I Found It.....Finally!

Just prior to Halloween, I was looking to finish up my Halloween Quilt started in the Ami Simms Class last year in Lafayette, LA.  (not Indiana)  And I searched high and low.  For days and days, into weeks.  I could not believe it was not in my Quilt Studio.

Some would say, If you saw the mess Quilt Studio you would wonder that I find ANYTHING in there......but I digress.

I also searched the dining room which holds the long arm things.  Which, I might add, is not in much better shape than the sewing room mess quilt studio.

No luck.  It was not anywhere.  So I searched again several weeks later.  This time I took every darned box down and apart and STILL did not find it.

Charlene says, Don't fret, it is there somewhere and will surface when it is ready.  She didn't know what she was talking about.  She was so wise.

Yesterday I get an email from friend Norma, which says, Did you forget your green box was over at my sewing studio?

Duh, yes.........I reply.  But when I arrived to pick it up, it was the Ami Simms Halloween Quilt pieces!  YEAH!

So now, my quilt blocks and I are reunited, along with my Louisiana Restaurants Cookbook (why was that even in there) and my flannel covered note book I had made this summer and took some notes within.


Thank you Norma, for caring for my box so it wouldn't be scared and afraid in the dark somewhere where I would never find it.  You took good care of it, I hope you made some of the recipes!

glen

Design Wall 9-26-11

Finally!  Something new on the design wall and a computer to post it with!  I have been having problems in both those areas recently.

This is Ami Simms Twisted Sisters block done in Halloween fabrics from a random visit to Hancocks and the appearance of that pale green fabric which you can really see much of anyway.  Isn't that how it goes?

The block involves some partial seams but Ami's way of doing things is marvelously easy.  And the template makes this block a spooky breeze to make.

Charlene and Ann and I attended the workshop in Lafayette with Ami.  She is wonderful. 

So far there are 20 but I have enough to make about that many more. I am debating on making this with a sashing and making two or making just one large one. 

What could I do with the second one......?

And just to show you that I really did hobknob with Quilt Celebrities here is a picture of us with Ami!  LOL.

glen 

Ami Simms Workshop in Lafayette

It was just as wonderful as Charlene said it would be! 

http://geemaswonderings.blogspot.com/2011/08/ami-simms-workshop.html

I actually like that picture of me laughing at her!  It must be the first time I have ever liked a picture of myself.  I guess we are all like that.

Ann and I were not without our problems as we attempted to meet for 7 AM to head out to Lafayette.  We both ran late but ended up getting there in plenty of time to find the church and set up our stations.  We got the added benefit of hobnobbing with Ami Simms for some personal time!

Ami Simms is the brainchild behind Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative or AAQI.  Thousands of quilters make 9 x 12 quilts for auction and sale.  Proceeds go to Alzheimer Research.  She has raised more than a half million dollars from these sales.  For more information or to donate or buy one of these marvels go to:

http://www.alzquilts.org/index.html

Oh yes, the workshop! I taught everyone how to get focus on a scatterbrained dog, how to extinguish a bad behavior and......oh, you mean the Twisted Sister Workshop!  LOL.

Here is everyone!

                                                    And here are Ann, me, Ami Charlene and Dottie hamming it up for the camera while Mary stole my blocks............

Twisted Sister looks difficult, but is not.  And that makes the block totally worthwhile to make!  It does use a template....and partially pieced seams.......well, maybe it is a bit difficult, but it was so much fun!  When I decided on Halloween fabrics, I knew Mary would be lusting after my stuff.  What I didn't know was that she was going to be there.  I had to keep a close eye on my blocks because between Mary and Charlene they nearly walked off several times.

Ann and I had found a perfect fabric combination for her TS blocks.  Of course you never know how it will come out until you actually put it together.  It was obviously a winning combination!  Check out her first block.

There were so many different combinations of fabric and ideas that all were fabulously different.  Throughout the workshop Ami was teaching, she never stopped working with individuals and pointing ways of doing things out to the group as well. She had a "train" of people following her as she walked through the class. 

Charlene worked in teals and browns.  This will be a DG quilt and I think it works for a guy graduate!  I do!  Boy, do those lights pup with that teal in the center!  What a great eye-catching combination. H  Her pallet was laid out on the table and I was definitely drooling. 






Here are some other blocks.  Some I know who they belong to, some I don't.  But they are all gorgeously fabulous!





This one will be exciting!



I love the colors here





Dottie




This was a strip material, wow!




Mary




Karen





Linda