"May all "Happine" PUT ON YOUR TIARA AND CREATE!"
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Contact Information for Mary Lou Weidman- email-Lattegirl@aol.com for personal letters -
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Hooray I am seeing light at the end of a long winter. It snowed here last week so we aren't out of the woods yet. :0) I ordered tiaras for my retreat and am packing a huge box of fabric that I am lugging over there to let people help themselves to. I have been purging and thought it would be fun to share with my quilting friends as we do story quilts in Idaho. Information is below. I have been shopping for little things and I made new handouts for things that are fun for borders and insides of quilts using freeform quilting techniques. My aim is to get those artists that are hiding inside OUT to play, have fun and tell about YOU. So many new and fun things are on the horizon and mixed with new things the sky is the limit. Such FUN and of coarse new friendships are developed. Over half of our people who come are always repeats and we do get alot of beginning quilters who are brave and they are so fun and can do so much because they are not fighting the rules they learned like the rest of us.
I LOVE all styles of quilts and have collected beautiful old traditional quilts ever since both of my Grandmother's gave me my own quilts that they made. Now I am sewing with my Grandkids and I am passing along the delightful journey a person can take when quilting and inventing.
We are blessed to be a blessing and it is nice to give some of what you have to others, beginning with a nice smile.
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Come and join us for the fourth annual "Mary Lou Story Quilt Retreat-June 2nd- through the 8th-
We will be sewing at the Jacklin Art Center (JACC) in Post Falls Idaho-well lit, spacious and with a professional kitchen right next to where we sew . I hire a chef every year and this year it is Miss Tina from the LA area who will fly in. Her food is wonderful and she is really fun and knows her quilting (she is the manager of her local quilt shop and makes great quilts-she does it all and entertains too. We usually go to a Fabulous local quilt shop that opens up for us one evening for a nice field trip. Breakfast things will be on hand at the classroom and all lunches, dinners and a snacktable with candy, chips and Mary Lou's famous gorp (fresh foods too) will be available. an ... and usually ice creamp.p..
The cost is $600. and most guests choose to stay at Templins Red Lion on the River in Post Falls. It is one mile from the Art Center.
The day before the story quilt workshop begins FARM CHICKS antique sale in Spokane is going on. It brings in thousands of people who come to shop and get ideas for their homes. Many Etsy people are there as well as antique and collectible people from all over the US and Canada. You will find things there you will never find other places. Very fun people watching too. Some people dress like cowgirls, some in vintage dresses and some with those old fox furs and pumps from years gone by. It is great to take a camera. Every is having fun and friendly. You can "google" farm chicks" to see more.
As usual I will have new handouts and I will be showing what stories I am working on, what new piecing I am doing or what new thing I have figured out. I am doing wool things and some flowers that are dimensional that you won't want to miss to include in your story figures.
We are surrounded by fun places to visit and so far we have FUN and creative people signed up! Come and join us please, you will love it!
Contact me at Lattegirl@aol.com to secure your spot!
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Check out this wonderful interview with myself and Mel McFarland -you may learn something about letting go! If you need to try something new and want an easy way to get outside your every day quilting, our new book is for YOU. And you may learn something new by reading the interview. They did a nice job on this.
http://www.martingale-pub.com/news/?p=493
The NEW BOOK is here and the response is WONDERFUL !
Out of the Box -Easy Piecing Blocks. I did this book with my friend Mel McFarland who is easy to work with and a good and fun friend. We work well together. This book is $25. and is all about easy piecing cats, cupcakes, coffee pot and cups, princess's, high heels, popcicles, handbags and much more. Done the easy piecing hoochy way, it is quick and has lots of fun along the way.
If you would like to order the book, simply go to "go shopping" above and I will send it right out to you.
OFFER
For this month I will be giving each person who order either of the OUT of the BOX books a chicken pattern, a fat quarter and a Mary Lou pin....
E: I sent out a batch of books anNOTNOTE *************************************************************************
Christmas, Children, is not a date. It is a State of MinChrist
I have two blogs now- please visit both for wonderful story quilt photos, old black and white photos, recipes, ideas and sayings....great fun! Please comment!
Http://Marylouweidman.blogspot.com ANDMarylouweidman.blogspot.com
http://marylouweidman-marylou.blogspot.com/
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Come and check out the nicest chatroom ever....lovely girls who share info on quilting, crafting, links, places to get good deals, pattern ideas, recipes and advice on lots of things....LOVELY and lasting friends.
chatroom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marylouweidman/messages?o=1
OR OR OR Yahoogroups.com (Marylouweidman)
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My newsletter is also available to those who want to get it from my Yahoogroups.com page-just type in my name or go to my blog and scroll down the right column to sign up instantly. If you cannot get signed up on my newsletter list, write to me at Marylouquilts@aol.com and I will send you an invitation. I send out fun tips, what I am doing and great recipes.http://marylouweidman-marylou.blogspot.com At least some of them are and they are fun!
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"If you always do what you have always done, you always get what you've always got."
Think about this if you are still doing the same old things over and over- this might be the year you change and expand and invent and challenge yourself!
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I want to thank Becki from Quiltropolis for helping me to learn my way around websites.
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it's original dimensions. " Oliver Wendall Holmes
Thank you for coming here and for supporting me, I love my quilting friends.
Please check out my blogs for many photos and other nice things friend.