The Quilt Show visits the Craft House

I can't really believe this happened. Two weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of having a visit from The Quilt Show. Shelly Heesacker, the producer of The Quilt Show contacted me several weeks ago about being a guest on their show. To be honest, I was thrilled and totally confused at the same time! Me? Little 'ol me? Why me? She actually asked me if "I would be interested". Are you kidding me????? I think I somehow eeked out my most professional, yes. Which lasted for about a second before I started gushing my thanks and gratitude all over her.



As it turns out they are doing a segment about local places and people in Portland. And somehow the stars aligned and some very sweet people mentioned this here quilter and *POOF*! I'm on The Quilt Show. Booyah!



It was a crazy, wonderful day. Shelly was here with her team for several hours and we filmed a couple different sections including an interview where I answered all sorts of questions and my studio where I got to show off Peacock Lane for Michael Miller Fabrics, my Indygo Junction patterns and some new things I'm working on right now.



We also toured my house and there are a few silly surprises as well. The segment won't air until the middle of NEXT YEAR - I can not believe I have to wait that long to see it!!! I will make sure to let you know when it is available.



The kiddos and the husband even got into the filming and the girls got a little instruction on sound.



I think I was walking around on clouds for about a week after this. I had so much fun and am still amazed that they chose me to be a part of the show. Thank you Shelly and The Quilt Show!

Peacock Lane is Arriving in Shops Daily!!!!

OH. MY. GOODNESS. I. AM. EXCITED.

Peacock Lane has starting popping up all over online. I am so excited to see it showing up in the shops AND projects! I got my first link to a quilt done with Peacock Lane today and it was simply thrilling to see what someone else has created out of my fabric with their own hands. If you make something with Peacock Lane, please, oh please add it to my Flickr Group!

I want to share the shop links that I have found so far and am putting together a Shops page - so if you are a shop owner or if you see one you think should be included, add it into the comments and we will get it onto the Shops page.

So here we go! Pick your favorite shop or try a new one - these are the peeps showing me the love with their orders, let's show them the love with ours :)

Sew, Mama, Sew!

Hawthorne Threads

Fat Quarter Shop

Fabric Worm

Fabric.com

Quilt Home

The Little Fabric Shop

westwoodacres

etsy shops

Look at these beautiful precuts from westwoodacres on etsy. She was kind enough to let me borrow her images for my blog post - and from what I have found so far, she is the ONLY one cutting layer cakes, charm packs and jelly rolls of Peacock Lane. It makes me want to buy them just because they look so pretty and perfect!

*** If I have missed any shops, particularly online, it was not intentional. I used Google search to find them - so if you aren't showing up here it means you should check your tags and SEO (search engine optimization). Please add any shops in the comments so I can give them some linky love on the Shops page! This goes for brick and mortars too! ***

It's About Time!

Let's get the bad news out of the way..... I'm a slacker. Whew. Glad we got that over with. lol!

I could be talking about the FOUR, count them, FOUR huge baskets of clean laundry that came out of the dryer about a week ago and have not been folded yet.

I could be talking about the next fabric collection that hasn't been turned in yet.

I could be talking about my headlight that has been out for at least a month.

But nope, let's just forget about those things shall we? I'm talking about the giveaway that I promised you longer ago than I want to admit. So let's do this!

I used the random number generator and quite hilariously it picked 1. And comment 1 just happens to be from Jana in which she says, "I know that the first comment never wins."

Isn't that awesome??? But then I thought, no one is going to believe that. So I should pick another one!

That time I got number 19, Debbie (WoolenSails) - Hooray Debbie! But see, if it hadn't been for Marcia W. who reminded me on a later post that I had completely spaced completing the giveaway, well then we wouldn't be here right now - so I'm sending a charm pack to Marcia as well.

Thank you everyone for playing along!

July....

July was a crazy awesome month. And I was apparently having so much fun that I forgot to take pictures of hardly any of it!

The Mr. Craft and I started off July by celebrating Oregon Craft Beer Month - we celebrated it long and hard - and over and over again. We kicked it off with the official kickoff dinner and tasting right at the beginning of the month.

I attended the Sister's Outdoor Quilt Show with a large majority of my sewing circle, The Sweet Hot Yams - best read about here and here. Thank goodness someone documented all of that!

The newest member of the Craft Family, Mrs. Tulip Meowington came to live with us. And apparently all I took pictures of for almost the entire month!

 

I got a haircut for a little something special that was happening at the end of the month... that I will blog about in the next few days!

 

Tulip settled in.

 

And settled in a little more...

 

And then The Mr. Craft and I completed this amazing month with the Oregon Summer Brewfest. The #pdxbeergeeks were in full force and we had a wonderful time drinking in as much of what Oregon has to offer as we could.

Cheers to July!

A Quilt for Ellie

Just a couple of short weeks ago some very dear friends of ours adopted the most perfect baby girl. Her name is Ellie. I made her a selvage to selvage strip quilt in the turquoise, yellow and gray prints from Peacock Lane. You can't see it in any of the photos that I took, but I used free motion quilting to quilt her full name, her birthday and the "label" into her quilting. The rest of the quilt is quilted using straight line quilting.



The back is a solid piece of Parade Day in gray.

Obsession on Point - The Flea Market Fancy Quilt

As I have gone on and on and on and on about in previous posts since almost exactly one year ago, I have been collecting Flea Market Fancy fabrics from friends and swaps and shops for quite awhile now. I finally amassed enough of the entire collection to create this square in square on point quilt.



This quilt was my recent submission for the Portland Modern Quilt Guild's special collection display at the Sister's Outdoor Quilt Show in the beginning of July. This was my Quilt Story for the submission of my quilt:

"For over a year I have been obsessed with Denyse Schmidt's Flea Market Fancy collection; out of print and hard to find; not my first and not my last obsession.

I have begged, borrowed and swapped with over two dozen online and real life friends to complete the entire collection. I cut into my obsession and created this quilt which I love dearly for all of the beautiful colors, prints and the love I feel when I think of all of the friends that helped me to gather and create it.

I cut into my coveted stash. Have you?"



One of my favorite blocks: Grey Seeds set into Blue Daisy Dots - I had BARELY enough of the grey seeds to complete the two blocks that contain it. I would still LOVE any more of those and the blue seeds that I can get my hands on.



The quilt has a 2.5" ruffle binding around the entire perimeter. The quilt back is Pink Daisy Dots on top and Green posies on bottom with a "label" strip of Kona Snow between them. The "label" reads, "Obsession on Point ~ Pieced and Quilted by Violet Craft ~ June 2011". The label was digitized with Generations Embroidery Software and embroidered on a Janome Memory Craft 300E. You can also see that I left the selvages exposed around the quilt label strip for posterity. It was quilted using a loose free-motion stipple on my Bernina Virtuosa 155.



Special thanks to Heather, John, Elizabeth, Mo and the Flickr Swappy Poo group. And everyone else who ever let me take their very last smidge of any print I could get my hands on. I am cooking up another quilt with those little smidges! I couldn't have done it without you all!

I love this quilt to pieces and hope it will be with our family for a very long time.