Sandy Gervais from Pieces from my Heart talks about Lollipop.
Meet Liesl from Oliver + S
Meet the newest moda designer, Liesl from Oliver + S pattern company.
City Weekend fabrics available September 2010.
Meet Edyta Sitar from Laundry Basket Quilts
Edyta from Laundry Basket Quilts talks about her quilts and her booth at the Spring Quilt show in Minnesota 2010.
Edyta combines batiks and prints to achieve her rich dramatic look. Bon Voyage will be available at your favorite quilt or specialty store October 2010.
Meet Bonnie & Camille
Visit with Bonnie and Camille as they talk about their newest collection from moda, Bliss.
Bliss wil be available in stores September. And remember you can never have too much bliss or moda fabric.
Moda designers
Hello to all,
If you do not already have all the moda designers set up in your reader or rss feeds I thought I would include a link here to each of their post market entries. Sorry no pictures. You can see the pictures and fun stuff on their blogs. Check modalissa each day @ 4:00 central time for a new video tour of the booths. The videos will also show some of the designers’booths that do not have a blog.
Bonnie & Camille
Thank you for choosing moda!
Moda Roll Call
Hello to all,
It was nice seeing you at Market. If you did not get to attend Market please join me with a cup of afternoon tea. Each day we will be featuring one of the moda designers as they share with you their new fabrics, Patterns and products.
So as the old Partridge family song goes, Come on let’s get HAPPY with Barb & Mary from me & my sister.
Happy will be available is stores this September.
Roll the Credits
Market, or at least the moda booth, is similar to putting on a big screen production. Months of planning, shooting, cropping, layouts, and editing. Of course we have all of the “Stars” such as the designers, each taking part in their major roles.
I thought I would roll the closing credits before the “movie” even starts and thank those that worked off screen.
Closing credits, in a television program, motion picture, or video game come at the end of a show and list all the cast and crew involved in the production. They are usually shown on the screen in small characters, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or scroll from bottom to top of the screen.
Producer and Director Mark Dunn
Design Director Cheryl Freyberg
Graphics Holly Hickman, Susan Stiff, Alison Scully
Production “hounddog” Outlaw
Layout Eladia A
Assembly Mariza, Esperanza, Michelle, Chelair
Bindings Carolyn, Mary Ann, Kellie, Kathy, Ducky, Shinn, Sarah S, Sarah D., Sherron, Stiff and anyone else walking by
Quiltmakers Carolyn, Mariza, Debbie Outlaw, Ducky, Barb Shinn, Holly Hickman, Kellie Trimble, Susan Stiff, Alison Dale, Kathy Bauer, Pat Fair, Sarah Stephenson
and Nancy Galbraith.
and Nancy Galbraith.
Quilters Maggie Honeyman, Carol McLeroy, Sue Needle, Connie Keller,
Emily Keller, Valerie Sneed, Alicia Key, Karen Niemi
Quilt Designers and Writers Susan Stiff, Lisa Christensen, Holly Hickman, Debbie Duckworth
Quilt Designers and Writers Susan Stiff, Lisa Christensen, Holly Hickman, Debbie Duckworth
Gaffer, Booth Assembly I had to look up this one also. Hassen, Sara and their talented crew.
Best Boy I saw this in the credits once and always wanted one of these. Juan Carlos
Packing and Shipping Victor Snead
OKAY, Lights, Action, Camera…
Let the SHOW begin. See you all at the “cast party.”
Let the SHOW begin. See you all at the “cast party.”
Twister- the ruler, not the game
Marsha from Country Schoolhouse in Superior, Wisc is located at the tip of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin. This is where she created a MUST HAVE ruler to use with Moda Layer Cakes TM and Charm Packs. The ruler is called the Twister. I have tested the ruler using Park Avenue by 3 sisters in stores May/June 2010.
These are the easy steps to why this is the MUST HAVE ruler.
Step 1
Arrange your layer cakes in a pleasing order. Sew them together. Add a border. For future reference I am going to call this piece a quilt top. You will cut this apart and sew it back together.
Step 2
This is where it gets fun! Lay the ruler on your quilt top lining up the lines as shown on the ruler instructions. Continue cutting across the quilt top.
This is the left overs after I cut the squares. There is a tiny amount left when you cut each of the squares so be careful as you cut.
