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Ricky
Tims Gazette
Volume III, Issue
4
Sunday – September 12, 2004
In
this Issue of the Ricky Tims Gazette:
·
Note from Ricky – Recent Ricky Tims Quilt
Seminars
·
Ricky Tims Quilt Seminar -
Houston
·
Travels
·
Dad’s Lone Star, Fire Dragon Rhapsody, & Castle
Quilt
·
January 2005 Workshop Opportunities
·
Razzle Dazzle Threads
·
Top Dog 2005
To my Quilting
Friends: What a Summer it has
been!
As I looked at my message from the last newsletter that
spoke about 2003 having brought two new firsts for me, I realized that this year
too, has brought a tremendous first for me in the form of my new Quilting
Seminar. The first two seminars in
St. Louis
,
Missouri
and Golden,
Colorado
took place in August and I’m pleased to say that from the amount
of positive and encouraging feedback, they were a great success.
I now know that my instincts were right and this is how I should be
teaching. It feels wonderful not
only to see a dream realized but to have others experience and enjoy it with
you.
Again I find myself saying that I am so grateful.
I am grateful to Bernina for their continued support and encouragement.
Grateful for the overwhelming support
of the Thimbles & Thread Quilt
Guild in St. Louis and the Columbine Quilt Guild in Golden for getting this new
format off the ground and tested; and to all of you who are now excited about
the coming year’s seminars. Thank
you all so much.
I am really looking forward
to conducting my seminar in Houston this fall and next year in
Alberta, Canada; Charlotte, NC; Arroyo Grande, CA; & Phoenix,
AZ. I’d
love to see all of you at one of these events.
I’m just beginning to work on the seminar schedule for
2006 and have been pleased with the number of guilds wanting
to host one of these seminars.
Keep an eye on the web calendar for the future dates and a location of
one of the seminars near you. If you
would like more info about the seminars, please click on the following link to
be directed to the seminar page. http://www.rickytims.com/ricky_tims_quilt_seminar.htm
Sometime in the future, we will be posting quotes and
pictures on the website, but until that time, here are just a couple of comments
from the previous two seminars:
“First
of all, I want to say that I have attended many seminars around the whole
country during the past 14 years, and your seminar was by far the best one I
have ever been to – bar none! One
of the best parts of the seminar was at the very beginning – receiving
the notebook full of everything we would need for the next two
days and beyond.
The setting in the large room with the big screen was wonderful.
Our notebooks contained everything that was projected
on the screen –
making note taking unnecessary. We
were able to listen without having to write notes – and that made
for a seminar that we were able to listen and not miss a thing.”
“Where
to begin??? I had a
wonderful time at the seminar… have had quilts spinning in my head
all weekend!
I loved all the demonstrations , and being able to see
what was going on at the machine and cutting table… so much
better than standing around a machine and trying to see over
everyone. I
have to tell you that normally, during a regular class, I don’t have as much
fun, because I am stressing about whether I’m doing things correctly, or
“mine doesn’t look like yours”… you know… all that sort of whining
thing we all do! During
your seminar, with the demonstrations, combined with the notebook,
I was able to clearly see what you were doing and therefore able
to “get it” a good deal
quicker than if it were the normal classroom setting and we were distracted by
our own cutting and sewing and peeking at our neighbor’s work.
In addition, I have the notebook to refer to here at
home!”
Ricky
Tims Quilt Seminars:
Volunteers for Houston needed
On
Thursday and Friday, November 4 & 5, Ricky will be
conducting his Ricky Tims Quilt Seminar which is presented
by Bernina of America at the International Quilt Festival
in
Houston
,
TX
. Registrations
by mail are due into Quilts, INC no later than October
1, 2004 so there’s still time.
Please note that since the
International Quilt Festival is hosting this event, all registrations are to be
me made through them and NOT through Tims Art Quilt Studio.
As with all the
Ricky Tims Quilt Seminars, Ricky and the crew will need help with the seminar
while at
Houston
. They will need approximately
10 volunteers to help-out on Thursday and Friday, November 4 & 5.
