Special Guest, Michelle Schneider of Malva Muse Quilt Company

Our, the quilt we're doing today has, or that we've worked on this time, has 96 half-square triangles. And so I said to the group that, you know, if you know how to do eight at a time, that's great, or the papers, we had papers with it. And Michelle will tell you her lock, lock, lock, lock, lock, lock, lock, lock, lock, lock, how hurt, how she became, lock. Welcome to the inappropriate quilters podcast where we talk about life, quilting, and we throw in a few inappropriate things. I'm your host, Leslie Bercher, along with my inappropriate friend and co-host, Rochelle Rice. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Hey, hey! Well, so last week, you know, you had the surprise for me that people don't know about that surprise because they haven't heard it yet? Yes, yes. This week, there's a surprise for you that you don't know about. So you know, we've talked about our love child. Yes. Here's our love child going to be with us today. Hi, love child! This is Michelle Schneider. And because we have been talking with different people that have gone into different things in the industry, and I thought it would be very good for us to have Michelle's story also. Oh, very nice. She does. So people have heard us talk about that. I've always said, and we're right now, we're at Quilt with My Peeps, and Michelle is one of the participants here. And so before she got here, the other people that were here, I said to them, you guys need to understand anything that I can do, Michelle can do better. And anything that anybody here can do, she can do better, but she can actually back it up because she truly is the most amazing thing in the world. Well, I'm sure that is all very true. And then some we have to tell her that she can't shake her head because our audience can't hear her shaking her head. She has to speak. I saw her shaking her head, but I know that that's just humility and that's nice. Humility is always a good thing. So the best thing that she ever did, I'll let you tell them what you did, what you brought in and how I kind of commediered. Oh, yes. So I have a habit of wanting things organized. So I'll figure out a way to organize my stuff so I don't so I can be fast and not have to think too hard. So I have a friend in California. Yeah, absolutely. It's purple hobbies. And I met her at a retreat and she has a 3D printing business and she's got these wonderful little alphabet tags. So they're uppercase A, uppercase AA. Anybody who does Elizabeth Hartman knows that you've got to label all your pieces. Well, I'm in our East. Yep. I'm getting there. Oh, yeah. That's okay. She's telling us. She's telling us. It's my story, Russia. That's right. Sorry. I'm going to do something for the right. And in doing that, it's got the lower case and the double lower case. So I reached out to Heather and I asked her if she would put together the other companions to those letters so I could have all of those. And I, in the past, I've made, she had some letters and I made some other little things with the little alligator clips, the little quote clips. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. She made them for me. She sent them to me and I added them with a little split ring to those quote clips because you cannot pin through 25 pieces. And if you've done it... Oh, that's true. 25 or 45, two and a half inch squares. So you need the clip. So I have the clips and they have all their little letters on them and there's four sets. Well, you can't have the four sets because Roshella told me there was no way she would use them because she couldn't keep them organized. So that got me thinking. So on my machine, I went ahead and created kind of like a binder sheet that's got tabs and each clip clips on those rows of tabs. Oh, very cool. Oh, there's four sets and I showed up. I'm going to cut my Art East quilt and Rochelle comedeered it. I did because I'm still working with it. But the thing that's even more amazing with it is that the binder clips, like if it's a green binder, you know, if it's a green clip, yeah, meaning that she has to put on it is green. So you know what binder piece to put it back in. Oh. So then we're sitting here and I said, oh my God, we've got a FaceTime John. So I FaceTime John and Matt and John were there and I said, and I said, oh, as I always say to him, oh, thank you so much for picking up. Thank you for taking my call because that's always our thing. But oh, thank you for taking my call. So he looked at it and he was like totally impressed. So then today we're sitting here and I'm starting to cut Captain Hook and Captain Hook is so huge that going to that you're cutting. He's gone through all the uppercase and lowercase a's and b's and, you know, all through the full alphabet. So now we're