February 28, 2009
The Tapings
Here is a view out my hotel window. I stayed in the Clarion for two nights, one night alone (I took a long hot bath), and one night with Lyric Kinard.
Not a gorgeous view, but hey! we got a coprporate rate.
Here is a pile of my artwork and a beginning to the madness. Organizing for this sort of thing is major.
I wonder how Pokey does it, times 13!! She has projects to do, outfits to manage, she is a dynamo! Here is how she organizes her outfits to each segment.
This is too funny. I had been telling Pokey of a certain Martha Stewart segment where a cook from Patsy's in New York City showed Martha how to make meatballs. Martha was true to her own form and talking about the aeromatic mixture, the cook looks at her and says, 'Yeah, and if you like da garlic, pudt it."
Here is an action shot of us, pudtin' it. Now go check her blog, for a video of it. I love how sweet she was pudtin it.
So here is a photo of the taping room as you enter,
and another from as you would see it as a guest, taping on the show. It gets HOT in there. I taped my DVD, late at night and as I got more tired the sophorific effect of the heat, lights and length of the taping had its toll. Can't wait to see how they edit my bloopers.
Helen is a member of the Quilting Arts team. She was a peach and washed my monoprint/dye/yuck in her pretty pink sweater.
Bernina is a sponsor of this years QATV segments. I spoke with Jeanne, thier National Events Coordinator. She got me working with these two machines. This 440 won #1 in this months the Consumer Reports rating for ten sewing machines. A really solid machine. I liked t alot.
This is the new 830, it is huge, has a fantastic bobbin and feed bed. It has memory and goes really fast. If I were to buy a new machine, I would need a more humble machine, but I really liked this one.
Yum.
It was so much fun!
I met Terry White, Jamie Fingal, Alisa Burke (whom I wish I had some time to get to know), Jay McCarroll's, Catherine Nicholls. I am sure I have forgotten someone and I mean no offense by it!