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Travel to Ireland with Ricky
Travel with Ricky Tims on this 11-day tour of Ireland visiting the Dublin, Glendalough, Avoca, Kylemore Abbey & Gardens, Killarney, Cliffs of Moher, Adare, the Dingle Peninsula and we will be spending time in the Galway area for the festivities that surround the very first International Quilt Festival of Ireland!
This trip is created and organized by Jim West of Sew Many Places. Get all the details HERE! Tour is limited. Sign up soon!
Heading Home from Asheville, NC
Ricky Tims, Alex Anderson and Libby Lehman eductate, entertain and inspire.
The Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar in Asheville, North Carolina concluded yesterday. A big thanks to the Asheville Quilt Guild for providing all the volunteers for this event and a shout out to Bernina USA for their continued support. The Asheville Cotton Co. (Bernina dealer) was on site and new Bernina sewing machines went home with several quilters who took advantage of the dreat deals that were offered. The Ricky Tims Whoo-hoo Nation grew by about 470 with students coming from several states! And, most of them are heading home with new hand-dyed fabric, books, CDs and DVDs to add to their collection!
One student found a new way to audition fabric before purchasing.
Thanks Asheville! Whoo-hoo!
Oodles of Doodles II Nears Release!
Creating commercial fabric from concept to market goes though many steps and usually takes about one year to complete. Today, Anna Fishkin who works with Red Rooster Fabrics in New York City, and coordinates my fabric line, got the first strike-offs from Japan. My designs are hard to replicate in commercial fabric because of the nuance of color blending and shifting. However, these turned out great. Usually we may have to go back and forth two or three times before we sign off on the strike-offs and go into production.
The good news is that instead of these being released in January 2012, they will most likely be ready for shops to see at Fall Market at the end of October and hitting quilt shops by February or March 2012! Whoo-hoo! If you like these crazy fabrics, what would you make?
Oh - and don't forget to leave your "whoo-hoo for Monika" in the comments.
