Sharon, hopefully you received my email. I do want a picture of my quilt hanging at PIQF!

Well, Friday and Saturday were the days of our local quilt show, where I was Featured Quilter. A reporter and photographer came out to my home on Tuesday, and on Wednesday there was a full page story (page 3!) about me and the show. Half of the page was a picture of me. Not something I was expecting, and it was a little overwhelming. Anyway, being Featured Quilter was humbling and ever so gratifying and probably one of the best experiences I have ever had! Many people came to the show simply because they had seen the article in the paper, and wanted to meet me and see more of my work. One lady even came ONLY to see me and my work. She paid $5 to get in, spent 10 minutes with me, and then dashed back to her caregiver job. Very humbling!

Here are a couple of photos of my booth with people enjoying my quilts.






Way cool! Now to put the house back in order. I spent the past few months making and finishing up quilts to fill the booth! And, writing all of those story cards!

Dawn

So my hubby and I decided we needed to get away and will be attending PIQF, yeah. Plus Frontier tickets were very cheap! So let me know if you have a quilt there and we will take photos. My email is- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Lounge lizards rule PIQF!!

Well TQS will be represented very well at PIQF. I also have two quilts juried into that show, but one is currently at MQX in Springfield and then to PIQF. I recently, a month ago, purchases a new sit down quilting, Artistic SD-16 by Janome. They are very new and I love her.

Good luck to everyone entering into shows.

Way cool Geneva! Congratulations! My Hoffman Challenge hummingbird has also been juried into PIQF! Maybe your wonderful bright colors will attract my bird, and our quilts can play together. And, I'm excited for you to be getting a new sewing machine! Like Nancy, I have a new (2 years old) machine. So, now I have a big Brother. He's due for his first check up. He already has over a million stitches on him.

We have been blessed with a little bit of rain! With more expected throughout this next week. We can finally see across the lake after 3 weeks of smoke. Here's what we saw on everything two days ago....



Dawn

Congratulations, Geneva! Both on your quilts and on your new machine!! My "new" machine (2 years old now) is also the Bernina 770QE and I love it! I think you'll be very happy with the change!!

Hey! Anyone going to the Pacific International Quilt Show please check out my two quilts, "Color and Passion 1 and 2". They were juried in! I'd love to have a picture if anyone goes.

And in other news, Sybil has decided to leave me for Mr. Fix It. Well, actually, I finally decided to give Sybil her walking papers and buy a new machine. After much thinking, comparing and stressing I decided on the Bernina 770QEE. Sybil is 10 years old has over 6 million stitches and as you are aware, rather persnickety causing much frustration. I enjoyed using the 770 at the store and am excited to move up. And, Mr. Fix It gave me a trade in amount for Sybil! Don't let the door hit you on your foot pedal on the way out Sybil!

It's still smoky here. But at least the temps have cooled down. I hope the fire staff can get the fires out soon. They must be exhausted.

Happy weekend! geneva

Congratulations Rosemary. Your miniature is unbelievable. Beautiful!!!
Geneva, congrats on your showing too. You are all so talented!!
Hope everyone stays safe from the fires, floods, hurricanes, and etc. Yes it is great we have inside work to do. Ready to go downstairs now and get busy.

Oh, Geneva, those photos really show the amount of smoke.....my goodness.

Praying for those fires to be put out soon, and for the safety and health of everyone getting such smoke from all of them. Boy, this has been the year of natural disasters, hasn't it?

Thank you everyone for the nice thoughts.

I thought I'd accompany Marilyn with some pictures of the smoke here. My asthma doesn't like this!
This is was taken from my sewing room window today.




This is what it usually looks like.




I sure hope Irma doesn't do too much damage. This has been a crazy year for weather!

Good thing we have important quilt work to do inside our homes!

Take care, geneva

Good on ya, Geneva!! Glad you had a good turnout. Your colors are spectacular; I'm in awe of your work.
Between smoke in the Pacific Northwest, floods in Texas and Louisiana, and Irma tracking toward Florida and the East Coast, it's unbelievable! Please keep safe everyone!

Congratulations, Geneva! It sounds like your showing was a big success! Your quilts sure do look beautiful, and so diverse, in that setting!!

We're even seeing the smoke here in Colorado. It's not as bad as you guys are getting, but it is blocking out the peaks and changing the colors in the sky. It's interesting, but I'm not having the respiratory problems with this visible smoke that I get with the smoke that you can smell but not see. The invisible stuff just kills my asthma and gives me sinus headaches, coughs and chest pain. But I'm not noticing anything with this visible smoke beyond a slight headache. Very strange, but I'm certainly happy with it!

Thought as much ! Here's a couple of pictures for those who don't get this "fun"!

There's a ridge line of trees out there ...not far.

I can't capture that sickly orange light, but that is the sun! Yuck!

Geneva, I could just say "ditto" as to the smoke and not seeing the mountains. It is aweful here! I went shopping yesterday, and some people were even wearing dust masks or scarves over their mouths and noses. I came home with a sore throat. My lungs were compromised around 20 years ago, so I have to be careful. Never dreamed it was that bad out there! Won't go back out for long time!

Congrats, Rosemary! I always did like that tiny quilt! We don't get cups here, just ribbons. How cool for you!

And, Congratulation Sharon on you Fair wins! Our winning quilts do not go any further than our local fair. Kind of sad!

Sorry I haven't been around much lately! This Featured Quilter thing has become much more work than I thought it would be! So, I have been staying focused. Only two more weeks! Then I may never quilt again!