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Sorry I haven't posted, it's been a crazy week around here and as much as I love chatting with you all, I just haven't had enough energy at the end of the day, but don't worry; I have plenty more to share in the near future!

So, did you listen to Pat Sloan's Radio show earlier this week? I had such a nice time chatting with her, but I always do!

If you listened to the beginning of the show, for some weird reason my phone kept echoing everything Pat was saying. Right in the middle of the show instead of chatting with Pat, I'm instead talking with the technical guy at the radio station trying to figure out what's going on and testing my phones. We ended up having to switch phones completely and I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off trying to get it working so I can get back to chatting with Pat. I'm not going to lie, it was kinda stressful, but it's one of those situations where now looking back I can laugh and listening to the show afterward, Pat did a wonderful job "covering" me.

If you haven't listened to the show, you can listen to it on iTunes if you search for American Patchwork & Quilting Radio or you can visit Pat's website and scroll through the shows each week and listen to them right on your computer. She also has links on her website to download the shows onto your Android device and much much more for other players and devices too.

Head on over and get a chuckle if you haven't listened yet but now know the backstory.

Pat and I talked about:

My little cheat sheet for Precuts, you can find the original post here.

My newest book, Seems Like Scrappy.

And how I organize my stash, you can read more and see pictures here.

Have a great weekend, I'm off to get some quilting done and I will be back soon with more to share!

-Rebecca

APQ Radio with Pat Sloan!

Now, before you all here in the states get into full-on holiday weekend mode, I wanted to pop in and give you a little tidbit of information about next week. Monday to be exact. Monday afternoon to be more precise...

Join me Monday afternoon at 4pm Eastern while Pat Sloan and I have a chat on her radio show! It should be a great time, Pat is always a joy to chat with and I hope you can tune in.

You can listen to the podcast here: http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/magazines-more/quilting-podcast 

If you're busy at that time and can't listen, don't worry. You can always click on the link and listen to the show on your own time after it has aired. It may take a day or so for the show to be available after the live taping (is it called taping still?), but I will be sure to let you know when you can check in and listen.

Also, you can find all of the shows on iTunes. Just search American Patchwork & Quilting and from there you can have the podcast automatically downloaded and waiting for you!

I hope you can listen in, I'm looking forward to it!

Have a great and wonderful weekend. Be safe, eat too much, relax and I hope you get some time to sew!

Sounds good to me!

So, did you listen to the American Patchwork & Quilting Radio show yesterday? If you did, great and thank you sooooo much! If not, here's the link you can go to http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/radio/index.html, I'm the first segment of the 1/28/13 show.

I have to thank Pat Sloan again for this opportunity. It was so nice to chat with her. I just stayed home yesterday and did some sewing of my own which let me finish the rest of the rings for my Bali Wedding Star!

So the opposite of these rings are now complete. Once again, I think this project is going to get stashed away for just a bit to work on other projects for upcoming shows and some new patterns!

Back with more quilting updates soon!

On the Radio!

Remember today at 4 p.m. EST you can listen to the American Patchwork & Quilting Radio program to hear me chatting with Pat Sloan about my new book!

Can't get to your computer to listen to the podcast at 4? No problem! You can listen at your convenience by heading to http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/radio/index.html. 

You can go through the list of several interviews Pat has done and listen until your heart's content.

Cross your fingers the dogs are quiet, no crazy people decide to knock at the door and I don't sound like a dork! I'm so excited to talk to Pat, this should be interesting. Wish me luck!

Snow Days!

So if you didn't already know, I happen to live in the wonderful area of Northeast Ohio called the "Snowbelt". Actually now I live in the secondary snowbelt, but my long-arm machine is still smack-dab in the heart of it all.

We've been getting small amounts of snow just about every day for the last few weeks, but this past week has been especially cold. When it's this cold the snow is super fine and powdery which makes beautiful winter scenes like this:

This is the view from my quilting room. The best part about really cold winters are the absolutely gorgeous blue skies that pop up between snow storms. (Not fifteen minutes after I took this photo the snow moved in and the sky was a whitish gray which isn't so pretty) Oh, and if you noticed, that is a large flower pot on it's side down at the bottom of the picture...

Just a little ways away from the flower pot on the patio is the bench absolutely covered in snow. We got this snow during the past week but not all at once. The snow so far this year has been a few inches here, 6 inches there, a little more overnight, which isn't soooo bad, but it does add up. 

 So what do you do when you live in the country with almost a 400' long driveway in the snowbelt? You get an 8' PTO driven snow thrower for your tractor. This is my little brother clearing the drive.

 As I mentioned, this snow is so powdery that it basically dissipates rather than being thrown very far.

 And all the while, the puppies (who are older, not young, but puppies at heart) love to look out the front door and take in the view. If you open the front door, they'll sit like this all day.

 Here you've got Hershey, Tucker and Abby. I love when they do this, but I haven't had the chance until now to get good pictures of it.

 And there has to be a ham in every crowd, meet Abby Sue. The other two could care less about a camera or they'll hide. Abby on the other hand wants to be front and center. I think she was a model in a past life.

 One of the other good things about snowy days like this (yes, there are good things about snow!) Are the beautiful sunsets we can get. This one was much prettier in person, but occasionally this time of year we get skies with shades of oranges, reds and purples that will take your breath away.

So that's the snow for the last week, however like any season in Ohio next week is supposed to be completely different. Last week on Tuesday the high was 8 degrees. This week the high on Tuesday is supposed to be 52 degrees. And then two days later it's supposed to cool off and snow again. Go figure, weather can be so strange here, nothing seems to phase us anymore. Just keep calm and drive safe. That's really all you can do.

And for those of my friends who have packed up and moved south, we miss you! I know you miss weeks like this! :) j/k. Lake Effect snow misses you! Alright, now I'm ready for a cup of tea. That and I'm getting ready to try out some new soup recipes this week. Wish me luck! Stay warm and remember to listen to the Pat Sloan radio show tomorrow where I'll be chatting about my new book, Seamingly Scrappy! I hope I don't sound like a dork!

Chatting with Pat Sloan!!!

Visit the American Patchwork & Quilting Radio podcast next Monday, the 28th, at 4 p.m. EST and you'll hear me (and possibly my dogs in the background) chatting with Pat Sloan!

We will be chatting about the release of Seamingly Scrappy as well as other happenings here in Ruby Land!

I'm sooooo excited! Also, if you can't listen to the show as it's happening, you can always listen to the podcast by visiting the American Patchwork & Quilting Radio site.