Judy M Slide Show

Malachite Star

Click on this link and a slide show of Judy's quilts will open up.
http://secure.smilebox.com/ecom/openTheBox?sendevent=4d546b794e7a49324d7a413d0d0a&blogview=true&campaign=blog_playback_link

Click on the arrows to see 32 impressive slides.
The Quilt Show made this Smile Box show.

Judy on The Quilt Show

PB Midwest

Last month some of the people who have been in the Fat Quarters and some honorary Fat Quarters friends packed their stuff and took off for the Lied Lodge in Nebraska City, Nebraska for a week of faux-PB-fun

The Lied Lodge is a great meeting place about an hour

 from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Carolyn, the IQSC curator (between Georgann & Barbara here) gave us a wonderful tour of the quilt show and the storage area.

We showed her some of our quilts inspired by some of hers.

The one above by Carol and Bobbi.

This one by Judy S.

Carolyn & Bettina

We spent several days sewing and talking in a meeting room at the Lodge.

Kathy R quilt on the left,

Carol J's in center

Rug lessons

If your group gets together send BB photos. We'd love to see them.

Allie's Book & Pattern

The C&T catalog has another book by a Pt.Bonitaite.
Allie's Crazy Quilting is in shops now. Click here to read about it.
http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=2230

You can see a preview by clicking here
http://www.ctpub.com/client/client_pages/googlepreview.cfm?ISBN=978-1-60705-173-2

Then scroll down on the book to see pages.

Allie also has a pattern that Tracey's published

Pretty Crazy is available at Tracey's website

http://www.traceybrookshier.com/index.html

Allie & Tracey in 1998

I pirated some pictures off Allie's blog

Mickey's New Book in the Fall

Mickey has a new book scheduled to be in shops in October. It's featured in the new C&T printed  catalog, which says it will have information on 12 painting techniques.

The digital C&T catalog includes two other products by Mickey.

One is an eBook of her out-of-print SkyDyes book. You can put it on your laptop.

The other is a DVD with 3 hours of tutorials on her techniques.

Here's a link to the C&T digital catalog page with information about the DVD.

Click on her name in blue at the top of the page and you can see the other items too.

http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1404

Deposits Due Tuesday

Hope you've sent in your deposit for 2012!

They are due on May 31st.

The final payment is due December 2.

Mountain Picnic Pattern

Last week-end was the Sierra Mountain Quilt Guilds Quilt Show.. Here I am in my booth that I shared with my friend Julie. My friend Kathy and I designed the Mountain Picnic design for an Adult Ed. 6 week class.. When we were asked to give the class, we decided that we wanted something that they could finish in the 6 weeks and still be interesting for beginners as well as accomplished quilters.

Since I am selling the Paper Pieces, Kathy and I designed this pattern that includes piecing, machine or hand applique, English Paper Piecing, or can be adapted to fusing.. We also encouraged the ladies to place the appliqued blocks where they would like them. We showed how to add beading, and yoyo's if they wanted.

I show the four that were displayed by a couple of the ladies at the quilt show on my Creates Blog, and we also sold our patterns. Paper Pieces also showed the quilts in Paducah and sold several of the patterns.. Exciting!

I will be teaching English Paper Piecing.. Does any one have a block or two of the older techniques with the paper in them? Do you know where I could buy a sample or so, or who I could contact? I don't want to buy a whole quilt, just a few of the older samples to show in a class.
I have checked some of the antique stores in our area.. we are very rural, not much here.

Gwen at EBHQ

A few photos of Gwen's work

pirated from the EBHQ site

Buildings

A Beaded Headboard