June 09 Fabric Trends will showcase "Spring Break"

What a nice surprise! Fabric Trends got a kick out of my traveling exhibit piece called SPRING BREAK! It will appear in the June 2009 issue.

Headed for Paducah

Well I'll be danged!! Just got word that my African Bull piece "Endangered" is going to Paducah for the late April show. Heck... I haven't even been there! Anyway.. pretty exciting! This was my first entry to Paducah and I was somewhat surprised to learn their wall entries have a fairly large minimum size.... I think 41" wide which Endangered just makes.
We all must get there someday.... not to 41" wide.... to Paducah! :-) Patt

Teaching at Houston Oct 09

It's official, I'll be there. Contract signed.... so here's the schedule.
Signup notification awaits us all.
Oct. 14-17, 2009
Houston International Quilt Festival
Wed. Oct 14 Painting With Inks
Thurs. Oct 15 Quilting Art, Mixed Media Sampler
Fri. Oct.16 Portraits on Fabric
Sat. Oct 17 Mixed Media Sampler, Meet The Teachers Forum
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Los Angeles Area "Avenue 50 Studio" EXHIBIT and Sale - SAQA

Sometimes I NEED to do something abstract just to focus on fun quilting techniques/ patterns. Strings 1 is one such quilt. (There is also a strings 2 and 3). I dropped Strings 1 in the mail today for an upcoming Surface Art Associates juried exhibit/sale at Avenue 50 Studio Gallery, 131 No. Avenue 50, Highland Park, Ca. 90042. This should be interesting in that there were some 134 juried entries including international entries from Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Canada, among others. The exhibit and sale will run from March 14, 2009 to April 5, 2009. I think I need to go there myself!
Their web site... www.avenue50studio.com.

I showed up on The Quilt Show.com Blog.

What a nice surprise!
Staff from The Quilt Show.com were at the January Road to California Show and have posted snapshots of my "Road" exhibit on their daily blog. Very cool of them!

Go to thequiltshow.com and click on the tab labeled Daily Blog or paste this URL link in your browser.

http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/blog.php

New CD Patterns and Followalong Guides

For some time, students have been asking I make patterns that I bring to class available in commercial form. Before I did that, I felt (I'm a teacher at heart) that I needed to create a step by step, color by color photo follow along guide.... which ofcourse meant repainting and photographing/documenting as I went. That's now done for four patterns and are now available from JukeboxQuilts.com (though they aren't on the website as of yesterday). You can email customerservice@jukeboxquilts.com though and they can fill your order til the web site is made current. These are economic! $10 retail (Jukebox may offer some specials... their call) They include printable pdf drawings in 2 sizes...8 1/2 x 11 so you can enlarge to any size you want and one preformatted to print at 18"x24"..plus the step by step photo/text guide. Click on Products/Resources link to move to Jukebox website.
CD drawings and guides include:
Tiger Eyes
King (the lion)
Santa's Secret
Southern Grace (Magnolia)
The back cover of each disk identifies the specific ink colors/markers I used tho I love it when people change to their "own ideas." Jukeboxquilts.com distributes both these CDs and the used products so I'm certain they would pull and ship a personal kit.

Taping the QUILTSHOW.COM in Mar 2009

How cool is this?? On Mar 12, I will take flight to Colorado Springs, drive to Ricky Timms studio in LaVeta Colorado for a Mar 13 segment tapeing of "Drawing and Painting for People Who Don't!" This should be tons of fun (yes I'm a bit nervous). Check out the quilt gallery at http://www.thequiltshow.com ..... Only members view the resulting show ('will post here when I know the date it will be released) but everyone can see a sample show for free, and see quilts posted by members. Check it out. News update on this later. :-) ...... Patt Blair