Open studio virtual tour

I shall be joining in with many others, no doubt, when I particpate in the Quilting Arts Open studio tour. Pictures and maybe ( if I learn the technology in time) a video of my studio space (aka the house save for the small bits my husband has managed to defend from the creeping textile spread). It is all in aid of Quilting Arts wanting publicity for this next issue of their Studios magazine - you can see the details here.

Personally I make a bee line for Blade Rubber Stamps shop the moment I see Studios is out, they being the only UK stockists I have yet come across. Which saying something as Blade is in London and I am several hundred miles away - fortunately the shop will reserve me a copy and when I am down for work I trot along and claim it as my own. Then I reverently put it away in my hotel room. Until, I am settled in a nice seat on the train home, feet up on the seat opposite (shoes off of course) with a nice cup of tea and a special nibble. I open that first page and start to drool and whimper aspirationally and plan how to break the news to Dennis that he has to live in a caravan because I need to knock all the walls in the house through to make my perfect studio.

It is basically addictive porn for people with a cupboard fetish. But you can read it in public. And soon it will turn into a kind of swingers party with everyone showing their bits off on the Internet. And still the Vice squad will not come knocking. Apart from that female officer with the nice lap quilt on the back of her squad car maybe.

It all happens on the 3rd October. A weekend at that. Oh, blissful blog reading to come.