Katiepm

First of May

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It is the first of May and I have the most beautiful irises blooming out my studio window.
This is the month that I finally move out to California. I have been packing up the house for what feels like forever. This Thursday we pack up the studio!! that should be interesting.
My husband has been out there for a month now and I can’t wait to be with him again. My sister is flying to Albuquerque on the 18th to help me with the long three day drive with my two big dogs, Ziggy and Buddy. Before that I am going to teach for a week in Mahone Bay Nova Scotia Canada. I am so looking forward to that trip. I am teaching composition and From Watercolors to Quilt. Then home for two days of packing up the last of my stuff. What a month this is!! Then to get my new studio set up and start making quilts again.
May you have a wonderful creative May
katiepm

Alegre Retreat Palisades Tryptic - Katiepm

April is a Beautiful Month

2016, Newsletter

April is a beautiful month and it is my birthday month. I am celebrating my birthday this year with packing! I am packing up my house to move to my new house in California. I will be moving the 18th of May. That will start the three day drive from Santa Fe, NM to Fortuna, CA. My sister is flying out to help me with the drive and with the two big dogs in the back!! should be an interesting trip! Pray for us!! Before that I will be running my Alegre Retreat conference in Gateway Colorado, www.alegreretreat.com. and teaching in Mahone Bay, Canada and for PAQA in South Carolina. so very busy but enjoying it.

I am looking forward to setting up my new studio in my new home. I am working on a few more Artful Log Cabins for my new book that I am writing for C&T publishing, all my strips are cut and ready to go because my fabric drawers are being packed up so I need to be a totally mobile unit!! kind of like camping in your own house.

Also this month my Quilt Dots are now available. Just visit Zappy Dots – Quilt Dots at zappydots.com. You can read more about it and even enter to win a set by visiting their blog for details.

 

I am ready for the change.
I hope you have a great spring and that your creative juices are flowing.
love and hugs
katiepm

Katiepm

When It Rains It Pours

2016, Newsletter

I have just returned home from filming two more videos for iquilt. It was a fun shoot. I love my crew, Joe the camera man who can set up a beautiful shot of anything, Alissa my director who knows everything!! and is so fantastic about keeping me focused. Brian the mixing and sound man who fixed everything that went wrong. These videos will be out later in the year. One is on making a watercolor painting into a quilt and the other is painting on canvas with acrylic paint then cutting them up to make a new composition then quilting it and framing it. What fun.


Now I am working on my new book for C&T publishing that will be out in a year. That is the Artful Log Cabin. and I have so many wonderful student work that it is going to be a very visually appealing book.
I will be moving to California in May, too many commitments to do it anytime sooner. When it rains it pours on so many levels.
Spring it coming and I am looking forward to it.
love and hugs
katiepm