Giveaway winners
Hiya! Hope your summer is splashing along nicely. The randomly selected three winners for the GenerationQ Magazine giveaway are:
#43—Tamie #19—Kelly Smith #50—Exuberant Color
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Generation Q GIVEAWAY
I’m sure you’ve already heard and maybe even seen the adorablest, coolest magazine for sewinistas—GenerationQ? Man, is it fun to read…
GenerationQ founders, Jake Finch, Melissa Maher, and Megan Dougherty, have backgrounds in quilting journalism. They recently decided there was a spot in the market for a publication focusing on the community of the modern quilting/sewing movement and GenQ was born as an online magazine. (They even featured me right here.)
The Hockey Stick
So, I was face-timing with my cousin Lee last week and he was seeing an image of my computer on his iPhone. He saw a screenshot of my Blogger analytics (the back-end statistical data of my blog) and he said, “Wow—you’ve got a hockey stick there!” I had no idea what he meant but have since learned that hockey stick growth refers to the visual of a rapid rate of increase on a graph. It looks like a hockey stick laying on its side.
LEGO sewing machine tutorial
LEGOs, LEGOs everywhere…I even have LEGOs in my coffee cup every day. My little ladybird puts one in each morning—with a great deal of exuberance. It is our funny ritual. She goes running to get a LEGO when she first sees me with coffee in hand.
cobbler’s kids
…the best part about returning from Market is that my kiddos get their stuff back! This particular cobbler’s kids totally have no shoes. Much of my company is founded on designing things for my children and their interests, yet they aren’t allowed to actually have the things I make because they end up being my samples! Ha! So happy to let them have their things…
Spring Quilt Market 2012
We’re back from Spring Market in Kansas City with many thoughts and images to share. If I had to say it in one word: VIBRANT. So very vibrant.
But here are a few others to describe the buzz in Bartle Hall:
Connected
Creative
Excited
Kind
Interesting
Enlightening
Super-duper-fun
desert diary
In April,
the Palo Verdes
decide
(all at once)
to bloom—
then, in May,
to let go of
everysingleflower
Saffron snowstorm.
Wall-to-wall carpet.
I can’t get enough.
Lucy’s Crab Shack
Just had to whip up some Giggle & Squeak™ pillows using the brand new (and very adorable) fabric by Sweetwater (for Moda) called Lucy’s Crab Shack.
Studios Magazine — summer 2012
I am sorry about the narcissistic swerve into horn-tooting of late, but there is seriously a lot of great press happening right now. I was crazy honored when Linda Blinn, editor at Studios Magazine, asked if I would write a bit about crafting with kids. But when I opened the package from them yesterday I was stunned by the beautiful pages filled with photos and words about our messy, happy art-making adventures. This issue is gorgeous, inspiring, and filled with kids stuff. Go get your copy today. Or, well…would like a free one? Let’s do a giveaway!
To Market, to market…
Getting very excited. We are packing up for Spring Quilt Market 2012 in Kansas City—boxes and bins everywhere. I am really looking forward to seeing the whole sewing world next week! What fun we’ll have. If you’ll be there, come see us.
I’ll be presenting a Schoolhouse talk to shop owners about my brand, merchandising my products, and selecting artful, tonal fabrics for the modern sewinista! Am focusing on one single question for Market: