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Ouch!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

After several weeks of relief, I had a major allergy/sinus attack with a debilitating headache. I had to put myself to bed this afternoon. I have done all the possible remedies and I just hope that I wake up tomorrow feeling better. I made down to the studio tonight and had a bit of fun getting caught up on 3 x 3’s.

I also managed to roast some tomatillos and made a delicious salsa verde which we had with left over pork and black beans. This is why I love my CSA veggies. I probably wouldn’t think to buy tomatillos, but there they were with cilantro and jalapeno peppers.

My daughter, Lisa, has been posting the most amazing photos of her trip to Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. You can find her blog, here. She is coming home tomorrow after 3 weeks away.

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Getting All Mavericky

Monday, September 24th, 2012

The next Twelve reveal is October 1, which is next Monday. The theme is Maverick. I have an idea. I drew a sketch today. I am not over the moon about it, but I think it will work. It is based on a personal story.

I am doing all of my 12 X 20 quilts with batiks. I didn’t have the right colors, except for the background, in my stash. I picked some up at Fabric Depot last week. Here is my array of fabrics.

I am moving along with the quilting of the kelp piece. It is looking good. I like the thread I bought for it.

Here are two more 3 x 3’s.

It was nice to have a day at home after my busy week!

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Sleep Deprived

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

I was up at 4 and at the Quilt Show by 5. Our segment didn’t happen until 6:45 so we had a lot of waiting to do!

Here is Drew doing a promo with a long arm dealer.

Here he is with one of the show organizers, Geri Grasvik, and the best of show quilt. One of those Swarovski crystal studded quilts – this one was from Germany.

Here is a link to a video of Terry and I doing our schtick. Enjoy! Our time was cut short so our scripted plan fell apart, but Drew is good at punting and just rolled with it.

I went back out to the show for a bit after lunch and took some photos. You can see some of the Twelve exhibit on the Twelve blog. I came home and slept for two hours so that I could stay awake to watch Project Runway.

Here are two of my quilts in the show.

The lighting on Forest was really harsh as it was hung up quite high.

Here are some quilts that I liked. I put the label for each one underneath.

I was so excited to see this Painted Hills quilt!!

 

Trisha uses metal in her quilts.

I just love this quilt by my friend Suzy. Many people have chickens in their backyards in Portland – you can have up to 3, but no roosters.

I really love Bonnie’s quilts. I use a lot of her handdyes.

Not much else to say tonight. I am too tired.

 

 

 

 

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An iPhoto Hiatus

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

Yesterday, I was getting ready to download photos and post a blog and my iPhoto app crashed. I couldn’t fix it — tried some disc first aid and gave up and made an appointment for phone support with Apple. I spent over an hour with a very nice tech, but it was taking so long to rebuild my library that he had to let me go and told me to call back when that was done. Instead, I made an appointment with a Macologist at the store where I bought the Macbook. I spent from 2:30 until 5 pm there.

The problem was too many photo libraries and it finally crashed. Every time I got a new computer last year and downloaded my backup from the internet, it created a new library. Today, we integrated all of them and it seems to be working very well and I have found a lot of missing photos.

Yesterday, Mr C and I delivered the Twelve by Twelve quilts to the quilt expo. I supervised how they would be hung and then left them in the capable hands of some terrific kids to do the hanging.

I got some time in the studio to finish fusing the kelp quilt.

I found this great fabric for the back in my stash.

I made a trip to Fabric Depot this morning to get some thread and tonight I started quilting.

Here is today’s 3 x 3.

I have to get up at 4 am in the morning to meet Terry at the Quilt Expo as we are doing a little promo about the Twelve exhibit for the local NBC affiliate. We are going to have the TV personality fuse a 12 x 12 quilt. Our segment is to air at 6:45 so if you are in the area, get up and watch!!

Now, I have to get myself organized for getting up that early!!

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Prepping for the Twelve Exhibit

Monday, September 17th, 2012

I have spent 2 or 3 days working on the artist statements for the Twelve by Twelve exhibit. I printed them on tabloid sized card stock on my large Epson printer. The problem was that they were in a horizontal format because the IQF shows placed them on music stands. Not having this available, I needed to punt. I carefully cut them in half and lined them up and trimmed them to the same size. I wanted to have them hang between the quilts and to save space, I used paper fasteners and attached two sets of artist statements together to hang between the two mosaics. I will post a photo after we get the show hung, if this works!! Here are the artist statements, all assembled.

By the way, in case you were wondering why I didn’t reformat them on the computer – they were pdfs so we were stuck with the format.

I did manage to get fabric and supplies from the workshop put away. And  I made a couple of 3 x 3s. Tomorrow, Mr C and I are delivering the quilts and signage to the expo center and will assist with the hanging.

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