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Yep, it really happened. No pictures, no saved emails, no email addresses — so that means I lost your’s. If you sent me a picture in an email in the past, please resend it to me so I have it.
My Boy Wonder, off to see the world:
and here he is in Cuernavaca, Mexico with his Mission President and Sister Spannaus:
He’s doing well, battling spiders and dogs — and is as happy as a clam. No quilts… it’s too hot there!
Exploring Fabric Choices Quilt series. All of the blocks in these quilts is the same — only one block design used. Only the layouts are different.
Red and Black Quilt
This one will be familiar to you. This is the first one that I did, where I learned how to use fork pins for perfectly butted seams and created batting boards. I love the drama of the red and black.
#2 – Metro Blue Summer
Created from Marcus Brothers’ Metro Blue fabric line and made the summer that I visited them in NYC. I love turquoise and chocolate!
#3 — Low Tide
Made with Marcus Brothers Surf and Sand collection. Low contrast, no real true dark fabric is used here. Perfect for a nap at a beach cottage.
#4 – The Quilt Show quilt
Here are the blocks that I used for Episode 209 of The Quilt Show. I had these blocks for the last three years and finally decided to make the quilt top. This is a very special quilt for me — a memento of a dream fulfilled. I made 6″ versions of the block for Alex And Ricky’s keepsake quilts that each of their guests make for them.
#5 — Picnic with Sue
I used Susan Branch’s Martha’s Vineyard fabric collection for this one. I got the fabric when I interviewed her. I love the bright colors and Sue’s style. I hand appliqued the Grandmother’s Flower Garden hexagon flowers.
#6 — Pink and Chocolate
Civil War reproduction fabrics. Loads of fun. Instead of using 10 fat quarters to make a 9-block quilt, I decided to make a bed-sized version and used 20 fabrics to make the 20-block quilt. It works! Kirsten has decided that she needs this one ; )
#7 — Black and Bright
It never fails when I teach this class that I end up finding another fat quarter collection to make a new version of the quilt. I love using solid black as a canvas and then allowing my quilter to create beautiful quilting detail.
#8 — Williamsburg quilt
I bought these fabulous Revolutionary War reproduction fabrics when I visited the Champlain Valley Quilt Guild just before Cambria was born and used them for the online class instruction. I love this collection of fabrics!
There are still more quilts in the series to come. I have two that are waiting to be sewn into a quilt top and one that will be cut up to sewn into blocks this week. There is just “something” about this block, this quilt, that I love to work on. Don’t know why — except maybe that it has something to do with the changing nature of ONE block and where you put the light- medium- and- dark that changes these quilts so dramatically.
And speaking of Cambria, here she is now — 16 months old and as precious as ever:
Oh, how wonderful to see all the different variations of the Exploring Fabric Choices quilt!! I really need to sit down and work on this – I bought the Workshop In A Bag last year. I always show your Red and Black quilt online to my beginning quilting students to show them how use of colour and value can change a block completely – I really need to make up my blocks and quilt so I can show them live! I’m so happy to see you have this class on your schedule for the summer – I would so like to take part (might be difficult with the time difference between Germany and CA, but I’d love to try!)
And I’m just so happy you’re back podcasting!! Be well!
Annie! Welcome back! Something niggled at me today; the thought: “I wonder what Annie Smith is up to?”. I’d checked in January, and saw your December post, and was concerned — but hopeful. Knowing how much you enjoy podcasting, I knew there just had to be a reason…
Having 2 grown children, and being widowed not that long ago, I understand perfectly about your sense of loss, and how sometimes we forget that our textile work can come to the rescue. We get so low that we don’t even to that, and so surprise ourselves with how soothing and healing it is when we get back to it!
Your colour choice quilts are fabulous and I am sure that guild is enjoying the class very much.
Blessings to you for all you have in mind, and wishes for health and joy this year as you take us forward with you on your quilting/life journey. 🙂
Thank you, Margaret — I’ve missed you too!!
Good to hear from you, Meredith. Because all of the online class content is in video form, you can login to take the class anywhere in the world! When I did my first class I had students from Costa Rica, Denmark, Sweden and Austria. I did a separate online chat with them in their time zone so they weren’t left out.
So the short answer is: no time zone to worry about. You can login and do the class when it’s convenient for YOU. that’s the beauty of doing online classes!
It is so good to have you back! I just had to check again, and was so surprised to see that you had, not one, but 2 podcasts posted! I am so sorry that you’ve had such a hard time and was worried that something really serious had happened. Welcome back Annie! All your work is wonderful and I am looking forward to all the new things you will be sharing with us.
I am really behind listening to my podcasts because I have been going through a spell of listening to books on CD. Great to hear you are back. Missed your cheerful voice and enthusiasm for quilting.