Whose going to St Louis?

I am! Have to shout about going to Jackman's Fabric's to meet and assistant the MAN. Mr. Christopher Nejman, live and in person. I have studied, read, punched and made pillows for a year now, learning machine punching, wonderful new techniques and creativity "out of the box". So needless to say I am very excited to meet the man who has certainly been my greatest influence, mentor and leader to get me this far...and much further. My star is starting to glow.

What a Thrill!

The Pillow on the heading of my blog has a Christoper Nejman embroidery design from his Elegant Decor 1 design pack. I manipulated the design, altered and inserted another design from his CD collection and came out with the elegant design you see. Christopher loved it and sent it to Amazing Designs.

They are now going to include this design in their advertising on their web. I am so honored and thrilled. So I just had to brag and boast.
.http://amazingdesigns.com/

Tropical Winds

When I showed this pillow to a very good friend of mine, she said it reminds me of a water spout. Well Yes, that made me feel like I accomplished the assignment. This pillow was created by Christopher as he watched a hurricane pass over, with swirling winds. Now that is creativity.

Desert Turquoise

This pillow is delicious. From Christopher's book, He wanted this pillow to represent stones. I can imagine this pillow in luscious browns and calling it Chocolate Buttercream. I believe this pillow done in any color is a true center piece.

OH, The Ra Pillow

Representing the Egyptian God of Ra, with its royal color and sunburts. So majestic.

This pillow was wonderful to recreate from Christopher's Book " Pillows" and Master class.
http://bagsandpillows.com

Along came Christopher Nejman

I watch and tape a few sewing and quilting shows. About a year ago I was watching an episode of Sewing with Nancy. She had a guest named Christopher Nejman on her show. He was using a Babylock Embellisher and punching an assortment of fabric (no cotton); satins, linings, silks.
I was amazed. I had an Embellisher for just about a year and a beautiful box of colored rovings. I had punched rovings, made some flowers, a cat, some designs, but it was just to blah for me and the machine just took up space and gathered dust. This guy had metallics threads, angelina, crystals, gems, glitter, paints and a BOOK coming out that I could learn how to do all this. He was punching happy glittery shining fabrics and creating beautiful designer pillows. I watched this episode 4 times, each time I was more excited. I went to his Bags and Pillow web site and immediately ordered the Pillow Book.

It all began

I have sewed most of my adult life, you know cute little dresses for the girls when they were little, a few creative outfits for modeling. That didn't last long. Tried many other crafts along the way, nothing held my interest. Back to sewing again, this time clothes for me. Along the way gifts, home decor stuff and baby gifts. Then I had a lull in sewing until I retired. Never tried quilting, so I took a class (you know the basic Tip Around the World) and off I went on a quilting spree. After a lot of squares, rectangles, half sq. triangles, rulers, templates and books, I discovered that I really wanted to create art. I wanted to do something different. So I searched around again with books, classes, quilting shows and played with a lot of different methods. I thought, you want to do something creative, but whoever said I was an artist and did I have the creativity to do this? Well I found the gentleman that said "yes" you can.