starting lowercase a, a, a, b, a, c or however he has it. So I called and I said, we just need to know is there is that going to continue to be something in all the quilts? And he said that one probably not, not a lot because that quilt, you know, yeah. Just, he's just so big. So we were, that was pretty cool. But Michelle is going to tell you a bit about her journey of what she worked with because it's very interesting. Okay, Michelle, where are you first? Like where are you located? Like, how did you find Rochelle? How did you find this retreat? Like, what's the story? Well, you all know the ninja, Angela. Yes. I met Angela six years, seven years ago. Seven years ago, yeah. And became fast friends. Okay. I've known Angela a long time and Angela messaged me and said, oh, 18 months ago. Yeah. You need to go on a retreat with me and we're going to go to Oklahoma. It's only a four hour drive for you. I'm from Parkville, Missouri. Okay. So it's just, just north of. Yeah. And she said, you need to go on this retreat with me. Well, I mean, of course it's Angela. We all do Angela. And so I told her, I said, yeah, I'll go on this retreat. I'd love to see you. Um, and so I showed up a year ago, Galentines. And I was, I came in, I put my stuff down, I went into the kitchen, everybody's standing around. And so I just introduced myself and I introduced myself to Rochelle and I was like, hi, I'm Michelle and you are. And she said, you don't know who I am. And I said, no. She said, well, I'm Rochelle Rice. And I said, and I had never heard the podcast. Okay. I had no, I mean, I knew I was coming to this retreat. I didn't know, I didn't see Madam and she was like, how'd you get here? And I said, well, Angela said I should. So I mean, I did. Yeah. So, and since then I've been back to the winter wonderland, another Galentine and now peeps. Um, I'm only four hours away. So if there happens to be a spot open up, I'm always game to hop in the car and drive down. So that's great. You know, and, and I was like, because everybody else that was at the Galentines, they came because they knew I didn't understand how, I mean, you're so I was like, how did you? Well, yeah, cause I'm like, how do you know how, how did, how did you arrive here, Michelle? Tell your story. So anyway, after that time, though, well, then we instantly became very, very good friends at that part. And then she says, oh, you need to come to my house. And I'm like, game, game on. Oh my gosh, that's funny. And then we started retreating together and she has a poodle and you know, how much I love a poodle. However, I will tell you that this woman made me play this game. That is, I did not. So I was her saying, so her, that's right. She, she was quilting the red panda for our in-house council that, that, that. So I was working on at that retreat. So a couple of things that I did to Michelle, I said about, she was making this nutcracker and I don't know why I said I would never do this nutcracker. It was like, I would like, and, but I think it's that I was trying to get Anna Green-Gables finished for that donation. And then Reba was working on the red panda for the cancer quilt. And anyway, her son-in-law was talking about this game. What's the name of the game? Hughes and Clues. She's going to tell you about Hughes and Clues here in a second. Hughes and Clues. Okay. So her son-in-law is really bad at this game. And so I, so what are you cut some kind of a moron? So I'm teasing him because he's so bad at this game. Leslie, I only got two points. I don't even know how you only got two points. I don't even know. I think these guys gave me the points. She's going to tell you how you play Hughes and Clues. I was horrible. And I'm thinking that you're worse than him. So Cherry Hill is there with us and Cherry is sitting there and she's like, she's good. She's good. And she loves the game. And I said, she goes, oh, you'll be good at this game. And she looks at me and she goes, how can you be this bad? I love the cherry so honest. Yeah. So the game is, I mean, if you think about just a board of color that goes from, you know, upper yellow in the upper left to brown to the lower right. It's just all of the color, much like a Panto sheet. Yeah. And you have a one word clue. Whoever draws the card, they have a one word clue for one color that's on their card. So if they have yellow, green, purple and orange, they might choose the yellow and say sunshine. So that's the clue. And everybody has to put their little man on the yellow square that they believe is sunshine and you can only have one man on each square. And so then after everybody has put their piece on, that person gets a second clue and it's a two word clue. So you might say ripe banana to go with sunshine. But then everybody puts another man on the board and then there's a