Well, we had the most fantabulous weather for the Redlands Festival of Arts last weekend! Each day started overcast and cool, and although the clouds cleared, it really didn’t get too hot, I think the hottest was at the end of the show on Sunday and it was probably only 80! Considering it is often… Continue Reading
Here are the new zip birdie wallets I made for the show this weekend! The Redlands Festival of the Arts is Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend from 10 – 5, in between the A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine. Details about the show can be found here Continue Reading
In between grading and lots of other things, I spent the later part of last week/weekend working on 10 new Birdie Zip Wallets: Committing to making 10 rather than 5 was a bit stressful. Multiples of 5 make sense because there are 5 colors in my Autumn Splendor Wallet, and ganging up each step does… Continue Reading
My Birdied Zip and Go bags (pattern by Dog Under My Desk) have been really popular, so I decided to make four more for my upcoming show. I had one left from the previous batch and so I snapped some quick pix of the whole group: The one on the upper right is my favorite!… Continue Reading
OK, I had 2 more making weekends until my Memorial Day Weekend show!! I started the weekend with parts of 4 more Zip and Go bags ready for assembly: Saturday morning I remembered I had 12 more napkin blanks, so decided to indigo dye them for 3 more sets to have in my booth: May… Continue Reading
My copies of the newest Quilting Arts arrived! I’m in really good company with Deborah Massie Boschert’s art on the cover: along with friends Lisa Chin, Lynn Krawczyk and Sue Bleiweiss! (I’ve never met any of these folks face to face, but have grown to know them through the years on Facebook) This is their “open studio” issue, with 8 artists showing their… Continue Reading
Tadah! I need to have more bags in my booth later this month and so I started by making four of the ones that take the longest to make! (The fifth one in the first photo is the one that’s left from the last batch). Onward! Continue Reading
Well, the month I dread all year is upon us! I teach an intense Mayterm class, it’s getting hot, I’ve got a big show at the end of the month to get ready for, Logan needs motivation to keep on keeping on at high school…..ugh! I DID get four new Leather Handled Linen Totes finished… Continue Reading