V Findlay Wolfe BLOG: houston

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Houston nuggets of goodness

I was so good at Festival this year! Everything I bought I could still fit into my Carry on, and didn't have to ship anything home! Pretty Good of me, huh?

This little quilt above is from the AAQI booth... It was Made by Yumi Tsuruta from Japan... Loved the fabrics, the hand quilting... and I'm a bit obsessed with Hawaiian style blocks these days... Every year I make a bunch of AAQI, and I always bring one home as well... such a good cause, and fun to make these morsels! My 15 Minutes group made a bunch and they all sold at Houston.

You can make these all year long, so please join in!

Here's some of my goodies I picked up in Houston... BEADS!!! yeah! Gotta keep trying new things!!

And some ink! ooh, I want to play! paint up and print some fabric...

Maybe I should clean my mess up here first!

National Corduroy Day is coming, are you ready?

Stop by Nifty's on Friday to see a bunch of corduroy goodness!

I have to get my binding on this quilt. but someone seems to have made it home, and is down for a long nap... LOL!

You know what they say, ''let sleeping dogs lie!''

Got anything NEW your working on today?

Sunday, November 6, 2011

best part of Houston

What's the best part of Houston?meeting up with your pals you only get to see once or twice a year...

Like Shelly and Shelly!

And Kristin , all the way from Hawaii.... So fun to see her work in the 12 x 12'' exhibit...

Cyndi who is part of the Powersuit project I did... a real doll. ;-)

Stevii! So good to see you again!

Jena, who produced ''Stitched'' have you seen it? We met when we did the panel talk with her at the Newark Museum...

Randall Cook is in Jena's movie"STITCHED"... It's great to see him a year later with a RIBBON next to his quilt. Way to go Randall!

I was there as a board member of the Alliance for American Quilts, to help with interviewing 65 quilter's of the Texas Legacy III book, for Q.S.O.S... Remember in August they did my Q.S.O.S. here at my place? Above: Kathy York photographed with her quilt, that she talked about in her Q.S.O.S.

Did you know that you can learn how to conduct the interviews in your neck of the woods too?

These are to save and preserve the history of Quilts and quilters. You can be trained to do these at your Guild, or sewing group. It's important that we save this info!

Click here for more info and become a member of the Alliance today.

All interviews go to the Library of congress! how cool is that? Above, Meg Cox, President of the Alliance, interviewed Alex Anderson about her quilt hanging behind her... It's so fun to hear others talk about quilts...