Here Mark & I are sharing our Flip Videos with each other in preparation for the “What’s Up?” segment for one of the first three episodes of Quilt Out Loud. Sherry Cowley’s sunroom made for a wonderful set! At one point one of the cameramen pointed out a deer on the hill behind us.
Note the mugs Mark had made. NICE!
~Jodie
I’m about to head off for our third and final day of taping the first three episodes for Quilt Out Loud. It has gone amazingly smoothly–and on time. The photo above was taken yesreday when Mark & I were preparing for our book review segment on machine quilting books.
Here we were preparing Saturday for a segment with Debbie Kalenty, Patsy Thompson and Linda Lum DeBono.
I didn’t get any pictures with Pat Sloan or Janet-Lee Santuesanio and Mary Schilke from MQX, but others were snapping away and will share I’m sure.
Today we sew, cook, and do some designing. It’s been a tremendously fun shoot thanks to Michelle, Michael, Tom, Tony and Wally. And our hosts Tim & Sherry Cowley have been nothing short of wonderful. Yes, we are paying to have their hosue cleaned after we leave!
~Jodie
Last week I taped two episodes of Love of Quilting with Liz Porter and Marianne Fons at Iowa Public Television in Des Moines.
Here Marianne and I are looking at my Dimples and Duckies quilt which we taped together. I designed the fabric and had it printed by Spoonflower. The Dimples fabrics are by Anover, designed by Gail Kessler.
Jo Morton taped an episode between mine. Here are (l to r) Cindy Hathaway who is the floor director for Love of Quilting, Jo Morton, Ande Coyle from IPTV and Liz. The Star of Bethlehem quilt on the wall was made by Cindy. You can find the pattern in the Jan/Feb issue of Love of Quilting. The fabrics were reproduced exactly from the original quilt at the Quilt Study Center in Nebraska by Andover Fabrics. It’s gorgeous! Now you know what Cindy writes so cheerily on Facebook every morning that she’s off to play with fabric and thread.
These are some of Jo’s quilts which she brought for her segment. Jo loves little blocks and has some clever ways of constructing them. Watch for her episode in the 1400 series!
~Jodie
Spring is bursting forth here in north Georgia so I am trading off working outside and quilting on this National Quilting Day. I started off the day sewing blocks together for a quilt I’m making for my brother-in-law.
The pattern is from one of my books, “Paper-Pieced Bed Quilts”, which is now out of print. The quilt in the book was in shades of blue.
As far as gardening goes, so far today I raked gardens and spread six loads of composted manure, divided nepetas and corepsis, and planted parsley.
Happiness for me is a pile of conmposted manure! These guys agree:
Off to take Cassie for a run at the barn and see Mom’s mini horses. Have a GREAT National Quilting Day!
~Jodie
How’s this for a tease? The blocks you see in this photo are for a quilt that will be featured in Love of Quilting this fall. And the scarf I’m blocking will be in Love of Knitting. I sent off the scarf after I added some embellishments and the quilt is getting its last border on tonight so I can send it off to Mavis for quilting. Now you know what my pressing area looked like this week.
~Jodie
Baby Quilts has arrived on news stands or by mail order. Boy are there some cute quilts in this issue! And they begin right on the cover with this adorable train quilt.
Looking inside, here’s another cutie:
And a great project for either a boy or girl:
And this one is perfect for a boy:
What’s even cooler is that you can buy kits for these quilts. Ah, so nice to make it easy on us to just get sewing!
~Jodie
What fun to see my Sunbonnet Sue Rubber Duckies come to life!
I taught an invisible applique class at the inaugural Georgia Quilt Show last week.
In just four hours most of my students had all but completed their blocks. Wow!
Nothing is better than the sound of a classroom full of humming sewing machines.
Now I’m super-excited about pitching a book to a publisher at Quilt Market. The patterns were a great success. Duckie Fever!
Kimberly also took my Soup to Nuts Paper Piecing Class. A hat and eyes and this duckie is done.
~Jodie
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P.S. You can get on the list to keep up on the duckie patterns by going to my web site and signing up for my newsletter. When I get time, I design new ones and make them available for free for a limited time.
I’ve been itching to work on some new curved paper piecing designs. Knowing I’d have waiting time for a recent appointment, I grabbed Barbara Brackman’s encyclopedia of quilt block designs on my way out the door. I drafted this from a drawing in her book:
Oh sorry, wrong picture. Rimsky was in the basket in the kitchen as I was on my way out the door to the airport today and I had my camera in my purse and couldn’t resist. His personality matches his physical cuteness, so he’s truly irresistable.
Here’s the block:
This is a Moda line, Chez Moi. I’ll be making more blocks as I demonstrate curved paper piecing at the Fons & Porter Quilt Shop in Winterset, Iowa Thusday and Friday of this week. My aim is to write a new curved paper piecing book.
~Jodie
In the note which she enclosed with the fabrics, Betty described the triangularity of the trees and people, dressed in colorful clothing as they stride across the landscape. So let’s start with the background. I thought batiks, and then hand dyes. These are dyed by Stacy Michell of Shades Textiles.
To convey the expansiveness of the terrain and endless sky, I’m thinking of adding the same background fabric log cabin-style to the outer edges of the quilt.
Here’s my first sketch. I started with idea of going very graphic; not trying to make these look like people with heads and legs. Make it all about the shuka fabrics, pieced. Then applique and stitch the trees and grasses on top. But with the detail of the trees and grasses there may need to be more detail in the people.
The tallness of the people in contrast to the expansiveness of the scenery is intriguing.
This painting is available for sale as are many more original works on a site I found.
Shall I include Mt. Kilimanjaro?
As for the lions in the picture up top, will these do?
Only kidding!
~Jodie
