Ricky Tims Newsletter
Volume II, Issue 4

Friday – April 4, 2003

Travels:  Lancaster, PA; Wheat Ridge, CO; Ireland
Ricky returned from his last trip in March and is on the road again.  Ricky would like to thank the folks at the  following:  Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Williamsburg, Virginia; Victoria Quilt Guild of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;  Rainy Day Quilt Guild of Ketchikan, Alaska; and finally,  the Quilters of South Carolina which include Cobblestone Quilters of Charleston, South Carolina; Swamp Fox Quilters of Florence, South Carolina; the folks in Clemson, South Carolina; and finally, Pieced Heart Quilters of Aiken, South Carolina. 

April finds Ricky in Lancaster, Pennsylania , April 3-6 for the Quilter’s Heritage Celebration 2003.  Leaving Pennsylvania, Ricky will travel immediately to Chicago for Spring Festival 2003, April 10-13.  Arriving back in Denver, Ricky will be hosted by the Columbine Quilt Guild in Wheat Ridge, Colorado on April 14.  To finish out the month of April and start May off in grand style, Ricky and Justin will travel to Ireland where they will visit the following:  Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and LooseThreads Quilters in Belfast, Ireland; Ballyjamesduff Quilt Group in Cavan, Ireland and finish-up with the Eastern Group Irish Patchwork Society in Cork, Ireland. 

Quilt Awards:  Bohemian Rhapsody & New World Symphony
 Ricky’s Bohemian Rhapsody and New World Symphony just finished the judging competition at Quilter’s Heritage Celebration 2003 in Lancaster, PA.  Bohemian Rhapsody won 3rd place in the Applique category.  New World Symphony won Judges Choice.    

DVD's & VHS: DVD format is HERE!!!!
Hip hip, Hooray!!!  Finally, Quilting Caveman Style and Fishin’ has arrived and ready to ship at Tims Art Quilt Studio.  However, we only have the DVD format at this time.  The manufacturer still has not completed the VHS format as of yet.  Information is now available online for those who are interested in either reading about this new product or adding to their library.  For our friends in the UK and elsewhere that utilizes PAL formatting, sorry!  At this time, we only have NTSC available. 

Harmonic Convergence Pattern : New Look
The Harmonic Convergence pattern has been revised.  Ricky has updated the pattern making it a little easier to follow and streamlining the written pattern.  Harmonic Convergence continues to be extremely popular.   If you would like to teach Harmonic Convergence at a quilt shop, contact Justin for ordering information. 

Pictures: The Great blizzard of 2003
 Ok, ok!!!  Ricky and more so Justin, learned their lesson about wishing for snow. About two weeks ago, they were hit with 36” of snow in a day and half.  Although this wasn’t a record snowfall, it did go down in the books as the greatest snowfall amount in one storm, dating back 90+ years.

To add to the situation, (as if 36” of snow isn’t enough), Ricky was trying to fly-in from Ketchikan, Alaska the evening of the day the storm started.  Justin and a friend of their’s from Texas, Janet Stuart, who also flew-in the morning the storm started, went to the airport which is about 35 miles away from the house, to hopefully pick-up Ricky.  They checked the airport and although flights were not leaving they were letting a select few flights in to land.  Luckily, Ricky’s flight was one of them.

So, what do you do when you’re snowed-in with 36” of snow.  Well, one could quilt.  One could sleep.  No, not these 3; they made Fuzzy, a 9’ Snow Bear.

Click on the two other links below to see other snowfall pictures.
Backyard

Ricky and The Red Baron