This funny is floating around the internet via facebook and I howl every time I see it ---It’s just too good not to share --
If we can’t laugh with each other about how true it is, what good is it! It’s so nice to know I’m amongst many others who get me….really GET ME – like you do!
Quilt on, Everyone – I’m off to the vendors mall! LOL!!
Yesterday went by so fast it left us all a bit disoriented!
When a class goes from Noon to 7pm ---it feels like 4pm when you get out --- and then throw in time zone differences and the fact that I was up before 6am West Coast time and I honestly have NO IDEA what time is on the clock until you tell me what time it is!
I did take a nice long walk on my “free morning” day ---watching the overcast sky burn off to blue as the sun did its magic ----and there they were --- my favorite! The palms!
West coast, East coast, it matters not --- they stand tall and regal, and such a symbol of my growing up years.
This is my other California Favorite --- Eucalyptus trees! Oh the smell they give off takes me right back to my growing up years in San Jose and our drives “over the hill” to Santa Cruz and the beach.
I had to rub a few dried leaves in my hand just to release their pungent fragrance, closing my eyes and taking me back. End of the school year --- Senior Sneak day to the beach. Lunch at Togo’s deli --- #9 with the works ---ice cream at Maryann’s ---Senior Prom at the Coconut Grove ball room---memories keep flooding back.
There was plenty of time to keep walking, snapping pics of flowers, enjoying the morning, before getting back to my room for a shower, and class starting at noon.
This was our workshop: Shirttails from Scraps & Shirttails I. I love the primitive feel of this quilt, and it is a great teaching opportunity to put the easy angle ruler and companion angle ruler to use for those who want to use that method instead of using regular rotary cutting increments. 4 patches, 3 sizes of triangles, flying geese units – and a whole boat load of scraps!
Some got blocks made and ready to go, some had stockpiled units ready to sew into blocks ---all had a great time!
Today we’ll do it all over again with Pineapple Blossom! The show opens, the vendor’s mall looks terrific from what I have seen through the windows and I can’t wait to do some exploring!
Have a great Friday everyone ---
Oh how I love learning from the ladies ((and gentlemen)) that I meet in my travels. Sometimes I see things that they have brought or found a new use for ---and it gives me the biggest AHA moment!
You might recognize this little round purple thing as a scotch tape dispenser.
See? It even says SCOTCH right on it.
Well, this whole thing puts my own SCOTCH heritage and nature into happy overdrive!
Do you see what Vickie is using it for? She’s turned it into a traveling bobbin case! The bobbins actually stay on their sides within the little circle, but we laid them down to show them in the picture…you can carry around a whole lotta bobbins in a very compact and protective container that will keep them from unwinding all over the place.
Of course, now it’s on my mind that I need to go buy some TAPE just so that I can have the dispenser… ;c)
Quin·tes·sen·tial: [kwin-tuh-sen-shuhl] adjective:
1.of the pure and essential essence of something: thequintessential Jewish delicatessen.
2.of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment ofsomething: the quintessential performance of the BrandenburgConcertos.
I really couldn’t find any other adjective that described my experience with the Quest Quilters of Little Rock! I came Questing for a great time, and found it!
The building you see here is the library where we met. It’s a beautiful building, both inside and out. The rooms were spacious, the tables were MANY so we had room to spread out, there was a kitchen attached for snack storage – everything right there where we needed it --
And beautiful art right outside the window!
I loved this fountain in the courtyard. I was entertained with tales of other traveling teachers who tried to photograph the fountain in all it’s ---ahhhemmm---glory --- by a strategic placement of finger in the photo to block out the delicate bits, but you know what? Art is beautiful as it is, and I prefer mine unenhanced by fig leaves!
Our class room was just beyond those windows and we could see the burbling fountain while we stitched. So pretty!
This was our My Blue Heaven workshop day ---and at lunch, many of us made a walking pilgrimage over to the River Market!
I was fascinated! What started out years ago as an open air market for farmers to sell their wares, soon became a beautiful building housing ethnic restaurants in food court fashion, every kind of cuisine you could ever want under one roof --- all independent vendors, no big chain entities to be found:
The place was mobbed with people --- of course it was lunch hour, and there was a high school art fair going on with several schools participating, so of course the food court area was full of young life.
What to choose for lunch? There was BBQ and Burgers of course --- pizza, mexican food, sushi ((already had my share thank-you-very-much!!)) greek gyros, ice cream, italian --- you name it – it was here…oh yes, Indian, middle eastern, and then….
THAI!!!
Since the evening before was Flying Fish with everything in the deep-fried shade of golden brown –I opted for a fresh veggie stir fry with tofu.
This week we have also talked about “Biggie Sizing” blocks, due to the Winston Ways block that was blown up into a baby quilt in a recent issue of Quilts from 100 Blocks! ((You still have time to enter HERE for that --- the drawing is on Sunday and I’m giving away 2 free copies!)) and one of our quilters decided that she wanted to double the scale of the pieces in the My Blue Heaven quilt --- and make 16” blocks instead of 8” blocks!
Wouldn’t this be great out of some of the bigger modern prints? Here are some of her blocks laid out on the floor:
Isn’t this going to be fun?
Bigger pieces feed easily through the machine!
These ladies made for such a fun workshop with several of them driving from hours away to join us in Little Rock. Plans are under way for us to do it again in 2015!
I’m rested and ready to start meeting a new group of ladies this morning in the “Shirttails!” workshop here in Burbank for the Glendate Quilt Show!
Have a great Thursday, Everyone!
