http://www.thequiltshow.com/myblog/quiltpati.xml *Traditional With Interesting Twist... as lived by the inventor of the Quilt Patis. en-us http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12770 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12770"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/12770_dsc00044_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>10/22/2011: This is the 12.5" table topper that I designed for my sorority's alumni chapter. It is full of sorority symbolism. The inspiration was something similar I found when doing gravestone rubbings. We belive it was a Korean family crest for a family named Nygen (I'm told it is pronounced win). It only had 6 spokes. I call it "Tomo Dachi Rose" after the japanese name the original 10 members took at the time they formed 1921 because greek organizations were banned at that time. Tomo Dachi is translates as "circle of friends" or "circle of pearls". I quilted it with Sulky's hallograph in the color called Pewter. The WOW fabric has roses in the print and the blue is a batik. Our colors are blue and white. Our sorority flowers are the white rose and the sweet pea. The ten spokes of the design and the 10 pearls in each grouping relate back to the 10 original members. Today was the Alumni Breakfast with the new pledge class. I presented the table topper to the Alumni member that keeps the ceremo... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12770">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:47:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12770 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12754 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12754"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/12754_jack_now_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>10/17/2011: This is Jack then and now. The blond hair is a little hard to get used to. Anyway, he still has his great voice. Listening to his songs I still picture the young Jack. Who knows where this will all lead, but I know we will at least stay friends. (BTW he is single again)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:32:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12754 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12753 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12753"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/12753_jack_in_197475_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>10/17/2011: A few weeks ago was my college Homecoming. So I went to my sorority's reunion. I was the oldest alumni there. The active chapter members started asking me about what TD was like "way back then". This started up the memories of college friends. When I start thinking about someone in my past and can't get them out of my head, I get curious and google them or search facebook for them. I found Jack was on FB so I sent a friend request. Immediately he IMed me and we chatted for at least 1/2 hour. He is still in my city so we arranged to meet up on Thursday. This is what I remember about the 1974-75 Jack... Music major, great voice, the church group's bible study at his parent's house each Sunday evening, my crush on him, Halloween frat party (I was a flapper), my dissappointment when he didn't come back the following year. This is that Jack... Today he is a local film maker that works for the county doing instructional videos. I can't afford him yet but we did discuss a future video for my... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12753">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:55:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12753 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12615 <p align="left">09/09/2011: I decided to make ID tags. Think: a mini version of the coasters where you take the 4 top squares, fold them in half, lay them over lapping to form a four patch, attacy to the back square by stitching around the outside edge and then turning it like a pair of socks. Pretty easy construction. However I will make circles and hexagons since I have my GO Baby with those dies. The smallest on the die is a 2" diameter so it will measure 1.5" finished. To conserve on both fabric and construction time I will only have 3 pieces for the top. This will make the Baby's Blocks motif. There will be a string or ribbon attached so you can attach it to scissors or rotary cutters. The tops will be easy to tuck a paper or fabric that says "Winner". I am debating about printing "CMQ 2012" on the back or just leave it blank so each person can write their name or initials on it. Once I get a few made I will post a picture. On the job search: I have heard nothing from either interview... yet. I could do ei... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12615">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 9 Sep 2011 04:44:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12615 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12595 <p align="left">09/02/2011: I think I aced a first interview yesterday. It has been since June that the last temp job ended (government grants cut 45%). I really don't suggest this as a dieting strategy. I'm asking for a few prayers that I get the second interview next week and ultimately the job. This is just what I'm looking for. It is working in the office coordinating and assisting regarding Meals On Wheels and other community programs that have not been cut. It is within a long walk from home (2.8 miles) and a wonderful benefits package. On the quilting side, my local quilt guild is planning it's next quilt show for March 23 & 24 in Columbus, OH. I am committee chair for both vendors and door prizes (somewhat related). I met with my apprentice and we got the vendor invitation letters out yesterday. The next goal is to update the door prize request list and get those letters ready to go out after the first of the year. Then the fun part is seeing all of the door prize donations come in. Previous years I ... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12595">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:09:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12595 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12394 <p align="left">07/11/2011: Thank you for all the birthday wishes from many of you by e-mail and facebook. Two weeks ago was my last day at the temporary assignment that was promising to go permanent. This was a job I loved doing. It just wasn't to be after the governmental budget cuts reduced their grant funding by 35%. At that time they called me and the other temp into the office and told us how much they wanted to keep us both on permanently but... However, I understand they just hired a new temp from a different agency (maybe lower rate) and combined both the jobs as one. I would have liked them to call me back (I'm already half trained) even if it were a lower rate. I was still available. Oh well. I sometimes wonder what God has planned that I don't know about yet. During the two weeks off I celebrated my birthday, helped my friend finish a quilt top (& took it to her favorite machine quilter), and a 2 days temp job wrapping 500 "For Sale By Owner" signs for mailing. I went out to eat most days last we... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12394">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:14:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/12394 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11749 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11749"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/11749_img_0004_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/03/2011: Tonight my sister had us over for dinner to celebrat Mom's 79th birthday. I knew JoJo was sending "a care package". When I got home there was "A CARE PACKAGE"... a huge box from all of you TQS members... 14 pounds of love. I'm not sure I can find sufficient words to express my thanks for your words of encouragement, donations, fabrics, threads and gifts. Some of you have also been sending your help directly to me through e-mail and snail mail. I never expected this. You are all so generous. If you have been following my blog http://patisurvivinglife.blogspot.com you know that I am on a new temp assignment that should last through July (their fiscal year). I feel it is a good fit. I pray it will turn permanent. But it is a non-profit organization (OCCRRA) that relys on the Community Action Block Grant that they will be voting on possibly cutting it's funding in Washington DC tomorrow. So please send up prayers that they will not be hit to hard by the budget cuts for the next fiscal yea... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11749">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 3 Mar 2011 22:18:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11749 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11619 <p align="left">02/11/2011: Some good news today on my blog. http://patisurvivinglife.blogspot.com Everyday when I stand on my corner I see many of the same people. There are some city workers in blue jackets. Some sweep up junk and some are like community watch style security (with walkie talkies). Today they were handing out little chocolate in a promo wrapper to bring cheer for Valentine's Day. It was a pleasant unexpected surprise. I actually saved it to put on my pillow so I can pretend this is just a short vacation. No matter how good or bad it is there is always a little sweet at the end of the day. The good news is that, as of today I have earned February's property taxes through newspapers, Quilt Patis sales, etc. So I am here for at least one more month. Thank you for all the prayers, messages, offers of fabric (etc.), job leads, and just listening. Quilters are a family. And, YES, "It's a new day... Every Day." Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:18:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11619 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11608 <p align="left">02/09/2011: Today's posting is up at http://patisurvivinglife.blogspot.com I do have some stock of Quilt Patis left for those of you asking. Once I get the property taxes paid this month the next priorities are the new months of utilities and then more plastic & cutting if possible. http://quiltpati.tripod.com This evening I visited with my Mom. I told her about the blog and that it was all her fault. She always taught us to try to look at the positive side of every adversity or to turn it into a learning experience. Alex asked me when I was on her previous show, "Were you a teacher in another life?" Perhaps I was but I grew up with a family that truly values education. Mom went back to college part time when I was young. It took her 6 years but she graduated in Fine Arts and Education the year before I graduated from High School. Thank you for the prayers and encouragement you have all been sending.