How fun is this!

I was poking around the internet while my cat, Zippy, snores at my feet and I found a cool website called Society 6.  I have started a little shop there and I have a few items for sale at the moment, but I'll be adding many more within the next few day.  Right now I have several images which may be ordered as prints or as iPhone /ipod covers.  How fun is that?  You can check it out here - Society6 Kathy Schmitz

Above are  a few of the items I have available.  The top three are the covers and the bottom is a framed print of a new appliqué pattern I just finished.  Speaking of which.....  I just sent a new book to the printers!  It's called Gather the Passing Seasons and it has 12 monthly pictures, one for each month of the year.  They measure a sweet little 8" x 10".   In the book I show how you can frame them in an 11" x 14" frame floating (with velcro pieces for easy swapping out) over a piece of old sheet music.  The book even includes this sheet music as it's center fold.  Simply have a copy made on an 11" x 14" piece of paper. I'm hoping to have these books available by mid march.  There are 40 full color pages with detailed directions and some fun little quotes, painted images and even a few chalkboard doodles. Retails for $18.95.  If you would like your local quilt shop to carry it, share this blog with them!  I am happy to take pre-orders so that their shop will have them before Spring Quilt Market.

If appliqué scares you - as it does me, don't fret!  These were all done using Steam-A-Seam 2 fusible web and were as easy as cutting out paper dolls and playing with ColorForms (remember those?).

On another note, I had a fun drive yesterday with my Mom and sister's. We went to the cutest little quilt shop in Independence, Oregon call Ladies of Liberty. What wonderful ladies we visited with and what beautiful fabrics. I've lived in this area most of my life and I had never gone to Independence before - it was worth the trip to see this quilt shop!