It’s San Diego Comic Con Week!
In honor of San Diego Comic Con, I’m going to post a few pages from Home Sewing is Easy, the giveaway comic book that I found after years of searching. Enjoy!
The Quilter #1 (and Free Comic Book Day)
Why would I show it to you now? Because this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! You know I work in the comic book industry and all, and this is one of our major events of the year. Go to http://freecomicbookday.com to find a comic book retailer near you and get a free comic book!
Home Sewing Made Easy – a sewing comic book
This one cracks me up. “Just like a true artist!” They even go on in later pages to tell you how to match your clothes colors to your hair. I have to say, the dress making instructions are pretty cool, and totally relevant today. Alexander Henry made a fabric directly from these panels from this comic. With permisson? Who knows…the sewing machine manufacturer is no longer in business from what I can tell.
Want to see more pages? Tell me in the comments and if there’s enough interest, I’ll post them.
This N That #18
There’s a tremendous amount of stuff going on. Work related, art related, home related, just so much! I hope you can bear with a few infrequent posts.
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New York Comic Con is this weekend. Should be lots of fun. I always look for Japanese toys while I am there. My favorite toys to collect at shows are these little guys.
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Are you “putting your best face forward”? Remember to join us here on the Quilting Arts forums!
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Halloween is coming, and my decorations will be going up shortly. I do love Halloween so much. Do you have a favorite Halloween decoration? I would love to hear about it.
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Don’t forget about the Divas’ Gallery show at Naperville Art League from Oct 23rd to the 30th! I will have 3 pieces in the show.
This n That #9
Well, so much is going on…
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Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday May 1st. If you like comic books, you should visit FreeComicBookDay.com and find a store near you and get a free comic. It’s part of my day job, so go and have some fun May 1st.
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I look up random crazy things as I hear about them, and someone on one of the QuiltArt threads about favorite movies listed one about the Donner Party. I had never heard of this event in US history, so I went to look it up. Pretty amazing, gruesome, and sad all wrapped up into one long winter event.
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I’ve been tinkering a bit in my garden outside my office window each day after work. I planted 2 new peonies, a lilac, and an azalea. I just need a rose, and I’m all set with that garden. I got the peonies from Peony’s Envy .
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This image of Marilyn was made for my good friend Nance, whose birthday was right before the C2E2 comic book show which we both were in town for. I was happy to make this for her, as she’s a huge Marilyn Monroe fan. It’s 8.5 x 11 inches. It’s stenciled and then quilted.
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My DH and I want to learn German so we can visit Germany. I love German industrial heavy metal music, and some lyrics and turns of phrases would make great titles for quilts. 🙂