</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 9 Feb 2011 20:28:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11608 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11604 <p align="left">02/08/2011: Thank you for your prayers and comments. When I am out selling papers I start with a prayer. Today it hit me, perhaps I am meant to blog about my experiences to help illuminate the character of the homeless and near homeless in the eyes of the general public. You know, turn the bad into something good. When I got home I began a new blog just for this purpose. Each day I go out I will post the daily stats... weather, sales, and comments. Many of you wanted to read my article that Street Speech published. I included it in my first posting. http://patisurvivinglife.blogspot.com/</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:43:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11604 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11600 <p align="left">02/08/2011: I find as my situation gets more difficult I post less. My last temp job ended December 3rd, property taxes went up $80.00/month (i am on the monthly plan), and JoAnn's is cutting everyone's hours now that the holiday's are done. I keep trying to keep a positive attitude. I keep praying. I keep calling all 5 temp agencies, submitting resumes, going to job fairs... everything "responsible adults" do to try to "make it". Finally I took on the most humbling thing I could think of. I went to the Coalition for the Homeless (& near homeless). They have a program of supplying information of services for someone like myself and the "Street Speech" newspapers to sell on the corners. Street Speech is written directly by the vendors who sell it and the volunteers at the coalition. I have now been purchasing my papers and going to my corner to sell them for the last 6 weeks. Yes, during the coldest days I can think of and I have always hated the cold. I have been quoted in the last issue and h... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11600">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 8 Feb 2011 07:30:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11600 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11311 <p align="left">12/29/2010: 2011 Contract After serious & cautious consideration... Your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2011 It was a very hard decision to make... So try not to screw it up!!! My Wish for You in 2011 May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy May the problems you had, forget your home address! In simple words ............ May 2011 be the best year of your life!!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:09:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/11311 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10429 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10429"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/10429_img_0183_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>08/21/2010: Here is the kit cover photo. It is a kit since it is the pattern and includes all of the Quilt Patis needed to make the butterfly. I love the grey one too. The body was a one piece scrap that I found at the Waste Not Center and the wings is some Japanese fabric I got at the NQA show this last June in Columbus, OH. I had been looking for the perfect wing fabric for a couple months for that body. I thought I had found the fabric in a fat quarter but it was in a LARGE set of fat quarters (I think it was 12 of them for $35.00 & I only liked 2). The vendor didn't have any single fat quarters at her booth & wouldn't break up the set. In this economy I think it was a mistake because I didn't buy the set. It turned out better for me because then I found the Japanese fabric for only $3.50 or $3.75 for a single fat quarter. I have now made about 50 signed original butterflies (no 2 alike). Going from start to finish I can get one done in about 3 hours. I have all of my "bug parts" in li... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10429">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:14:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10429 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10428 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10428"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/10428_img_0185_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>08/21/2010: I feel like a new member again. Between jobs, family, plastic issues, filling backorders & getting out the new pattern/kit for the butterflies, I have been gone too long from the blogs. The "Tec~Spec for Pati Butterfly Pincushion Pin Kit" is now ready! Whoo hoo! This is the one I wear the most. I love the picture but it was too busy for the cover of the pattern. I'm not getting the right picture right now to upload here but I will do part 2 in the next post.</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:30:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/10428 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9501 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9501"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/9501_img_0120_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>05/06/2010: Today I didn't have a temp assignment or have to work at Jo-Ann's. I thought I would get the rare "sleep-in morning"... My brother called early waking me up. After the call I finished another butterfly while I also swept the cobwebs out of my sleepy brain. The rest of the day I dedicated to getting the first draft of the pattern for the butterfly pincushion pin. Now I set it aside until tomorrow before proof reading it. I find I catch more that needs editing that way. The thing that takes the most time are the graphics. I may substitute the drawings for actual photos this time. I just have to get a manicure and then someone to take the pictures of my hands first. I work tomorrow at Jo-Ann's so I will ask the store manager if I could schedule an employees only class (off the clock) to test the pattern with beginners to advanced stitcher. If that fails I will privately ask one of the other ladies to proof a copy. (She's been after me to get the pattern written since she saw the first li... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9501">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 6 May 2010 22:09:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9501 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9424 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9424"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/9424_img_0120_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>04/27/2010: Look at what I've been making! I know I've been silent for a while. I was working a full time temp job along with my part time at JoAnn's and our guild's quilt show. During all of that when I would find 10 minutes or so I would cover a Quilt Pati or sew the wing together... etc. In all I have honed the time it takes to make one of these critters to about 2.5 - 3 hours. They are pincushions that you wear as a pin... fuctional jewelry. I sold 5 at the quilt show (that was April 16 & 17). The following Monday I took 12 to the Franklin Park Conservatory's gift shop. They took them on consignment. They tie in beautifully with their "Butterflies & Blooms" exhibit that they have every year. So the quilt show is over and I was supposed to work on the temp assignment "through April". But I got the good news and bad news call from the temp agency. The assignment has ended on the 16th. That was the bad news. The good news was that they "just raved" about my work and would have me back in ... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9424">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:58:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/9424 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8548 <p align="left">01/25/2010: Lost 3 more pounds! About 18 months ago I was told I needed to loose "at least 55 pounds". In my efforts to loose I put on 12 more (2008 Holiday season)... So I got discouraged. It has taken me this long but I am now half way to my goal weight. Woo hoo!! For me the key ingredient was going to work at the largest JoAnn's in town (50,000 sf store). I started carrying a pedometer and just on the job I walk on an average of 13,000 steps in a 5 hour work day. This is just behind the cutting counter and putting fabric away in a smaller area with the occaisional trip to the opposite corner diagonally of the store for my break. It also curbs the snacking I used to do.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:48:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8548 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8534 <p align="left">01/22/2010: Last Sunday afternoon a man was shot after he got off the bus at a nearby McDonalds. The newspaper reported "witnesses said 4 men fled the scene" & "two were apprehended" but no other information. As I'm reading this in the news the name struck a chord. The age was right, in a neighborhood of my high school days & the name was spelled Jere (his spelling) instead of the more usual Jerry. OMG this was a friend from high school whom I worked with on the HS literery magazine, sang with in choir & even dated a couple of times. Such a tragic end to a beautiful soul! I just returned from the Funeral Mass. I thought perhaps it was a mugging. According to his sister (also my friend from HS) the police think they went to rob the McDonalds but it was too crowded (or some reason they didn't) so they left frusterated & just shot the first person they saw. HOW SENSELESS IT THAT??!! Please pray for Jere's family to have peace. Also pray that all of the offenders are caught and prosecu... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8534">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:36:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8534 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8492 <p align="left">01/18/2010: Saturday I attended my quilt guild's (CMQ) quilt show committee meeting. I am serving as vendor & door prize chairperson. Back in September I sent the Vendor Invites. Now I am sending the Door Prize Requests this week. Our quilt show is coming up fast but most companies I contact prefer to have the requests no sooner than 3 months in advance. The quilt show is Friday, April 16 & Saturday, April 17. The theme of our show is "Sunrise, Sunset" and I found three great fabric in that theme. One is a yellow with suns, one is blue with moons. These will get cut into charm squares (I will need to cut 800-900 of these). The third one has about a 3 inch square of different suns and moons with enough to cut between them including a seam allowance. I bought all that they had but there are not enough for our total expected attendance. The plan is to cut one sun or moon motif for each door prize I receive and wrap it hidden inside one of the charm squares like candy. Each person who pays for... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8492">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:05:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8492 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8363 <p align="left">01/05/2010: This is a new year and a new outlook... We WILL have improvement in the economy. We WILL see more jobs available. I WILL improve my personal life. I WILL get more of my UFO's done. I WILL finish the patterns I started to write. It is supposed to be as low as 8 degrees by Saturday. I am not going to let that get to me. I will snuggle under the covers with my two dogs, if necessary. My job with JoAnn's was "seasonal" and so far I am still on the schedule. Nothing has been said about being kept on or a last day. Just to keep my options open I have made sure that all 5 temporary agencies know that I am available. Yesterday I faxed a couple applications and resumes answering some want ads. Thanks to all of the TQS family for your support. You have been there during some of my stresses and successes over the years.