corral. It's a corral of nine. The corral goes over with the color in the center. Whoever's inside the corral gets two points. If you're outside the corral by one square, you get one point. And then whoever had the clues gets a point for everybody in the corral. And so to get only two points means in a pretty bad home, she was only remotely close. That's because she wasn't focused. And I think they actually gave me the points because I was so pathetic. I'm pretty sure maybe you weren't. I'm thinking you weren't very focused because I love to pull out this one particular green and just say Bonnie Camille and people should just know what color green that is. You know what color green that is listening? Yep. Teal. It's like aqua, awkward green. Are we losing? I don't know what happened to the sound. Oh, we just lost your sound. I don't know. I can hear me and I can hear you. Okay. Say something again. I can hear you and I can hear me. I, we just, we just put, we just turned. Your volume down. Sorry. Are you on your phone? We are on my phone. Oh, I thought you had a computer. Well, you know, um, I didn't. Well, it works. It's working. You know, I got a call. It's funny. I had a call, um, to this afternoon, Robin at the shop up the street, uh, Southern Comforts, uh, she called and said, asked if I was busy and I said, I'm cutting fabric. So yes, but I'll be cutting fabric till the end of time. So what's up? And she said that we had a listener, um, from the podcast in the shop from LA today and was hoping to meet one of us. And I was like, okay, I'll. So I got dressed clearly, uh, and ran down the street to meet her. Her name's Jackie. She's lovely and her son. Um, he, uh, works for the Oklahoma city thunder. Oh, wow. Interesting. She was, she was super fun and she was working on a quilt, um, from, uh, Julia. She has Julia, the, um, the barn quilt gal, uh, red rain boots handmade, you know, that makes all the little barn quilts. Yeah. She does the fabric swap and she did like a red, white and blue fabric swap. And so she had put together this beautiful, it was like pinwheels, but she had made the pinwheels out of strips out of the strips that was in the swap. And it was just fantastic. So she was in there looking for some extra fabric, but she was like, oh, it'd be so cool to get to meet one of the, meet the inappropriate quilters. I was like, well, I'm here, Rochelle's at a retreat shocker. Um, but, uh, yeah. Doc. But I'm like, but I'm never at a retreat. So you could, you, here I be. So anyways, she was very, very nice. Oh, and the other gal that was in there, I, she didn't know me or she knew me, but I didn't know her, but she knows you. Her name's Mickey. Something she said, she shut, she sows with you. She is someone with you at the studio. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so yeah, I was out and about today, um, meeting people, but I wasn't planning on it. We went to red barn today to do some shopping. How was that? Wonderful. It was great. It was good. Um, uh, I got a job. Yep. Yep. She got a job. She got a job. So that's a good thing. Oh, you got a job? Yeah. Oh, fabric, fabric and folding it. Oh, well, I need you over here. Why are you over there? Like I, I, I, I, fine. I've, I'm still not finished and I've been cutting all day. Yeah. So it's going to be probably another day. I've got, thank God for the, uh, yeah, it's, I used the electric cutter, you know, the one that I bought and I love it, but only for certain cuts, certain cuts. Like the smaller cuts, I'm like, no, I can't because it's just too much to finagle. But the bigger ones that I'm, then I can really stack. I can, I can chop right through it. We've got a shop that has a wooden, um, basically a wooden guard, like a table saw. And they put that down and then they run that electric one across it. Oh yeah. This, this thing's fantastic. Block blocks, haven't you? Block blocks. Block blocks. Block, yes, I have used it. I don't use it very often because I press open and I think, I don't think it's as effective if you press open. So, so we are, the quilt we're doing today has, or that we worked on this time has 96 half square triangles. And so I said to the group that, you know, if you know how to do aided time, that's great. Or the papers, we had papers with it and Michelle will tell you her lock, block, block, block, block, block, block, how her, how she became blocked. I'm not blocked. No, do you, so you like block, block. Um, I actually worked for them. Wow. Okay. Fantastic. So I, I started, we lived in Northern Colorado. They are out of Loveland, Colorado. Okay. And, um, I started in a quilt shop. My girls were in Girl Scouts and there was an owner who was their professional mentor, um, for their gold project. So anybody who knows about that's like, like Eagle Scout. Eagle Scout for boys. Yep. So