Nancy Brown

I have posted Nancy website which is www.nancybrownquilts.com.

Guest speaker at MVQG Nancy Brown

Last week, we had a guest speaker for our quilt guild was Nancy Brown. She lives in Oakland, CA. Nancy makes pictorial quilts with animals by hand applique and hand quilting. I volunteered to host guest speaker for the quilt guild. She loves animals so stayed with my husband and our 2 pets Maddie(golden retriever) and Sassy(the cat). I picked her up at the airport on Tues afternoon. I knew what she looked like because I saw her on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. We had dinner at our house that night with homemade lasagna, home grown green beans, salad, garlic bread and margarita lime pie. Wed is the guild meeting at 9:30am and 6:00pm. She had several quilts to show and was able to put some up on the quilt display stands. Her lecture was super amazing and very fun. Several quilters told her after her lecture that love it and that she could be a stand up comedian. Everyone loved the lecture and her quilts. I helped her set up and assist with selling patterns and note cards. She enjoyed our meeting with the business of our Quilt show coming up in April and our money situation. She loved the Show and Tell. After the morning meeting, we went back home to see if my husband wanted to go to lunch with us(he decided not to go). We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant at about 1:30 and then to my local quilt shop Grandma's Attic. We had a 2 hour rest time before we left for the evening meeting. We didn't get home until 9:00 and had a piece on pie. We didn't go to bed until 10:45. Thurs, was the Dog and Cat Workshop from 9-3:30. There were about 20 quilters in the class to learn about applique and how to do your pets quilt. I was out of my comfort zone because I don't know anything about applique. I meet a quilter Jean that had never applique so we learned together with the help of Nancy. You only had a 1/2hr for lunch so most of us went to McDonalds next door. I enjoyed the class and learned how to applique. I got the base of the cat done which was my goal. She said you wouldn't get the cat or dog done by the end of class anyway. The class ended at 3:30 with clean up and out by 4:00. Another member was taking her back to the airport so I said my goodbye. It was a wonderful experience to meet her and to hear and see about her beautiful quilts. My husband, Wayne got to see her quilts and was amazed with them. Maddie and Sassy loved having her as our guest. More about Nancy on my next post.

Happy National Quilting Day

I'm going to celebrate National Quilting Day by going to Trends at EE Schencks today. My friend, Paige and I are going to Portland and stay overnight at the Oxford Suites near Jantzen Beach. This is the spring trade show for EES. It should be fun and hope to win door prizes. Quilting has been a great postive in my life. It has been a great stress reliever and lets me be very creative. Happy Quilting Everyone!!!

Aloha

We love MAUI!!!

Maui Vacation

We went to Bubba Grump which is on the waterfront in Lahaina. I love this saying which was in the movie.

Maui Vacation

More pictures of Maui.

Maui Vacation

It is the 1st day of March and the weather is getting better in temperatures with a high 60 today.It is so much better than in the 40's. Thank goodness spring is around the corner. Last month, we went to our favorite state that has islands which is Hawaii. We went back to our favorite island which is MAUI from Febr 11-20. It was wonderful to be back and enjoy the sunny, warm temps(70-80's), beach/sand/snorkeling/whale watching/Hawaiian green sea turtles, our favorite resturants, shopping and visit 3 quilt stores. We stayed at Kaanapali Beach Hotel which is near the Sheraton/Black Rock. We had a partial ocean view from our lani but could see whales with and without binoculars. Our weather was different this time with no rain but with beautiful rainbows over the mountains and ocean. There was a High pressure system that wouldn't move which caused high winds/high surf warnings. We were able to snorkel 4 times but missed 2 days due to high winds. We saw alot of beautiful fish and swim with a green sea turtle twice at Kapalua Bay which is our favorite place to snorkel on the island. I did get to shop at 3 quilts stores which were Sew Special, Maui Quilt Store and Quilts N More. I will post a few pictures of our Maui vacation.