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:42:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/8363 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7996 <p align="left">12/05/2009: Today I demonstrated quilting at one of our local art shows called Winterfair. Lugged the Bernina and started on my "Big Love" quilt for the challenge. One little girl (about 6 or 7) got all excited about my quilt. So I asked her to draw a "funky flower" and I would add it to the quilt. These are the rewarding moments of this art.</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:42:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7996 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7936 <p align="left">11/29/2009: I just caught up on my sleep after Black Friday/Saturday work schedule. When I got home yesterday I took a 2 hour nap. I dared not nap longer or I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. So now it is Sunday Morning. I don't have to be in until 4 PM. Yesterday I was cutting fabrics all day and mostly it was fleece... it was on sale. At one point I called the next person to my station and she looked up and called me by name. I had never met this woman. As I started cutting her fabric (of course it was quilting cottons) she told me she had seen me years ago on Simply Quilts and that she was making a quilt with my Quilt Patis. So I invited her to visit our next quilt guild meeting. It made me feel appreciated more than any other time in the last two days. I went home tired but with a good feeling.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:04:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7936 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7915 <p align="left">11/26/2009: The Thanksgiving feast was wonderful! Gary took me to the Hyatt at Capitol Square for their buffet. There were too many things to temp the tastebuds. Even though I didn't think I would, I missed cooking the bird with our traditional cornbread stuffing and green bean casserole. I love the smells while preparing the feast. When I get a free day I may get just a turkey breast and make a mini-Thanksgiving meal for me and Mom... just a thought. I went to visit Mark and he seemed a little bit better. Then I went home and took a nap. Gotta rest up for working at JoAnn's for Black Weekend. I'm working JoAnn's til 10 PM (after working the temp job at the bank) and then they have me scheduled at 6:30 AM on Saturday. I'm thinking I have to leave home by 5:15 AM to fight the 15 miles of traffic Saturday to get there on time. Be kind to the people that are working on black weekend, they may have my schedule too.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:43:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7915 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7913 <p align="left">11/26/2009: Today feels a little strange. I'm not cooking. With all that has been happening these last few weeks we will all celebrate in different locals. Mom really didn't want the "hub bub" this year. She requested a quiet day with her husband after her car accident. My brother Mark is still in the hospital (I will visit him this afternoon). My sister Helyn will be with her boyfriend's family (soon to be fiance??? I hope I hope). So my older brother, Gary & I are going out for lunch. (That's all of us.) We so have much to be thankful for. I am so thankful that my mother survived the accident with only the brusing... no concussion, or broken bones. She just looks so horrible and that will heal. I am thankful for Mark being where he is getting help. I am thankful that Helyn has Anthony in her life. I am thankful that my family is always there for eachother. I am thankful for my TQS friends who have helped me through the stressful times and the happy times. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL! Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:16:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7913 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7868 <p align="left">11/21/2009: Mom had a car accident this AM. Twelve stitches over her brow, left eye looks like a big purple tennis ball (eye shut), CTScan says "ok", taking precautions of waking her every 2 hours so to detect any concussion. The big problem was getting her BP back to normal. ER released her about 7PM. Car totaled. I saw her myself and she said "I look worse than I feel." I left emphatic instructions with Floyd (her current husband) "If Mom won't wake up call 911 immediately, then call me immediately NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF NIGHT!" Floyd is usually about as useful as tits on a boar hog so we'll see if he follows those simple instructions.</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:51:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7868 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7825 <p align="left">11/17/2009: I just received an invitation to apply to teach at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England. You can bet that baby is going to be filled out and returned immediately. I don't quite know how I will afford to get there if accepted. I believe if it's meant to be I will find a way. This was a happy note that brightened an otherwise stressful couple weeks. Things are looking up.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:04:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7825 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7809 <p align="left">11/15/2009: Today I worked at JoAnn 8am - 4pm. It was an ok day as far as taking care of guests. It was just very long standing on my feet that long. When we work we are not allowed our cell phones on the floor. Mark was calling & leaving aggitated messaged on my voice mail since I was not answering the phone. My brother Mark has been at the crisis center since Friday morning waiting for a spot to open up at the local mental health hospital. That is until about Noon today. He escaped from the center. It took him until 5:30 this evening to show up at his step-daughter's apartment demanding she drive him home. All of his money, ID, & belongings were still locked up at the crisis center & he traveled about 20 miles on just a smile... we are not yet sure how. Since he was "pink slipped" they made a police report to find him & bring him back. It took another 2 hours for the police to pick him up at his home after we notified them we had reports of his location. I pray for everyon who ha... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7809">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7809 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7774 <p align="left">11/13/2009: Today my brother (bi-polar) was taken to the intake center. We are trying to get him a bed at the behavioral hospital. He was missing for a day while in a mania with his dog. The police found him and took him in about 8 am. It took us till 3 pm to find the dog. We are still looking for his car. The police didn't have it towed and he is in no shape to be accurate with telling us. For all we know he could have handed anyone the keys and given it away. I think the hardest thing is the not knowing what is actually going on when his brain starts misfiring and feeling helpless to make it better. The only thing to do is pray and ask for prayers from friends.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:39:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7774 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7613 <p align="left">10/30/2009: I can't believe how long I have been away from the blogs. The jobs have taken their toll & I caught something. Had to call of sick from JoAnn two nights... needless to say they were not happy with me. All of the news stations, health departments, etc. are saying "If you are sick, stay home." It seems to be another attitude if you try to call off sick. My fever hit a high of 100.8 degrees but my normal temp is sub~normal. I debated the issue of going to the ER but that would mean I'd have to get dressed (Thursday 3 AM) & drive myself. I rolled over, prayed & took my temp 30 minutes later it was down almost a degree. I figured if it went down again the next time then it seems to be past the worst. I fell asleep until 9 or 10 AM & my temp was almost my normal. I still have the cough but I feel 98% better than last night. I went back to the temporary assignment at the bank today. It was supposed to be my last day on the assignment but they extended it another month. Thank G... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7613">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:26:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7613 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7264 <p align="left">10/08/2009: Thank you for words of support. Some of you were asking for more info. Without naming any group... we have "guests" (never "customers" at JoAnn) from one particular imigrant group that want to barter, don't speak english, ask for 1 yard, wrap it around themselves, shove it back and they don't want that piece... then they ask for 1.25 yard, repeat the process... then ask for 1.333 yard......... all the way up to 2 yard. They come in droves. I started putting a bull clip at the mark they are asking for and this is not to their liking. When you are actually cutting the fabric they are moving the fabric as if to help straighten it out but they try to gain 3-6 inches free. They reported me for taking the scissors away while the fabric is moving. Only 2 fabric cutters are on the schedule at a time with lines of 12+ guests. When they finally get their turn they will grab the fabric like a selfish 5 yo grabbing back their favorite doll from their baby sister. I had a guest Tuesday night hired... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7264">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:28:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7264 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7253 <p align="left">10/07/2009: I have survived may first 4 days as a JoAnn's seasonal associate. This is trial by fire. I have to keep reminding myself this is NOT an independent quilt shop. I want to thank all the quilters out there for being the loving, patient, creative people that I adore... It is a true lifestyle of which I am proud to be a member. TQS is the best place to start. When I had my LQS, even if busy I maybe had only 1 customer a year to not be my normal quilter as I have described. I never went home saying "I hate my job/customers." It is the complete reverse at a large non-quilting specific chain store. I wish I could say differently. I am not YET rejuvinated by the projects and the attitude I have seen. I am praying that next week will prove different. Anyone know of any LQS's that may be hiring?</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:32:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7253 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7159 <p align="left">09/29/2009: I've been feeling withdrawal from my quilting recently. I'll have to catch up later. On the job search: I accepted a temporary assignment through October at a bank (not counting on any of my other interviews)... 1 hour later JoAnn Etc. called and asked if I was still interested in being seasonal help. Of course I said I was if they are willing to work around my temp assignment. So on Friday I started training at JoAnn. Then Monday (last week) one of the other temp agencies called with a 2 day assignment that I couldn't take because of the first temp assignment started on the second day of the offered job. I won't know how to deal with not working the two jobs come the end of the season. But this is what I need for right now. On the reverse side ot that coin, all of the anticipate income is finding alternate places to go. The first day of the temp assignment I lost a temporary crown so I had to go to the dentist. Tomorrow I take the mobil rain forest in to have all the seals replaced (... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7159">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:56:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/7159 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6779 <p align="left">08/29/2009: Sniffer is home and healing. He spent the day resting. The incision on his back is about 8-10 inches long. Heps being very good about the whole ordeal. Thanks for all the prayers.</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:30:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6779 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6752 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6752"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/6752_img_0633_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>08/27/2009: This is Sniffer (Mom's dog). Today we took him to Ohio State University Vet Hospital to have them look at a lump on his back. It has been growing but seems to be just a fatty tumour (that was confirmed today). Mom is living on social security and never felt she could afford surgery for him. She even asked me to help her remove it herself. I said "NO!" Over a several months I finally convinced her to at least ask for a consult especially since another lump just started to show up under the tail. We both were anticipating a couple thousand for the surgery. Since OSU is a teaching Vet Hospital I thought they may have a program that would be less expensive than my vet. When everything was consulted we both were in tears of joy. These vet and students are the best!!!!! Tomorrow morning they will be taking off both masses and his little boy parts for a very low price. We will pick him up early Saturday. We do not anticipate any problems but a pray or two sure can't hurt.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:30:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6752 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6663 <p align="left">08/20/2009: I think that if I'm not the person "attached" to that social security number, then the state should refund all of the state income tax I have paid for this Mrs. STambaugh. Just make sure the check to SHambaugh and covers the last 41 years that I've had jobs.... WITH INTEREST AND THE COST OF LIVING INCREASES! Do you think if I sued for that they would quickly make the correction? LOL</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:49:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6663 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6662 <p align="left">08/20/2009: Yesterday I threw a pity party for myself. I started to feel guilty because my problems are not as bad as losing a child. So I didn't feel I could share yesterday. The situation is the economy doing its best to put me out of business. I'm a single woman with no other means of support, never had/used credit, been looking for a job, given credit to customers (some have become uncollectible), customer quilt shops downsizing/closing ... Well I received an order I cannot fill until I can earn enough to buy the raw plastic to make the Quilt Patis. I was feeling hopeless. The Quilt Patis will support the product but not the inventor. For the lean times I've been signed up with a temp agency for the last 15 years. Last year I only earned $332.00 through them. I am now signed up with 4 agencies and still no assignments for 2009. To top it off I have applied to the state for food stamps. The state has an error in their data base... the spelling of my last name related to my ss#. Because (and I... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6662">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:57:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6662 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6531 <p align="left">08/10/2009: Two short weeks and the kids (niece & nephew) are back home in OK. So now it is back to school for them and back to the work of job hunting for me. Saturday was full of quilt show committee meeting followed by demonstrating quilting at the Ohio State Fair (which ended on Sunday). The true signs that summer vacation is almost over. I tried a new design to demo at the fair. It is starting to take shape. I think I will call it either the "Baby Bloom" or "Bitty Bloom" since I already have a design called the "Double Bloom" in the patterns for using my Quilt Patis. Still working it all out to become a pattern.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:59:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6531 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6394 <p align="left">07/28/2009: Today didn't go as planned from beginning to end. ARRRRGH! The Plan: 9-Noon help Joan bind the 50th Anniversary quilt (for her parents)... Noon-3 get business done at home... 3 leave for wake for friend's nephew 90 minutes away... by 5 go to Golden Lamb for dinner (a block away from funeral home)... 6 go to pay respects and then drive home. Actual: arrive at Joan's 20 minutes late... start sewing hem on fabric sleeve... 1 inch of sewing done & 20 yo Singer dies... call repair man... confirms not fixable... break for lunch... she buys a Bernina... return to Joan's 3:30 pm... get home to change clothes at 3:30... fill car window washer fluid so it won't bing at me on 90 munite drive... discover at trash can I grabbed the wrong jug & filled w/ "Best Press" spray starch (lavender)... go to mechanic... AFTER HE QUIT LAUGHING he said 1 hr & $70 to repair TOMORROW... gave ok to drive to wake forbidding washing windows... hit detour in the last 3 miles to funeral home that took 1... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6394">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:02:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6394 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6346 <p align="left">07/24/2009: Well today marks the sad loss of my quilting sanctuary of my neighbor's vacant house. It is the sherrif's sale day. I don't know when/if I will get new neighbors. I enjoyed it while it lasted. Yesterday I had a good interview but they won't make a final decision until next week. Wish me luck. I will have a great diversion in the meantime... My niece & nephew will be arriving from Oklahoma for their yearly visit with their Dad (and us) on Sunday. We aren't sure how long they will be able to stay (school starts mid~August). The anniversary quilt I did for a friend should be back from the long~arm quilter by Tuesday. So I will be binding when I'm not otherwise distracted by doing stuff with the kids.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:33:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/6346 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5937 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5937"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5937_img_0054_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>06/21/2009: Finally... "Portage" by Teresa Pietras & "Spirit of the River" by Linda Vandiver (both FS) (a repeat of one panel) & "CitySide" by Jo Ann Amidon (FS) I suppose this exhibit could grow, but that would be up to these guild to offer the challenge.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:19:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5937 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5936 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5936"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5936_img_0050_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>06/21/2009: The river continues... "Sand Under My Toes" by Aija Seflic & "At Waters Edge" by Heidi Wolko (both TH) "River Rocks" by Sandra Baker & "Piece on Earth" by Gail Ferrick both of Fringe Sisters of Columbia, SC (FS) "Sweet Sixteen" by Saradean Hallman & "Carved in Stone" by Lizzi Guyeska (both FS) "Mighty Mississippi" by Lynn Buske & "My Gracious" by Dee Doebler (both FS) Two more of my river pictures to go.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:59:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5936 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5935 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5935"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5935_img_0047_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>06/21/2009: I am still amazed at this exhibit. "Rocky River" by Judy Simmons & "Moon Dance" by marion Lipscomb (both FFAG) "Alien Invasion" by Barbara Tennison & "The Venice of France" by Marilyn Wall (both of FFAG) "Gotcha" by Bonnie Ouellette & "Under the Palm Tree" by Jana Schuelke both of Thread Heads of Seneca, SC (TH) "Utah Fantasy" by Judy Rapelje & "Preserve" by Katie Fenlon (both TH)' "Lazy River" by Caroly Harris & "Moon River" by Paula Ridley (both TH) "Fowl Play" by Jean Loussarian & "The River Wye" by Ann Hanewald (both TH) continued.....</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:40:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5935 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5933 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5933"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5933_img_0040_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>06/21/2009: This was an inspiring exhibit. I will quote from the show program book... "Warren Carpenter, owner of The Arts Company in Seneca, SC issued a challenge to the Focus Fiber Arts Group to create a quilt, using as many quilters as possible that would flow around all the walls of the gallery." "Three art quilt groups located in SC accepted the challenge, the Focus Fiber Art Group of the Upstate, the Thread Heads of Seneca, SC and the Fringe Sister of Columbia, SC." "It was decided that the groups would do a line challenge representing a river. Each participating artist was given a common fabric (the blue for the river) and told the size that the river would enter and exit the quilt (left to right) A minimum of 14" and a maximum of 23" were set as the length. This variation in length created the undulating top and bottom line with the continuous, but Everchanging River." This is a traveling exhibit so to keep the river flowing each quilted panels were mounted on a separate black fabric wit... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5933">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:57:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5933 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5932 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5932"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5932_img_3233_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>06/21/2009: After a slow start with the vet visit, I made it to the NQA Quilt Show. BTW if you were to see Katy Rose today bounding aroud you would never believe me that she ripped out a claw. She's not even needing the pain medicine but I'm not stopping the soaks and antibiotics prescribed. Now at the quilt show inspirations abound. I met several of my online friends for the first time, including TQS member kfstitches. So many of you have been asking about "the Hippy Skirt". A true hippy skirt has to have a peace sign on it. Right? The hollyhocks up the right leg... Flower Power! 