Quilts for Kids

Just yesterday I completed this cute bunch of singing kids quilt for the Quilts for Kids organization. If you have not visited their website and ordered your quilt kit, now's the time to do it and get stitching for a worthy cause.

Incredible Give Away

Would you like to win a fabulous give away?? How about an AccuQuilt Go. Go right now and check it out http://ihaveanotion.blogspot.com/2010/04/5-days-left-in-ihan-30-days-of_11.html Be sure to check out more information on their blog and website too!

Blog Link:: http/www.ihaveanotion.blogspot.com/
Website Link : http://ihavea-notion.com/store/

Polish Quilters

So my heritage is 100% Polish -- I am a first generation Polish-American, I love cabbage, sauerkraut, kelbasa and peirogi! Both my mother and father were born in Poland and immigrated to the states back in the early/mid 1960s. My sewing skills come directly from my mother and her side of the family although my father's side of the family was just as skilled. So, I have always had an interest in finding Polish quilters, which there are few or few that I am aware of because I don't think quilting in the sense as we know it in the states is something they do in eastern Europe, but I could be very wrong. So over at Quilting Bloggers website, they have lists of bloggers by country --- guess what, they have three quilt bloggers in Poland -- very neat! I use Google Chrome for browsing the Internet, so it translates the websites for you -- although at some point in my life, I could read and speak Polish very well, I no longer can. I think Mom could do it.

Anyways - here is the list of the three blogs from Polish quilters -and one quilt shop!!!

http://rusticnook.blogspot.com/

http://szmatkalatka.blox.pl/html

http://szmatkalatka.pl

http://www.textilecuisine.blogspot.com/

Enjoy the trip abroad!

EDIT: Look over to the right in my sidebar, I've added a growing list of Polish bloggers that quilt and/or sew!

GSQA Seminar

I attended my first GSQA Seminar this past month and of course I just had to take Patchwork Time's very own Judy Laquidara's class when I found out she was heading in this direction and would be teaching. I only had one day to devote to seminar and I wanted to make the most of it and I think I accomplished that. Judy's class was wonderful, I learned a few things along the way, met and sewed with some wonderful ladies and most importantly, got to meet Judy in person! Here's a photo of us -- not my best side but it'll do!


I had a great time Judy! It was great meeting your Mom and your friends!

Scaling Back and Concentrating

I recently had to make some hard decision about my time management and prioritization of tasks at hand, especially with my business which is priority number one all the time, at least that is what it should have been. I was taking on too many 'other' projects and tasks that didn't have anything to do with growing my photography business and thusly, I was suffering from those decisions. I made the decision to scale back on my teaching, sewing, quilting and classes so that I can focus and be much more present in my day to day growth of my business which is very important to keeping any sort of quilting or sewing hobby in check and fabric stash funded! So, with that, I am probably not going to be very productive with projects over the new several months but I am not giving it up - I am just scaling back. I am still planning to have Saturday afternoons/evening and all day Sundays to sew and quilt and embroider --- it will be my sanity check unless a bottle of wine has my name on it first!

March Stash Report

OK - I had every intention of at least doing this Judy L. Stash Report update monthly but I am already a month behind --- so here's the update through the end of march. I did donate 8 yards of fabric for the million pillow case project over at AllPeopleQuilt.com Our guild made 103 pillowcases one Sunday morning a few weeks back -- read more about that on our guild blog here.

Used Feb/March: 13.5 yards
Used year to Date: 26.125 yards
Added Feb/March: 12.5 yards
Added Year to Date: 59.675 yards
Net Used for 2010: 33.55 yards