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Finally cooler weather here in SoCal, nice to be in double instead of triple digit temps. We had a fun visit over the weekend with friends on Catalina Island.

Marianne - Love your digitized embroidery looking forward to seeing your next step in the process.
Dawn - Congratulations re two wins! Love the Geisha.
Jdeluka - I too like the face changes you've made on the Halloween top.
Rosemary - Scottish treats sound like a fine idea!
Can't remember all who mentioned Swedish Fish, I'll have to give them a try sometime.
Carol - Fun to hear you've had a chance for some mindless quilting.
Debbie - We've recently returned from British Columbia, WA, OR and CA east side of the Cascades and Sierra Mountain range terrible fires and smoke the entire trip.

Barb

Dawn congratulations on you wonderful BOS win, which didn't surprise me as your work is simply beautiful! I can't wait to see your next project. I'm still at the back of the room at the retreat FMQing the TQS 2014 BOM - I'm so slow. I prefer hand quilting and usually rush machine quilting, however I decided that I wanted to take my time and enjoy the machine quilting on this quilt and it's looking really nice . Last week I had an error message on my Bernina 550 - the computer needed a service and the engineer was on holiday. The shop where I buy my sewing machines and supplies, loaned me a Bernina 350 until my machine could be serviced (it's a lovely shop that really values their customers), I really like the 350, it's small and neat, but nice, so I bought one today. My bigger Bernina will be ready tomorrow. I had a lovely day. Dawn what flavour are the Swedish Fish? We don't have them in Scotland
Best Wishes Pam

LOL Lorra

Marianne-is-sewing wrote:
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Dawn, congratulations on your BOS wins.
I wish every quilt shop had a sporting goods store next door. Wait, he can't spend money! That means less for me to spend in the quilt shop. Since he is the one still working, I guess I will be nice and share with him. (Just a little though)

I am sorry I will miss the chance to meet you, Dorothy. Glacier Quilts did the smartest thing moving next to the best sporting goods store in Kalispell. My husband has no problem killing time while I am in the quilt shop.

Unfortunately I'm going to be out of the country when the quilt show is going on, so will miss it this year I am fairly new to quilting, and didn't even know Kalispell had quilt shows...just found out about Glacier Quilts last year
Dorothy

Love your geisha Dawn! I am hoping to come over for the quilt show the end of September (one of my best friends recently moved to Whitefish) so maybe will see your new art quilt

Dawn, Eager to see the new art quilt. As for the Swedish Fish, my mouth is watering.

Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments on my BOS ribbons, and my geisha! In today's mail I received a flyer for a Floriani seminar, coming up this next week. One of my BOS's premiums was a $25 gift certificate to the store that is hosting the seminar. So, I'm going to use that gift certificate, plus another $25 from my pocket, and attend one of the all day seminars. I did use Floriani thread in the machine embroidered geisha. It worked wonderfully! No complaints!

I have begun my art quilt that I plan to have done for our end of September quilt show. I'm kind of tickled as to how it is coming along. I am working with hand dyed velvet and heated Tyvek. So far so good! I burned some holes in the Tyvek, and was then able to pull some velvet up through it. I added some pearls and a mini sand dollar (an earring) and, it is beginning to look like an art piece. Of course, none of it is sewn done as yet, I'm just trying to get a feel for what the design might be. But, I'm having fun, and pretty much letting the velvet and Tyvek lead me in the direction they want to go.

As Dorothy said.........we have had some terribly smokey days here in northwest Montana. We live in a valley where the smoke is getting trapped, and have had air quality alerts daily. But, praise the Lord, we saw the sky today for the first time in two weeks, and I got to go for my walk, too. I sure have missed that! I have been a prisoner in the house, and it gets you down after a while! My geisha even looked a little dirty from hanging on the fair wall, with building doors open and smoke entering for a few days.

Here's what Swedish fish look like:


Except one of my friends enjoys the multi colored bag the best!

Dawn

"Lois, aren't Swedish fish kind of like Dots but in a fish form? I'll have a few... thanks for sharing!"

You got it! Yum!

Dawn, congratulations on your wins! Yay!

Lois, aren't Swedish fish kind of like Dots but in a fish form? I'll have a few... thanks for sharing!

Washington state has had the worse year for fires ever. So much has been lost. Luckily we are south enough to not be in too much danger, but like others the smoke is very harmful. Today there is a cool breeze and it is so nice to see the mountains around us. It's nice to be able to walk outside and breathe! Let's hope for some more rain.

I'm thinking about what is on my to do list for September. Gotta get motivated.

Jdlueka, love your Halloween quilt! I bet your kids will love it too!

Sybil does embroidery, but I don't have any software to make my own designs. I buy downloads and use them. But Sybil is so picky that I usually get frustrated with her and give up. I'm sure there is some "operator trouble" mixed in there too!

Have a good week everyone!

geneva

Congratulations Dawn!!!! I didn't make it up to the fair this year...just too much going on How are you fairing with all the smoke? I'm having to stay inside most of the time, because it gets to me...loose my voice, coughing all the time etc...the rain last night really helped clear the air, hope it helped put out some of the fires as well
Lois, thanks for the Swedish fish I love them, but it is a good thing they are virtual
Marianne....the fires are all over the place in the western states...we have 2 town in NW Montana that have had to be evacuated this weekend...really hope the rain we had last night was enough to help
Went out of town for the weekend, and stopped at a wonderful quilt shop....and of course picked up a couple more small projects to do
Dorothy