KICK OFF YOUR HEELS!

"When Crows Fly"

I meant to put up a "Bloggers quilt festival" quilt... But never got my quilt, quilted...
To busy with stuff, I guess...drat...
Oh well... This quilt, you may recall the story of how it went together, since it was quite recently! If you missed it, you can pop over HERE to read about it. It's definitely a favorite of the minute... Double edged love would probably be the other...

I'm  just home from Market...WIPED OUT....so I will KICK OFFMY HEELS!

TOMORROW!  Well, depending on when you read this....MONDAY!!!!
The KICK OFF YOUR HEELS auction starts!!!

Please buy these babies up! You know I love a  GREAT CAUSE!!!!

CLICK here for INFO
http://kickoffyourheelsfundraiser.blogspot.com/2013/05/kick-off-your-heels-let-fundraiser-begin.html?m=1

PLEASE GIVE THESE A GOOD HOME!  

"CRAZY 4 U" Shoes, By Victoria Findlay Wolfe

We're excited to tell you about how you can own a pair of art-full high heels,

 that benefit the women's heart wing of Cedar's Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles!  

The sale of the shoes will begin at 8:00 a.m. EST  Monday May 20, 2013 and will be 

available for purchase over the course of the week as follows:

Shoes can be purchased for $300 on  May 20 and 21, 2013 beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST

Shoes can be purchased for $200 on May 22 and 23, 2013 beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST

Shoes can be purchased for $100 on May 24 and 25, 2013 beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST

Click here to visit the website we set up so you can preview ALL the shoes before the 

sale begins.

Set your calendar alarms for Monday, May 20, 2013 and check out the website for your 

favorite pair of artisan made high heels!

CLICK here for INFO

http://kickoffyourheelsfundraiser.blogspot.com/2013/05/kick-off-your-heels-let-fundraiser-begin.html?m=1

ready!

 

   

last minute things

visit Newcastle blog today!

http://inasewingmood.com/2013/05/14/sonnet-fever-in-portland-2/

Off to pack! Heading to Portland for Spring Quilt Market!

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Whose that chick with the double knit?

http://generationqmagazine.com/2013/05/packing-our-bags-for-portland-and-look-whats-in-em/

Do you have any double knit quilts, in your possession?

Mother's day

My Mother's day was spent doing what I love!  I taught a class on 15 Minutes of PLAY!   A lovely day, and I came out all inspired by my students...

I wish this pic was in focus... Pink, oranges, mint purples... GORGEOUS... Now I want o go buy more of these colors to make something too!

Orange was definitely a color of choice today! It's funny how certain color are CATHCY!  This bird was inspired by  "My bird, Pierre" Quilt...I can't wait to see how she finishes it. ;-) It makes me smile!

Some Y seam PLAY happened as well.... SUCCESS!

It was a lovely Mother's day to be sewing...

Happy Mother's day to you!

Hope yours was lovely too!

Did you do anything special?

Cynthia Knapp! You won a copy of Marie's book!

CONGRATS!  ( I will email you)

really?

Quilting is finally done on TINY DANCER... circa Jan 2012....

here's the OLD post on this journey....

http://bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/2012/01/journey.html

Last night at about 6 pm, I decide I need to finish this quilt, Tiny Dancer,  that has been sitting here for over a year, basted, and ready to be quilted...  I did all the quilting up to a point, a bit that needed to be ripped out and redone...  this is at 9pm last night, of course... and do you think I can find the 4 new seam rippers I bought last week?

Can someone please tell me where they run off too?

12a.m. this morning, I did actually find a TINY seam ripper from QUILTCON, after I had used my sharp scissors to rip most of it out...  Of course, I could only find the COVER of  one of the new seam rippers....  I had just cleaned my studio, cutting table was clean... except for a 6" scrap of fabric I was saving for a later project....

 10 hours later, I found it.

Guess where it was? 

Under that 6" scrap of fabric, on the clean cutting table.

I'm sure you can relate right? Thanks Laurie for sending me the cartoon! I still have only found one of three.. but, oh well, the quilt is done... YAY!

So. Quilt backs...
Do you Piece your backs or
use a pretty piece across the entire thing?

And:
favorite seam ripper?

(my answer? a found one!)

A visit with Joe

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!

Last night Joe Cunningham, (who doesn't have a favorite color but he loves pink) came by the studio, and so I asked him if we could share a bit of our visit...  ;-)

Topic of the day?
OUR STASH... 

photo from Joe's website. go visit his blog and say hi!

Visit:
http://joethequilter.com/
http://joethequiltercunningham.blogspot.com/





;-)  Tell me about your stash....

What color do you buy the most of?
what do you go to first in the quilt shop?
clearance?
Sale?
Color?

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WINNER: LJ!   Congrats on your win of the MODERN BABY BOOK!

WALL STREET JOURNAL

***ALSO, There is an Article in the WALL STREET JOURNAL today about Modern quilting!
YAY!
An article about modern quilting in the Wall Street Journal today!  Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Lisa Sipes, Jacquie Gering ,Alissa Haight Carlton, Charlotte Newland.
(if the link doesn't work, then google the title - you'll be able to read it from the google links)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324326504578467273484511136.html 

http://weallsew.com/2013/05/10/sew-to-serve-with-bumble-beans-basics/
Happy Friday!

A GIFT!

Hilde was in NYC and came by to say hi, 

and delivered the most beautiful tea box to me!

Made with MADE FABRIC in my favorite colors! 

See how nice it blends in with my quilts?

Isn't stunning!!!

Swing by her blog and say hi.

www.geckoboxes.blogspot.com

I'm off to have a cup of tea... (and fill my special box with my favorite kinds! )

besides fresh ginger tea or fresh mint tea, one of my favorites is 

Green tea with roasted brown rice.... YUM!

Got a favorite tea you like?

Sonnet!

SONNET

I'm so excited to share my first line of fabrics with all of you,

Sonnet with Newcastle Fabrics!

I'm a hopeless romantic, and often name my quilts from lines in poems, 

like The Star Splitter by Robert Frost, 

or Goodbye my Fancy by Walt Whitman

This collection reflects the fabrics I love to use most often. Colors that are 

my normal "go to" palette are "red, yellow, pink, blue," and

Adding in the comfort colors of chocolate brown and a deep navy...

I am a girl who loves her jeans and chocolate after all!

I love Beauteous floral fabrics, and small Celestial prints that have a lot of color.

I adore border prints and fabrics that run light to dark, rather like a good sonnet!

One can never go wrong with great looking (flattery) plaids, 

and a graceful modern floral as well!

The prints are named from words in Sonnets like Beauteous, Celestial, Flattery and Grace.

I can't wait to have you playing in them!

Coming fall 2013

Request the line at your local quilt shop!

newfabs.com

 Swing by New Castle fabrics at their website, 

and/or at booth #1737 at Quilt Market next week in Portland!