Volunteers will be given ½ price registration in exchange
for their help in setting-up the seminar on Wednesday afternoon
and then again during the 2 seminar days working as white glove
angels, ushers, and shadows for Ricky and Justin.
The shadows and
ushers need to be able to move about quickly from place to place and may need to
carry light-weight items or relay messages.
The angels will be stationed in the Ricky Tims Quilt Gallery to show
participants various parts of the quilts. Experience
at the two previous seminars has indicated that volunteers miss very little, if
any, of the seminar.
If you are
going to be in Houston this year and would like to be a volunteer or have
questions about volunteering, please email Pat Vassallo at pat@rickytims.com
or call her at 303-252-0579 (M,W,F 9am to noon, MST).
Your name will be provided to the registration group
at Festival so that you can receive your ½ priced registration.
DO NOT contact Quilts Inc. or the International Quilt Festival about
being a volunteer.
Travels:
Tupelo
,
MS
;
Kalamazoo
&
Lansing
, MI; Bel Air,
Maryland
The month of September has already seen Ricky off to
Tupelo
,
Mississippi
where he was a keynote presenter at Martha
Pullen’s fundraiser for St.
Jude’s Children Hospital. Mid-month,
he’ll be off to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he
will be visiting the Log
Cabin Quilters Guild from September 14-15; then the Capital City Quilt Guild in Lansing, Michigan on September 16-18;
followed by the Flying Geese Quilt
Guild in Bel Air, Maryland on September 20-22.
If you’re in the area, drop by and say “hi”.
This summer has just flown by for Ricky.
In June, he visited the Minnesota Quilters Show and Conference in
Rochester
followed by
Bernina
University
in
Atlanta
,
GA.
In July, Ricky was at
BJ’s Quilt Basket & Bernina
Center in
Bend
,
OR
and then on to Camp Watch A Patcher
in
Irvine
,
CA
. Of course in August, Ricky had his
first two Ricky Tims Quilt Seminars
in both
St. Louis
and Golden.
Many thanks from Ricky to all of those
involved for for their efforts in making these trips so enjoyable and
successful.
Quilts,
Quilts, Quilts :
Dad’s
Lone Star; Fire Dragon Rhapsody; and Glen Eyrie Castle Quilt
Ricky is excited that this
fall, Dad’s
Lone Star and Fire Dragon Rhapsody has been juried
into IQA Judged Show this fall in Houston, TX.
In addition, the Glen Eyrie Castle Quilt will be included in the Tactile
Architecture competition.
Dad’s
Lone Star is a collaborative effort between Ricky and his dad, Richard.
Using hand-dyed fabrics, Ricky’s dad pieced the lone
star in the center of the quilt and Ricky created the setting
and machine quilted the quilt.
Fire
Dragon Rhapsody is the newest quilt in Ricky’s Rhapsody Quilt
collection.
On a recent trip to
Pueblo
,
CO
, Ricky was inspired by an impression of a dragon he saw on a window grate on
one of the downtown buildings.
As
many of you may know, Ricky’s annual Rocky Mountain Quilt Retreat
is held each October at the
Glen
Eyrie
Castle
in
Colorado Springs
,
CO
. The Glen
Eyrie Castle Quilt is a result of one of the attendees commissioning Ricky
to create a quilt about the retreat. Using
a series of photographs and a photo editing software, Ricky came
up with a design and using hand-dyed fabrics and his raw-edge, “scribble appliqué”
technique, creating a beautiful, soft texture resulting in wonderful
imagery of the historic castle.
In other
quilting news, Ricky is pleased to announce that Bohemian Rhapsody has recently
won Best of Show at he Quilting on the Waterfront in
Duluth
,
MN
. Best of Show is quite an honor at any event, particularly one as well attended
as this one and Ricky is extremely pleased that Bohemian Rhapsody continues to
impress and enchant quilters all over.
2005
Opening:
Workshop
Opportunity
An
opening has occurred in Ricky’s 2005 calendar, and
he would like to offer it for consideration.
