new quilts showcasing her new fabric line, such a nice lady.

And here are 2 of my new patterns! "My Happy Garden", love this wall hanging. Four sweet designs that make me smile. Fusible applique and easy piecing, this pattern is fast and fun. My model used pretty border fabrics from the "Early Birds" collection by Jane Sassaman for Free Spirit Fabrics. Various solids and polka dot prints complete the quilt. I love how the black background makes those solids pop.

 "Sum Sum Summertime" is a cute little table runner for summer. Whimsical bugs have dimensional wings to flutter by with! My model uses bold and bright Kaffe Fasset prints for the border and bug wings. An assortment of other fabrics complete the runner.

Leave a comment for a chance to win both patterns. Drawing will be on SaturdayAnd now I had best get caught up on a zillion things after goofing off for so long.More Market pics to follow this weekend along with 2 more new patterns to give away.Have a great week!

Almost time!

Oh my, I've been gone so long Blogger has a whole new way to post.. yikes!!
Just checking in on you all. I have stayed fully focused the past few weeks on preparing for International
Quilt Market which is here this year in Kansas City. My new patterns are now written and printed and folded. New brochures are printed and stapled. Curtains are cleaned, fire retarded and ironed. I have taken over the dining room, piling up everything I will need to make my booth cute! Set up is on Wednesday.
Thursday my friend Brenda is driving up from OKC and will be staying with me while she attends the show. You have probably heard me mention Brenda before, she quilts all my projects so beautifully. She also designs patterns, it will be fun to have someone to talk shop with! So I've added a little ( no... actually a lot lol) of cleaning to my list.
I will have lots of pictures to show you next week, including my new patterns!
So until then, have a happy happy week!

Full Steam Ahead!

Full steam ahead, International Quilt Market is only 4 weeks away.. EEEKS!

Not to panic, stay calm and keep plugging away here. I am always reminded how a dear friend used to tell me "you always get it done, you work best under pressure".

I have little stacks of booth items everywhere you look right now, they take over my dining room and kitchen. My stack of quilts is growing, but that is always a lovely sight to me.

Patterns are being written folded and printed.

Booth curtains are being sprayed with fire retardant as well as table skirting and covers. Now that is a job! 20 eight foot curtain panels. I have been taking advantage of the sunny days as they need to be hung outside to do this. Next they will all need pressed, I hate ironing :(

As you can see my curtains are black. Hard to imagine how nice they will look in my booth isn't it, but my bright quilts show off nicely on black. I will also have pink carpet and hot pink table covers to start layering color. A fun black and bright polka dot fabric just arrived for me to sew scrunchies for my pole covers. Basically they are long tubes of fabric to cover the poles which add a nice touch to the bare metal framework that is not covered by curtain panels.

Hubby recently bought me a new light weight vacuum cleaner and a steam floor cleaner. LOL!!

Do you sense a message here? Truly I am very fortunate to have such an understanding Hubby to put up with that it takes to prepare for this show, I'll clean later LOL!

Wishing you all a happy week!

Happy Easter!

Happy St Pats!

Happy St Pattys Day to you! Did you wear your green today, or go to a parade? I have to admit I did neither, only because I had to boil the corned beef for hours! I make Hubby his St Patricks day dinner every year, it's a tradition he kind of expects and I have it down to perfection which is why he expects it LOL!

Recently my Annies came home to Mama, beautifully quilted by Brenda as always.

A better view of the quilting.

And an even larger view, isn't she sweet!

Seems like I have been missing for awhile here. I lost 1 whole week due to a painful tooth problem, which always happens over the weekend. After finally seeing our dentist I had to take antibiotics before the root canal visit..... the 4 hour root canal visit....OMG... was he drilling for oil or what? It was no fun, but better than the tooth fairy coming at my age I suppose.

Next we celebrated Hubbys birthday and no he is not 9 but we were being kind because he is really quite vain.

When I couldn't sleep during my nights of tooth pain I shopped... online.. and purchased another doll to go with miss kitty, her name is Becky, don't you just love her bunny teeth :)

I now have my booth # for International Quilt Market, so excited! Only 8 more weeks and I know that sounds far off but believe you me I start to panic about now. I am using this beautiful fabric by Jane Sassaman for the border on my next quilt. Today I spent or wasted my afternoon trying to pull the fusible web backing off my applique pieces. Big UG!!! I should have known better than to frustrate myself with the brand I used which I have never liked but was all I could find at the time, so tomorrow I'll run to Joannes for the brand I like and start over.

I could sure use a little help, but probably not this kind :) My sweetie loves to hang out with me, I don't know why because my son says I'm pretty boring but Cleo seems to think everything I do is lots of fun!

Enjoy your weekend!

A Day In Life With Cleo

If you were to follow Cleo around all day this is what you would see. She loves my bed best!
But she also enjoys the guest rooms cozy bed.

An afternoon snooze on the sofa is nice, especially when the sun streams through at just the right spot.

In between naps it's a trip to the kitchen to look out the window, beg for a treat, refuel on some food and water.


And then it's off to the next spot, well you get the picture! Cleo has so many nap zones she makes me laugh.

I was under the weather most of this past week. As you can see I played around with the painting program on my Mac which is a lot of fun.

I mailed my completed table runner off to Brenda for quilting and sewed the binding to my wall hanging so I have not been totally useless.

My next piece of inspirational fabric is calling my name and I'm off to play in my sewing room.

Have a happy week!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day to you!

I just love Valentines Day! Pink and red, lots of glitter, a mail box full of love, maybe some flowers, most certainly some chocolate!!

My Valentine is on his way home from Vegas. Even though it was a conference trip, I'm thinking that overhead bin must contain a very large box of chocolate due to feelings of guilt LOL!

I'm off to the grocery store, Cleo and I are making a special dinner for Hubby and we better hop to it.

I hope your day is filled with sweets and fun surprises!