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Yesssss!-----I know I'm late posting this newsletter. You might as well get used to it, because next month, I'll probably be late again!
We recently accepted one of our grandchildren to come live with us. I had forgotten just how hectic it can be with just one first grader. How in the world did I ever manage with 4 of them?
Last weekend I had the privilege of accompanying him to a birthday party held at (of all places for a grandma to be) a roller skating rink! It was great fun. Then there was clothes shopping, hair cut, and the homework!! Who would ever imagine that a first grader has so much homework? Even the parents (and/or grandparents) have to sign a report every night as to what was done and turn it in the next day. I feel like I'm the one in school!
Anyway, I don't have much to report to you in the quilting world, that is. I'm thinking about next weekend going to the state Mennonite relief sale in Enid. We'll see if that gets to happen.
Those of you who were lucky enough to get to Houston Festival this year had a good time I heard. My Pretty-Boy Peacocks quilt was there, courtesy Eagle Pattern Depot, and Mary Covey of "The Good Life". Thanks to Mary for transporting it to and from. And thanks to the Eagle Pattern people for displaying it in their booth. You can purchase a few of our patterns wholesale (or retail) thru their website too. You can purchase Mary's line of patterns there, too. Just select either Claudia's Quilt Shoppe or The Good Life in the drop-box area on the Eagle Pattern Depot main page. Darcy Ashton has her patterns listed there now, as well as many other super designers.
I'm
gradually putting together a trunk show for the Short & Scrappy
pattern series (see above). If your local quilt shop is interested, have
them email me for the schedule and details. I can also arrange for
"rental" of samples of some of the other designs available here.
Other showroom samples that are available are: Pretty-Boy Peacocks,
Penguins play, Simple Scrappy Pleasures Wall Hanging, Toy Box Baby Quilt, My
Stars & Bars.
Site seeing, anyone?
http://www.quilts.org/QIQAFall03SpecialRep.pdf A study on the effects/endurance of quilts containing adhesives (fusibles). Note--this is a PDF file.
http://www.terrelldesigns.com/ Very creative use for patchwork. Very inspirational too.
http://homepage.mac.com/mbgoodman/clean/ You're machine will thank you.
What's New?
Well, let's see. Oh, Yes! Another baby quilt pattern is online now! It's a fun one. (And it's cheaper, too!) Very simple, and very pastel (but you could make it bright if you wanted). Called Baby Steps. I have the sample in the hoop, hand quilting it now with light blue thread. Will try to put in a real picture of the sample next month.
May you always have a quilt in the hoop, I try to.
Cya,
Claudia
October 31, 2003
ARCHIVES: (Please note that some of the links on past newsletters
on the Site-Seeing Categories may have expired and are no longer available--in
other words--Its Not My Fault!!)
August,
2001- Premiere Issue: Explanation of Website Categories, Picture
of Author
September, 200l - Eden
Mennonite Sewing Society, Oklahoma MCC Relief Sale Link, New House Hunting
Pattern, New Ozark Mountain Night Pattern, Call for Guest Gallery
October, 2001 - Plett's Plot,
Sewing Society Follow Up, New Quilter's Alphabet Pattern, New My Stars &
Bars Pattern, Free Block of the Month Project - House Hunting
November, 2001 - HenryCat, My
Stars & Bars Free Block of the Month, New Easy Eights Pattern, Granny's Tip
of the Month
December, 2001 - MCC Relief
Sale, Enid, Oklahoma; Quilter's Corner, Auction Bay, Featured Quilt, Other
Quilts, 10,000 Villages, Twilling, Finished Simply Amish Quilt, Free Block of
the Month - Easy 8's, New Heart Trio Pattern - Appliqué
January, 2002 - New Year's
Resolution; Website Reviews: Bead Creative, Quilting with a Passion,
Webshots, Lancaster Gen. Store, others; Quilters Mall Crawl; Free Block of the
Month - Calendar Blocks
February, 2002 - Grandma's
Buttons Lap Quilt, weather box, Quilt University.Com, Fran Iverson Gonzalez,
Hawaiian Ice Breaker, Paypal Added, Connecting Threads, New Pattern - Proud
Mamas, Free Block of the Month - Heart Trio Table Runner
March, 2002 - Twilling Quilt
Update, Quilt Car, Worm Song, Alex Anderson's Chat Room, Out with Henry, In
with Frosty, Free Block of the Month - Simple Scrappy Pleasures.
April, 2002 - Finished
Shadow Quilt Top, Yoyo Site, equiltessence.com, Snoopy Dance, What Muppet
are You?, Free Block of the Month - Proud Mamas, In the Works - Train Quilt
& 9-Patch Wonders
May, 2002 - Nite-Nite Express Quilt
& new pattern, Mr. Skunk, Frosty Update, End of the Internet Site, Sewing
Genie Review, Ground Zero Quilt Site, Internet Bumper Stickers Site, What
Simpson are You?, Crazy Horse Site, 9-Patch Wonders new pattern and free BOM,
New Logo
June, 2002 - Eden Mennonite's Broken
Star, Stack & Slash Tutorial, Gauge your Age, T-Shirt Quilts, What Storybook
Character are You?, Holiday/Birthday List Link, Vacation Notice, Quilt Index.
