http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE77145G20110802 By Matthew A. Ward CARROLLTON, Va | Tue Aug 2, 2011 12:17pm EDT (Reuters) – Last year, customers at Bella Fabrics in eastern Virginia paid no more than $9.99 a yard for the designer fabric they fashion into quilts. But these days quilters who shop at Lisa Steele's store and others around the country…
Category: Capture & Create
A busy day.
The day begins with 2 poached eggs on rye and coffee… But I've almost blown the days calorie count by eating a quesadilla for lunch.!!!! Gees I just worked out that shrimp also has lots of calories. Some special things have happened in the past few days… A young man Tai Loben asked me to…
whew!!!!
Today has been interesting, its' still 101 (39) and its almost 8.00 pm. It reached 113 this afternoon (45) but I didn't notice it too much. I was in and out of hotels, cars and shops. I had lunch at the purple cow… it's a wonderful 50's reproduction restaurant, click on the photo to see…
playing with design
The temperature hit 104 today. The forecast is for 108 tomorrow, but I didn't feel it too much beca use I was really busy and I must say I'm suffering from a "tired wind down" I'm preparing to travel to Birmingham and Dublin. I'm here in Hot Springs to look at…
Flying high.
I'm writing this as I fly. It great being able to have Internet on the plane. I'm just over Tuscon right now. The clouds are spectacular and the earth is streaked with shades of brown sometimes interupted by forest green circles of irrigated ground. Some of the clouds form into high storm towers and its…
What a day.
It's all over. Was it just the other day that I arrived here in Long Beach? 3 days of high expectation, color, inspiration and friendship. I shared ideas with lots of wonderful folk and I'm thrilled that I had met so many of you on previous occasions. The bags are packed…
As predicted I had a super day. It's late and I'm sitting here and there are simply times that I can't express my self. Just helped Tilly with her new reader, she held it up to the computer so I could help her with her reading……. and now it's time to sleep.!!!!! …
IQA Long Beach
What are these gals laughing at…. it's all a bit too much fun really. I'm so lucky to have wonderful friends to share quilting with me and still keep coming back….!!!!! During lunch hour today I ran down to the show floor to photograph. The place was buzzing, in fact at 10.00 am when the…
Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. – No 2
Sorry, I forgot that I had omitted to put up the rest of the photos… If you are a quilter, you will be enthused and inspired. New Gallery pictures of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe
too pooped
It's 9.30 pm and I just got back from a day of teaching… I wil ave to get up early and post information on the show… Sorry….