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

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May 28, 2010

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 Roll Call

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May 27, 2010

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

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May 17, 2010

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.

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

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.”

Celebrities- Barb and Mary

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January 19, 2010

Barb and Mary from Me & My Sister have a new website. Please stop on over and be amazed with the wonderful photography, projects and more. Okay there are alot of websites out there. I know this. Why I am blogging about them is their NEW blog. If you have ever spent anytime visiting with these 2 zany gals, you will know their prospective on life is nothing less than entertaining. Here is a bit of inside info about them, then hop on over to their blog, add it to your reading list. You will always be entertained. I Guarantee.

Before each Market we brainstorm on a THEME. Really, how do you create a booth and a catalog by combining the large range of designers as moda has? So Beach was kind of our working title for the last market. Who doesn’t love the beach and sound of water pounding against the sand?
Next, I sent an e-mail to the moda designers asking them to send us any family pictures or inspiration from the beach, ocean, etc. They could send us family vacation pictures and we could doctor the pictures in Photoshop. Barb and Mary did not let me down. A few days later I received a package in the snail mail. They sent a collection of VACATION pictures as shown below. Each picture has Barb or Mary “cut-n-pasted” into the picture. I added my own comment below each picture.

Someone has a major crush on Tom Cruise.Hummm I wonder who?

A little game of catch, anyone?

My aren’t we athletic?

My new’s years resolution sure is working good.

This is just a small example of how humourous these talented women are. I hope we don’t loose them to Hollywood.

quilt market and festival

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October 20, 2009

I am back from Quilt Market and a day of Festival. Wow! What a great time! Everyone I met was such a delight! Lots of shopping, visiting and fellowship amongst the quilters!

A FEW QUILT MARKET PICS

Kelli Trimble and Melody Busch at Sample Spree

The next Moda BakeShop Sampler box was a big hit at Market. It is the cutest box of 12 different fabric collections – (40 – 2 1/2″ squares of each fabric from the collection) Also included in the box is a charm pattern booklet with an assortment of templates and the history of charm quilts from Barbara Brackman. Everyone here wants to buy 2, 1 to open and 1 to keep unopened. Run to your store (late November) and tell them you must have one.

A picture of my latest quilt, Martinque by 3 sisters. I Love it and I think a
magazine is picking it up for a future publication! Yeah!

Six Degrees of Separation
You’ve probably heard of the Six Degrees of Separation concept. Any one person is connected to any other person through six or fewer relationships, because it’s a small world. There is a movie and a game devoted to this concept. The Kevin Bacon Game. ( for hours of mindless fun go here and test your movie trivia)

Due to the power of the Internet and social medias, the saying is quickly turning to 3 degrees of separation. Knowing someone is not actually ever meeting them in person, right?!

Well I wanted to introduce you to some of my 3 degrees of separations that I can now say I have met instead of just knowing them through the world wide web.

Elise and Carry from our distributor in the Netherlands. They came to visit us between Market and Festival. I took them to visit Ft. Worth to see some “Texas Cowboy Stuff”. We couldn’t resist stopping by Cabbage Rose Quilt shop. I just had to take their picture
in front of the Texas flag door!

Karen and Rachel from Home ala Mode were busy having a great time at their first booth at Festival! Did you know there were moda home items? Apparently there were alot of people that didn’t and their booth was swarmed by anxious buyers. Crazy busy having fun!

I have had the pleasure of meeting Larisa and Rimma about a year ago, but was excited to see them again.

Larissa and Rimma along with several other Russian quilter’s put on a wonderful exhibit at Quilt Festival. This still applies to my 3 degrees theory because I did meet other friends of theirs from Russia. Beautiful exhibit. Great job! Read all about the Festival going Global.

Doug Leko from Silver Lane Quilting

I could go on and on about this young man. He is actually standing in front of the quilt he made for us. He is amazing! Remember his name because you will seeing it often in the future.
Also I have to mention his mother, Elaine. Good job, ma’am.