1) Take a pair of blue jeans (I like the deep pockets in this pair I got at the thrift store for $1.00). 2) T ake out the stitches in the crotch and inseam. 3) Overlap the crotch and insert a triangular wedge (both front & back). 4) Embellish! 5) Best when coupled with a macrame belt, peasant blouse & hippy sandles... the fringe on the belt can work as a chatelaine.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:26:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5932 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5901 <p align="left">06/18/2009: Well I had planned to be at the NQA Quilt Show bright & early. Not in the cards. I finally got there about 1:30 pm. My little girl (cocker) was limping badly. After a closer look & almost getting nipped, I discovered theat her claw was bleeding & really bad looking. The vet said come in NOW! Katy had pulled the claw practically out. At the vet's we muzzled her... "How indignant!" she glared. Then the vet looked & the claw came out flipping like a tiddly wink with no effort at all. She got a shot of antibiotic & one for pain then it was noticed that Katy was due for the Rabies booster... why not while we were there. The silver lining... the lectures & classes I paid for are tomorrow & I DID get a couple hours at the show before the lights went out at the convention hall. AND I found a few fat quarters for a challenge quilt I'm working on for The James' Stitching Sisters (charity quilts for cancer patients).</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:12:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5901 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5893 <p align="left">06/18/2009: This was at the end of Pam Bono's newsletter this morning. No truer word have ever been said (or should I say typed). "Smell the flowers instead of THE SKUNKS whenever you get the chance!" Thank you to Pam for the reminder. I may even have to embroider this onto a wall hanging to keep reminding me during the tough times. Enjoy</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:49:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5893 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5889 <p align="left">06/17/2009: Thanks for all the prayers and notes of encouragement. My brother is getting the help he needs at the hospital. I've gone to visit him as a "good sister" is expected (especially in his state of mind). Now it is time for ME. I told him from the get go that the NQA Quilt Show starts tonight and runs through Saturday. He knows that I will not be visiting during the show. Honestly I need the break. I will visit on Sunday and next week as long as he is still there. This is not only for my own sanity by seeing the quilts, inspirational lectures, & selecting fabrics. I also service my customer shops that are vending at the show. I am lucky to be a professional in the quilting industry. Even though right now I need to find a second job to support me, the Quilt Patis support the Quilt Patis. If any of you are attending the NQA Quilt Show in Columbus, Ohio, please look for me and say "Hi!" I will be wearing my hippy skirt (made from jeans) with "I - Quilt Patis" that shows as I am bent ove... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5889">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:39:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5889 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5861 <p align="left">06/13/2009: You know when things are easing along then all of a sudden family drama. I think it is to get our attention and say don't take it all for granted. We spent yesterday trying to protect Mom's husband from himself (showing signs of Altzheimer's). In doing odd jobs somehow he seems to have been duped into taking payment in car titles... He thinks he can make a killing on reselling them. Not stopping to think what the limit is to considered "personal sales". So far he's ok but he has to either get a dealer license or hold onto the last 6 or 7 until next calendar year. We took care of getting those ducks in a row and stopped for lunch. During lunch we got a call that my brother ( with bi-polar) was on his way to the hospital in a manic state. Turns out they were tweaking his meds and it set off this episode. This morning we got the news that the step brother lost his appeal for a new trial. He was wrongfully convicted of murder when his wife committed suicide. The basis of the conviction wa... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5861">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:51:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5861 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5810 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5810"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5810_quiltpatis2hexwitpin_w180h198_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>06/07/2009: test I'm trying three photos this time. This is Kip Starbutz and KatyRose (my children) They love being "porch puppies". 1992 in Boston. Can you guess which one is me. I was thin back then. I took 4 teen to a NKOTB convention in Boston. This is my sister Helyn (20 year's my younger). me, Meg, & PJ then one of the youth center volunteers. Hooray! It worked. Pati in OH</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:29:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5810 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5633 <p align="left">05/22/2009: Many of you have heard me rave about The Waste Not Center here in Columbus, OH. I love that place... free shopping for a membership fee. Some trips you find nearly nothing and other trips... jackpot! Designed to recycle good before they hit the landfills. Well they have a huge bin of all kinds of fabric scraps (most times more junk than quilting fabrics). Well this last trip they got a donation of cottons (probably an estate donated by heirs of a quilter). I nabbed a bunch of scraps, odd blocks, and 2 huge pieces of fabric. So much I needed a 10 ream copier paper box for the fabric only. One was 4 yards of 36" wide Waverly... I see a garden skirt... HUGE rose bouquet motif. The other was actually in 2 pieces (same print) 3 yards and 8 yards. So yesterday I had to wait for the water company at my next door neighbor's house (they retired to Florida) to turn off the water. I took my Waste Not fabric over and pressed it all out. (They have a built in ironing board in the kitchen.) During m... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5633">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 22 May 2009 07:09:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5633 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5492 <p align="left">05/07/2009: Thanks for the good luck wishes. Boot Camp was a mixed bag of scraps... some useful others not so much. There were four 20 minute presentations with 10 minute Q&A. The topics were: Resumes & Cover Letters; Interviewing & Professional Appearance; Networking; and Jobs of the Future. I learned a few new things but most of it was old hat. After all these were experts. Then there were companies with booths recruiting for things like the Police Department & Army.... yea right, me at 54 in an Army Boot Camp... LOL... unless I could patchwork my own camo garb... LOL. Three colleges (one my alma matter) offering "lower cost" continuing education. Donoto's Pizza handed out job applications for waitressing (I took one as backup). Kroger (grocery stores) wanted warehouse labor for one 30 miles away from town. I'm not desperate for that type of employment. HOWEVER, I networked with the crowd and the speakers. Got leads of better internet sites for everything from help with resumes, ... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5492">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 7 May 2009 07:46:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5492 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5479 <p align="left">05/06/2009: I'm getting my resume buffed up with a spit shine & marching off to "Career Boot Camp". The local TV station has lined up career counselors to give help on making your resume, cover letter... etc. that extra shine to attract the employers. Since my own business has had a very low point over the winter I need to get something. Most jobs that would work around my primary interests (my quilting patterns) I am "over qualified" for, soooooooo... The Quilt Patis do support the product line but not fully the human quiltpati. So everyone wish me luck at Boot Camp... (I hope they don't shave my head... LOL)</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 6 May 2009 07:00:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5479 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5183 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5183"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5183_452009_015_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>04/06/2009: Today we put on the final borderon the Anniversary Quilt. Would have stuck to it yesterday but Joan had other appointments and we are making it at her house. Wednesday her brother will pick up the quilt top and head to The Hamptons. He plans on showing it to family friends who are looking to get a quilt made. Joan said, "I'll pimp you out for that job." Then she told me the price that she quoted them (in the range that could choke a horse)... She said they didn't even blink. I said... "Go ahead, pimp away." The deposit alone is what I really need right now since the Ma 'N Pa stimulous/bailout has not been approved. Anyway you've all been asking to see the progress. Yesterday we concentrated on the photo border and it fit perfectly... as I knew it should.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:09:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5183 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5065 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5065"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5065_gay_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/26/2009: Here's a picture of my mother. I was on the laptop when I posted last and this picture was on the desk pc. You can see how impish she can be from the photo. The Cinch Hoop is her own patented quilting hoop.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:30:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5065 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5057 <p align="left">03/26/2009: Yesterday was devoted to Mom! She asked me to (and I quote) "Haul my boney a** around all day," We started by taking lunch to a dear friend who just had 2 lumps taken out of her breast. That stop was not planned until I called Brenda to see if she wanted to meet us for lunch and found out about the surgery. We were near the hospital so after Mom askes me if we could stop (and panicing me a minute) we go in and she tells the receptionist, "I want to donate a body." and waits for a shocked reaction before adding, "Mine, but you have to wait awhile. Is there a packet of papers to sign up? You know, so the med students and experiment on me!" After that we made a stop at the coroner's office. She set up an appointment to talk to the coroner to get her to review an the autopsy report on a 3 year old legal case. BTY Mom is back to taking classes at Ohio State University's law school, so it is not as strange as it sounds. A couple other stops before ending up at her house for pot roast that wa... