Avon Calling

I knew Avon has been a great company, for women for many years, because my Great-Grandmother was an Avon representative. I did not know that women were selling Avon before we could even vote.
Watch this video;
http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/mysteries-at-the-museum/video/avon-calling

Quilt Show at Sauder Village

Finally getting to posting about the quilt show that Joe and I attended  April 28, at  Founder's Hall, in Sauder Village,OH.  It was a great show if you get the chance I would highly recommend attending.  It is held yearly.  They had an appraiser available, demonstrations, workshops, and more.

 As an extra bonus there is a wallet emptying Quilt shop "Threads of Tradition" with over 3500 bolts of fabric including hand dyed fabrics, kits, help, advice and custom hand quilting. 

Also if you have never been Sauder Village is fun and interesting.

Christmas anyone?  I think I liked this one because, I don't think I would ever attempt making it.

Double Wedding Ring has always been my favorite.  This one is interesting because of the star at every intersection.  This one I might try but I remember how long mine took me to finish and it didn't have the star element.

 

This is a more traditional piecing and the piecing that I used with mine.  However the colors are stunning. and I love the dark green centers forming a square in the center of the quilt  with more dark green centers coming form the corners and meeting the square in the center.

Tumbling Blocks is the name I know this by, however this is a non-traditional color choice, it has a scrappy quilt feel to it.  I might try to do this one.  I like scrappy quilts as the hold to tradition of my grandmothers "use what you have" and "waste not, want not" People today should take that advise, as we have wasted much of our planet in my life time.

I liked this one because it reminded me of construction paper hearts I made in grade school. :-)

Lastly I thought this one was just plain cute. 

I have a lot more pictures but I can't post them all.  There was really fantastic talent represented here, painted, 3-d, picture pieced, embroidered, to many styles and techniques to list.

Consider putting this show on your bucket list.  Next years show is;

http://www.saudervillage.org/creativity/quilt_show.asp

 

Pam Arquette
My Etsy Shop

Twins

Hi Everyone,

Joe and I went to a Quilt Show at Sauder Village in April.  I had intended to post pics of the show, however my nephew's wife delivered twins, just a few days after we returned home.  So, the quilt show took second place to the set of sweaters I had been working onfor the twins.  Because they came six weeks early, I was not finished. 

The twins will be staying in the hospital for a while.  They were born April 29, at that time I only had one sweater completed, so I gave Erin (twins' mom) the one sweater with the promise that I would finish the other soon.  Because the babies were to be in June I made a six month size, I did not think they would need sweater in the summer.

This is the bonnet for the sweater (for Ava) that I gave Erin after the babies were born.

Here is the sweater set for Henry, I finished on May 8, however I was not able to get to the store to get the ribbon until this past Saturday.  I am going to send them off to them tomorrow.

This was a fairly easy pattern,  knit 3, purl 3 for four rows and then reverse purl 3, knit 3.  The structure makes me think of weaving which of course makes me happy.

Hopefully I will get pictures up of the quilt show soon.  It was a great show!

It has been a While

Adorn Thyself

Another

Sorry folks it has been a while since my last post.  I have been very busy.  I get really frustrated some times because I am so busy with what everyone else expects of me, there is little to no time for me to do the things I want to do.

Check them out

Any way I have been trying to get my loom threaded with a painted wrap.  I will put up pictures in a few days.  However I also needed to get something up on my Etsy store so be sure to check them out.  I will be getting more up each day, so check back often. I have a cute beach bag and more scarves.  Hope to get listed before
the Grand kids get here for the weekend.  :-)

Last One today

Wearing a Scarf #1

Hi Everyone,

Well, I wish I was younger, pretty, and thinner, but I am not.  I don't have the money or the time to hire a videographer or a model.  So for now you are stuck watching me show you how to do this tie.  It requires a long scarf, this one is 72" and 12" wide.  It is easy to tie and comfortable to wear.

Let me know if this works for you, if it does I will do it again.  :-)

Packing up Christmas

There is a huge build up to Christmas, then lots of people, food and presents.  Next is the equally maybe larger mess to clean up.  We have two Christmases, ours and my mother's.  She loves Christmas, always has.  It is her favorite time of the year and said once that if she ever got to the point she could not have Christmas, just dig a hole and put her in it.  So, of course with that statement we have two Christmas every year.

There is of course a week between Christmas to clean up the wrapping paper, dishes and left over food.  ( it always feels like it takes the whole week)  Then I usually invite the grand kids over for New Years Eve we have a party and they help me take down the tree.  That didn't happen this year, we had the party but did not take care of the tree.

 As I worked alone on taking down the tree, I thought about the ornaments.  Many of them are in honor of some event, First Christmas, Baby's first Christmas, my mother like to give Avon ornaments to the kids each year, or maybe a vacation we took, or an ornament from a friend.

Then there are the hand made ones.  The ones I made for my kids, the ones that the kids made in school, clubs, or scouts, my mother also made ornaments.  In recent years the guild I belong to has an ornament exchange, so I have several hand made ornaments from them.  Every time we set up the tree it is a trip down memory lane for all who help or even visit during the holiday season.  However, this year was particularly reflective.  Because I was alone in taking down the tree, I remembered how each one of the ornaments came to be on our tree and the people who contributed.  I felt truly blessed for all of these memories and the people who are apart of my life.  We may not have the prettiest tree but it is definitely full of love.

I am working on my web site and will have that up and running soon. My daughter and I are planning a fashion show for April 26.  Look for more information on both coming soon.  Well thank you for stopping by I hope that some of you will sign up to follow me.  I don't seem to be able to post on a specific day.  No matter what day I pick life seems to get in the way, but I do seem to get a post up almost every week.  Take care of yourself and enjoy life.

Pamela J Arquette

Holidays

Happy New Year,  Hope everyone had a great holiday season.  I am looking forward to the New Year with hopes that it will be a great one.  I did not quite get all the pj's finished (I was short one set) there were a lot of last minutes interruptions.  In spite of that everything else went well and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.  I finished up the pj's and gave them today.

Jeannie and I are planning a  Spring Fashion Show and Luncheon, April 26, a week before Mother's Day.   It will be near Cleary College in Howell, MI.  We are planning to have  models show off our  fashions, roaming around the tables as patrons eat a delicious salad lunch.  There will of course be plenty of time to shop and I am hoping to have a section for children to shop with gifts for mom under $25.00. 

That of course means a lot of work the next few months.  Of course I need to make product, but also set up a Facebook page for the event and update my web site.  Get some advertising organized and sell tickets for the lunch.

Jeannie (My daughter) posted a picture of her costume in action on Facebook.  I am re posting the picture here.  The actress was body painted by Andrea to coordinate with the costume.  I love it.  Great job by both artists!

Well off I go to work on my web site hopefully I will be posting a link to that next time.

Pam