they needed a professional mentor that was not their mom. And her name was Melissa Mangan. She owns the sewing circle in Fort Collins. She's awesome. And she said, I'll do that for you. And she opened her shop on Sundays for charity. They're, their teams were anybody from four to four years old to 90. Oh, wow. And they did these huge projects and I worked for her. I loved it. And then I was approached by block lock to come and work for Jana writing patterns and being her assistant. So walked in and I already loved the rulers, but I had only used half square triangles and flying geese. Lots and lots of people do not even know that there are other shapes. Oh, I'm not familiar with them square diamond in a triangle. They're all these other shapes that work exactly the same way. But when you start combining them, you end up with quilts that look like they've been paper pieced, but they're not. So I worked for her for a while and then my husband took a promotion and we moved in, um, they are now going through a transition, but there's, their products are still out there. Um, I absolutely love them. I can sit down. I have several quilts. I can sit down to eight in the morning and have it off the quilter and bounded eight at night. Because fantastic. That's awesome. Yeah. I've, I've used them and I've got, I've got them. Um, and I've used them a few times, especially now, I probably would use them if I had like 90 something to cut. I probably would just not press open. I would just press to the side. You have to press to the one side because that's the whole point of that groove that walks into the same and then you cut based on a seam line. So everything is perfect every time. Oh yeah. And then you were even making patterns for them. I was, I was. Cause, cause Michelle's quite the little pattern designer. She'll say she's not, but she truly is. See, she just said that I'm not, but she is. I mean, she designs patterns and makes amazing. I mean, and she'll do not. It's on the long arm. Um, so like bags and things like that to make that go on. Oh, nice. That's a good deal. That's awesome. All this rando stuff is coming through on the phone. Oh, I think that a pattern, I just think that when people sit down to create with this, we put our soul into it and you should love everything you do and do what you love. And so if I write a pattern, I love to write the pattern, but I just love to see people create it. There's nothing more humbling than seeing your idea or your design in some under somebody else's needle. Yeah. Oh, I can only imagine. You know, I have to say, like even putting like some kits together, even though they're not my patterns, but just knowing that I've got people sewing along with me and seeing everybody working on those projects and making them come to life. It's exciting. So I can only imagine doing that as a pattern designer. I think that that would be so, so awesome. And then when she's, but the other thing that I really appreciate that Michelle does is that she'll write a pattern that's going to go with that ruler, but then she also has it that if you don't have a certain rule, she tells you what other things you can use in place of it. Yeah. And so, and you're kind of, so, so tell them how, how they get a hold of you because you are a long armor. I am. And, and she, you know, lives in Missouri, but it's, it's important. And she has a pretty quick turnaround time. I do. I do. So I am the Malva Muse. Malva is the family of cotton. So it's the Malvaeci family. I am a botanical nerd. I have a degree in horticulture. So, Malva Muse. And I'm on Facebook right now because I am Instagram ignorant. So I'm working on it. And I, I watch a little six month old granddaughter right now. So I'm working through getting all of this done. Yeah. And kind of branded as the Malva Muse, just because I think it's kind of a fun play on the cotton family. That's right. And I have a 48 hour turnaround. So, wow. You call me a quilt top and it comes on Tuesday. It is back in the mail on Thursday. I think that I, you know, I really truly believe that if my house is going to have some type of disaster, I don't want your quilts in it. So I want to get your quilts, get them on the quilter, get them off the quilter and get them back in your hands. I kind of have the same process for mine because I, I, I say when it's time for you to send it, because usually you send it and then I can turn it around pretty quick. And so I just don't want to have a pile. I don't want to pile piles of quilts here for me to be responsible for. Not that I'm not responsible. I'm quite responsible. No, I understand. Yes. I have the same thing. But I think, oh, I don't want to have all these, these customer quilts in my possession. Me, I let them sit on my shelf for at least seven months before I started. So