The one about the really big box...

I am sure many of you read Tim's announcement Friday about his new venture.  If you have followed his career, you know he is not one to rest on his laurels, so I wasn't surprised when he told me his venture would be taking him into uncharted territory.

Speed ahead to April when a giant box showed up on my doorstep (please excuse the garden hose in the background).  The poor FedEx boy looked at me in despair when I said I wanted the box hoisted up the two brick steps to the porch.  To be honest, it took the two of us, him pushing and me pulling to get the big box even close the front door.  

Since the box was so heavy, I had no choice but to get a box cutter and open it right there on the porch to reveal the what we had been anxiously waiting for.

Fabric.  Twenty Four rolls of beautiful fabric.

So one by one, I hauled each roll of fabric into the house and laid it on the kitchen table.  Wow, that's a lot of fabric!
You might wonder why I got the big box and not Tim.  That answer is easy.  Part of my job is to work with artists that will take the product and create fabulous things.  That means the next step was unwrapping each bolt, cutting pieces of fabric, packing it up and shipping it out.  All in all, nine packages went out to some very creative people.  The exciting part is that very soon, we will be able to finally share what we have been working on all month long.

 

Here are a few snippets of the pieces I worked on -

Three of the artists will be sharing their fabric adventures this week so be sure to visit their blogs on the days listed below.

Tuesday, May 14th - Tammy Tutterow
Wednesday, May 15th - Richele Christensen
Thursday, May 16th - Chelle Fowler
Friday, May 17th - me! (I'll be back to share the first of my projects)

UPDATE: many of you are wondering when the fabric will be available...it will be released this week at the Quilt Market show in Portland (to the trade only) and should start shipping to stores in July.

If you would like to see fabric samples up close you can visit the Coats website.
Time to start thinking, FABRIC!
cheers for a great week!
paula