News, news, news....
May 10, 2007
News Item One: I have been very fortunate to 'meet' some great people through my blog. One of them is 'Lucy Locket'. She has been a blogger for only a short time but I am sure that you will like her blog of life in the UK! Her blog has a fabulous name, Lucy Locket Recycled Her Pocket !She is also doing the 365 Challenge Quilt and if you have a scroll down to her 30th April entry you can see what she has been up to. I'll be very surprised if you're not inspired!
News Item Two: For the ladies in the USA who have been asking about purchasing my patterns in the USA have a look at Shannon's site. She is in Iowa and is taking orders now for her next shipment.
News Item Three: I know that lots of my wholesale customers also love reading my blog, especially to see when new patterns,etc. are coming out. If you are one of these customers, and have a website that people can purchase my patterns and books from, please let me know so I can add you to my list of shops on my site, so that people can link into you directly. With so many customers all over the world it is impossible for my Distributor to keep me up to date with who has wesites and who has my stock on their site.
News item Four: Lots of you are starting to realise how big (physically) the 365 Challenge Quilt will end up being (Queen Comforter size - see tutorial for exact dimensions - first photo). To give you an idea I snapped this shot of Georgia (5 years) holding my first two rows up the other day:
Hope this gives you a bit of an idea to the length of the quilt anyway!
All my best,
Leanne Beasley xxx
P.S. The photo at the top is my 'Couch Companion 2' - There will be more about this soon.
Just beautiful Georgia. Definitely a career in modelling quilts.
Nice tease, Leanne. Couch Companion 2, oh please!!!
Posted by: Kim | May 11, 2007 at 08:54 AM
Hi Leanne! Thanks so much for posting my info on your site. I am SO excited to be able to offer your products to those of us in the States who are clamoring for them! I hope to have my 'real' website up soon and be able to offer alot more things! You are such an inspiring designer! Little Georgia is SO cute in the pic!
Posted by: Shannon | May 11, 2007 at 01:55 AM
Great job on the two first columns! Georgia looks so cute holding up the rows. The stitchery looks nice! Can't wait to see the end result :)
Posted by: Anne Heidi | May 10, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Hi Leanne!this is to give your little Georgia a kiss from me and my little boy Michelangelo(7)..have a nice day!!
Posted by: Diana | May 10, 2007 at 08:04 PM
Hi Leanne - thanks for the mention! I have managed to sew half of the strips for my slightly smaller 365 quilt but I now need to go out and buy some more neutrals so I don't have a sudden change of fabrics towards the end of the quilt. This is quite amazingly organised of me as apart from one Lynette Anderson quilt I did a few years ago all of my other efforts have sort of evolved as I went along!! By the way your bicycle stitchery pattern from the new book came in very handy when I needed to record my middle daughters first bike ride without stabilisers! I drew it freehand as it needed to be a lot smaller so it isn't as good as yours - but at least you can see it is a bike! Lucy
Posted by: Lucy Locket | May 10, 2007 at 06:35 PM
I had a little look at Shannon's site and there was a tiny photo of Couch Companion. Looks like this is a very handy "have to have" for us quilters. I'm looking forward to your visit in Norway. Hope I will be able to join a class :) Trysil is not s far from where I live.
Posted by: May Britt | May 10, 2007 at 06:33 PM
Oh my gosh, that 365 Challenge Quilt looks like it will end up quite big :). Can't wait to see it finished, its such a wonderful idea.
Posted by: Tatania | May 10, 2007 at 05:25 PM