Anchorage is earth
quake country and this state was a rockin’ this week! The temblor at 4:00 am this morning was a 5.4 magnitude that woke us up and the earthquake on Tuesday was 4.9 but located just 15 miles north of Anchorage –making that one feel much stronger. Tuesday I was meeting with my friend Ann C. about my new pattern designs at the Midtown Kaladi Brothers Coffee and we thought a huge semi truck had hit the building when the earthquake struck. The guy next to us lost his fresh, HOT, Americano all over his wrist! We are all fine but my pets have been on high alert –especially Bunny Foo-Foo who just may wear out his thumping leg! My meeting with Ann was to give her a proof set of my new Quilted Wall Art Patterns I have designed t
o be “pattern tested” by a group of talented and experienced quilters she recruited. Ann has been so valuable helping me to transform the designs into a list of materials needed as well as the difficult part of writing and editing the instructions. For me, the design part has been fun and fairly easy but writing the step-by-step instructions was very difficult, especially to boil the process down to be easy to read, concise and accurate. Ann says I’m what you would call an “intuitive quilter.” I know what I like and I figure out how to do something by working backwards –as I told her when she admired my “partial seam” borders on “Raven Says Hello!” I’d never heard of the common term “partial seam" but I knew
what I liked for that pattern and just figured out how to sew the background. Explaining how to do that never occurred to me –though essential in pattern designs! For now the first five patterns I designed are all in the hands of my pattern testers.
Hopefully, if all goes well I’ll get their input and edits, make the revisions and off to the wholesale market they’ll go by the Holiday!
major news event yesterday though as 50+ mile an hour winds whipped through Anchorage, and of course that was the day I needed to fit the 10 foot piece of metal on the counter. Getting the huge hunk of metal from the back of my truck across the sidewalk and into the Gallery turned the metal into a shiny galvanized SAIL! My finger tips bent backwards and holding on for dear life, the lunch crowd inside Cake Studio next door were treated to the sight of woman vs. metal and WONDER MAMA prevailed –though today, all my fingers are killing me but at least my pride is in tact –and so are Katie’s new windows!