Step 3
“Twist” the blocks one turn and sew them together into rows. The only word of caution is that the blocks are on the bias so be careful sewing them together. The border from your quilt top automatically makes a border around the pinwheels when sewn into rows. Pretty Cool!
Sorry about the brown carpet and the brown fabric but I think you can get the jist from the picture.
Keep the squares in order and sew the rows together.
Step 4
Add additional borders as needed.
Ask for this ruler at your favorite quilt store. It is available in 2 sizes.
Order Lil’ Twister to use with charm packs.Stock # LTW5
Twister ruler works with Moda Layer Cakes. Stock# TW10
Quilt and bind as desired.
Enjoy!
Chicago Quilt Show 2010
Big Smiles were certainly abundant at the Chicago Quilt Show.
If you are looking for a fantastic project, this would have been just one of the booths to have visited. My friend, Gerri Robinson and her sister, Jean from Planted Seeds Designs were filled to the brim with kits and patterns. They were joined by Beth Hayes, editor of McCall’s Quilting. Once again, great people make a great industry.
This quilt was one of those times when I thought, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Brilliant and charming!
I saw the back of the quilt first. Walked around the corner and was blown away by the front of the postcard quilt.
Close-ups
Can you just imagine a mail man walking up to the house to deliver this? Love it!
It was a beautiful day to walk in the sunshine and take in the sites in and around Millennium Park. Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor’s first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a “gate” to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Every time I look back at pictures of quilts from each of the shows, I wonder what attracts me to the quilts I photograph. I realize they are either art quilts or antique applique quilts. These are the 2 styles of quilts I will probably never own. I do not see how the art quilters create the incredible art. It is in my head, but I do not have the talent or skills to transfer the vision to cloth.I know the reason why I take pictures of applique quilts is because I just do not sit still long enough to make one of those.
Here are the pics from this show.
Over and Out! 1 month until Market. Yowser!
Moda Retreat 2010
Moda hosted it’s annual retreat this past weekend. Joining us were stores from all over the country for 3 days of classes, demos, shopping, food and fun. I realize as I post these pictures that it is kind of like having a dinner party and only taking pictures of your home. I didn’t do that. I took pictures of the people that came to the party! If you want to see more pictures of behind the scenes, check out some of our guests’ blogs.
Julie from Keepsake Cottage, Susan Fuquay from American Quilt Retailer and more. Let me know if you have blogged about the event and I will add a link.
So now I will show off the quests of the party!
Several of the shops participated in our Pillowcase sew-a-thon. The pillowcases were made and will be logged in the grand total over at the Million Pillowcase Challenge.
Which by the way is half way to million mark!
The first night we had a Cupcake Carnival, so we cold all let our hair down and have some fun before dinner. One of the most popular carnival booths was our BUTT SKETCH artist. Yes that is what i said!
Butt Sketch. It was great fun!
Melba from the Old Craft Store, I know that is you! I would recognize that Butt anywhere.
Deb From The Quilter’s General Store in Rockford, Illinois , proudly displaying her Butt Sketch.
Quilter’s Garden in Princeton, IL and The Stitchery in Delavan, WI hamming it up.
Kaari Meng from French General with Rachel from The Old Country Store, Intercourse, PA.
Janeese and Patt from Calico House in Lincoln, NE
Mandy from Over the Rainbow sported the perfect balloon hat.(get it? Over the rainbow!)
Several of the moda staff quickly followed. ( they will remain nameless) 
Twyla from Sew in Heaven in Holiday Island, AR was sitting quietly. She was probably hoping that I would not hunt her down and add her to the Balloon Head group.
Roseanne’s booth was a ton of fun. It was a Yo-yo competition. Not the toy kind, the sewing kind.
How fast can you sew a yo yo while the clock is ticking?
Since Project Runway is all the rage, we set up a FIG TREE RUNWAY. 2 teams of 2 competed to create there own original fashion design using precuts, ric rac, trims, buttons in 5 minutes or less. We even had a men’s round, after all most of the best designers are men. We knew our own Mark Dunn was very fashion savvy but who would of thought John Atkins our color blind IT Director would have added so much to the team. Hilariously fun!
This picture just makes me smile! 2 of our long time sales reps on hand to help us out.
Gene Stewart and Melody Busch
Brian Dunn & Mark Dunn
Just a few of the people that make it all happen EVERY DAY!!
Thank you for coming to the retreat and choosing moda!