Daily Blog

On the Road in Oz

We spent most of the day driving across Kansas - the portal to the land of Oz. Funny that Alex should use a similar theme for her blog. Kansas! Can you say flat?. I've heard some people in Kansas say it's so flat you can stand on a beer can and see all the way to Texas. At at travel center I had to find something from the Land of Oz, and I found some fun stickers. So Alex is singing, "If I only had a brain.".

Alex, congratulations! - you are getting more techie every day!

Hey, all you Kansans. Tell us about your state? What's great? What kind of quilting do you do? I know there is a Kansas Dugout block? Is it popular in Kansas?

Ricky, having left Oz and now just barely in Missouri (Blue Springs).

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Ricky/Justin Head to Richmond

It's a New Day - and we are off to Richmond, Virginia for the Super Quilt Seminar. Hope to see many of you there. We'll report in on the way. Three days of diriving - should be fun! - Ricky leaving my heart in La Veta where the sunrise was awesome!

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Blitz Oprah!

Because The Daily Bogs can get buried as days roll on, I want everone to scroll down to the archive and read the July 3rd blog about Alzheimer's, Ami Simms, and Oprah (even if you read it before). If you haven't done your part, won't you take just a few minutes to help? Quilter's unite - we are a force - Ami's project needs to be known and YOU can make a difference. After all, it was quilters that kept Reynold's freezer paper ON the market! It was quilters that got Northern toilet paper to show quilters quilting with real needles, not with knitting needles in their national TV ads. Copy the blog and print it out for your guild, email it to all your friends! Now - who's with us? - ONWARD! Ricky, almost home to La Veta, and have just submited my form to Oprah.

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Festivities in La Veta

It happened yesterday. We rode motorcycles in the La Veta parade! The day before, we got caught up in a hub-bub of activity trying to 'look good'. The people along the parade route shouted their approval as Quilters on Motorcycles made their debut! Check out this video - it says it all.

Ricky - in festive La Veta, Colorado.

Photo curtesy of Dulany Lingo

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Quilters on Motorcycles

Today is the La Veta 4th of July parade. Tims Art Quilt Studio and Gallery will be represented for the first time with Quilters on Motorcycles. We really do want this to become an annual event so we'll see how it goes this time around. I'll keep you posted.

The photos you see here are the new paint job on Justin's Harley. When I designed Fire Dragon Rhapsody , Justin dyed the fabrics. He was attempting to duplicate a fabric I had dyed for the back of a quilt in 1999. It was a multi-colored purple that I was crazy about, but is very hard to replicate. He finally succeeded, so I used it for the quilt. In the Rhapsody fabrics on my website it is called - Fire Dragon. Remember, the quilt now resides at the Museum of the American Quilter in Paducah, Kentucky. You may also know that I used the prize-money from the quilt to put down payments on the Harleys.

So, when Justin decided to have his bike painted with a custom paint job, he sent the actual fabric swatches to the artist. They did an amazing job, but the fun thing is that his bike art is now on their website - check it out here . Better yet, check out this page and click on the images for a large view, you'll see the quilt on that page, too. If you want to see other really cool bike art - check out their homepage and browse the gallery. The interesting thing is that art is art - whether fabric or paint, in a quilt or on a motorcycle. It is amazing to me that Fire Dragon Rhapsody has a Fire Dragon counterpart that is now one of the main-stays of a bike painter. Pretty cool huh?

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That's a Wrap!

It is a beautiful Monday morning in La Veta, Colorado. The sun is rising over the lake near my house and I actually slept until 6:06am! Normally by this time I would have been at the studio for at least 30 minutes, downloading and editing footage for you and then prepearing for the taping. Can you tell, I'm taking a break?

The crew left last night and only a few 'stragglers' are here in town this morning. The shows are rich and full of everything you've asked for and still follow our vision for creating a lifestyle program for quilters. The first of the next set posts on July 23 - not too far away!

As you could tell in our last video, we DO read your comments. As a matter of fact - we are as additcted to hearing from you as many of you are to hear from us. Some of you are lurkers, and that's okay, but don't be shy to reply. Comments are really fun to receive.

Alex doesn't leave until later tonight. Boy do I have plans for her! She is going to do something today she has NEVER done before. As always, everything will be revealed in time, but it's okay for the guessing games to begin.

Ricky in cool, sunny southern Colorado.

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