Projects, and Paducah Webcasts

In between webcasts from Paducah, I decided to quilt "House of Wonky"

Very early this morning, I was trying to sign up for the webcast of Pat Sloan's lecture from the American Quilter's Society Show in Paducah, Kentucky...but I encountered a glitch. The ticket number wasn't working, so I called customer service at Clear Sky Webcasting and spoke with an agent named Jim.

After two unsuccessful attempts to resolve the issue, Jim decided to grant me full access to all the presentations in Paducah, just for my trouble. Wow!! How lucky am I?? It probably didn't hurt to tell him I just wanted to watch my friend Pat Sloan, who had me on her radio show last year. :) But I never expected him to give me a full-access pass. I was overwhelmed, and very thankful.

My block with peach, for Victoria Findlay Wolfe's color challenge

I've been working on appraisal reports all week, so it was nice to take a little time to watch the lectures. Last year, I was in Paducah, and the one thing I did outside the classes was go to visit Caryl Bryer Fallert in her studio, just a few blocks from the museum. I enjoyed chatting with her. When I told her about my art background and fear of trying to quilt, she immediately wanted to teach me how.

experimenting with different color quilting threads

Caryl, if you're out there reading this, it took me almost a year to muster up the courage, but I'm learning to quilt!! That's what I did in between the webcast lectures. All day I alternated between watching the lectures and playing on the sewing machine. I quilted "House of Wonky", did a peach color challenge block going along with Victoria Findlay Wolfe's weekly color challenge, and experimented with different colored threads on a small wholecloth batik quilt that I'm hoping will eventually be good enough to send to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative.  What a day, right?

It was great seeing Alex Anderson lecture again. I hadn't seen Pat lecture before, and she absolutely blew me away. I sent her a note to let her know how inspired I was, and how I'll be thinking about her as I prepare a lecture for next week. If I can do half as well as Pat did today, it'll be a huge success! Can't wait for tomorrow's lectures. All the webcasts are available at the time of the lecture, and on demand afterwards. So if you missed any of the lectures, you can still see it online. For more information visit the AQS web site.