Showing posts with label bloggers quilt festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bloggers quilt festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Amy Ellis is here! Amy Ellis is here!

Amy Ellis is here!

thank you, Amy, for being a part of the Book Blog Tour

yes, Amy Ellis is here.

 Amy seems to be a constant in my quilting life
she wrote the very first book I ever reviewed for Martingale/That Patchwork Place
long before we ever met
she participated in some of the compilation books of which I was lucky enough to contribute
and then one day she was the big sister I was calling on
for quilting advice
regardless of how much Amy has going on at any given time in her OWN life
she always seems to be able to graciously still have time for friends

 Amy Ellis is here!

 and

Amy Ellis is here!

 and....

okay, you get my point

but, before I go, I have to tell you a story about the last place I saw Amy
it was at
QuiltCon
I was in the beyond the reef booth, helping someone with a fabric bundle explanation, 
and ringing up another someone, and writing up an order for even yet another someone else

and all of a sudden

I felt a presence
a presence.

and there was Amy Ellis.
peacefully, quietly, standing shoulder to shoulder with me.
she was just

t h e r e.


and that, my friends, is Amy Ellis.

'nuff said.
head on over to Amy's site - there is a whole lot going on!!

be.do.create
natalie.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Bloggers Quilt Festival


I am pleased to be participating in the
BLOGGERS QUILT FESTIVAL



and the quilt I have chosen to tell you about
was designed for
Robert Kaufman

Well, actually, they asked for one quilt, and we ended up with three quilts
and a pattern book
"Moondoggie & Gidget"


There was "Moondoggie's Quilt", "Gidget's Quilt" and
"A Day at the Beach"
I agreed to do the project, my good dog of 7 years became ill,
and took his last breaths
all within the same week.

But I had a fabric line in front of me
and a project to complete.

So I did what any quilter in the history of quilting would do.
I made quilts to honor Moondoggie.


And while the fabrics are all but gone, and the quilts have been passed on
to others that loved Moondoggie too,

the legacy of making quilts
out of love
and out of sorrow
still remain.


Thank you for letting me share these quilts one last time.

BeginAgain
2010

natalie.