Program 73 – The Best Of 2006

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Here are my picks for top 3 items in several catagories, quilty and non-quilty (but those things inspire me towards quilty-ness).

On my iPod/iRiver:
1. Falling in Between, Toto
2. Nashville Tribute to Joseph Smith – Jason Deere, Dan Truman, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band & more

3. Beatles – LOVE from Cirque du Soleil

Movies:
1. Cars
2. New York Doll

3. Stranger than Fiction

Books:
1. Creating Your Perfect Quilting Space, Lois Hallock

2. Organizing from the Inside Out, Julie Morgenstern

3. Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! McClun and Nownes

Favorite Websites:
1. Google
2. YouTube.com
3. Amazon

Favorite Quilt-related websites:
1. Sue.Nickels.com
2. Heather Bailey
3. CrabApple Hill studio

Favorite Blogs:
1. Quilter’s Buzz
2. SewCatherine
3. Quilt Mavericks blog ring

Favorite podcasts:
1. Jay and Jack’s LOST
2. Len and Nora’s Jawbone Radio
3. Knitcast

Quilting Stash’s most downloaded shows:
1. #54 – Storytime in a 3rd Grade Classroom
2. #56 – Commercial Break – Quilter’s Home Magazine article
3. #55 – California Road Trip

Most memorable Quilting Stash Interviews:
1. Joe the Quilter
2. Prints Charming gals
3. Betty Alofs

Quilting notions:
1. Olfa QB Frosted Advantage Rulers
2. Prescensia thread
3. Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Circles – mylar circles for applique

Office supply “junkie” tools that I use for quilting-related things:
1. Ticonderoga tri-write three sided pencils — great eraser that doesn’t smudge anything
2. Fine-line Sharpies, box of 12
3. Post-it notes

Quilt Pattern designers:
1. Barbara Jones, Quilt Soup
2. Lydia Quigley, Rabbit Factory
3. Elizabeth Scott, Late Bloomer quilts

Quilt Shops visited on-the-road:
1. Nancy’s, Las Vegas, stay tuned for an article on them in Quilter’s Home
2. Quiltique, Las Vegas
3. Sew Simple, Redding

Hot quilty things:
1. Embellishing quilts with rick rack, lace, buttons, etc.
2. Hand-dyed buttons, HillCreek Designs
3. Quilt Chipper Registry, a must for competition quilts

Fabric Lines:
1. Moda – for changing the industry, leading Home Dec using quilt fabrics, designers, embellishments
2. Alexander Henry – their funky fabrics are perfect for pj pants, men’s camp shirts, clothing, pillowcases and purses
3. Free Spirit Fabrics – Prints Charming fabrics, Heather Bailey and lovely big prints for skirts

Quilting events:
1. Gee’s Bend Quilt Exhibit
2. an Empty Spools seminar at Asilomar – any one, any time – my favorite place to quilt
3. Stitch-n-Pitch

Restaurants on-the-road:
1. Biaggi’s – Salt Lake City, UT
2. Fenton’s Old-fashioned creamery and grill – Piedmont district of Oakland, CA
3. Watson’s Drug Store – home of a scene in one of my favorite all-time movies, “That Thing You Do!”, Orange, CA

Favorite places to “park” my family so I can shop:
1. ATV’ing in Southern Utah, ATV Adventures, St. George
2. any full-service Gaming facility that has miniature golf, batting cages, go-karts, bumper boats and air-hockey tables
3. an enclosed air-conditioned mall so Guy can take a nap and Robin can roam

Quilting Magazines:
1. Quilter’s Home
2. Better Homes and Gardens, Quilt Sampler magazine (even better now that they have two issues per year!
3. Better Home and Gardens, American Patchwork and Quilting

Magazine Editors:
1. Mark Lipinski
2. Mark Lipinski
3. Mark Lipinski

Things I use my digital camera for:
1. Quilts I’m working on
2. Items to go with Podcast episodes
3. Students’, and retreat attendees’, and their quilts

Things to work on in front of the T.V. = mindless, both shows and work:
1. Cutting pieces for a project wither fabric or fusible shapes for applique
2. Hand applique
3. Hand quilting

Favorite T. V. programs that I can’t work on projects in front of because I have to pay attention:
1. Gilmore Girls – Kirsten’s and my guilty pleasure
2. Lost
3. The Office

What I love to do while quilting:
1. listen to music for inspiration
2. listen to podcasts
3. listen to audiobooks

Things to do to relax from quilting:
1. go through old magazines, I can’t let that one inspiration slip away
2. cross-stitch
3. Knit

Most tedious parts of quilting:
1. cutting – that endless cutting that keeps you from stitching
2. picking up after a project, assimilating all of that leftover fabric back into “the stash”
3. the elusive hunt for fabric that you just have-to have

The best parts of Quilting:
1. Playing with fabrics
2. finally getting to sew
3. spending any amount of time with wonderful quilters