Month: October 2009

You have asked for it, and now here it is!
I am so happy to announce QuiltingStash TV is finally HERE!

There are three ways to enjoy the show

1- Download either the video OR the audio podcast version of the show from iTunes (click the button below)

Downloading via iTunes will allow you to save the show to your iTunes application and sync it onto your iPod, iPod Touch, or iPhone for later viewing.

Or

2- play the video here on the blog page by clicking the video below!

Running time: 00:17:22

3 – Click the podcast button below and download the file to your computer to listen to directly or sync on your iPod.

Running time: 00:17:22 Size: 16 MB

Quilting is such a visual craft and while podcasting allows us to listen about quilting while we’re on the run, videos will help me show you some of the things I could only talk about before.

If you’re wondering, I am still going to blog on this website and do audio-based podcasts when it’s appropriate. I also do want to introduce video-based podcasts (called vidcasts) to my “stash” of tools.

To view the video, you can either download it from the iTunes podcast location or simply click the vidcast link above! Pretty easy, huh?

In this episode, I tell you about projects I’m working on, and share with you a few things I saw at the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, California.

Here is a list of items I mention. Please browse and visit links to these sites:

Robin’s Eagle Scout Service Project

Gina Halliday’s Threaded Pear Online Store

Tracy Souza’s Plumcute Designs™

Bareroots embroidery patterns

Clover™ needle threader

Thread cases – where to find them on the cheap!

Wildwood fabric line by Erin McMorris from Free Spirit fabric

News about Mark Lipinski

Don’t forget to check out my online quilt classes HERE.

We are having so much fun in my online classrooms. Students from all over the world are making quilts and sharing them with each other and YOU. Be sure to visit the classroom main site and look around for the picture galleries that are filling up with our student projects.

Be sure to send me an email so we can add you to our mailing list for special offers on my boutique, special giveaways, and discounts on classes at Quilting Stash Classroom!

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Be sure ant let me know what you think about the vidcast format. Please leave a comment and tell me your two cents! I’d love to hear from you.

Happy Quilting,

Annie Smith

Hi, this is Robin – Annie’s son. I have a special request for all Quilting Stash listeners and readers.

I am a Boy Scout – from Post 706 in Morgan Hill and I am working on the last project before I achieve my Eagle Scout rank.

Because my Mom is such a huge quilter and fan of quilting, I thought I would make my project a quilting project! I plan to make 100 comfort quilts for a local hospital to give to extended-care pediatric patients. These kids often have to undergo painful treatments or surgeries and they might appreciate the extra comfort of a quilt they can take with wherever they go. They will also be able to take the quilts home with them when they leave the hospital.

When they leave the hospital, these 36″ x 44″ tied quilts will continue to give them comfort and help them realize that they survived their medical ordeal. It will be an optimistic object in their lives.

There are three ways you can help: donate materials, donate a completed quilt, or donate money for materials.

If you want to make a comfort quilt for my project, please make it from two solid, 1 yard pieces of 100% cotton fabric and sandwich a piece of medium loft, polyester batting in-between. Tie the quilt every 6 inches with embroidery floss, trim the edges and stitch around the quilt with a zig-zag stitch to finish it. Very basic. When you have completed your quilt(s), please send them care of SimpleArts, 14938 Camden Ave. Ste. 29 San Jose, CA 95124.

If you want to just send me any spare materials, here’s what I need:

• 100% cotton fabric – 1 yard minimum
• polyester batting – 1 yard minimum (medium loft)
• thread – for sewing the quilt edges (white is good)
• embroidery floss – for tying the quilts (any color)

Please send the materials as soon (use the same address as above) as possible as I have about 100 volunteers gathering in two weeks to put these quilts together in a youth service project.

If you want to just donate money so I can purchase the materials I need, please CLICK HERE, and donate via the SimpleArts donation button. Make sure to put a note in the donation form that the money is for my Eagle Service Project.

Thanks,

Robin

Recently I completed the very first class for Quilting Stash Classroom. It was the Quilter’s Palette sampler quilt.

We had over 60 participants from 7 different countries – most of them from the US. Feedback on this class was remarkable! I am so proud of it’s success; we have 19 finished quilt tops already and many more nearly done!! Isn’t that great?!

These quilters should be congratulated for a job well done! Please go to the Student Gallery link and view their completed quilt tops. Be sure to scroll down to the Sesson 1 gallery. Their completed quilt tops begin around page 11.

Once you’ve seen the pictures, be sure to come back here and make a comment about which finished quilt top strikes your fancy and why! Students would LOVE to see your comments.