So, last year at Market a pretty blonde woman walked into my booth. She had peaceful, grounded energy. She was all smiles. She liked my stuff. And she lingered. We chatted and chatted and liked each other. Eventually, she pulled out her card. It said Camp Follower Bags & Quilts. I looked at it and looked back at her: “you’re Camp Follower Bags?…(tears squeezing from my eyes)… I love you!” Then it became a whole lovefest in the booth as I showered her with compliments. The sewing/crafty/blogging world is pretty small and so of course I had seen her work before. For Camp Follower, she cuts up “your hero’s military uniform” to create custom bags and quilts. It is special, honorific, sacred work she does. It is big-picture sewing. It comes from her heart and the stories of each piece are so touching. Now she is working under her other blog monniker, Tia Curtis Quilts, and doing amazing custom work and quilting. (Tia is an incredible and fast custom quilter if you need anything quilted.)
So, like all the lovely designers on this blog party, we became friends. And when she volunteered to sew with COLLAGE, I didn’t realize what I would be seeing. She is crazy prolific. She created a quilt and three bags in short order. She even collaged small bits of military unifom (pixel camouflage) into the pieces. Read more about her on her blog here and enter to win her giveaway of a Layer Cake (10″ squares) of the entire COLLAGE collection! You can see better pix of the quilt on her blog. I love it so much…
The COLLAGE party rolls on:
April 21 – Rachael Gander (Imagine Gnats)
April 22 –Karen Le Page (One Girl Circus)
I love your work so much. Is there anything that I can sew up for you in Collage? I don’t think that I’ve ever fallen so hard for a line!
At Jody, I know… I predict that this line will sell fast. Seriously fast.
Thank you, Jody!
All of this projects are amazing!! I think my favorite is the dress in the post below. I can not wait to sew with your line and might want a bolt of each print( now there is a big dream!) have a fun weekend and thanks for the preview of your new line!