This one's for Dana!

Hi soooo yeah it's been awhile again... Shame on me I know!  I have been up to a lot!  I feel like the beginning of this year has been absolutely CRAZY and going WAY to fast.  Do you feel that way...
I have a lot to report in this blog!  I have been working rather hard the past few weekends to make them special for a few great events that I had scheduled... so i figured I would sit down with a cup of coffee and narrate it all out!

First on the list...we finished up Olive Grace's first block of the month!  I just had to let you see how beautiful it came out... this is Sally's quilt! She added a lot of beautiful embroidery stitches... just amazing!  This pattern was from one of my favorite designers Anni Downs.  She is from Australia and her pattern company is call Hatched and Patched!  I know you have read about her in prior blogs that I have written!  Can't wait to see her in Salt Lake City next month! Check her site out http://www.hatchedandpatched.com.au/

Second was our Spring Open House here on the farm the last weekend in March!  It was a great success as always.  If you live in the area we also have a holiday open house too it is usually Thanksgiving weekend!  I didn't take any pictures but I stole these from a friend! Mom opens up the house with local crafters and serves tea and cookies and of course the shop is open too.  This would not be possible without our talented creative friends!  Thanks Girls!

Three weekends ago I went up to Westlake, Ohio for an AMAZING quilt show.  I was invited to vend by the North Coast Needles Quilt Guild!  They are a great group of ladies and let me tell you there is a lot of them.  You know you have a really sweet boyfriend when he goes with you to help set up! So Friday after the shop closed Josh and I drove about an hour and half to the west side of Cleveland.  It was so nice to be greeted by a warm group of ladies.  After set up Josh and I stood back from the booth and he commented that I needed a rug!  LOL he has been hanging out with me way to long.   I have to tell you I was so busy on Saturday that I had a brownie and a bag of chip for lunch! Not only can these quilters quilt but boy can the bake... kudos to you girls!  By the end of Saturday my feet were barkin and this tired girl was saved by Mom and Judi.  Sunday was just as busy as Saturday and I have to mention Mary what a true friend and kindred spirit! She brought us an amazing lunch and let me tell ya good thing I had Mary on Sunday because Judi and mom dusted me after lunch... they found a Tuesday Morning store!  Hope you enjoy the pictures it was a lot of fun and I hope to be invited to another one of their lovey shows in the future.

Sooo Two weeks ago was International Quilt Festival!  What a great weekend... 28 ladies and a bus! I can't say enough how great the weekend was.  Grandma got to come with us and I really think that the Bus Trip was a SUCCESS! I do not think I would change a thing except take more pictures! Oh well good memories... The ladies who went with us want to go again and I am contemplating vending next year. That means Dad, the pig trailer and I for setup and Mom on the bus with the Road Tripers!  Have a few months to think about it!  :)

Then there was this past weekend...  Sue Spargo came and well I am just going to let the pictures speak for them selves.  Even though the rain rained on my parade and changed some plans around is was a great day.  As always Sue thanks for making the day so Perfect!  P.S. we had a lady come all the way from Buffalo and yesterday I had the nicest compliment Mary said it was like a day at the spa being at the workshop!!!!!

So this is the part of the blog when I promise to be better at blogging more consistently... so in closing I am going to write a list of upcoming events that I will need to blog about and promise to make the time! Miss Dana here is what to look forward too... ;)

Easter
VA Wedding
Mothers Day
Quilt Market

I think that will do for now...

P.S. I want to thank everyone who makes this little dream I had such a success... You are truly more than just customers I consider you friends!

Umm... Happy New Year!

Well Happy 2011 a month or so late.  The last time I blogged was right after Country Living Fair in Atlanta.  I look back at the fall and wonder where it went. Well what have you been up to?   Here are some pictures of what I have been up to in the meantime!

Olive Grace in a Suitcase!



Wildwood Quilt Show 2010 I have to say this is one of the nicest quilt shows I have ever been to!



Hi Girls... Smile Pretty... Wave at the Camera... North Coast Needlers were so nice to invite me to their November Meeting and can't wait to see them again at their Quilt Show April 2 & 3 at the Westlake High School in Cleveland!

