Greetings!
Posted by lynnette on Monday, April 11th, 2011
Greetings!
Here is some of what’s been happening in our sewing world lately. First and foremost we have market on our horizon. Market is a wholesale show only, held twice a year. The spring show is always in a different city, while fall market is always in Houston, Texas.
We are very excited to visit the beautiful city of Salt Lake this year. Surrounded by mountains, and teaming with incredibly nice, and I mean nice folks, it will be a delight to go in early May. We’ll be in the Clothworks neighborhood again (that means our booth will be located in the thick of things) and we can hardly wait!
Now, since I’ve brought up Clothworks, I do have some sad news. Our fabric line “Little B’s Garden” will not be printed. There are always lots of reasons why that happens (and we are in good company for others that have experienced this). We can blame the economy, competition, colors...but really who knows why? That is the million dollar question BUT what I do know is while sad (we loved Little B’s), we know that it’s always the turtle that wins the race. So Laura and I are rolling up our sleeves, and working hard on some beautiful designs that we know are sure to please! Hey, that rhymes!
Phew, upward and onward. We have new exciting patterns to debut and we’ll be doing that soon. Plus, we are redoing many floor mat samples for market in some fun Toy Poodle fabric from Clothworks. Wow! Shades - another line that you can reorder will be featured. You should see the High Chair Helper Floor Mat Pattern in Shades! You might need sunglasses it’s so cheery and bright.
Now don’t you hate it when you need just a little bit more fabric, and you can’t find it? What’s cool IS it’s re-orderable! This wonderful fabric from our friends in Japan is fun and playful and we are enjoying it immensely. It’s available through Clothworks.
I have some wonderful personal news! My son Chase is visiting from Wyoming. Dave and I haven’t laid eyes on our boy since early November so we are over the moon! He’ll be home for about 2 ½ weeks before going back to Wyoming for his summer job as a river raft guide.
This is an old picture of Chase and he is our sports guy. Here he's wakeboarding. These days in Wyoming he's spending his time skiing and river guiding. It will be a short visit but we'll enjoy every minute!
Other personal news. Laura and I have been business partners for quite a while now. And we both like to tease each other. She loves to tease me because I’m an artist full of disorganized chaos.
I like to tease her because well, she is very particular. Think Oscar and Felix here. I’m guessing you don’t have to work hard to figure out who is who. So I get after her about her diet. She doesn’t like this and she doesn’t like that. She doesn’t like seafood, olives and mushrooms just off the top of my head.
Recently, I got corrected. She sent me a picture of her prawn dinner as proof that she eats seafood. Who is with me and laughing at this point? Look, coconut prawns TECHNICALLY counts as seafood but really? Really? How about salmon, scallops, calamari, oh, you name it, I LOVE IT SEAFOOD and not sugar coated seafood! She won’t go near any of that with a ten foot fork! So, I’m showing this picture to let her prove her point. Smile with me here. Promise me something, the next time you see or talk to her, TEASE HER FOR ME, won’t you? The girl hand picks olive slices out of a burrito for goodness sakes! Oh Laura! By the way, is that beer on the table? Okay I'll save that discussion for another day!
Okay now that I’ve given her a dig, she did do a marathon session making new patterns in the studio (she even brought her machine over) and we worked until almost 5 pm last Saturday (in our pajamas!) squaring away a couple of fabulous patterns. Thank you Laura!
From the garden, a fabulous picture my dear Dave took yesterday:
Easter is on the horizon, we have a demo on the 23rd in Shelton. I hope you stop by on that Saturday if you are in the area!
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