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!




More next time!!!

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The Quilter #1 (and Free Comic Book Day)

I made this quilted comic book cover an embarrassingly long time ago. So long ago she’s not even carrying a rotary cutter with her.  How behind the times.



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!

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Home Sewing Made Easy – a sewing comic book

That’s right, a sewing comic book.  I have been looking for one of these for many years, and I have had many a comic book retailer friend on the lookout for one.  Lo and behold, one popped up on eBay, and it was a charity auction no less, and nabbed it for $10 whole American dollars!  It’s in crummy shape, but it’s rare, so I was happy to have any copy.  An Action Comics #1 (1st appearance of Superman) in bad shape is still a valuable comic book. (And I work in the comic industry, so I guess I would know a little about that!)

These ladies are pretty funny as they go through a series of how to sessions with the new sewing machine.  This comic was a manual/incentive/giveaway that came with the machine.

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.

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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.

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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. 🙂

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