The dates available are Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday – January 3-5. Please
email Pat at pat@rickytims.com
quickly if your guild would like to book Ricky on these dates.
Razzle
Dazzle® by Superior Threads : 13 new Colors
Later
this month, Superior Threads will roll out 13 new colors to
add to the previous 12 or Ricky’s new
Razzle Dazzle® decorative threads. These
high quality, wonderfully soft decorative threads are used
in bobbin quilting, couching, and other embellishment work
(anything that doesn’t require it to go
through your sewing machine needle). Keep
an eye on the Ricky’s Internet
Store to view these beautiful new colors.
Top
Dog 2005 :
Katie P.
When
Justin went to Charlie’s one afternoon in January to buy a few groceries, he noticed a small
poster on the door, of a sad looking, dejected shepherd type dog, with a caption
above it stating “time is running out, please find me a home”.
Although Justin and Ricky had discussed getting a dog sometime in the
future, (and certainly not one that would shed profusely); they
hadn’t quite thought it would be so soon after their
move to La Veta, CO.
However, after seeing the caption, Justin, the animal lover he is, headed
straight to town hall to inquire about the dog in their animal shelter.
After coaxing the timid dog to the gate, Justin immediately went and got
Ricky to look at the dog and to get his opinion about adopting her.
Although at first, neither were too taken
with the timid dog, the thought of having a such
a shy, innocent creature “put-down” was almost too
much to bear. Justin went back to town hall,
paid the fee, and the little shepherd/lab mix came to live with Justin and
Ricky.
After trying
numerous names, the dog finally showed interest when Justin called her Katie.
Of course, the “P”, was added to her name not too soon afterwards
because her demeanor reminded Justin of a really nice woman he met a few years
back. (There is more to this story but in lieu of emabarrassing this nice lady,
we’ll leave it at this!)
The ladies at
town hall had infomed Justin that the dog had been abandoned on the highway and
that it took them nearly a week to catch her.
Although she had been through quite an ordeal, she adapted
very quickly to the guys and soon realized that she “was home”.
One
morning while Ricky was taking Katie P. for her morning “ritual”,
he snapped a picture of Katie P. in front of
the house with the mountains near La Veta in the background.
Later that day, Ricky
emailed the picture to a friend of his who promptly told Ricky
that he should enter the picture into the Page-A-Day® Dog Calendar
contest by Workman Publishing of New York, NY. The only problem, was the
deadline was three days away. No
worries, Ricky printed the contest rules and form from their website, filled
them out, and Justin overnighted them to
New York
the next day.
About
two months later, Justin received a call from Workman Publishing
wanting to know if they called Katie P. – Katie or Katie P. No
other information was divulged other than she thought that Katie P. might make
the calendar. That was great news
but it only whetted their appetite.
In August, on
the way to
St. Louis
for the first Seminar, the guys stopped in
Pueblo
to see if one of the chain bookstores had the calendar.
They did and sitting on the floor, Justin and Ricky started looking
through the calendar to see if Katie P. did make the cut.
The excitement was just too much to take the time to go to one of the
tables mind you. Ricky
told Justin to look in December since it was a “snowy” picture.
December 1 -31, page by page, no Katie P.
Not totally dejected yet, Justin said he would start from page 1 and go
page by page until he either found her or he reached the end of the calendar.
The search didn’t take long, for Katie’s picture was not on page 1
which had Saturday/Sunday, January 1&2, but instead; the full
page picture of January 3. Beaming
with
“pride” that their little girl made the calendar, they then noticed
that at the bottom of the page, was a blue banner stating 1st Prize Winner.
However, things only got
better. Reading the text from Workman Publishing next to the picture, they read
that not only was she selected as the 1st prize winner, but was voted
TOP DOG for 2005!
Who would have
thought that a simple little trip to the grocery store would result in finding
something so special that would bring so much joy and happiness to the guys!
Katie P. is very happy and well adjusted and both Ricky and Justin have
not just the pet they wanted, but something very extraordinary!
And by the way,
Katie P. OWNS Autumn Rock!!!!!
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