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5057">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:15:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5057 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5042 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5042"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/5042_094_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/24/2009: Thought I'd post some pictures of working on the Anniversary Quilt. These are the photo fabrics airing out on the line.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:34:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/5042 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4958 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4958"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/4958_representative_diagram_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/18/2009: Lat night was my quilt guild meeting. We usually meet in a room with tables and space to work on our own projects. So I took along the background fabric for the 50th Anniversary Quilt, my two rotary cutters, ruler & cutting mat. When we arrived the school needed our usual room and sent us to the auditorium. These hard wooden fold down seats were obviously built in the 40's and, of course, NO tables to work on. My butt had a hard time fitting... and I'm not that fat. That beside the point, I had to go back out to the car for something and noticed that I still had my little wooden TV table in the car (I was too lazy to take in the house from the last quilt show I did). It was perfect! I quickly grabbed the table, headed back inside and planted my butt in the front row. It was the perfect size for the cutting board I brought. I already had the fabric folded for cutting strips. I just had to roll the remainder length another time to fit on the table to the right of my cutting. I did g... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4958">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:47:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4958 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4761 <p align="left">03/03/2009: Just got the decision back from Joan. She likes the second border version that I posted on the anniversary quilt. Today we get to play with the 4x4 photos. I will post that when I'm done importing them into EQ6 so you can see the whole idea. After the layout is done we will print the photos for the gameboard center onto the fabric and go shopping for the actual "other fabrics" for the quilt. We are thinking Southwest color scheme because Joan's parents live in Arizona with a nuteral color bedroom. But we will see what the LQS has in relationship to the actual photographs on fabric.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:24:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4761 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4753 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4753"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/4753_choice_2_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/02/2009: I still haven't figured out how to get two pictures in one posting but here's the second border choice way.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:38:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4753 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4752 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4752"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/4752_choice_2_choice_1_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/02/2009: I got the first batch of pictures cropped, turned, imported and set for the anniversary quilt. As I said earlier we are making it their game of life. There will be 3 borders... a 2" solid, a 4" border of 4x6 and 4x4 photos and then the 10" final border. The picture border will frame the top of the matress. The pathways will be sprinkled with photos and squares that say the things like "lose 1 turn", "go to college", etc. We will include bean bag playing pieces that match the head shots for each person's start block. The first 5x7 is when the met. Then make it to the wedding picture. Finally the 5x7 with the car will say "And the journey continues". The 4x4 photos are not finished yet and they will go in the alternate areas on the border.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:15:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4752 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4741 <p align="left">03/02/2009: My what a buzy weekend! I've been working with my friend, Joan, on an anniversary quilt for her parent's 50th. I designed it on EQ6. Basicly it is a "game of life" using their family photos and milestones. We are using the EQ photo fabric and currently working on the photo preparations before printing to the fabric. I learned how to set the photo in EQ6. I also learned that the photos must be cropped and ready as they would be for the actual quilt BEFORE importing them into EQ6. There are a total of 90 photos to play with. So far we worked all afternoon Friday & Saturday... with a shopping break for groceries, and computer gear. I got a wireless router box.... Yeah laptop in bed! AND I hooked it up right. Sunday, Mom's 77th birthday. We all acended on her house bringing a birthday feast. There were a total of 10 around the table. OMG I just looked at the clock... lost track of time. Guess where I have been blogging from at 9:30 am?... That's right, on the laptop in bed. I need to... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4741">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:18:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4741 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4564 <p align="left">02/17/2009: Today was quite frusterating. It looks like I will have to go all the way to a court case. Without going into the details, I request your prayers that it turns out with the payment I am owed or at least a fair compromise. I hate being the heavy. But I know I am in the right. In the middle of all of this I also got a call that the quilt guild meeting for tonight had to be cancelled due to a mix up at the meeting location. I was the scheduled program. So this means quilt therapy for the earlier frustration and no pay for the cancelled program. Mom & I had to laugh while watching the news tonight. As we turned on the tv the opening statement was "Today will be the best day of the week!" Yes, they were talking about the weather but all I could think of is "I really hope not (in referance to all of the above)." Here's hoping tomorrow will be better. Pati in OH</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:27:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4564 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4538 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4538"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/4538_master_bdrm_tv_table_sm.bmp" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>02/15/2009: Don't know why the 2nd picture didn't load. I will try again here.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:34:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4538 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4537 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4537"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/4537_office_day_bed_sm.bmp" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>02/15/2009: I just got some pictures of my friend's two rooms. I'm most proud of the office. I made the shams for the two striped body pillows and coordinated all of the bedding. The ceiling is a paler shade of the same yellow. When she decides just what she wants for the window treatments she will probably call on me again. In the master bedroom I put together the tv table. Together we did the shopping but Joan refinished all of the floors.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:22:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4537 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4463 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4463"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/4463_in_the_works_004_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>02/09/2009: It has been a tough economy for me recently. Unfortunately I had to employ an attorney to write some demand letters to delinquent accounts. This is the first time since 1996 I have had to demand payment from anyone. This makes me sad for all of us because I know quilters and quilt shop owners are honest customers. This **** economy is affecting us all. Today, was productive. I started with breakfast with a girlfriend who has been gutting and remodeling an 1850's farm house. This project started because they had to re-do all of the wiring. She hired me to help her with the hefting, cleaning, a second person when new furniture was delivered, and sewing. Saturday I helped her shop for fabric for the office/daybed guest room. No fabric was quite right. Then we went to Bed, Bath & Beyond for "at least the sheets". There we hit a gold mine. She found a throw, duvet covers and pillow in the colors she had in mind and went with the paint chips that she had used for the room all in the cle... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4463">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:36:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4463 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4431 <p align="left">02/06/2009: Today I picked up Mom at school. Taking her home the car in front of us had a license plate that said DWARF 7. We turned to eachother and questioned it's meaning. So impishly I told her... "Well the number 7 is lucky and so I'm guessing it means a little bit of luck... or dwarf luck ." We laughed and forgot it. But wait, it's what happened later that it gets wierd. When I got home to my house I noticed that my cell phone was missing. Just as I was about to call myself to find I dialed my cell number but before it started ringing there was a voice on the phone. So I must have picked up before it actually rang. The girl on the other end had found my phone outside the school. I went to her house to pick it up. It is amazing that it still worked. It had tire marks on the denim case, the LED screen doesn't work, and she said that she hoped that by pushing SEND twice she could find out who it belonged to. The last person logged on the phone was my mother who gave her my home phone. Because ... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4431">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:55:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4431 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4109 <p align="left">01/11/2009: I wrote yesterday about my find at the Waste Not Center. So far no answer from Nancy Crow but I expect that the answering machine was at the studio/barn and may not be received until Monday. While we were there I talked with a nice gal from the Columbus Dispatch. The article was in today's Metro section of the news paper. After about 15 minutes of talking about how I utilize the center and tons of pictures she only used one line from me. However, she never talked to my mother or her sister in law and they used two pictures of Mom. I've attached the link to the article if anyone is interested. It is still my hope that centers like this will start cropping up all over the country. http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/01/11/wastenot.ART_ART_01-11-09_B1_A8CGK0S.html?sid=101</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:58:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4109 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4097 <p align="left">01/10/2009: OMG! I was at the Waste Not Center today. (I've talked about this place before, but briefly, it is a place where you can donate stuff that otherwise would be thrown out. Members that are artists, teachers, etc. can take anything for free and use for their art or for their students to create with. Or like clean "dumpster diving" without the dumpster.) As I was lookin through some books I found a homemade autograph/memory book inscribed with "Made for Nancy Crow" from her students and dated April 2005. It was aparently a week long retreat/class at her barn/studio in Baltimore, OH (about 1 hour from Columbus). After I got home I looked up and called the number I found online... Of course I did look through the book first. How could I not? I did get the answering machine so I left the message. I strongly feel that this book made it to the Waste Not Center in error. I'm just amazed that someone who knew what it was and who it was made for actually found it. She should have it back. It truly... