Hi all,
Yesterday- I had a lovely day, a prospective purchaser, Marjorie, drove up from near Kenmore on Brisbane's South Western corner, to trial an Ellie.
As she had come so far (nearly an hour driving) I thought she might like to visit a local quilt fabric store, I took her to one of my favourites (East Coast Fabrics at Lawnton) If we had more time I would have liked to visit a few more local Quilt Shops (we have quite a few on Brisbane's Northside) but I had a frame to demonstrate!! So after a cuppa and toastie at a local Zarraffa's (coffee shop) we got down to pin basting her Queen Sized Quilt.
Marjorie was interested in an Ellie with an Extension so I put up my demo frame and off we went, we pin basted one half of the quilt and then unclamped it from the frame and tensioned the lower section for basting. As what sometimes happens when using any method to baste a quilt, one corner of the quilt didn't want to behave itself, so we undid a few pins, spoke nicely to the quilt, brushed our hands over the quilt top to smooth it out over the batting, looked at it from this way and that, a few more nice words and a cup of tea, a few more pins and what do you know? a fully basted quilt sandwich!
Marjorie took her pin basted quilt sandwich home along with her new Ellie and Extension.
Today - I spent about 3 hours updating my Instruction Manual and somehow or other while trying to include some photos of the Fabric Pinning Panel configurations managed to get the computer to "Quit" word without saving! I am so - - I don't know what! that I cannot even think about getting back to it before I make another frame, organise my International Patents, pay some bills, have lunch, have dinner, watch some TV and have a good night's sleep.
August - Bye the way, I also have to finish organising a trip to Perth to Demonstrate Millie at the (Western Australian). WA. Craft Show at the Claremont Showgrounds the 3rd, 4th and 5th of August 2012.
How about dropping in and saying hi? If ordered beforehand I may be
able to bring some frames over for purchase at the show to save on
freight charges, see my Website to contact me to organise.
I do not usually sell at the shows as it takes away time from demonstrating. But Perth is a long way from Brisbane and if savings on freight can be made I will make an exception.
Happy Quilting,
Ann.
