It's February Already and January Recap

OK, I know, it's already the middle of February and I haven't checked in with how I did on my January goals.  Well I think I did fairly well with the goals I set for January, so lets recap:

Goal #1.  Get the Dragon quilts basted and quilted. - Well, I got them both basted and both quilts got some basic quilting on them so that they were quilted "enough" to put the binding on them.  They were ready "enough" to hang in the "Old Broads" booth for Road to California.  I'm working on getting more quilting done on both of them in between the upcoming show this winter/spring.  I want to do a lot of detail work on them so it might take a while.  I've currently have the Blue Dragon quilt under the needle and it's coming along fairly well. Here's a shot of the Blue Dragon quilt in my booth at Road.

Goal #2.  Baste and quilt the Road to California 25th anniversary souvenir fabric quilt. -  I finished the Road quilt and it was ready to hang in the Road booth at the show.  I didn't get a chance to see it hanging in the Road booth but, I know that Matt was very happy with it when I gave it to him before the show.  I do have to say it was a bit of a challenge to come up with a way to use this fabric, but since I'm always trying to make things useful, I decided to do it in the One Block Wonder with panels style.  This is a new workshop that I am teaching and this will be a sample for the classes showing that instead of a panel you can use a section of the fabric as your center focus.

Road to California Celebrates 25 Years of Quilts

Goal #3. Cut and bag or label all the new fabrics that had come in since November for the "Old Broads" booth. - Did it.  So many fun fabrics.  I do have to say that cutting, folding and bagging/labeling the fabrics is kind of a Zen thing for me.  I really enjoy the process.

Goal #4.  Do inventory for the "Old Broads". - Well, I'm still working on it.  I have part of it done, but it's an ongoing process, what can I say...

Being a vendor and teacher at Road to California this year was a lot of many things, work, fun, work, teaching and of course more work, but I enjoy it.  I love seeing friends that I don't see often.  I love the response of my customers to all the fun things I sell in my booth.  I taught 3 classes this year and they all went very well.  My two ornament classes were a blast, with everyone walking away with the start of beautiful ornaments.  Thanks to everyone who took classes from me this year.  I also want to give a bit Thank You to my friend Lori, who came out from Maine, to help me in my booth.  She was very happy to be out here since they were having 0 degree temps at home.  She was able to take some classes while she was here.  

During Road I was able to have a little fun myself.  Bonnie McCaffery was at Road doing photo shoots for teachers and vendors.  I treated myself to a photo session to get a new head shot, something I really needed, since one of the pictures I use is really old and another was one that I had a friend take while we were out.  Bonnie did a great job getting some fun poses that I asked for and now I'm excited to see what comes from it all.

That's about all for now.  I'll be back soon with my with a couple of February goals.  It won't be many since February is already half over and I have 2 shows in Arizona back to back.  

Always Stitchin',

Cindy  

    

2020 - A New Year, A New Decade

And with that being said, this year I am going to be setting up monthly goals for myself and posting about them here on my blog to make me accountable for getting them done.  That will help, hopefully, for one of my goals, which is to post more often.  There are always things that need to be done, so I should have lots of  goals that get done over this next year.

During Christmas this year we had rain and snow in the local mountains, it was a cold rain so the snow was way down on the mountains close to my house, which is unusual, so the day after Christmas I went out and got some great pictures of the view of the mountains from my front yard.

They looked so pretty, but I'm glad I'm down here and not up there.  I don't do cold very well. 

Goals for January

#1.  Baste and quilt the 2 dragon quilts that I need for samples in the "Old Broads" booth for the upcoming show, the first of which is Road to California in about 3 weeks.  

This is the blue version of the quilt and there is also a red version, both of which I want to display, since I will have kits for both versions for sale in the booth.

#2.  Baste and quilt the Road to California Quilt, made from the new 25th anniversary souvenir fabric, which will be on display in the Road booth at the show.  

#3.  And this is probably the most important of all is to get all the fabric that has been coming in over the past couple of month, cut, bagged and tagged for the upcoming shows.

#4.  Do inventory for the booth.  

Well I think this will keep me busy enough, plus as I mentioned, Road to California starts in a few weeks and I will be a vendor and be teaching 3 classes this year.  I will be teaching Christmas Celebration, a tree skirt/table topper and 2 classes of my Fun Fabulous Fabric Ornaments.  Check out Road2ca.com  for more information on the show and all it's classes and events going on.

Now it's time for me to get to work.

Happy New Year Everyone!!

Cindy