I've been very busy here. But I can't show you yet so don't even ask. In the meantive I finally got out of the house and up to Scottsdale where I met Sarah of Green Clogs in person (finally!) and we exchanged our quilt blocks (finally!). I love what she made for me and I especially love the Flea Market Fancy selvage in there (eek!). Check out her links to great lemon recipes here (she's been harvesting too). I'm going up to her house again tomorrow for our Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild meet up where we'll have a mug rug exchange, yay!
Sarah has such a fun, chatty family (the best kind, in my opinion) and her husband makes pot stickers (from scratch, hello!) and I was thrilled to see the skirt her daughter Annika made as her first real sewing project. Is this the cutest, or what?? It's my Evelyn Apron Skirt pattern and I love the fact that Sarah and Annika added their own personalities to it with the embroidery stitches and Oz applique.
My friend Melanie made a gorgeous version of my Edith Twirl Skirt and I'm just drooling over this Jennifer Paganelli fabric. Melanie lives just south of me in Tucson and owns a wonderful fabric store called Above All Fabric (she carries my patterns and that's nice of her!). Isn't this beautiful?
And Rebecca (one of my Quilt Market roommies!) did a review of my Edith pattern on her Restitcherator blog and I love seeing it done up in these rich Anna Maria Horner fabrics. So pretty (and a little funky too, which I love)!
I've found some interesting things around Bloglandia that I wanted to pass on to my crafty, fabricky friends here. Debbie Moebes of Whipstitch has a very interesting post on the upcoming cotton shortage which, unfortunately, mean higher fabric prices are coming too. Heather Ross has a post (somewhat depressing) on the IRS and Paypal which you'll want to read if you are running a business (even a small one) on etsy or ebay. And on a happy note, there's a Sewing Summit coming and you'll want to check it out (really you will!). I'm sticking it on my calendar and making every effort to get there. This should be lots of fun!
