New interfacing, new book and new job!!

I was in Birmingham on Sunday & Monday to attend a meeting with my publisher and Coats Crafts UK (more about that in a minute).

The setting was a craft supplier and manufactures trade fair.  I had a great time running amok in the aisles checking what's hot and what's going to go into my shop and/or into the new book. Work shouldn't be this fun!

 

New Job

So, why a meeting with Coats Crafts UK? Weeelll I have some exciting news: I am going to be a Coats gal/expert/designery type person. Which means I will teach/attend Coats hosted workshops/book signings/talks and other such crafty events held in stores, fairs and in their headquarters.  Woo hoo!  This is like a big deal for me. Not so long ago I first met the nice Coats people at one of Amy Butler's Liberty book signings. I had NO IDEA that some time later I will find myself in similar shoes in the very same Liberty store with shaky pen in hand signing copies of my own books. 

Oh, and thanks to Coats; I will have a really lovely 'Lisa Lam' area on The Cotton Patch stand at Festival of Quilts 2011.  Their stand is always aa-mazing!  It'll be nice a roomy so we can all have a good gossip in comfort.  The Festival is simply brilliant, everyone says so!  Please please please say you can come and say Hi!

 

New Book

What else?  My publisher and I talked more about the new book.  I'm soo excited about it! 

All I can divulge is:

• it will be published in 2 parts (the first part this year, the rest in Spring 2012)
• it's full of things that you've asked for
• It's most likely going to be hardback spiral bound with full sized patterns
• the book concept hasn't been done before
• You might at some point see me doing the bag making thing in film...
• and...I'll deffo have this new fabric somewhere in the book. I saw it in the flesh at the fair. It's LUSH! Ty Pennington  I salute you!

 

USA here I come!!

One of my crafty dreams is going to come true - I'm flying across the crafty pond!!!!  I'll be attending Spring Quilt Market in SLC. I'll be giving a talk (YIKES!!) and I'll be goofing around the stands with the crafty rock stars. I'll be sure to take a vid cam and snag you some interviews and previews.

**It's still to be confirmed (but I'll keep you posted). Amy Butler and I are trying to wangle a double book signing in St Mary's Ohio on May 20th. Amy will deffo be there, I am hoping to be there, and it'd be brilliant if you were going to be there too!**

 

New Interfacing

So I was walking around the trade fair with my craft fiend editor (and another lover of interfacing) Jennifer and I spotted a stand that specialized in loads of different weights of interfacing. I squealed very loudly and ran over waving my arms (well, in my head I did). I saw a product that looked a lot like the now defunct Flexi-firm. You have no idea how much I (and a lot of my customers) have yearned for a satisfactory substitute. After having a touchy feely of the stuff I can happily report that the arduous search is finally over. In fact this stuff is better becuase it irons out better than the Flexi-firm did.   I'm just finalizing supplier account stuff so I hope to have it back in stock real soon.  YAYYY!   Yes people, it's perfectly normal to get this excited by interfacing. :)