Virtual Retreat 2017

[Eileen K.]

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!

[Geneva C.]

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! B)

Take care, geneva

[Geneva C.]

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?

[Catherine S.]

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.

[Geneva C.]

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! :P

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

[Nancy R.]

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!!

[Dawn S.]

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

[Sharon E.]

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.

[Geneva C.]

Lounge lizards rule PIQF!! B)

[Sharon E.]

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- [email protected]

[Dawn S.]

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

[Nancy R.]

Hi Dawn -

Your quilts look wonderful hanging in your booth! I'm glad the show went so well!! See you in a couple of weeks.....

[wendy w.]

Fabulous Dawn, what a lovely display of beautiful work. Congratulations, I'm so pleased you had a good audience.

[Sharon E.]

Congrats Dawn, yes I did get your email and will happily send pictures. I will be getting the privilege of featured quilter later in October. It is very humbling and a privilege. Looking forward to going to Santa Clara to see all the wonderful quilts.

Sharon in cold Colorado, no snow but rain

[Sharon E.]

Congratulations on you booth Dawn, the photos look awesome. I particularly like the strippy triangles/diamonds in the second picture (it would possibly work in miniature nicely too )