Since it’s nearly time for July CBQ events I thought I should update y’all on what happened in June. At the June Moonlighters meeting (Citrus Belt Quilters’ evening meeting) I gave a mini trunk show and beading demonstration/class. Mini because most of my stuff is really small, but also because there’s not a lot of them to show yet.

We used my 12x12x12 cuppa pattern and I taught bead embroidery. It was a large group (at least 40 or more) to be demonstrating seed bead techniques for and I don’t have a projector, so I used 1/4 inch pony beads for the demonstration and it worked quite well. The students used #10 seed beads, and some had even finished the project by the daytime meeting a week later.

I also attended a landscape quilt workshop with Rob Appell who makes the ocean life and Michael Miller reflections wall hangings. Since I don’t have a lot of realistic anything in my stash I decided to try something different. Rob was great and very easy-going about that. Everyone was free to take his techniques and go in their own direction. You can see the beginning of my project fused to release paper at left. You’ll have to wait and see what it will become just like I will because I’m free-cutting it instead of making a pattern first.

This is me (at right) going to the workshop. Actually it really is me. It’s a lino cut self- portrait I made while in college, but it still fits me today.

I packed my fabric into a suitcase, most of my brights: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and my black and white prints, no pinks for this one and no browns. This was way better than stuffing the fabric into several tote bags since I had a ready-made place to flip through the fabrics and easily find the ones I wanted. In fact a lot of it is still in the suitcase, ready for its next trip.