Nashville Needlework Market 2010

I am packing and getting ready to fly out tomorrow for the event at the Queen City Stitchers in Cincinnati, OH. Pam from Olde Colonial Designs and I are going to enjoy meeting you all in Cinci as I heard it is called. Look forward to working on a lovely project! Can't wait to show you. From there I will go to Toronto on Sunday eve for a few days and then on to Nashville to do the market. All our things are shipped, and the floor is slowly emptying of 'to do' piles as I wade through all the things that were needing to be done before going. I hope you check back next week when we load the new patterns for you on the website.

I'm off to finish packing....

January update

I can breathe a sigh of relief, all patterns are at the printers! yay! It always feels like a big load is done! Well and I suppose it is. We have 9 new items for the Nashville Needlework Market. I had worried in the fall that because of my 2 surgeries last year I wouldn't have anything....! well. This is good. So do check back because now I have to load everything and sort it out, the photo covers are done too so we should have pictures soon. I have a link here for you to see My Stitching Album by Ann McDonald on black. How cool is that! Remember send me a link of yours and I will try my best to post it if you like.

Check out The Caron Collection website for a designer profile on myself and an online project to enjoy. How lucky we are to have wonderful hand-dyed silk threads for our use.

A New Year!

Wishing you all the best of the year ahead. And what a year it will be.... I am already struggling with my commitments and ask myself now how will I get this all done. I like having things organized my desk clear and the work table clear, I have not seen the bottom of either for weeks! Now even the floor is getting used. This pile goes with this.... this one with that... oh where is my other pile?.... oh way over there? now why did I do that? Yikes, I wish I could say that things go smoothly but really it ends up that it is broken up in bits and starts. Whether it is bookeeping or orders, or having to order or printing or taking pictures, it is often on the fly and did we actually hear the word design in there? I think that I shouldn't even admit it.... that the designing gets done at the oddest hours. Is that because one does it when you have the idea? I think there is never a right moment, some of it is just the pressure to do it, some of it is you have been percolating in the background about something and some of it is inspirational moments!

I have to talk to my webgal about trying to get some pictures up of what you all have been doing with your My Stitching Albums. If you have pictures and would like to share... I am hoping that we can create somewhere for you to share them. I know that some of you have been very creative and I would love to see! Let me talk to her and I will let you know.

One always has to talk about the weather and I can joyfully say we are in plus temperatures, under a chinook arch, what a treat in the long winter. It breaks it up for sure.

The picture was taken at Virginia Beach, it was very windy that day, but how cute those beach balls; just calling for picture taking.

Nashville's a coming and we will have lots of new small and bigger projects for you to work on!