Hanging a 6 Woman Fiber Art Show

Frank kept telling me I was getting worse, not better.  So he called and got me an appt at our doctor.   I drug my illness wracked body to the car.  I was coughing my fool head off, and struggling to breathe.  Frank looked normal.

When Doc Lee came in and examined me, he looked at Frank and asked if he was having symptoms as well.  Frank says, Why, Yes.

The doctor listened to his lungs, decided on shots and pills for us.  I was coughing and trying to breathe the whole time.  He left only to return a few mutes later, and once again listened to Frank's chest.

He even said, I am really concerned about you, Frank, and asked the PA to take his temperature once again.  No temp, once again.

He leaves....again.   And returns again......Yep, to listen to Frank's chest.



Hey, I am the one that is so sick here!  Frank will do anything to upstage me.  Right?

We both got shots, but I got a steroid shot and antibiotic pills, and Frank got antibiotic shot and steroid pills.  Go figure.

I guess this worked because we were much better this morning when we were at Denham Springs to hang what I have been calling the 8x8 Show because we each had an 8x8 panel space.

Afterwards we all went to eat at Randazzo's where I knocked over my extra large Dr. Pepper-no-ice  dousing Tracy's salad, her lap and all over Judy.













Here is Frank putting up my Big Oil.  You can catch a glimpse of my Crow Morning Barn, the Matisse Lady Michaela, 3613 (my house)  the Sun, and the Spring Forest Modern Robin tree.

Here is Bebe telling us the best place to put each piece.

Tracy and Judy putting up Barbara's artwork.
















Here is Tracy's mosaic artwork

Bebe's embroidery and mixed media

Judy's mixed media

Mine

Mary's fiber art pieces.  

Barn Blog Hop AND A Giveaway

I am part of the Blog Hop for Julie Sefton's book Build A Barn.  And today is my day!  Actually, this is my WEEK!

If you build a real barn you do need a pattern of sorts, but you on these you just need an idea. Or a photo.  A photo helps a lot.

When I first came upon Julie she was working on her own barn quilt.  Before the book, before the idea, before the quilt show ribbons, it was just Julie working on her barns.  I was enthralled with the barns she was making and I began following her.  Every once in a while, I would ask if she was going to write  a book or do patterns.  She would always say, no.


I am so glad she finally changed her mind!

When she started writing the process work for the book, she asked several of her quilt friends (by then I had bugged her enough to be noticed!) to come together as the Secret Society of Barn Builders, affectionately called SSOBB.   And we had to keep it all a secret.  Ohhhhh.  Hard.

She would write and send us the notes  We made barns and proofed the notes.

Eventually, we all had barns.  And for some odd reason, I had two.  I thought we were supposed to do a barn for each of the process sessions she was sending.  Obviously I was mistaken because I was the ONLY one who ended up with TWO barns!

Duh!

Julie walks you through step by step, which I am woefully inadequate at doing on my own.  But it did make it easier to build my barns in the long run.

It also helps to have a picture or sketch.  Most of the SSOBBs had great photos of barns.  We don't have many great barns here in the south, especially in the city.  So I just worked from my mind and what I thought a barn should be.

My barn grew starting from doors, to roofs, to fields of green.





Here I was testing the roof line.



Barns definitely need those windmills and a pond to water the cows who live inside.

This is the final product.  Julie's amazing quilter Chris quilted the 13 little barns for us.

Our barns are now traveling to AQS quilt shows across the US right now. 


Did I mention there was a giveaway?

If you leave a comment talking about a barn you have a picture of, either in your mind or your photos, I will give you one entry to the winner's circle and one of Julie's autographed books.

  I will announce the winner on on Friday.

AND.........

If you stop in again this week and see the second barn I made, I will give you a SECOND entry!

And I have one more post for the Blog Hop this week where i will talk about other ways you can use the book.  Like my Cajun Camps.  You can get ANOTHER chance!

It is improvisation, you know!

Oh, and I expect all my friends to enter, I am watching you!!!!!

Barn Building Book Giveaway

I have a post coming out on the 23rd of May that will be my portion of the Build A Barn Blog Hop. 

And a chance to win a free book!  Can't beat that with a stick. I suggest you try out some of the blogs just to see what my cohorts in Barn Building are doing.  Some of them have their own published books, so you see I am rubbing elbows with some pretty important people in the quilt world!

If you want to get in early and get a chance to win Julie Sefton's fabulous book, check out this:

 

Head over to visit Nancy Near Philadelphia

for another chance to win the book

and to see another barn from the Secret Society of Barn Builders.

 

On the 16th you can go to Joe Tulips Quilts and get in on the next blog hop giveaway.

Don't you just love that name, that is actually Julie Post.  And her DH rides a tractor!  Bet he looks sexy on that tractor, riding around in his field, with the cows and horses and sheep looking on admiringly. 

 

Here's a list of the blog hop giveaways:

Monday April 25 – Lynne Tyler

Monday May 2 – Brenda Suderman

Monday May 9 – Nancy Stevens

Monday May 16 – Julie Post

Monday May 23 – Glen Parks

Monday May 30 – Belinda Noel

Monday June 6 – Cherie Moore

Monday June 13 – Valerie Levy

Monday June 20 – Cathy Labath  

and 

Lynn Carson Harris 

 

Monday June 27 – Kathy French

Monday July 4 – Heidi Burkhardt

Monday July 11 – Hilda Bakke

Monday July 18 – Chris Ballard

Monday July 25 – Debbie Voigt 

Monday August 1 - Julie Sefton