Vote for me!!

I promise not to raise taxes for the average middle income American Quilter, lol.

Seriously, AQS is having an online quilt contest and I would appreciate you talking a look. Here is the link..

http://www.americanquilter.com/

If you look near the top you will see a drop down for "Shows and Contests" then click on the "Online Contest". You can then look at all 15 pages of quilts and vote for your favorite, or look to the lower right hand corner and search for quilt #1073. A vote for me is a vote for American Quilters everywhere!

Seriously though, the top prize is a trip for three (two people and a quilt, lol) to Paducah next March! I wanna win so bad it hurts. And honestly, this quilt, "Paradise Found" is perfect for this kind of format, as it is very graphic. Take a look, and thanks!

So done!

I am finally done with my guild's photo disc, a DVD that took about 50 hours to edit, arrange, set to music, burn, print the discs and ship. But it did help with revenue, so I am glad about that! It was my first experience doing something that involved, and as most things it was an interesting learning process. If you want to know ANYTHING aobut powerpoint, just ask, lol.

Coming up for air...

Since the Prairie Star Quilters Guild wonderful show, I have been working on a slide show of all the photos. Over 650 (!!) photos to edit, crop and organize into a 320 slide presentation. We are selling them, and hopefully that will make up some of the shortfall from our lower than expected attendance. I guess everyone is thinking hard about spending their pennies. Anyway I got Second Place in the wall category, and many of the quilts I quilted for others ribboned also, including my friend Chris' quilt EEs Flower Garden, pictured here also. She beat me for first place in the wall category!

In for a penny...

Well, I raised my hand at the wrong time again... Not really, this one was my idea totally. I am making a photo DVD of our quilt show which was last weekend, and because I am a stickler for detail, it is taking much more time than I ever imagined. Here is a photo of the disc design. It has been very time consuming, but fun at the same time.

Ah, some rest for the weary!

This weekend was Prairie Star Quilters 2008 Quilt Show, and I am pooped! It was great, though. Totally worth all the work. You can visit us at www.prairiestar.net and see what it's all about! We have great speakers and workshops, and lots of fun activities.

One of my jobs over the weekend was to take pictures of all the quilts, I am making a photo disc and it will take some time to edit and compose the slideshow. If you are interested in having one mailed to you, you can email me from the link on the Prairie Star site, just click on "Order a photo disc"

They should be mailed by mid October to arrive by Halloween. I am very excited about the project!



"The Postcard" by Mary Beth Clark won "Best of Show"

Finally redid the sewing room

My sewing room upstairs is often times "out of sight..." So after much thought about how I wanted things organized, I finally dug in and got it done. Keep in mind when looking at the photos, this room is a scsant 9 X 11, so everyhting must be stored vertically. However 2 walls in the room are shorter, as it is a gabled room. I had to hunt long and hard for the right sized shelving, etc.

Inspiration stikes!

I was finishing up a couple of quilts for the upcoming quilt show, September 26th and 27th at the Prisco Center in Aurora. Inspiration struck and these two gals got the super-duper treatment!

This first one is all batiks, very nicely laid out, and I believe this client just started sewing. Really nice result. The quilting is fern-like feathers, and squiggly lines and really shows off the diagonal elements, don't you think?

This next one was a mystery quilt that a good friend did, and it left alot of fun empty spots for quilting. I know she likes feathers, so feathers she got!