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t 10 21 am 2 comments monday july 16 2018 setting up my new studio i currently have a studio at the hotshops art center in omaha nebraska i m moving from 216 to 305 around the first of august my daughter samantha is going to decorate the space and we re both designing it here are some pictures of the space before we start the doorway look to the right of that lovely double door that s space for me to hang quilts look to the left of the door the wall that has the chairs is also space to hang quilts i don t know whose chairs those are sam has some interesting ideas for the windows in the door the idea is to give visitors a glimpse into the room but i don t want to feel like i m at the zoo this is the wall to the left of the door as you look in see that sink it s really wide the bowl is on the left and the drain is on the right the drain is 48 long sloping towards the bowl you know what this means fabric dyeing right in a sink ice dyeing the ice can melt right into the sink and rinsing i can use the sprayer to quickly rinse the fabric without the dye falling back on the fabric one negative is that the hot water is not piped to this sink to the right you see another sink and that one has hot water i can switch the faucets and maybe get hot water piped over to the wide sink i ll have to figure it out you may also take note of the cabinets which have doors in less than perfect shape the upper doors are ok the bottom not so much ikea has inexpensive doors 7 and hinges that i think i can use to replace them my plan is to store dye supplies and tools as well as other surface design materials in the cabinets on the bottom not sure what goes on top as i can t really reach them anyway here is the back wall of the studio when you look in the door it s brick and it s very high i plan to use this part of the wall to display quilts i ll be fabricating some sort of hanging system so that no nails are put in the brick wall i will be attaching something to the joists that will allow me to show quilts and change them frequently i will also want to have safe storage for quilts to keep them from deteriorating looking north towards the window along the nice long walls on the left we ll have materials storage fabric books perhaps sewing cabinets on the right close to the window my longarm see those brown tiles on the wall at the right they are gone i ll be putting my working wall up there it will be made from designer tack bulletin boards covered with batting and cloth that section is 15 feet long the floor at the back 30 feet of the studio is really crappy it s the old wood factory floor it s a bit rough and has places for pencils and things to fall between the boards they won t fall down to the second floor there is a floor beneath it i will cover some of it with the rugs i have but i m looking for a solution for the space which is about 15x30 feet it needs to be something i can easily remove without damaging that floor further and inexpensive the floor in the foreground is fine it just needs to be cleaned i paid 5 for this table at the restore shop in omaha it was a white patio table in good shape cute but sorta boring on top sam painted it then created stencils and painted it again i m very impressed by her stencil skills as well as the composition isn t this marvelous stay tuned more is coming posted by robbi joy eklow at 9 58 am no comments wednesday december 27 2017 i sent in my dna for 23 me turns out i m 81 6 ashkenazi jew 14 7 middle eastern and then bits of other things from what i am reading the portion of middle eastern dna is typical for ashkenazi jews i never really knew where i came from never asked because no one in the family ever talked about the good old country probably because the old country wanted them to leave i don t really know i need to do some research and pay attention to more history but i do know that my greatgrandparents probably were have lucky to come here or they would have had a 2 3 chance of being deported and then murdered by hitler before hitler there were about 9 million jews in germany then they murdered 6 million of them my great grandparents i am pretty sure had already left my grandmother was born here in 1914 if i have it right i ve always thought of myself as culturally a jew but really not a religious one and really never thought about what that mean either here s something from wikipedia culturally an ashkenazi jew can be identified by the concept of yiddishkeit which means jewishness in the yiddish language 104 yiddishkeit is specifically the jewishness of ashkenazi jews 105 before the haskalah and the emancipation of jews in europe this meant the study of torah and talmud for men and a family and communal life governed by the observance of jewish law for men and women from the rhineland to riga to romania most jews prayed in liturgical ashkenazi hebrew and spoke yiddish in their secular lives but with modernization yiddishkeit now encompasses not just orthodoxy and hasidism but a broad range of movements ideologies practices and traditions in which ashkenazi jews have participated and somehow retained a sense of jewishness although a far smaller number of jews still speak yiddish yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech in styles of humor in patterns of association broadly speaking a jew is one who associates culturally with jews supports jewish institutions reads jewish books and periodicals attends jewish movies and theater travels to israel visits historical synagogues and so forth it is a definition that applies to jewish culture in general and to ashkenazi yiddishkeit in particular here s the whole wikipedia entry https en wikipedia org wiki ashkenazi_jews interesting huh posted by robbi joy eklow at 10 22 pm 1 comment thursday august 31 2017 goddess of the last minute studio 216 at the hot shops i know that blog posts are supposed to be more pictures and less text mine isn t here s a shot of the studio in the afternoon those windows are on the west wall and direct light doesn t really pour in until late in the afternoon the studio is 15x30 so i have my apqs millie set up at the west end by the windows i had dave jones who has been an apqs dealer for years move it from my house in third lake to my studio in the hot shops in omaha he took it apart trailered it to omaha set it up again and serviced it dave suggested i buy an uninterupted power supply to condition the power to the longarm i got one for about 70 and i m discovering it is well worth it i haven t had a power outtage but i need it for the smooth power it delivers the other day i was listening to an audible book using bluetooth and an inexpensive bluetooth sound bar the sound kept cutting in and out i thought it was the phone but when i moved the speaker and plugged it into the ups the sound stopped cutting in and out the ups is on the floor next to the millie on the right you can t see it i have two iris six drawer storage units sitting behind the longarm my collection of thread spools are distributed into the drawers i need more i want all my longarm thread and tools along that window wall on the outside edges so i can access everything while standing on the free motion side of the machine so most of the time i ll be facing away from the window with the light coming over my shoulder there is an old radiator there which may or may not give off enough heat i ll see this winter i usually run hot so it might be fine in any case my