The Mail Came....

Don't you just love it when your mail person delivers something wonderful?  Well we got our copy of Quilting Arts Magazines' 100th issue....and we are in it.  Quite frankly it just doesn't seem possible that this magazine has been around that long, but when I went to my bookshelves I was proven wrong.  Winter 2001, was Number One....okay that doesn't seem possible.

I looked for this magazine all over Atlanta at the time trying to find a copy of it, eventually I put the search on the back burner.  Several month's later a friend and I were driving to Quilt Surface Design Symposium, also known as QSDS, in Columbus, Ohio.  We stopped in Cincinnati to shop at St. Theresa's Textile Trove and lo and behold they had the second issue of the magazine...we each bought a copy, cause we knew we couldn't share it.  Note the photo above of Issue 1, it says Reprint...sometimes you have to do whatever you can and a reprint was what was then available.

After getting my hands on that second issue I always hoped to be in the magazine...well my chance came about for Issue Seven, when Pokey Bolton saw the work in an exhibit called Art Quilts: Encrustations at the Page-Walker Arts and History Center in Cary, North Carolina.  She called and asked for permission for my piece called "Jeremiah's Joy" to be included in the magazine....reflecting back on that day, I wonder if anyone ever told her "no".

I was fortunate to appear in Issue Nine too and I was just as excited then as I was the first time, for Issue Seven.  As part of the mother/daughter duo who co-own Fiber on a Whim we have been delighted each and every time that the staff of Quilting Arts has excepted an article or highlighted our work.  But let me tell you they have out done themselves with this 100th issue; our pages our absolutely beautiful. 

The cover is gorgeous and look how well it coordinates with a peak at one of our pages.  If you are not a subscriber I hope you will seek out this 100th Issue, it is lovely.  We are so happy to be included.   

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you drop by again soon...