Playing Catch-Up.....

It seems that I have been remiss about writing on a regular basis, I will "try" to do better; however there really has been a lot going on around here. 

We made it home safely from market mid-morning, basically we drove straight through from Pittsburg with a couple of stops along the way to snooze.  Think we could hardly wait to start dyeing to fill those market orders.  To say we were happy to be home would have been an understatement, the idea of unloading this vehicle was just to overwhelming....the hatch was quickly closed and we headed inside for a well deserved NAP!  This could wait till later.....

The next day we mapped out our game plan to get the market orders filled and be ready for whatever came from the distributor.  So fabric was cut and gotten ready for the dye pots, the helpers took up their positions and we began.

The very next week began summer vacation and we implemented Camp Fiber on a Whim within view of the studio.  My grandson, Tony and our employees son, Remy took advantage of the warm sunny weather as I dyed fabric.

Now Grandma probably has enjoyed this pool being within steps of the studio and some of you may have caught a photo of that......I swear the cup was full of water.....

After 3 weeks of working hard we managed to fill and ship all the market orders, playing hard with the boys....I love the foam water guns ( you can see one floating in the pool above) they are so easy to load, aim and hit your mark.  Water fights break out around here frequently....ahhhh summer time.  So we decided to play "hookie", we drove up into the north Georgia mountains (I know there is something quite crazy about us driving 300 miles and calling it relaxing), then onto Highlands, NC....with views like this we came home ready to finish our prep for International Quilt Festival-Chicago.

Ahh.....Refreshed and Ready....
Now some creative time, made another of the cheesecloth rosettes that decorated our market booth in Pittsburg...not ready to show a photo of that because it is possible that it will appear with instructions in a future magazine....got my fingers crossed for that.  For month's I kept promising to create a seascape from our Ocean Waves Texture Pack, as usual something else always cropped up, well......at market I agreed to create a piece for a trunk show at a west coast shop....first I needed to get inspired...

here is what came about when all was said and done.....

the technique booklet on how the products were manipulated in order to create this piece has still to be written...and I will not promise to have it done for Chicago, but soon...and how you can split silk carrier rods will be included.

 As I write this blog I can hear the tape gun going in the studio as boxes are being packed, if you are going to Chicago next week be sure to stop by booth #1224, introduce yourself or for those old friends...we look forward to getting a hug....see you soon!