Com Mall Crawl
July, 2002 - Our mention in Quilters'
Newsletter Magazine, Diana's 9-Patch Wonder Recipe #3, Diana's Simple Scrappy
Wall Hanging, Fractal Quilts Link, What Vegetable R U?, Smiley Reference Link
August, 2002 - Homeland
Pride Quilt, Winsome Wildflowers Quilt, Gag Gifts Link, What's Your Inner
Flower?, Quilters' Survey, Fireworks Link, WWQP Pattern Search Link, Funny
Valentine Link, Kansas Trouble Quilt Pattern
September, 2002 - Simple
Scrappy Pleasures Finished Quilt, Sharon Caligan's Simple Scrappy Quilt,
Friendship Basket Exchange Block, Nickel Cobblestones New Pattern, Kansas
Troubles New free BOM Project, Mini Munchkin land Link, Useful Items Link, Quilt
Costs Link, Useless Quiz Link, Jeanne Prue's Guest Gallery Link, The Mom's
Dictionary Link
October, 2002 - Book
One--the First Collection, Basket Luncheon Set, Friendship Basket Swap, Baby
Cobblestone in Progress, Site-seeing, 3 Barns Kansas show
November, 2002 - Cobblestone
Finished, Another Nite-Nite Baby Express Finished, Jungle Lone Star Finished,
Site-Seeing Links: Kaleidoscope toy, Funky Chicken, Quilt Lid Boxes,
Telephone Game, Which Villain Are You?, Weird Eyeball, Pickup Truck Cover, Quilt
Block Design Interactive, Movie Physics; Simple Scrappy Wall Hanging new
Free BOM Project; Bird Hunting and Pieced Flowers In the Works.
December, 2002 - Thirteen
Flowers Finished, 4th Nite-Nite Express Finished, Pat Katnik's Nite-Nite
Express, Site-Seeing Links: Quilts Stolen, Paint by Number, Sarah
Mylchreest, Snowmen, Giggles, Mugshots, Canon Cards, Twelve Flowers New Free BOM
Project, Snowball Poem
January, 2003 - Bird
Hunting Pattern and Quilt done, Site-Seeing Links: Google View Search
& Bill Coleman's Photographs. Addition of Guest Gallery, Beaded
Egg, Scrap Quilts in the Works
February, 2003 - Nancy
Adams' quilt, Juliana Winegarten's quilt, Tulsa Volunteer Blocks, Site-Seeing
Links: 71 Reasons to Buy Fabric, FBI Watching You, The Weedeater Quilt
March, 2003 - Just
Quilt It! Feature Story; Site-Seeing Links: 12 Flowers Block Swap, Quilt
Judges, & Where words come from; Plaid Mad in the Works, & Peacocks in
the Works
April, 2003 - Pretty-Boy
Peacocks Finished; Site Seeing Links: Owl Cam, Eagle Cam, Old-Fashioned
Living, People/Dogs, Armed Services Banner; What's New Decisions/Decisions
May, 2003 -
Muskogee Quilt Show, 2003; Site Seeing Links: Leather Thimble, Evil
Squirrels, The Weird Chronicles, Iraqi Information Minister, What's New Ducks in
a Row, My Stars & Bars free block of the month.
June, 2003 - Penguin
Quilt, Site Seeing Links: QuiltMaker program, Baby crib quilt racks,
Quilter signs, Carjacker raccoons, Avoid alien abductions, EQ4/5 Tutorials,
What's New Lone Star Basics Pattern
July, 2003 - Darcy
Ashton in T-Town, What's New Caddo River, Appliqué Wall Hanging Top,
Site-Seeing Links: Easy Circle Cathedral Window, Falcon's Bird Cam,
Snowflakes, Lunch Boxes, Invisible Thread Review
August, 2003 - Lone Star Appliquéd quilt, Site-Seeing
Links: Classic Couches, Digital Clock, Singing Horses, Stress Test;
What's New: Shopping Cart, ShortnScrappy Pattern, Picture Frame New BoM
project, Buster Licking
September, 2003 - Precut
Kits, Other Kits, What's New Toy Box Baby quilt coming up, Site-Seeing:
Fly Swatter, What Kind of Storm Are You?, Interactive Kitty
October, 2003 - Eden
Mennonite Church Fall Country Festival, The Spellchecker Paragraph, Site-Seeing
Links: Wrap them in Love, EtchASketch, Marie Webster Story, Interactive
Shapes Board Site, Car Handbags, More Fractals, Urban Legends Detector Site;
What's New Toy Box Baby Quilt Pattern free, Patches/Scrappy Photos.
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