  

Country Christmas in the Gingerbread House.... mom like in years past open the house to show off some of our local artisans!

Merry Christmas says Libby Lou!  I had to share this one from Christmas Morning!

All in all I have to say the closing of 2010 was great!  2011 is starting off well too.  Things to look for from this little shop on a piggie farm...

1. The entire collection of Cosmo Floss (400 and some colors) has arrived and it looks like candy!  Come in and see it...
2. Sue Spargo is coming back in April and the class is aalmost full!
3.  I put together a bus trip to Spring Quilt Festival check out the website for details!
There are other fun things but i guess I should blog more often huh!? So keep and eye out...
Oh and...
4. On-line shopping.... you have been heard loyal shoppers! I can't speak enough of the people I have got to meet by traveling and vending at Country Living Fair(s)!  Hopefully with on-line shopping you can experience Olive Grace from the comfort of home.  I hope to have it running sometime this summer... Watch out!

I hope this blog finds you well and I promise to be more diligent in the next few months!
~kor

To the South and Beyond!

Well hello it has been awhile huh?  I am sure some of you were wondering where I have been… or at least I hope so!

my booth in Atlanta

Well first there was the sister Country Living Fair in Stone Mountain, Atlanta!  Like last month in Columbus Dad loaded me up with shop in the pig trailer and we tackled the 13-hour trek down there.  It was a successful fair with quite a different feel.  I think that all who attended had a great time and as always I met a lot of nice people! I have to say though I think Columbus is my favorite but then again I am partial…. I am an Ohio girl!  I had quite the entourage this time… Mom, Dad, Judi, cousin Tiffany (from Prattville, Alabama) and Uncle John (from Harrisburg, PA) all came down!  I hope you enjoy some of the pictures I took.  My favorite it the little southern baby girl with the giant bow! If you didn’t know the mama’s in the South love them a cute bow for their daughters hair.  The weekend in Georgia went super fast which lead to the long haul home… don’t ya just hate long drives home?   Well we made it back to Fowler, Ohio and within 48-hours mom and I were off again to Fall Quilt Market in Houston, Texas…

Dad

So with a couple quick loads of laundry and another pack of a suitcase mom and I were off to the airport!  The last four days were a whirlwind in the state that everything is bigger.  We started off on Friday at school house for those of you don’t know what that is it is a full day of 30 minute classes in which all the new patterns and fabric companies show their new products off. I love going to them because I feel like it’s important for me to know what the hot new product is to share with you when I get home! Oh and shopping spree…let just say it’s a crazy evening in which there is a lot of grabbing of fabric and patterns that is not out yet! Then Saturday and Sunday mom and I shopped and ordered fabric!  Although the fabric won’t start rolling in till the beginning of the year the good news is I have been finally receiving all the fabrics I ordered at spring market! I am a little disappointed my favorite Australian designers were not there but yesterday I met a new one and very excited to share the new patterns I bought! I ordered some awesome kits from Moda that I am going to do a class on this spring and I can’t wait!  It incorporates two of my favorite things hand appliqué and stitchery!!!!

Edyta Sitar from Laundry Basket Quilts... the funniest quilter I think I have ever...she stood on a table at school house!  The quilts below are from her new book...I am going to have them and plan on doing a fun club along with it!!!!

 

This Lecien Fabrics new Designers!  So excited I am getting some of thier fabrics and most importantly going to be carrying the FULL line of COSMO floss!!!!

Sara Fielke and her new line of fabric and will be getting her new book in Material Obsession 2!!! Oh and I am getting some of the fabric and will be doing this free pattern as a kit!!!!

This is Roslyn Quinlan... I am really excited to have brought some of her new patterns home!

So excited about this quilt!!! I ordered the kits and going to have a class can't wait!!! Below are some of the fabric designers from moda.  Can you figure out who is who?

I’m going to say bye for now because the pilot is telling us we have to put our computers away.  Landing in Pittsburgh in a few…. then back home to  Fowler I am hoping to get some rest before opening the shop in the a.m.! (I didn't get this posted till today you will have to forgive me)

P.S.  If you stop into the shop this week please excuse the lil messy going on I have lots of things to but away still from my trip to Atlanta… I am hoping to get it all done tomorrow!