Quilt Fiesta! And The Winner Is……

It’s March 3rd!! Which means it is time to draw the winner of the Quilt Fiesta book I posted about last week!

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The winner is….Paul of Outnumbered Quilter!

Paul’s entry read:

Me encantaría tener este libro porque me encanta la cultura latina. Tengo varios amigos de Venezuela y es casi seguro que elegir un modelo de este libro para un regalo de Navidad para una de ellas. (Thank You Google Translator...)

I would love to have this book because I love the latin culture. I have several friends from Venezuela and would almost certainly choose a pattern out of this book for a Christmas gift for one of them.

You’ve got it Paul! Quilt Fiesta! will be winging it’s way to you as soon as you email me your snail mail address! I hope you enjoy the book as much as I have….tile inspirations for quilts are everywhere!

Jet-Lag-Be-Danged! I’ve got just TODAY to get my ducks in a row….I’m headed off to Tennessee tomorrow morning on another whirlwind loop! I’ll be visiting with the Piece By Piece Quilters in Jackson TN for a workshop and a lecture on Saturday!

Sunday is my drive to Pigeon Forge for A Mountain Quilt Fest!….and I have a special treat. MY DAD is going to be joining me in Pigeon Forge! Bring on Spring…we need some good weather. He’s been feeling kind of alone and down, and I’ll be there the full week, and I said he could just come and hang out if he didn’t mind being one of the few roosters amidst a whole LOTTA hens clucking! I’m not sure he is ready to be thrown into Quilt-life, but we’ll find out!

We had such a great time together in Vegas in December, it will be fun to have him with me again….he can see me in action I’ll be in classes for the day, but we can enjoy each others company in the evenings. He’ll head back home to AZ on Friday.

After Pigeon Forge, I’m headed to Franklin NC for a visit with the Smoky Mountain Quilters! We’ll have a couple days of workshops there, and then on to the Evening Star Quilt Guild of Pelham, AL! Is there anything prettier than the South in the spring? I am SO SO SO Ready. And I am driving this whole trip, so it will be good to have my feet on the ground.

I’ve figured something out…I used to use the auxiliary jack in my car to listen to my books on mp3 as I drove..but invariably I would turn the car off, forgetting to turn OFF the MP3 player first…and I’d come back to find my books in a different place…they’d been playing for hours! So now I’m downloading them, and burning them to CD in WMA format as a data disk. I can fit a 12 hour book on ONE CD and these work in my car CD player. And when I turn the car off…it holds my place. Yes, it costs me the CDs…but the CD player isn’t going to run out of battery power on a long trip in the middle of a good part either!

More pic editing has been going on….look for more Germany Pics to come maybe later today….I’ve gotta get working on the TO DO list! ((And the sewing machine is coming with me this trip too…I NEED TO SEW!!))