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4097">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:21:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4097 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4064 <p align="left">01/07/2009: I just got my car insurance renewal. I expected the rates to go up but not double. I did have an accident (my first one in 25 years... not counting the guy who hit it while it was parked empty and I was inside the Post Office.) I reviewed my policy statement and they had me cited for "Going the wrong way on a one way street." WHAT!?!?!?!?! This has never happened in my lifetime of driving. The accident was on a one way street but we were both going the correct direction. I was changing lanes and he slammed on his break so as not to get a ticket from the "red light camera" the instant the light turned yellow. His daughter who was following him in a different car was letting me in. Back to trying to get this corrected on my insurance. I called them and was told that I needed to have the BMV write them a letter saying that they (the BMV) made a mistake reporting to the insurance company. To do this I needed to go to the Police headquarters and get a copy of the accident report ($). Then ... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4064">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:25:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/4064 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3975 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3975"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/3975_picture_807_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>01/02/2009: Well, they say you need to write them down and share with others to have more success in keeping them. They also say make them attainable by being open and not restrictive (ie. open: "I'm going to eat healthier to loose weight or inches" and not "I'm going to loose ____ pounds."). I guess that makes it a more possitive outlook. Sooooooo, these are mine... 1. Eat healthier to loose both inches and weight. 2. Cut back on my Dr. Pepper (NOT DIET) addiction. 3. Try to quit using foul language at people who cut me off in traffic. 4. Shave the spending on less necessary things. (ie: less eating out or less expensive restaurants when I do and only if it is related to business or with friends.) 5. Less running through the drive through fast food for convenience. (Ties into #1 & #4) 6. Spend more time with my family. I have 3 surviving siblings and I'm trying to get all 4 of us (Gary, myself, Mark, & Helyn... we are the 2 on the left and last 2 on the right) together at least on... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3975">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:49:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3975 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3591 <p align="left">12/04/2008: Every year my quilt guild does quilting demonstrations at an art show called Winterfair. This is a show run by the Ohio Crafts Guild so the vendors run the art gambit... potters, painters, woodworkers... you name it. They invite the different guilds in the area like our quilt guild, the knitters, weavers.... to take part by demonstrating their specialties. I always demo for them the first shift of the show. This gets me in for free for the rest of the show. It is a great place to do Christmas shopping especially for the artsy one of a kind gifts. Now I'm jazzed for designing new stuff.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:55:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3591 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3516 <p align="left">11/28/2008: I was just informed about this divice made by HP (on Martha Stewart) called Presto. It is designed to send e-mail to those relatives that are not computer literate. Basically one person with the computer will set up the account "email address" for the computerless. Then you tell the Presto when to call for the emails automatically (let's just say 1AM) and it will print out the email like they were getting a fax only prettier... color, photos, etc. This is the website for them if you want more info. I just ordered for my 76 y-o Mother. www.presto.com I am getting no compensation for this. I'm just an excited consumer who just solved the issue of printing out e-mails sent to me for Mom and running the risk of there being a time laps issue for any events involved... Freedom from that worry. Currently the Presto unit is designed for USA phone lines but they can receive e-mails from anywhere. Pati in OH</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:27:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3516 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3450 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3450"><img src="title=" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>11/22/2008: Since I got questions about how many the recipe makes I thought I'd re-post the answer. Part of it does depend on how disciplined you are about not eating them as you make them. And, of course, I never eat them as I make them, right? ... well maybe one or two. I just made the single recipe as printed and I filled two of the small 5.5"diameter x 2.5"high round tins. I get the tins at Big Lots for about $1.50 each. I also start out with the smaller amount of rum and as the dough drys out (the alcohol evaporates) I drizzle a little more rum in so it will roll again into the balls. Thanks, Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:06:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3450 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3447 <p align="left">11/22/2008: Today I start the holiday "baking". The first cookie I always make are the Rum Balls. I am not allowed to go any family holiday event with out them. I am also required to make at least a double recipe for Thanksgiving and then again at Christmas. This recipe MUST come with the warning of: "Do NOT Eat & Drive!" They are a no bake cookie and I always use the good stuff. Rum Balls From Pati Shambaugh 2 cups Vanilla Wafers, crushed 2 cups powdered sugar 2 cups finely ground pecans 3 Tablespoons light corn syrup 3 Tablespoons cocoa ¼ ~ ⅓ cup Bacardi rum Crush Vanilla Wafers & mix with other ingredients. You will need to get your hands into it before everything is totally mixed. Shape into balls about 1". Roll in powdered sugar. Keep stored in tightly covered container a day or so to "ripen". Keeps very well. Hope you try them (if you like rum & chocolate). Sorry for the messy hands but it's worth it. Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:43:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3447 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3377 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3377"><img src="title=" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>11/17/2008: I saw this on You Tube. I think Buck is hysterical so I thought I'd share with y'all. Enjoy, Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:01:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3377 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3270 <p align="left">11/05/2008: I'm feeling less violated and more embarrassed. After all of my rants and raves about the political door hanger on the back door I have to eat crow and fart feathers. I told my roommate about that this morning. He told me HE hung it on the outside of the back door to remind him to put it in the trash. I guess Kip & Katy Rose wanted out and I was alseep when he did it. I must have been totally exhausted to not hear Kip's "outside please?" request. I still think too many trees were killed for the postcards though. I also sent my apologies to the local party headquarters that I complained to yesterday but only about the back door issue not the too many trees issue. Color me red faced. Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:42:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3270 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3264 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3264"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/3264_puppy_love_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>11/04/2008: Well, it's done. I had my little "cheat sheet" with me, my Quilt Patis, fabric, thread etc. for a long line wait... It never fails when you take the umbrella it doesn't rain. I walked in and no line at my polling place. I went at 2PM. I figured that is after a 2 hour lunch and before an early departure from work. It worked. I do have one complaint about the whole campaigning... there were far too many political postcard, recorded phone calls, and tv ads. I personally shredded all of the postcards. In just this last week I had 3 grocery bags of shredded political postcards. That is far too many trees killed for this election!!! The worst offense... I have 3 doors to my home/shop. There was a political door hanger on every door yesterday. This wouldn't be so bad except for the back door. This volunteer hit sometime between 9PM and 3AM (the two times I let Kip & Katy Rose out for "doggie business"). To get to this door he had to walk up a 2 car driveway, climb over the wroght iron fe... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3264">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:05:00 PSThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3264 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3211 <p align="left">10/30/2008: I will catch up on reading all the blogs that I missed later. I just wanted to let everyone know I arrived home last night about 9 PM from the Houston Quilt Market. I drove down through Little Rock and met Marilyn (TQS member) & Tom. They were so wonderful. Then I drove back through New Orleans. It was the longer way but I had to get my Cafe du Mond fix. Anyway, I am home safe and dreading the work of unpacking the van. I'm leaving it until it warms up a little. Pictures later too. Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/3211 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2999 <p align="left">10/10/2008: Well I leave for Houston Wednesday Oct 23rd. It will be a long drive but worth it to meet up with quilting teachers, shop owners and friends. Hopefully the sales won't be like Wall St. After all it IS an International Quilt Market. We will see when it ends. I'm hoping to travel the diagonal route from Columbus, OH to Houston due to possible Ike delays by way of New Orleans. I will miss my usual stop in the French Quarter. But the car almost knows the way from the north too. I'm not sure of campground along the way. I figure they are safer for camping in the car. I would enjoy hearing any of your recommendations for campgrounds, cheaper gas (if that's possible) and "Ma & Pa home cookin' style" restaurants to try. My basic route is Columbus to Cincinnati to Louisville to Memphis to Little Rock to Texarkana and down 59 to Houston. I have accomodations once I get to Houston but on the way down and back the funds are lean enough to rough it.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:39:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2999 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2920 <p align="left">10/01/2008: How many of you are shop owners/teachers/designers and going to Quilt Market? Stop by and say "hi" to me in #2116. Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:12:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2920 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2858 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2858"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/2858_quilts_aug_sept_2008_175_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>09/26/2008: I have a theory about when a project is finished or if it is a UFO. I usually set out with a specific goal... work with coordinating a particular color, learn a new technique, improve my stitches (quilting or applique), or create a new pattern to use the Quilt Patis, etc. Once that goal is accomplished the project is technically finished... even if it is only one block of that technique or a completed pattern with it's completed sample. It is only a UFO when the goal has not been met. Here is one I started after seeing it in a Feb QNM either 87 or 88. I remember it by the apartment I was in and I was working at the American Heart Association when I started it. I just unpacked it from an obscure moving box. I think the borders didn't fit and I was less experianced to know why. This is why when I take a class I bring either Christmas fabrics or in the color scheme of my bedroom. If I only make one block to accomplish knowledge of the technique, I will soon have enough blocks to make a s... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2858">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:46:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2858 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2769 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2769"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/2769_floyd_howard_altzheimer_patch_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>09/18/2008: It has hit in our family too. Both my Grandmother's and my Great Aunt had some kind of dimensia prior to their deaths. Now my Mother's 4th husband is struggling. Even though he was not my choice for her, she loves him and I help her through the tough times. Here's a virtual patch for him.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:41:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2769 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2759 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2759"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/2759_correct_way_to_weigh_yourself_sm.bmp" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>09/16/2008: I received this in my e-mails today. They have discovered a new way to weigh yourself. And to think I've been doing it wrong all this time.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:10:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2759 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2740 <p align="left">09/14/2008: Please pray for all the people affected by Hurricane Ike. I'm sitting here in Columbus, OH watching the news and checking the internet on news of Hurricane Ike. I lived in Houston when Hurricane Alicia cut through Galveston and Houston August 16, 1983. I still have friends living in Houston. So far I haven't been able to get through to them to check on their safety. Even though Ike was a smaller category storm than Alicia, Ike looks wider spread and the pictures I have seen looks like worse devistation. I remember the aftermath of Alicia. In brief, no electric up to 3 weeks in some areas and windows still out in downtown buildings when Mom came for Quilt Market the week of Halloween. This make me wonder if Quilt Market will indeed take place. I guess that will depend on how badly the convention center was damaged. If any of you are going to Quilt Market (and it still takes place) come say hi to me in the Picking Up The Pieces booth. Pati</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:44:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2740 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2694 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2694"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/2694_img_0739_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>09/09/2008: I'm just sending this out of curiosity. How many of you have made a PMS Quilt? I already hear you asking, "What's a PMS Quilt?" I have coined this term to stand for P ulled M y S tash. So here are my guidelines... The quilt top must pull more than half of the fabrics from your current stash. It is even better if the whole quilt is pulled from the stash. Battings and threads are exempt but extra points for each one pulled from the stash. Fabric is considered stashed if it's not currently available in quilt shops (unless it's last year's print... found in scraps, clearance bins or as a rogue fat quarter). You may swap with a friend. This is called "PMS Relief Network" (PMS RN) or "nursing a friend". No requirements for size or patterns used. Many PMS Quilts make great quilts donated to charities like Project Linus, sent out to victims of natural disaster, our troops, etc. Let's see your PMS Quilts. This is a photo of 2 of my PMS Quilts... the vest is 100% PMS and the blue and white... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2694">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:24:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2694 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2676 <p align="left">09/08/2008: Many of you may already know I'm a big recycler. In fact, the Quilt Patis started by recycling coffee can lids and margarine tub lids. I taught for about 10-12 years before they became a product by popular demand. I am soooooooo happy that I found out about a wonderful place in Columbus, OH called the Waste Not Center. It is designed for teachers, artists, etc. to basically get things donated there before it goes to the landfill. Bath & Body Works have made massive donations of things like empty bottles, gift boxes, display items, and other packaging items. They always have baskets, office supplies, and a huge bin of fabrics (mostly drapery & upholstery samples) that has the occasional partial fat 1/4's. You never know what your will find. Sort of like dumpster diving in a safer environment. It is supported by donations and our (teachers/artists) membership. After you pay your membership you can "shop" for free. Some things have a limit others don't. The hours are limited to 2-... (<a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2676">read more</a>)</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:52:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2676 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2675 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2675"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/2675_quilts_aug_sept_2008_131_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>09/08/2008: I'm not sure if I edited correctly to add the photo, so here is another try (3rd one). Any name suggestions? Here it is full out. I still need to quilt it and that's another creative block for the moment.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:36:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2675 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2660 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2660"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/2660_quilts_aug_sept_2008_028_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>09/06/2008: I am working on a new pattern and I am not coming up with a name for my quilt. Of course it has it's Quilt Patis but they are appliqued to a 60 degree diamond which is then surrounded with strips... like a lopsided log cabin. The top is done but not quilted. Since it is "not exactly" a log cabin... "not exactly" a tumbling block... or a star... or streaks of lightning........... I thought about calling it "Knotted Zachly" but then I also think it needs something more poetic than punny. The Quilt Patis appliqued looks almost like a flure~de~lis but... "not exactly" and the fabrics used does not look French at all. I used Jelly Rolls and Charm squares in Moda's Shangra La and Chocolate AND I also P ulled M y S tash so it is a PMS Quilt... but (say it with me) "not exactly". It could be "twinkling stars above a trellis in the garden" but that's too long of a name so maybe "Trellis Stars." I will post a picture when I get a good one taken. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.</p><br clear="all"/> Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:10:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2660 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2501 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2501"><img src="title=" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>08/08/2008: I was planning to be at the September 8th taping of The Quilt Show. Unfortunately many factors intervened so that would not be possible . I will miss meeting the rest of you attending. I will miss seeing Alex & Ricky again. The good news for you is that I have sent a little something for gift bags at one of the taping days. I will not promise in which day's bag they will appear. I hope y'all enjoy the whole day.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:35:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/2501 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/1119 <p align="left"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/1119"><img src="http://www.thequiltshow.com/1/01/1006801/blog/1119_img_0015_sm.jpg" align="left" title="Read More" border="0" width="150" /></a>03/28/2008: Well I made it! Yesterday we set up our Celebrate 2008. Now comes 3 days of fun (and work... if you can call it that). I got the quilt for the new pattern done at 1:30 pm Wednesday then went to my second job... (in an office). So I got a picture of it for the pattern after set-up yesterday, came home at 9pm and started printing patterns. The nice thing about "self-publishing" is you can have it by this kind of deadline. The bad thing, if it doesn't get done you have no one to blame but yourself. Those are the hardest kicks in the backside to endure. When it works it is soooooooo satisfying. Then there are times that all you can say is, "To Hex with it!" Hey, Ricky & Alex, want a brand new pattern using Quilt Patis on The Quilt Show??? Pati Shambaugh... "The Quilt Pati Lady"</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PDThttp://www.thequiltshow.com/os/myblog.php/customers_blog_id/1119 http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/images/custom/valid-rss.pnghttp://www.thequiltshow.com/myblog/quiltpati.xml