QNNtv.com Filming at our Studio

Quilt It!  The Long Arm Quilting Show.

We moved all of the sewing machines out of our studio and filmed about 18 upcoming episodes, plus my boss, Vicki does a short take, or a 5 minute spot for each guest.  The guests are professional quilters who  did teaching and demonstrations about quilting with Jodie Davis as the  host.

It was pretty cool to see the TV monitors and the lights and camera guys.

This is Lisa Calle, she showed some great ways to quilt your quilt to death... Beautifully.  Here's another quilt she did.

This is Vicki, my boss.  She is great to work with.  It's been incredible.  Every day is something new.  She is a natural.  She really knows her stuff. And all of her takes were done pretty much with no stops... AND she showed a couple of my quilts in her bit on thread choices... it's all so crazy new to me.  I'm blown away by all of it.

Check out the detail she has quilted in ....

Trucking through Life... New Job and a Road Trip!

These are the Educators in the Salt Lake Handi Quilter Studio...

 UNTIL JULY 18th.  And then I joined them.  It is my dream job! Quilt EVERYTHING! These are the people who trained me.  I rented in the studio for 2 years.  I made 25 quilts going up to quilt once or twice a week and then they moved to a new studio and quit renting time on machines and I had to BUY my own machine.

So I had only been on the job about a week when they asked if I could go on the road.

MILWAUKEE Quilt SHOW...

I wasn't so sure about the whole thing.  It meant I had to make all my flight connections by myself.  No one else went from Salt Lake at the same time I went.  But I got it figured out....

THIS IS HOUSTON.

Houston is where they have the big International Quilt show every year.  When I got my laptop computer I put a picture of Houston on the wall paper.  My goal... get to Houston on quilt business.  Pretty cool everything worked out the way it did.

Most of the time in Milwaukee I was in a classroom with 12 of our sewing machines set up.  I made sure everyone had a good running machine, thread, bobbins, good tension, etc. AND  since I was in the classroom I got all the good quilting ideas and techniques the teachers were doing.  A couple of the teachers gave me their books.  I learned a lot, good stuff.  I also spent some time in the Vendor booth selling and demonstrating and answering questions... but mostly just had a great time talking to people who love to quilt as much as I do.  I think this job might turn into a job at some point, so far it is just a whole lot of fun.

It could be worse.  I may end up with my mug on the back of a moving truck, so I have to tell myself ...It could be worse.  Although, I'm pretty much loving everything about this JOB!