Look what wandered into my email!!!

OK, I am minding my own business, working on my taxes -- Blaaaa!  I am the world's worst bookkeeper, but that is a story for another post -- and my email "bings" to tell me I have an email.  I open it up since it is from Keepsake Quilting cuz I love love love their catalog!  And here is what I see:

Now this is remarkable because of the quilt pictured in the ad!  Yup, you guessed, that is my April Sweet Pea Table runner.  You can see the ad online here. 

Keepsake Quilting is selling the pattern along with a pack of 30's repro charms as a "Pattern Plus."  You can get the pattern (without the charm pack) from my website.

 

Psssst:  Here is a secret just for my blog readers.  Type in "Spring Sale" when you check out from my web site and get 15% off your pattern purchase.  Sale is good through tax day, April 15!

I wish they would tell me they were going to do that so I don't get so stunned when this sort of thing happens.  It was like being on the cover of Quilter's World this month.  I didn't know till I got magazine and saw it. . . .Blam!!!!  The April issue of Quilter's World is on news stands now!

So now that I have burned off that adrenaline it is back to taxes.  Oh my.  I am learning how to use Quickbooks Pro so that NEXT year at tax time, I am not going through stacks and piles and bags and boxes of paper, reciepts, bills, invoices, and used luncheon napkins to figure up my sales and expenses.  I am THIS close to bagging up the whole mess and sending it to my friend Christi in TX (who does taxes for a living) with a note that says HELP!!!  Christi. . . do you make house calls????  To Kansas??????

Oh well, back to the pile O paper.  I vow to be better organized next year and start on my taxes earlier.  OK, you heard me say it, so now you have to hold me to it!  LOL

OMG I am a Cover Girl!!!

I have to tell you I was stunned today when I opened my email.  The new issue of Quilter's World Magazine was posted on their website today and as soon as I looked at the cover I screamed.  With excitement.  My Romantic Posey Table Mat was on the cover.  I had no idea!!!  I was so delighted I screamed again and immediately printed out a copy of the cover and ran up and down the hall at work screaming "I'm a Cover Girl." 

Let me tell you, a few of my male students stuck their heads out of the door to take a look!!  LOL  I am sure they were disappointed although I am not sure what they were expecting. So I have been bouncing off the walls all afternoon just stunned to see my work on a magazine cover.

Now I have to tell you, that Brenda Weien, from Brenda's Machine Quilting in Ottawa, KS did the quilting on this, and I am convinced it made the cover because of Brenda's quilting which is drop dead gorgeous on this quilt.  They put several good closeup photos of her quilting in the issue so if you get a chance to pick up a copy look closely at her quilting.  Her curved cross hatching will blow you away.

The pattern fills 8 pages in the magazine and all the templates and foundation patterns are on their website to download if you buy an issue or subscribe.

I gotta thank all my buds in Texas: Diane (Quilter's Cabin Retreat), Peggy (Always In Stitches Quilt Shop), Kathi (Hard Candy Quilts), Charm, Mandy, and Deb (Quilters Crossing Quilt Shop) for all their help and support when I made this quilt last summer at Diane's Quilt Retreat in Houston.  They gave me lots of great advice and support (along with Father Christmas) as I worked diligently getting this top put together.

So just excuse me while I happy dance around the room for a few more minutes.  Just talk among yourselves.