Just Hatched Just Thinking

Who, What, Where and Now What?

Well, the big day has come and gone...  I had the fun of giving away FOUR birthday eggs!

Rachel found the Just Hatched Productions Egg - It was in the Photo  Section - Just Hatched Liturgical Design.  Then Rhonda found the next egg - It was the Just Hatched on ETSY... we were tricky there - we converted our logo to the birthday chick! LOL  Good eyes, Rhonda! 

Egg number three went to Diane up in Northern Wisconsin. She found the "25" egg on the Just Hatched Productions on ARTFIRE!  ... right down on the bottom of the page.  Last, but certainly not least, Carole's eyes also spotted the logo switch on  JHPQuilts on YouTube  when she found the "Pamela" Egg!  

For those who want to know - and if you tried to use the hits from the "Birthday Tale" - the remaining eggs were hidden...

Hint 1- "A beautiful Momma" ... birthday egg was hidden in post   She Had Such A Beautiful Face

Hint 2 - "Decent camera/movies"... You Tube egg - found

Hint 3- "Chatting with friendly neighbors" - Egg hidden in post under "I Said WHAT?" entitled  "Alright, The Neighbors Are Waving!"

Hint 4- "Teaching quilting, it's a good life".  - Egg in page on upper left "Living the Quilted Life"  

Hint 5-"Looking FORWARD to the new year" - Egg hidden with photos of "Facing Forward Quilt on Etsy at Facing Forward - An Art Quilt 

Hint 6- Girly world she gets 2 purses... happy graduation, look at this website!  Gabs Bags

WHO GETS THE GOODIES?

Rachel, who gets first pick in this one,  won round number 1 and got first pick of the presents.  Miss Baseball herself, she challenged me to come up with an art quilt.  HA!  said I.. easy  I'll be posting updates as we work or way through the process.  It's going to be VERYYYY cool!   Baseball, history, Dad.... yep.  seriously cool.

Next is Miss Rhonda... Whom I believe is picking a rag quilt from the goodie mix.  I'll let you  know her choice as soon as I do!

Then there  are Diane and Carole, whom I have not gotten in touch with yet.  As soon as I know, I will tell you. They sure have some fun things to choose from.  I know that Diane is hoping to come down to Chicago for a visit and hopefully work in the studio... I'll bet she's going to take that Studio Time!  Carole, Carole... I have no clue! LOL

Again, I want to thank everyone who participated.  I received many private emails and birthday wishes... those who posted were so very gracious.  I want to thank Gabrielle Ledesma of  Gabs Bags (one of our Wise Women Marketplace Vendors) for playing along with us and putting an egg on her Etsy site. 

I'll be posting people's choices and their quilts, etc. as they come along, if appropriate.  Meanwhile, I would love to hear if you enjoyed our little birthday party and if you would like to see more activities like this on the blog.  Remember that your feedback is going to help to make me  a more interesting blogger!

I am off to the Doc, then it's back to the studio for quiet work.  Prepping Barb's ministry quilts for her tomorrow.  Finishing the restoration of Ben's grandmom's quilt for his Mother... all sit down quiet work.   I'm getting there! Next week I'll be back to a more normal schedule.... yee haw!

I have some new vendors to add to the Marketplace and photos of the studio... just wait until you see it.  Since I've been home from the hospital I have gone thru every corner and every box and crate and not only cleaned but sorted and THREW AWAY oddments and tidbits and old zippers and voila.... wow! Look at how much room there is! LOL 

Can't wait for the July Dragonfly class to begin!   If you didn't receive the email video before  please call me or email me and we'll get the information to you!

 

I would like to thank Canadian Fibre Artist, Kathy Kinsella, for her inspirational "Dragonfly Dreams" wall art quilt and for her generousity in allowing me to use it  as an example for my students.  Simply Beautiful.

Kathy Kinsella on Etsy

 

She Had Such A Beautiful Face... FROM THE STUDIO

Wowee, Zoweeeeee!  I want to thank everyone for all of their comments and emails in response to the Beautiful Face post... sure hit a nerve (both good and bad) with it!  If you haven't read it (or better yet, watched the video at the end - here's the link!  She Had Such a Beautiful Face! I've been getting suggestions as to quotes and ideas for the Beautiful Face quilt, as well as all of the artist's information about the print.  So, to set things straight right off the bat:  the art print that set this all in motion was one that  Sophie Anderson painted  in the late 1800's called "Take the Fair Face of Woman."  Here  are a few shots of the print itself:

 

Aren't the colors simply incredible?  The golds of her hair, the blues and greens in the butterflies and her eyes are simply riveting and are the colors that I have decided to build the quilt around.

Here are close-ups of the quilt  fabrics! 

 

And that blue actually has small metallic gold specks in it, too... mmmm, mmmm... gorgeous!

ADD some fancy stitching...

For embroidery, I've got some simple outlined butterflies and flourishes to pick up on her headpiece and handbag.  They are going to be used as a frame around the print and as corner pieces...

 

 

  

 Add a sparkling starfield of  REAL SWAROVSKI CRYSTALS to her gown and handbag... 

 

VOILA!  This is what she's going to look like....

"A Beautiful Face"

"A Beautiful Face"  Quilt Design by Just Hatched Production 2010

This is NOT going to be done in the Rag quilting style that Just Hatched normally does; rather this will be in the traditional quilting style.  I am also going to embroider a quote about beauty in the lower right hand corner of the portrait as it is actually a bit larger than the photo I have of it and so there is more "dead space" than the design shows.  I am open to ALL suggestions for quote!!!  I will leave that until the the very end so that purchaser may have as much chance as possible to have their own choice added to quilt.  Size of quilt: Approximately 63" x 70"   Price: $350  

       As of right now there is only going to be ONE of this design as the print in the middle was a one time only purchase so if you are interested please let me know as soon as possible.

      From the studio... Pamela