It's the end of another marvelous day. This the business of a show, chatting, sharing and the thrill and adventure of learning something new. Each year, the standard gets higher, Each year I marvel. I question, I'm surprised, I'm thrilled, I'm amused and puzzled. I accept and I challenge. That is the nature of a…
Category: Capture & Create
Jewel Pearce Patterson award.
Last night we held a function for the present and past Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship winners. Each year, International Quilt Market honors a worthy quilting instructor with the scholarship, created in honor of the late Jewel Pearce Patterson. Patterson was a quilting teacher, one of the co-founders of the International Quilt Association, and mother of…
Aussies Rule
The day is over….whew!!! Rachelle Denneny from my home Guild won the $7500 award… (third award) but I was so excited I can't remember what the award was. Rachael with another prize winner Pat Holly. We won second with our joint quilt… so we are chuffed… All of the quilts were wonderful, I believe the…
Capturing the day – Houston day 1.
Just finished my on line homework….!! should I say hotel work.!!! I was up early, went over all my classes and pressed all the clothes in sets for the week. I finished this little thingy and now I'm going shopping, lunch with Janome, Keith arrives in the afternoon, friends at 4.30… presentations in the early…
Houston – I made it…
I made it folks, I'm in the Mecca of quilting…..Houston…. being here, I just feel complete after a very hectic year. I caught up with Shanker and Mala and we are going to have the most amazing classes in Dubai and Muscat and……. lots of other intriguing places… Can you tell I'm a little excited?…
Tactile Textiles.
Houston, houston, houston. I've been up since 4.30…. there are so manythings racing through my mind and when I get to Houston this afternoon I'll be running… Tactile Textiles is up an running and I will put up a web page in the next day or so…. I'm going to work on it…
Too late.
Too late, and too tired to write the blog. I leave for Houston at 6.00 am tomorrow. But for my friends who were worried about the dead frog in the car park…. RIP He is now at rest on my balcony….!!!
Halloween
It's very late and I'm sitting the lobby finishing off the presentation for tomorrow… it's going to be a busy day and then I have to get my head around Houston.!!!! The rest of the team flew in from Thailand and Vietnam today and tomorrow the real work begins. However, I took a little time…
Travel – you need to be prepared for anything. No 2.
Well I made it to Arkansas despite the security at the airport because of the EXPLOSIVES FOUND: "Obama Calls Bomb Scare a 'Credible' Terror Threat" Many planes had been diverted in the past few days due to the severe weather disrupting travel throughout the States. I'm here in Little Rock with a full team of…
Planes, Planes.
Sitting in the club in the airport in Chicago… seems some of the airport is being shut down due to a bomb scare… !!!!