More Houston

But no pictures today - sorry - I forgot to put the card back into the camera, so the few pictures I took today are on the camera's internal memory and my USB cord is at the house...so the pictures of my perfectly mitered corner on a small piece will have to wait.... It is a very interesting experience participating in an event along with 55,000 other people - and some of the classes and teachers are so inspiring. Today I took "Finishing Techniques" with Philipa Naylor - someone who has won many awards and is an extremely entertaining speaker - she was very charming (maybe because she's British) but she also was very personable and shared her experiences - both in quilting and in her life. I really enjoyed it. Here's to tomorrow...another fun-filled day!

Houston...What day is this?

Getting tired!! Today was basket-making day (see pictures below for the various stages) and then we went to the fashion show - some of those pictures came out, but I'll have to put them in my scrapbook pdf since I don't think I'm allowed to put them on the internet in a blog. Am having a good time and I'm learning a lot...but I miss my husband and my dog and my bed...tomorrow is finishing techniques for quilts, so we'll see what I learn there!

Houston-Day 3

Today was Fabric Postcards! I had a wonderful class and really learned a lot. It was also waayyyy cool that I was able to sew all day at the new Huskvarna Viking Diamond Design machine (read that as the $9,000 HVDD machine....on sale here at the show for only $7,000). It was really a fierce machine...did everything but make coffee for me and that may be an attachment I just wasn't made aware of!!

I think my postcards came out really well and I really look forward to finishing a couple that need more embellishments and making many more.

Houston-Day 2

Today I spent the day in a Ginny Eckley class and I had a great time...we spent the morning dying silk material and then spent the afternoon silkscreening, printing, and painting on the material we made that morning...here I am with several of my pieces...I thinkt they came out terrific and I definitely learned new techniques... Tomorrow I spend the day making postcard-sized quilted pieces and smaller ones the size of business cards. I think that is going to be a lot of fun too. I'm so glad I did this!!

Houston Workshops -Day 1

Today, Michelle & Lu and & came down to Houston in my van to take a week's worth of workshops and what a fabulous day it has been! The drive down was easy and uneventful and (best of all) took less than a tank of gas. We all three took the first workshop together..Painting and Uses of Lutradur...a substance that acts like fabric and paper and looks like dryer sheets!...what fun...here is a couple of samples of my painted sheets, as well as the result of transfering images using gel medium...pretty cool. after that workshop, Michelle and Lu went off to dinner with friends...I grabbed a quick bite and headed for my next workshop, Journal Binding...where I was able to use some of my painted Lutradur sheets as signatures...so now I'm off to bed so we can get up at 6:30 and get ready to go to even more workshops....fun fun fun! More tomorrow!....