Our first
real snow of the season will arrive early Thursday morning, and the winds
are blowing away the last few leaves clinging to our trees.
Many of you
have started holiday projects, but we still have an excellent
selection of Christmas and Winter fabrics in stock…for those of us who
don't like to start holiday projects until the stores put out the Halloween
decorations… haha!
I am still going through all my photos from Russia, and this
week I thought I'd share this delightful handpainted folk art which I saw in a
shop on Arbat Street in
Moscow.
This is the lid and the side of a wooden chest.
Inspiration comes from
many places, sometimes from sources that catch us by surprise. If you were
watching my Facebook page, you know that Sophie and I attended MileHi Con this
weekend, which is basically a bunch of SciFi/
Fantasy
Geeks and Nerds who dress up and get together to share their love of Star Trek,
Harry Potter, Steampunk, Anime, etc. It is kind of like ComicCon but focused on
books
and movies
instead of comics.
Best of all – almost everyone wears a costume! Brilliant!
I love hanging
out with geeks and nerds because they are singularly passionate about their
chosen fantasy world. They enter the world of SciFi
or Fantasy
and completely immerse themselves in the experience. They experience true geeky
bliss when role-playing with fellow fans, cracking jokes in a secret language,
and creating fiendishly wacky detailed costumes from recycled and found objects.
I met a guy who has been making SciFi
art (sculptures) from recycled and found items (translation: garbage and junk)
for 20 years…way before it was trendy.
Sound familiar?
Yes we
quilters started out the same way. Scrap
quilts, gossip-fests over the quilting
frame, fat
quarters and frog stitches.
I am proud to be a Quilt Geek.
I
laugh at really bad quilting puns just because it is our own secret
language.
This weekend I am off to the ultimate gathering for Quilt Nerds
and Geeks, in Houston. Like a Star Trek convention, we don our quilty garb and
excitedly stalk our quilty celebrities. At MileHi Con there was a SciFi/
Fantasy
Art Fair and auction. In Houston we have multiple categories to showcase
creativity and technical genius…and our own fundraising auctions.
I
have to say though, the costumes at MileHi Con were more detailed and
outrageous. Quilt Market always occurs right around Halloween, so we see a few
witches wandering the aisles. As the quilting movement expands to include more
young people and fashion sewists, perhaps we'll see more creative costuming in
Houston?
