Memorial Day and Market pics at long last

Had a great Memorial Day Weekend - got to see all 8 grandkids, lots of good visiting and the weather was great until Memorial Day itself.  

My sister Nancy and I went to decorate the graves in our area with 3 of the grandkids.  We have a memorial in the garden as a touchstone for loved ones that have passed but who are too far away to visit.  I always put in a new flag each year and plant some new flowers besides Grandma Laird's iris.  I got the flag changed but the rain started before I got the flowers planted so I'll get them in in the next few days.   

Arriving home on Tuesday and getting the house ready for company on Friday hasn't left much time for blogging - or much sewing - but I've tried to do a little of both.  

So here are some of my pictures from Market.  You may have seen them all already, but if not, better late than never, I guess.  
I didn't have my own booth at this Market, but went with the Kansas City Star to help promote their 2010 BOM "Across the Wide Missouri" by Edie McGinnis and myself.  We designed it together and each of us is doing a version of the quilt out of the Brannock/Patek fabric line "Blessings".    Here we all are in the booth - Doug Weaver, Diane McClendon (yellow dress), me and Edie.

The theme of the Moda Booth this spring - Moda Duz it All - included awesome clotheslines with our quilts hanging from them.  Debbie Outlaw made my "Blessings Baskets".  I covet that clothespin bag.
Sandy Gervais booth was over the top as usual.  She didn't include the kitchen sink but she brought the stove.
Two walls in the Minick/Simpson booth.  I just love their fabric and didn't win the rug by Polly. Darn!  Kathy Schmidt won one though and she was really excited about it.  I'm just learning to email back on the blogs - sometimes I can do it, other times not.  I gave up and answered Polly's comments on my page about my Girl Gang jacket.  Many thanks, Polly in case I was too late for you to read it.  
Lynne's booth - Kansas Troubles latest line "Vine Creek".  I'm using some of her fabric in the 2009 Girl Gang - along with "Blessings", of course.
Lizzie B was across the aisle from us and got "Most Creative" booth.  Very nice ladies.  And the elves that live in their tree made great chocolate chip cookies!  I just finished the last one from the care package they gave each of us when we left.  Many thanks girls.  You meet the nicest people in the quilting business.
We made Doug Weaver of the KC Star an "honorary Girl" and here he is signing my Girl Gang jacket.  Mark Dunn of Moda is the other honorary girl on the jacket.  I have a lot of fun with it.
Kathy Dunn and Carolyn Moffitt from Quilting Passions shop in Hasting, MI wore their Girl Gang Jackets to Market and were nice enough to let me take their pictures.  I signed their jackets on the front.  If you're a Gang shop and haven't somehow gotten the patterns for the applique for the jacket (everyone gets their own jacket - either from the shop or elsewhere) go to the website and email Tara to send one.  They're free if you're a Gang shop and they're really lots of fun.

Well, that's all for now.  Time to go for my walk and then actually enjoy an evening with my husband.  He's a nice guy and I feel like I haven't really seen him for awhile.

Home Again, Home Again

Market was awesome as usual.  As soon as I recover somewhat will post my pics of Market in Pittsburgh 
but for right now - 2 days drive out there - 2 days set up - 3 days of Market - takedown and 2 days drive home
It's just good to be Home Again.

The Hummingbirds are back

I haven't been to blogland for quite awhile.  And even tonight I only got to skim the blogs I follow - will have to wait to catch up when I get back from Market.  BUT....

1.  The quilts are bound

2.  The Girl Gang 09/10 quilt flyers are ready

3.  The yardage is figured for KC Star 2010 BOM and jpgs sent to Star 

4.  Latest Mini Quilt "Flags and Chickens" quilted, bound and kit pattern ready

5.  New secretary/girl Friday Tara working and adjusting (Barbara went to work for her sister-in-law.  Family calls!)

6.  The Fall fabric line "Looking Back" proofed and sent back to Moda

7.  Clothes ironed but not packed

8.  Applique ready to take with me

9. Celebrated Pep's birthday today and talked to all my kids and grandkids
The hummingbirds are back and the garden is really starting to bloom.  And I'm leaving for over a week.  

Wonder if I can enter the drawing for the hooked rug at Laurie's booth.  

Happy Mother's Day to us all

See you when I get back.

Moda Duz It All

This is the box that the invitation to the Moda Market Party came in.  Isn't it awesome?  Moda Duz It All.    I tend to agree with that, wouldn't you know.  

And this tea towel came inside it.  Of course I had to take a picture of the tea towel with a clothesline on it - on my clothesline.  They did spell my name wrong (Brannock/Payek) but that just makes it more of a collector's item for me.  I think it was our first fabric line where they goofed and put Sandy Gervais' name in the binding on one of our prints.  :)

I didn't go to France like Barb and Alma, but I just got back from Wichita where I went to see my dentist - (who just also happens to be my son) and his wife and my grandchildren.  All are as awesome as ever.  And I got to sit and quilt my next little MiniQuilt for Memorial Day while I watched the young ones play.  Since their mother was there, I got to mostly watch and stitch.  I got the whole thing quilted (it's small - mini might have told you that) and got home in time to sew the binding on.  I'd go sit in the garden and finish the binding but the rain followed me all the way home and just got here.  So I'm inside at the computer instead.  But that's OK, I got to catch up on what everyone's been posting while I was gone.  Now I'd better go stitch so we can get it on the website early next month.

Happy quilting ladies.

Taking a Break

I just read in Laurie Simpson's blog that she's all primed and waiting for the UPS truck to bring her fabric so she can start sewing.  I'm envious.  Edie McGinnis and I are doing the Block of the Month for the KC Star for 2010.  We're both really excited about it.  Right now, however, I'm at the stage where I'm drawing all the patterns into my computer so I can print them out.  Then we get to play with the fabric.  And this morning I did the pattern layout for the kit we send out in May.  So I'm taking a break for awhile.  I was standing at the kitchen sink looking out the window.  The birdfeeders are mostly empty by this time of day so there aren't many birds there either - just one lone chicken.  Well - after all she is a bird!  We have a couple of rabbits that come out from the trees behind the fence and eat the corn that drops beneath the bench.  

I think that's why rabbits have been showing up in my quilts the last few years.  Oh and I put in this picture of "Miss Tabitha Twitchet".  I got it out to put on the loveseat in the kids TV room for spring.  I didn't notice it when I made it but the Liberty Garden fabric I used for the borders has eagles in it.  Poor rabbit - living in a quilt all of her life with an eagle beside her.   

Well, I'd better get back to the computer.  Edie's coming up Wednesday and we get to sew.  And I am doing my applique on my pineapple quilt for Market so there's something to look forward to each night and morning.  Happy quilting, ladies.

There....

My pillow is finished.  I don't know why but whenever I finish a quilt the world seems to be a better place - at least my portion of it.  It lives on my couch for now - not outside.  I just liked both pictures.

Next time I'm going to try to figure out how to have pictures and text down in a row like other's I've seen (you know, picture, text, pictures, text) but I just spent an hour at Walmart with Cullen - he's 2 - and that's enough frustration for one day.  Right now, I'll just sit and stitch and look at my pillow.

You can tell that I'm just trying to figure things out in this blog posting stuff.  I can't figure out how to go back and edit things.  That was supposed to say -" My sister Nancy and I took the 4 grandkids to church in Kansas City" - neither of us would take them all by ourselves.  We weren't born yesterday by a longshot.