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Just got home from quilt market in Salt Lake after a 13 hour drive with my good friend Jenny http://sewkindofwonderful.blogspot.com/  first time ever.....we had a crazy good time.....

Jenny and I drove straight thru from Seattle to  Salt Lake on Wednesday

looking thru  the windows as they set up market

Jenny and I with Sandy Klop of American Jane

Out for dinner at Cafe Rio with Jenny and her Mom Sherril and sister Helen  http://robinstarquilting.blogspot.com/ ...we were so lucky to stay at Sherril's beautiful home in Salt Lake

One of our favorites....think she will be famous one day....Zen Chic

star struck with Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree Quilts

OMG Anna Marie Horner with Jenny's Innocent Crush quilt

the amazing Amy Butler with Jenny , Helen and I

we met up here for the quilt market bloggers meet up....totally overwheming and fun

6 am sunrise this morning as we left Salt lake for Seattle....

 The whole experience was amazing....we took a whole lot of creative wonderful in.....thank you to every one we met  and Jenny's family for their wonderful hospitality!!!!!
Check out all the bloggers that met up on Saturday at the Blue Lemon and be sure to join in on Amy's Blogger Festival that is going on till Thursday...hmmmmhmm....still thinking about what I would like to enter on that..... http://quiltmarketmeetup.blogspot.com/   http://amyscreativeside.com/   Thanks to all the girls that organized this meet up....it was pretty cool to see all this creativeness in one room at the same time....I am still trying to digest all the connections that I made!!! Happy Sunday to all.....Pam

Happy Mother's Day !

treated myself to my first ever shelac french manicure....supposed to last much longer...my longarming will definitely put it to the test.....

dutchbabies made special by Lily ~Yummy

making progress on Savannah's quilt

heading out for a walk and some stair action

most favorite shot of my kids circa 1997

Best day of the year.....looking forward to a bit of fabric shopping at Pacific Fabric using a 25% coupon and a dinner with all my babies......Hope you are all having the best day ever too!!!

Lickity Split

I made good progress today....2 quilts pieced and ready to load on the weekend....I am prewashing the flannel right now....

I just love taking a photo of a finished quilt all messed up.....

criss  cross apple sauce......I just made that up right now but I think it might be the perfect name for Elizabeth's quilt

this is one of my favorite blocks

gotta love all this pink....

can u see Miss Lily peeking out from the top??

Looking forward to some machine quilting this weekend.....Happy Friday to all!!!   ~Pam ~

a bit of this and a bit of that and 6 more sleeps...

I am getting very excited....Jenny  http://sewkindofwonderful.blogspot.com/   and I are going to quilt market....in less than a week....we will be driving her brand new Jetta to Salt Lake City next Thursday leaving super early and going straight thru....we have never been to market before so this is kind of a  BIG DEAL!!   http://quiltmarketmeetup.blogspot.com/  We have also signed up to go to this quilt market meet up for bloggers....
Also my machine quilting work schedule has been very light....almost scary ....but for now I just want to enjoy the extra time it has given me to finish the grad quilts and the scrapbooks I want to complete before Lily's graduation party on June 18th.....

tried this layout first

but this is my favorite  .... hoping to get these pretty pink babies sewn together today

just have a bit more to do on this one as well....

Hope to be back likity split with a post all about these babies being done!!! Happy Friday to all!  ~Pam~

Wednesday Finish

I finished putting the binding and the hanging sleeve on the color wheel....this is one happy quilt!!!

LOVE IT

perfect spot on the wall in my sewing room...it will bring sunshine everyday

 looking good

this baby loves to have her picture taken

I will definitely make another

I sat in the comfy chair this afternoon and finished the binding by hand while watching Burlesque with Cher and Christina...the song and dance was wonderful.....

 Happy Wednesday everyone.  ~Pam ~

pretty much perfect

this is the absolute magic sauce ....it really does make a difference

I could tell every thing was going to be ok as soon as I loaded it...the extra fabric eased in even before I used the starch....then the starch did it's magic and all was well...

I decided to use a new panto called Jacobs Ladder by Dave Hudson

no regrets...I LOVE IT .....I will get the binding on in the morning.

and a pretty much perfect end to the day as well...the postman delivered my purple and grey solids of the month from PINK CHALK....

oops I have a puffy quilt

It is done and it is beautiful EXCEPT it is really puffy in the middle....I hope to steam this baby into submission with   Mary Ellen's Best Press , the amount of fabric you can ease in with this clear starch alternative is nothing short of magic and as you can see I really do need a miracle on this color wheel quilt! My sisters have been piecing this quilt at the same time in Alberta...they have a similar problemo but not quite as bad as mine.....

pattern from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson...measures 56 " square....I am feeling the challenge right now.....I just might put all else aside and dive into this problem of mine....wish me lots of luck!! ~Pam ~