millie is happy to be out of my basement and in the sun the size of my studio is 15x30 and i m on the second floor there is a freight elevator but you have to manually open and close the door i can t reach the handle to close the door on the second floor so i can go up but not down unless someone is around to close it for me i tried using a pliers to grab the loop but it slipped out of the handle ikea and it fell down the shaft so i try to take the stairs so far i have three folding banquet tables 30x72 each i m going to add another so i ll have room for 8 students to take free motion quilting classes on domestic machines and also a dye class and some fusing classes here s what the studio looked like at the end of the day yesterday standing at one corner behind the longarm i just finished that quilt top that is right above the blue chair it s pale in the picture because you are seeing the back side of it with the paper from the fusible still on i will fuse the whole top to a piece of fabric to make a stable surface for quilting on the longarm the quilt towards the right corner of that 16 long working wall has been in progress for a while i dye all my fabric and use fusible applique to create the designs then i free motion quilt them on my longarm i m teaching three days of fusing classes in houston this year at quilt festival the first two days are sold out space in the third day appears to be open each class will have several patterns to choose from that aren t available anywhere but my workshops and many new patterns will debut there i ll be teaching at the mid atlantic quilt festival next february and patterns will be there too i bought a used bernina 770qe from a friend i plan to fire that up tomorrow i m making a sign for the door of my studio thanks for visiting come up to studio 216 if you are in omaha at the hot shops art center if i m there the door is open and you are welcome to come in hang out and look at my quilts posted by robbi joy eklow at 11 27 pm 5 comments sunday august 13 2017 studio 216 in the hotshops art center i just started renting a studio in the hot shops art center in omaha it s a very interesting building and i m really excited about it the building houses something like 80 artists in 50 studios i could be wrong on this number i believe it was originally a mattress factory which is appropriate for a quilter with a longarm right now i m a part time resident of omaha living in a loft at the greenhouse which is kitty corner to the old market i keep discovering new things i like about omaha which is fun because i ve lived in third lake for almost 30 years now in the chicago area for over 50 years so with the exception of the cubs winning the world series not many surprises anyway this week was my first at the hotshops and i spent monday through thursday getting some if it set up and then friday working on a quilt here is some of my progress so far the main entrance to the building i will find out the artist of the glass sculpture the entrance to my studio so far it s the door on the left that s my quilt the giant dollar bill was painted by dar the artist to right of me she has a huge space and does great paintings setting up my sewing cabinet designer tack panels similar to homasote but less dense made out of recycled wood not plastic i used 10 32x48 sheets to create a working wall that is 80 high by 15 feet wide brian helped me pin 90 wide cotton batting along the top of the working wall using corsage pins then he went back and covered the batting with cotton muslin that was 96 wide running the selvedge horizontally i will go back and neatly pin the vertical edges and the bottom against the designer tack panels when the fabric has relaxed and i can spread it all out smoothly in the meantime i pinned up some pattern printouts and a two yard piece of fabric i dyed last week during a demo at stitches midwest still a little disorganized and still not much in the space but i have more to do please stop by if you are in the area i won t be back for a few weeks so message me at robbi robbieklow com if you want to see my studio otherwise the building is really interesting and worth a visit i plan to eventually have my apqs millennium here i m not planning to rent it out or quilt for others at this time but i do plan to offer free motion quilting classes in my space either on the longarm or on domestic machines i have some ideas to offer during the college world series of baseball which is a block away and the hotshops are adjacent to several new hotels so the area is getting more and more interesting and we re a few blocks from downtown and two blocks from the basketball arena we saw queen during our july trip to omaha i ll be here more and more this winter posted by robbi joy eklow at 11 51 pm no comments friday march 18 2016 february so this quilt kenophobia won best wall quilt at the american quilter s society show in daytona beach fl in february since this was a big award and it was florida and february i decided to go down there to see my quilt in the show normally i don t do that but the prize was big enough to get on a plane change into my sandals and attend the show for a few days brian came along he was reluctant but i told him he could fish on saturday here s a picture of me standing by my quilt shortly after that i moved around the corner to look at someone else s quilt and two women walked by my quilt and one of them said something on the order of you never know what the judges were thinking which i thought was hilarious i think that quite often about other people s quilts so i don t mind it at all when someone says it about mine brian s eyebrows went up and i mouthed at him to be quiet and not say anything and then he had to spend sunday with me as the quilt show was closed so we hung out on daytona beach during the day and then at night we tried to watch the spacex rocket take off from cape canaveral but they scrubbed it twice the first time because a boat had wandered into the verbotten space surrounding the launch and then a second time because the delay caused by the boat allowed something to heat up in the meantime we kept running back and forth from our hotel room to the beach while i was checking the countdown on my iphone then we came home in time for a big snowstorm of course posted by robbi joy eklow at 12 23 pm 3 comments thursday february 11 2016 current quilt i started this quilt several years ago from a pattern used in my workshop art deco and flower fused components i worked on it during chicago modern guild retreat one year and lost a section there is supposed to be a band between the greek key section and those pointy petals i made corrections to the work in progress before i realized the initial mistake i found the missing pieces and figured out what had happened anyway i kept working declared the top finished and started quilting then i took it off my longarm in order to work on another project i decided instead of continuing to quilt it as is i d fix the parts i wasn t happy with and then instead of quilting i m going to do some thread painting over some of the pieces first i will mount the finished top on my longarm apqs millie to do the thread painting when i done bored with that i d remount it with batting behind it then quilt it i truthfully don t think this will take much longer than quilting the life out of it in the first place as the thread painted areas won t need quilting here s a picture of the top as it was this week i was w...