Rohling Studios

Simpsons Avatar

I had to do it!  I had to see how I would look if I guest starred on The Simpsons!  LOL!  Yoikes!!!  To make your own avatar go to the websites for the Simpsons Movie....Click here!  If you like The Simpsons you can have some fun with this site!  If you are at all vain do not make your avatar!!!

I Found This Old Truck Yesterday -International L-120 Series

Isn't this the coolest old truck???  Some of you already know that I can not pass up an opportunity to photograph very spiffed up cars and trucks...or very rusty old ones.  Instead of just putting up the photos I used Slide to make a slide show with the old movie filter.  My favorite shot is the rearview mirror that shows the reflection of the trees in the car window!....a reflection of a reflection of a reflection!!!  Is it me... or would you like to take a nice fall day and revisit all the wooded backroads those hubcaps were through?    I hope the engine in my little red truck holds up long enough for me to drive it around when it is this old....for that matter I sure hope I hold up that long!  I LOVE my little red truck!

International Quilt Festival/Chicago/Country Threads

While at the Quilt Festival I had the pleasure of meeting Mary Etherington from County Threads.  She gave me permission to film her for the blog while she was doing a demonstration of rug weaving.  A chicken house in north central Iowa became home to Country Threads, Inc. in 1983. Connie Tesene and Mary Etherington, two friends who loved to sew, started a small quilt pattern business, which has become Iowa’s largest and best known “quilt shop in a chicken coop.” Country Threads is based and located in Garner Iowa.  Be sure to visit their web site and go out of the way to visit them if you can. ("Four Miles West of the Garner Stoplight on Hwy 18...Look for the signs.") Their next stop is the Spring Quilt Market May 4,5,6 in Salt Lake City, UT.  Then they are on to Minnesota Quilters June 15,16,17 in St. Paul.  They have a fall Camp from September 18-22.  The cost is $175.  The two entrepreneurs, who started by designing four patterns, currently have designed over 800 patterns and books. Country Threads patterns are sold in quilt shops around the world. They also put out quite a newsletter called "Goat Gazette".  See for yourself....Their booth was packed full of the most wonderful things! 

I'd like to make these great banners and I know my daughter would love their punch needle patterns. And...

I'd love to order this to make!  Isn't it just the most adorable Quilt (with a capitol "Q")?  To visit their online shopping click HERE.