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Lakeside Quilters: Fabric Painting & a night of Schnibbles (19)

Hi Ladies, well last Saturday was a day filled with inspiration, a little bit of stress learning something new and a finished fabric painted apple that is absolutely gorgeous!! Thanks so much to Ana for your super teaching skills and help throughout the day it was so great! Thanks to my SIL for making the trek from DeWinton and my Mum for coming from a conference and 3 hours from home 🙂 and too all the Ladies who committed to come and learn something so totally new and challenging.

Heather, this pic is for you as you dressed up for the photo opps today 🙂

Here’s all of us with our proud works of art!

So after this amazing day of painting was over, my SIL drove home to change, my Mum drove home to her cottage and some girls came over to change and get ready at my house with me because we were off to a FAB dinner and trunk show with Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co. For those of you unfamiliar with Carrie she is the creator of the Schnibbles line of patterns – which are absolutely adorable!!

Our table was full of so many laughs after so much good food and a nice glass of wine we (I) got the giggles boy did we (I) have so much fun, along with everyone else at the table. Thanks to all my dear Quilting buddies for making it the best night!

unfortunately I didn’t bring my awesome D90 but I did have my iPhone which is 3MB so I shot these few photos with that, enjoy.

 

check out her binding clips, she really uses this many – isn’t that an absolute riot!!

then we had to get some photos with us girls and she was such a delight to sit and chat with..

Last is me with her, she signed out patterns and fabric packs like a real trooper, thanks Carrie for taking the time to laugh and be with us, we loved it!

 

until next event in Quilting in Alberta, stay creative everyone 🙂

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Fabric Painting Class & Updates (entry 58)

Hi Ladies, how’s everyone today? I’ve been listening to a pile of podcasts lately and loving all of the good information on them. Allison Rosen just interview Jennifer from CraftSanity and it was soo good.

 

I love getting to know all of you in this huge online world, more personally. Thus my e-interviews. I have quite a few ladies that I have asked and they have accepted…just waiting for their little write ups and I’ll be posting all about THEM!! If you want to be e-interviewed just let me know!!

So…I’ve taken this amazing fabric painting class with a wonderful teacher, Ana Buzzalino. I painted only one other time in my life on a hard piece of canvas (I’m not sure where that art piece is today…) with my Grandma when I was about 7 maybe, in acrylics.

Anyway, I wanted to learn a new technique and that, I did! Check out my Masterpiece – I’m so proud…it was a day that started out with some frustrations trying to get my head around this painting thing, mixing colours, added water to the right thing – paint not brush- and remembering where the light is coming from…but about halfway through the day we started enjoying ourselves and look at how it turned out.

Here’s the 3 of us that sat together and enjoyed the day learning this amazing new technique

Our finished pears…what do you think? Could you do this? Would you like to try this? If you are in the Calgary area and would like to take a class, email me and we’ll set one up. Also, for those of you who are taking the class May 29th – please tell a friend. We have space for 15 or so and about 8 are taken.

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I’ve also completed two of the cutest birthday presents (Chenille Scissor & Needle Keeper) I’ve made to-date…well except Gracie’s Quilt!!

my Mum’s

My SILs

Which one do you like better? What colour scheme would you prefer?

I’m just in the process of finishing up a free chenille tutorial, pattern & kits – so stay turned to learn a great technique.

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I’m also working on getting my Freebie 15 block…98 pieces. I’ve cut two blocks wrong and had to re-piece then proceeded to cut one of these two wrong again…can you say “frustrating” and now I can’t seem to get them to fit…so I’ve put it aside for the moment. I have to have it done by Friday morning at 9:30…I’m sure some of you can relate.

Here’s my most recent pizza box, I can say I’m not the biggest fan of the batiks never mind with this lovely metallic fleck added to the design – it’s so hard to sew through…any suggestions? I do however, like the way it turned out in the end 🙂

(can you tell I love this block design?)

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Here’s Tig waiting for me…well I think she’s waiting but she’s just catching some zzzzzz’s 🙂

she always seems to have her socks on her feet perfectly matched up – little cutie.

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Until next time, have a happy & creative day & please pass my blog on and leave a comment 🙂

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THANKS to all of you ladies who signed up for Journey of a Quilter – I’m at 20 people, the cut off is this Sunday (17th). So for those of you who’ve procrastinated…your time is running out and I would LOVE for you to join me…For those interested in Kitten’s Tale I’m still accepting sign-ups for another couple of weeks or so…so let me know if you want to be added to the contact-signups sheet and you’ll be notified when the BOM is ready to start 🙂