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QuiltCon diaries Part 1

 

Hello everyone!  I've missed you!  And I have so much to tell you since I was here last.  Fair warning, this will probably be a long one!

 

 

I'm going to break my QuiltCon posts into a two because there was just so much to take in.  Honestly.

What to say, what to say.  It was inspiring.  Joyful.  Exciting.  Fun.  Heartfilling.  Nervewracking.  And I had several proud momma moments with my students. 

I taught threee classes.  Foundation piecing.  Freezer paper piecing by template.  And Designing foundation blocks.

I was so impressed by each and every student in all three classes!

 

Vicky and her cupcake from the foundation piecing class

 

Claudia and her microwave design/block from the design class

 

Elaine and her flappy finned fish design/block from the design class

 

Monica says hi from the foundation piecing class!

 

Gillian's elephant (applique, applique that ear!! lol) and Anne's St. Bernard patterns from design class

 

Joanne's key pattern/block from design class

 

Audrey's headless "Marigold"

 

Eileen's ladybug pattern/block from design class

 

Whaaaaat?  They're all so fabulous!  And there are so many I missed. 

 

So yeah.  I had some serioulsy goofy students too. 

Or maybe it was me (no, not me!) and I forgot to tell them it was OK to take their blocks home with them after the photoshoot?  Ooopsie! 

 

If you were in the class and you see one or more of your blocks here, shoot me an email to sewtakeahike at gmail with your addy and I'll pop them in the mail to you! 

 

 

And you should probably hurry before Fozzy tears across them.  He's a total spaz. 

Also, I have your original bridge design one of you left in the design class that I'd love to get back to you!!

 

And lastly for today, a photo of some of the concentrating design class students

 

 

And a couple of gratuitous class sample seam block photos

 

 

See you in a few days for QuiltCon diaries part 2.

 

xo,

Penny

 

QuiltCon is in the air

It seems unreal to say, but QuiltCon is less than a month away! 

The last several weeks has been a flurry of prep work and trying to think of the tiniest detail so the classes I'm teaching go off with as few hitches as possible. 

Yesterday, I checked on the current weather situtation in Austin, and this week it appears to be all sunshine and highs of 79 and lows of 60.  Wow.  By the time I'm there at the end of February it could be even warmer?  Looks like it's time to break out the tanning lotion.

One super fun thing I've done in the last few days was to design some new mugs.   I'll have a few of these at QuiltCon for purchase, and a couple to do a few fun giveaways in my classes.  (as a side note, it was super easy to upload my design to vistaprint and order the mugs.  I seriously think I need vistaprint 12 step program!)

 

So are you going to QuiltCon?   If so, what classes are you most looking forward to?  Please do tell!  And if you are going to be there, I really really hope to meet you!!

xo,

Penny