Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 08:12PM 
I wish I could show you more, I truly do! I promised to stick to a release date... but this little banner starts appearing on websites this week, sooooo, I can put it here, too, right? I can tell you that I love my new home at Windham, and that there are a few jerseys in the line, and that it's really wonderful to be back at work in the world of quilting cottons.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 08:22AM 
I always try to spend a week or so in California in the wintertime. I have a lot of family there, my father, two brothers, a sister, two gorgeous and brilliant and funny nieces who are becoming adults at what seems an accelerated pace, and a nephew who, as far as I can see, will be breaking tiny little girl hearts before I have the chance to finish the baby sweater I started when I was pregnant.
So this year I booked a workshop at Asilomar, somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, in beautiful Pacific Grove. My plan was to bring Bee, so that my sister and her kids could sufficiently smother her with love and cookies, but then I flew to Chicago with her for Christmas and realized that flying with an eighteen month old is a little like flying with a semi-trained poop-hurling screech monkey (except that everybody on your flight would be really supportive if you drugged the monkey) so now I’m leaving her at home with her father and her grandparents.
What was I thinking? I mean, both times? I don’t want to get on a plane with her, but I don’t want to get on a plane without her, either. (As I was typing this from my chair at Benny’s Burritos in Greenwich Village a young, pretty mom walked past the window with her baby in a snuggly Bjorn and I teared up. I really did, just now.)
I am, I admit, really looking forward to this weekends workshop at Asilomar. We will be working in a beautiful space and the guest list holds an especially incredible group of women, and really the break will be nice.... right? right??? Please help me.
I am making the most of my trip. I’ll be swinging by my old stomping grounds, Hart’s Fabric, on Monday night at 5 pm for a book signing/doodling( Heather Ross Prints, specifically, but I’m also happy to sign other books, too. I’ve gotten pretty good at forging Denyse’s signature....) and some meeting-and-greeting. Come, if you can, and bring me a giggly, chubby baby to cling to, please. I’ll also be showing a few little (super top secret) sneak peeks of some upcoming releases......
See you there?
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 11:22AM 
I've been amassing a disturbing amount of champagne corks lately. Its partly because I either had to give up beer or buy all new clothing (even my shoes didn't fit after the holidays finally wound down) and partly because we have had a few celebratory parties this year (book party, TC's 40th birthday, New Years Eve) and seemed suddenly to have little piles of the things hanging around. They had such a mushroom shape that I enlisted Annabel and Ruby and Antonia to help me turn them into mushrooms with the help of that marvelous craft paint from Martha (apparently you can paint on ceramic plates with them, which is on my list of must do's), and was planning to turn them into a little garland, until I realized that with some cute little flags (made from thin nails, washi tape, and a fine tip marker) they made perfect little placecards. The nails even slide in and out easily, so you can make new name flags for new guests, and store them all in a fat little jar, perhaps on top of your pink fridge (which, fyi, does not work very well, but makes my kitchen feel happy, so it's not going anywhere.). They work especially well with these plates from Anthro, which were my xmas gift from TC.
And did you know that the amanita muscaria mushroom has a yellow colored cousin? I must remember to give them proper air time with my next batch...
Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 09:03AM 
We have had a cancelation in our upcoming workshop in Pacific Grove, email us if you are interested! Its not too late to come up with a fun way to gift this if you've still got somebody crafty on your list... We'll help come up with something fun!
OK, back to my Christmas New Year's cards......
Monday, November 26, 2012 at 11:32AM 
This year's calendar, much like this past year itself, is all about the working mother. I've been struggling, adjusting, lamenting, obsessing, and just plain trying to be a mom and a working artist, and it hasn't been easy. I do feel, though, that as we near the end of 2012, I've got a much better handle on things than I did this time last year. I've got my new assistant Megan, who is taking the wheel on all things shipping (pphhheeeew) plus an amazing nanny, Diane, who makes it possible for me to do my job without worrying about Bee being adored sufficiently, a husband who has become a bathtime/bedtime pro so that I can take a few afternoons off to be a mom and then sit back down at my computer on several weekday evenings, and I've got my family and friends to make me feel a little better on the days that everything ends up covered in pee despite my very best efforts. Plus I've got Lobo, who still loves me even though his spot on the sofa has been usurped. Oh, and I've got the worlds most fabulous agent, by the way, but that's deserving of a whole other blog post. Thanks to all of these people, I'm really excited about 2013.
So here it is, my 2013 calendar. Its available in our online shop, either on paper (signed, with dedication requests welcome) or on a linen/cotton panel, as part a wall-hanging kit. You can make it for someone yourself, or you can gift the kit, which includes a dowel, ribbon, and instructions on stitching it up. Both versions come rolled up in a tube, ready for wrapping.
working mother, 2013, detail
