I Have A Notion: Bernina

Friday, June 4, 2010

Sarah Vedeler at Spring Quilt Market 2010 in Minneapolis, MN

Prior to going to Spring Quilt Market, I had never met Sarah Vedeler. IHAN sells her designs, coordinating silks and threads but I had never met Sarah. The most I knew about Sarah was from what I read on Facebook.

Imagine my surprise when I learn Sarah will be giving a presentation at Schoolhouse. I ran, yes ran (feel free to ask around....people definitely saw me running and walking extremely fast) to get to the room where she was presenting so I could get some photos and see her new designs.

Sarah Vedeler, I'm pleased to introduce you to the IHAN Blogifers. Blogifers, meet Dr. Sarah Vedeler, designer, software engineer and mother :)

GO! Be Dazzled is Sarah's latest machine embroidery design and pattern. Isn't it beautiful?

GO! Be Dazzled is a block of the month quilt featuring AccuQuilt GO! dies. The multi format CD contains 49 individual designs as well as designs formatted for a 12 month block of the month program with illustrated instructions.

The GO! Fabric Cutter Dies Sarah used include:

GO! Circle-2”, 3”, 5”
GO! Feathers
GO! Funky Flowers
GO! Heart-2”, 3”, 4”
GO! Round Flower
GO! Star 2”, 3”, 4”

I am just amazed at how beautiful the combination of machine embroidery and quilting can be. I'm an old time hand embroidery gal, I had no idea such things could be so lovely until the last year or so. I guess I have been living under a mushroom.

Later I walked into the Northcott Schoolhouse where there were no seats left and I was waiting to see what yummy fabrics they were introducing when I noticed I was standing next to Sarah Vedeler. I could not help but smile and ask Sarah if I could take a picture of her purse. I honestly felt like I was in Hollywood , casually asking Anthony Hopkins for a photo....Quilt Market is the Red Carpet for us quilters and I LOVE getting to meet and see all these talented folks.

This was the pretty bag Sarah was carrying. OM Goodness....can you imagine walking around town in a GREEN quilted SILK handbag? I wanted to grab it but Sarah looked too much like a lady and I did not want to make her chase me down the hallway. (I bet I could run faster....only because I would be fueled with envy....the dark emotion with lots of power!!!...LOL)

By now you must be thinking I had followed Sarah around the entire Quilt Market just waiting for her to appear. Truthfully, I just happened to be walking by the Bernina and Brewer booths and Sarah was there next to a Bernina 830 (ok....if you have one of these....keep it to yourself....honestly....I don't even want to know....because I don't know what I would do) that was embroidering one of her Heart designs.

This photo is just too cool for words....so I'll be quiet. Hear that? Yes....the silence!!!

Here is part of the Brewer Booth at Quilt Market. There will be more photos in other posts but this one grabbed me. Here is Sarah's Silk Hearts Collection: The Silk Hearts CD, the Dupioni Silk, the Aurifil Thread and the GO! Fabric Cutter dies that coordinate. Yes my heart was pounding being so close to all those delicious things. I really should take Valium before I go because my central nervous system goes haywire and I feel like I have a hangover when I get home. It takes me at least a week or two to recover....no kidding.

Sarah was standing right there, so of course I asked her if I could photograph her in front of her latest design, GO! Be Dazzled Quilt . I know I take a lot of photos but I want everyone to feel like there are with me on these adventures. If a photo is worth a 1,000 words.....then my posts are at least 100,000 plus words :)

I wonder where Sarah stores this quilt when it is not on display. Do you think her co-workers use it? (Sarah has two girls) My co-workers think I make every quilt that I photograph and I love that they actually think I could make something like this. One of them will walk up when I'm writing my blog and ask, "Momma, did you make that?" My favorite co-worker questions are when they ask if the photo is a picture of me when clearly I don't look anything like the photo. They both though the Bionce you tube video post was me dancing....you gotta love kids!!!