Roy's Coming! Next Thursday it's Mellow Yellow

A Stitcher's Roy G Biv

Just a reminder that the Search for Roy G Biv continues next Thursday, March 20th. Hope to see some happy yellow... or warm yellow (brrr...it's cold out!). Check here for a reminder about how to play along with Jennifer and me.

Here's what I've been up to this past week:

• Spent too many hours preparing for a lecture (Playing in the Kitchen for Arlington Quilter's Unlimited) and then gave it Monday night.

• Finished going through the Copy Editor's notes and then re-read the entire book manuscript for mistakes.

• Finished putting together the handout and prepared kits
  for this Saturday's workshop, Experiments in Printing for Arlington QU.

• Working on the handout for my Patching, Stitching, Weaving: Creating Healing Cloth workshop. I've been reading through the books pictured above among others and had great fun putting together a Pinterest board for the class. 

Still not caught up with the time change and really wish the weather would just decide to be spring!!

What is it about quilts?

Detail from Little Trickster

What is it about quilts?

I am not a quilter, though I think I have a quilter's sensibility.

Detail from Blue

Many of the designs that end up on my dolls look a bit like quilting blocks...though some more like quilting blocks gone askew...

Detail from Rammie

Last night, I gave my Playing in the Kitchen talk for Friendship Star Quilters in Gaithersburg, Maryland. What a welcoming group!

After my talk, there was show and tell, where members get to come up and show what they've been working on or share quilts with the group.

Now, I am truly a lover of art quilts. But there is just something about the utilitarian quilt...all that work, patience and love embedded in the fabrics and designs. All that tradition being passed between generations. Quilts for celebrating good times and to give comfort to a sick loved one.

There is just something about that that is very special!

The Storm Before the Calm

Today starts my crazy week.

Tonight is the first lecture, Playing in the Kitchen: Resists from the Kitchen and More.

This morning I ironed some of the larger resist samples for the show and tell after the Power Point.
I have to say...I am a bundle of nerves. That is usually how it goes with me and lectures. I will probably be running to the bathroom to pee several times before I get up in front of the group.

It's very strange... I don't feel this way about giving a workshop. With workshops, I really feel in my element.

Also strange is that I spend hours and hours studying my lecture notes, trying to memorize the perfect turn of phrase to describe a technique and then... I get up and usually wing it! Of course, after spending all those hours...I'm not sure winging it is exactly the right turn of phrase (tee hee).

I have to do this all over again Wednesday morning, followed by a 4-hour workshop.

Then I'll be out the door at 6 AM on Thursday, heading for the airport and down to Savannah to pick up my folks.

With fingers crossed, I will be heading to Maine on Friday....ah...