…and after a year of fun work,
design, planning, collaboration,
face-timing with the folks at Windham in New York,
marketing, blogging,
my friends blogging, tweeting,
and me talking and talking and talking
until I have turned blue–and most definitely
a bit tired of hearing my own voice,
guess what!?!
Phew! We are back from International Quilt Market in Portland and I really only have one thing on my mind: gratitude. Holy crap was it a crazy, fun whirlwind! People really seemed to respond to my new patterns and fabric collection, COLLAGE, for Windham. I am blown away by the kindness and integrity pouring out of the whole team at Windham Fabrics and could not be happier with my choice to produce fabric with them.
Well. Today is the last day of the blog party. It has been fun to share so many designers with you. I could get all mushy as I’m wont to do, but I’ll save it. I will say that I am full of joy and gratitude and I am quite excited to have a break from blogging so much. 🙂
Hola! Como estas? Day 14 of the SocialMediaFreakOut for my new fabric line, COLLAGE, brings us to the über plugged-in Rachael Gander of Imagine Gnats. Rachael is a sassy & stylie sewinista who sews like a bat out of hell. Seriously? How do people sew so much stuff?!
Day 13 of the COLLAGE blog party…how are you holding up? Exhausted? Fatigued? Elated? Well, go drink some electrolytes and let’s party on! Only two days left people. Today we check in with wonderful Sam Hunter of Hunter’s Design Studio. I met Sam at the Long Beach quilt festival in 2011. We bonded immediately over our art school trauma 😉 and we have stayed in touch. Since then, Sam began her own pattern company and she has made quite a splash. I especially love her alphabet CD, Blanket Statement–if you haven’t seen it go look here. She gives you a complete (paper-pieced) alphabet in this pattern. Very cool.
Well, you know I met many of the friends I have featured during this blog party via social media. But I met Jenny Kelly at the mothership of all social media–BlogHer 2011, San Diego. 3,000 blogging women descended on the waterfront to soak up info about the blogosphere. There were crafty women, and mom-bloggers, & business bloggers. Large companies sent spies to investigate what we were up to. It was all very fun. I blogged it here.
Day 11 of the COLLAGE party. I just love the number eleven. Today brings us the incredible Anna Graham of Noodlehead! I couldn’t be more excited that she is joining us. I’m sure you have hung out on her cool blog before and bought her patterns. She’s blog-famous. We just met. She said something nice about my fabric or something and I said, “hey, you want some?” And she said yes. So here we are. Go check out her absolutely fabulous new tote pattern here. It is seriously droolworthy! I love it and will certainly make one of my own when her pattern comes out. (Leave a comment on her site to enter the COLLAGE giveaway.) Thank you, Anna.
The COLLAGE party is rolling along at quite a clip. I can hardly catch my breath between the swells of love & joy being shared. The designers have posted gorgeous pictures and words about their experience of sewing with my new fabric line for Windham Fabrics, COLLAGE. I am blown away, not just by what they have created, but by the kindness they have shared. We are knee-deep in connection and community here. I am in awe and full of gratitude. Today brings us to Shea…
Angela Walters needs no introduction from me because if there is such a thing as a quilting rock star, she is it. You have probably taken her quilting classes on Craftsy already, or maybe you have seen her numerous quilts in shows and in the modern quiltosphere. She truly possesses a gift.
In the midst of getting stuff ready for any deadline, it can sometimes be a mild panic/freak-out/rush. Sally might attest to that. Wonderful Laura Jaquinto (my new BFF) over at Windham Fabrics has held my hand through the whole process of developing my first fabric line. She has begun to intuit my urges and instincts, rather like observing a wild animal in its habitat. She knew I was freezing-up (due to being overwhelmed) when it came time to produce all the quilts and samples with my fabric, so she rounded up Sally Keller to help test a mostly-written pattern for me: the Watercolor Quilt. This quilt depicts a huge watercolor tray laid out on newspaper and in the upper right corner is a sheet of paper containing a child’s watercolor painting and signature (the art is all raw edge appliqué but the tray and background and paper are all pieced).
