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Saturday, March 25, 2017

More Traveling and Fun Times Ahead!

Wow, it's been a busy Spring!  We have driven from coast to coast and a little more in between.  We started at Road to California as I chatted about in the last post.  Then in February we made the trip out to Hampton, VA for the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival.  It was another great show with beautiful quilts to see and many fun vendors to check out!  I met some of my OnLine buddies from the east and it was great to visit with them!  The customers were good to us and enjoyed shopping and laughing along with us as we got to know them.  Something fun about vending at quilt shows is getting to know your customers a little bit as they come back each day.  It's lots of fun!  We had our daughter Melanie along with us.  She had not experienced a busy show with us before so it was pretty fun for her!
                       
     

Here she is getting ready for the show on opening day.  We loved having our "techie" daughter along to give us a few suggestions for how to keep organized in a technological way.  LOL, she did teach us old foggies a few things!   And below is my hubs who is always ready with a smile!  I love having my family help out.  We have a good time together!


Next was the Dallas Quilters Guild show.  Another good time there this year!  


We brought our neice Haley along with us.  We loved having her with us!  She learned a lot about quilting and caught on quickly to be able to help the customers in the booth with ease.  


Just look at the crowd of happy ladies shopping and excited to be at the show!  Look at the aisle how crowded.  This Dallas show is always lots of fun.  It's great seeing some familiar faces each year!


 Next stop was a teaching day at the Blue Ribbon Quilt Shoppe in Wiley, TX.  These ladies were fun to get to know.  These are the owners and an employee who stopped by to say hello at the 
Dallas Show.  If you see anything new that you like we have new kits on the website if you click HERE!


Their shop is pretty cute!  Here's a few pictures to see.  Through the arched doorway is a wonderful workshop area with big tables and lots of light!  We had a good day at the workshop.  If you are ever in Wylie, check out their shop!!




This is a shot of Dallas at Night.  We love driving through Dallas at night time.  (Unless the traffic is bad that is!)  They have quite a light show on the downtown buildings.  It's a good thing my hubs does the driving or I would be distracted.  This is just a sampling...it's quite pretty to see!


Before we headed home we stopped by the Moda Warehouse to pick up some nice fabrics to make quilts and kits from for all of you quilters!  It's quite fun to walk in the door and see these beautiful quilts hanging.  What a beautiful layout this would be for a home someday to show off quilts nicely!

On the way home we visited the middle daughter in KC and she showed us around her office at Cerner.  Her job is to plan entertainment and events for the employees.  The new building has some very cool things in it and she was proud to show us some highlights of what she's been working on the past months.  Here are some highlights!

The building is designed to look like DNA since the company is medically oriented.


She helped plan a game room for employees to take a few minutes to stimulate their minds while on breaks.

Nintendo art on the walls to go along with the game room theme...

A beautiful Library or quiet room for deep concentration while working...
And who doesn't have fun in these spinning top like chairs!  Look at the big Smile on my  cute daughter's face!  Brings a smile to everyone's face while getting the brain cells going for good work!  I think I'd love to work in this place!  Just think of the cool quilts we could create if we stimulated our brains in short bursts throughout the day!  (I think we do that when we work with colors and all our fun tools and gadgets while we quilt!)

Once we got home I quick started a quilt for my new grandson who will be born any time now!  His room is painted light grey and the happy parents have chosen mint green and yellow for the decor accents.  So of course the quilt is done in those colors.  The green and yellow also works out good for his daddy as he works at John Deere!  I looked for JD tractor fabric, but could not find any.  It's on my list now! The little giraffe and elephant design on the quilt were borrowed from the artwork she is using in the room.  My daughter posted this pic on FB and I got a kick out of a few comments mentioning how interesting it was to put the quilt on the wall.  It comes natural for us to think of hanging a quilt on a wall vs. just using it as a quilt is normally used!  Around my house, we use them just as much on the walls as on the beds!  


It blends into the wall a bit in this picture, but shows up well when you are standing in front of it.


I can't wait to hold him in my arms....
Isn't she a radient Mother to Be?


Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Lots To Share!

Well, life's been keeping me very busy these days! I can't believe I have not posted since the new year! Where has the time gone?

Ginger has had her paws busy too, helping me guard new quilts until I finish them. Here she is keeping one of my new quilts, Gems & Jewels safe and sound!

And here is the finished quilt! I'm very happy with how it turned out. It's made of my favorite colors! These 1/2" Hexies are samples I made during shows last year to demonstrate my Starch Basting Technique for English Paper Piecing. I had a 5"x 9" x 3" box full of Hexies and decided to mix them with some wool and this is what they became. A fun little quilt!

The Gardens Of A King Stitch Along has begun on FB and this is my first block. I'm still deciding on backgrounds... I'll keep showing my blocks as I make them. This time around the colors will be bold and strong, so I need a strong background also! There are about 150 members and they are beginning to start sewing the blocks together and it's so exciting to see them done in other fabrics. So many different color themes and styles!

The latest issue of Quilmania arrived on my birthday so that was nice. It became a nicer b'day when I opened the magazine and found Pennies In My Garden featured in the Quilt Festival section! The quilt hung in the Special Exhibit at the show in Houston and it was such an honor. A perfect Birthday!

Moda has sent me some lovely new fabrics to work with. A happy surprise to be able to see and enjoy new fabrics before they are in shops. This is a Laundry Basket Quilts line called Southern Exposure. I'll be making two baby quilts from two Layer Cakes plus a little extra for the borders. So far so good and it's been a fun challenge!

This is the Baby Boy Quilt. The pattern is called Royal Babies and will feature both the boy version and the girl version in the pattern. The Baby Girl Quilt is almost finished so I'll show it soon! The name Royal Babies was chosen because the block shape in the quilt is one from the original King George III quilt and King George was married to Charlotte. Now the latest Prince and Princess' names are George and Charlotte so I thought the name fit well.

I sold my quilting machine and decided to get a bigger model. The A1 is what I chose and I'm so happy with it! The feathers on Gems & Jewels turned out so nice! It was so fun to quilt with the new machine!

I've prepared a new project for wool workshops and finished it in two evenings, so quick and fun! It's called Tulip Time. The 13" size was so easy to handle while stitching!

My husband is now my full time Marketing Manager and we are having fun working together. He was caught in corporate cuts recently and we'll give this a try for a while to see if he is challenged enough. I need help desperately so I am thrilled. Since we are empty nesters he will also travel with me to shows, which will be really nice.

We are headed to Dallas for the Dallas Quilt Show next week and my daughter will join us to help. It's a great show! If you haven't been before it's well worth it to go! Lots of beautiful quilts and unique vendors! March 11-13 at the Dallas Market Hall Convention Center. Hope to see some of you there!!

The 14th and 15th I'll be teaching a two day workshop on the basics for The Gardens Of A King at Happiness Is Quilting in McKinney, TX. The class has outgrown their shop space and we are letting more ladies in if you care to join us! Contact them through their website at Happiness Is Quilting to signup! It will be great fun to get you started!


The new patterns are on the site if you are interested. CLICK HERE to see details! Thanks for stopping by the blog today! Follow along on FB by liking my business page- Traditional Primitives; and Intagram- traditional.primitives.
Take care,
Missie
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