thank we know this is not true. Thank when someone has poured all of that effort into it, depending on where it's going, who it's for. I had a sweet, sweet lady who had an emergency and said, I need to get this quilt. And I said, well, if it's, if it's here by Wednesday, I will have it back in the mail on Thursday because it was a unique situation. And I just think you put all that effort into something and you know, you're excited. And if you're excited, if you get it back quickly, you get it bound, you're excited. You're going to start your next project. And that's good for me. Yeah, absolutely. I think that that it reminds me of though my Christmas quilt that I did for that gal that needed it. Like, but I mean, it was, yeah. And then it got here at like 730 at night and I was up to like two AM, three AM getting it done because she needed some help getting the backing put together. And it was a whole ordeal, but I felt honestly at the end of that, I was so, um, I was so happy for her like to have that finished because I know that it was sometimes quilts aren't just wonderful. Sometimes they're, they feel like a burden and they've been so hard. And if it's been so hard that you're like sending, you're like, I'm just throwing this backing in the box so that you can just put it together because I can't look at this anymore. Then it's, you've got those situations too. And so, um, I was just, I was tickled, tickled pink for her to get it back and be done and it be done. Cause I, I bound it and everything for her. Um, so when she got it back, it was done done and, and yes, she could just gift it for Christmas and be done. Well, the other thing that Michelle does it, and she, she has been so good with this. So Rona the Riveter, um, you know, Rona has her book that's getting ready to come out and she has all the quilts that they need to get photographed for it. And we were together for gallon times and Rona calls me and she says, Hey, she says, I need some help with getting some of these quilts finished. She said, I'm on this timeline. And I said, Rona, there is no way I can help make, I, I, I cannot piece of quilt. I've got these other things I need to get finished. I, I said, I just can't. I said, but Michelle's here. And I said, maybe I'd talk to Michelle. And so Michelle's like, well, I don't know if I can get this. Lo and behold, she talks with Rona and she finished two of the quilts that she peeps and then you're doing two more that you're waiting for the fabric to come in. And so the quilts that are that Rona's patterns that Michelle has pieced will be in the book. So Michelle will have a byline that she was the piece. Oh, that's nice. I did. I did because she said, well, if you can piece them and quilt them. And I texted, I said, do you want them bound to, and she said, yep, just do it all. Oh my gosh, that's came on a Thursday. I think they were back in the mail on Tuesday. Two of the. That is so great. So Michelle's what would I, and this is again, why, when I say our love child, anything that we can do, she can do so much better because that is so untrue. But it is not untrue because she really does back it up with the stuff that she does. And, you know, Michelle has this heart of gold that she is, she truly has a heart of servitude that, you know, she, she hears someone need something and you are the first person on it. As a matter of fact, one of the things that she's doing for me, and I, I laugh about this is that, you know, for two months, my quilt, Dee's quilt and my quilts were the featured artists at the Hamilton Quilt Museum. And so I have the quilts that need to get there, but I'm teaching and these quilts need to be with me and I'm doing programs and things and I need to get them to Hamilton. So Michelle's daughter, she has Joplin is one of her territorial areas. And I said, Hey, does she happen to be that she'll be in Joplin because if she is, then I can send these quilts and Michelle says, well, Joplin's not that far from me. I will drive down and pick up your quilts and I will get them to Hamilton for you so that you can Hamilton is not Hamilton is far from Joplin. But, but Joplin is two hours from me and Hamilton's an hour from me. So I can, it's, it's purely selfish Leslie. I get to drive down to Joplin and see Rochelle and then I get to drive over to Hamilton and see Dakota. Yeah. I mean, come on. This is a way for me. Okay. I said, well, I appreciate that you're going to do this. I have a better idea because it is a better idea. Derek, your husband loves sourdough more than anything else in the world. So how about me? Other than you? Yes. How about if I drive to your place from Joplin, which is going to be two hours. I hang out with you at the house. Sounds good. We do a little quilty, quilty things. I leave the stuff. I come back home because Lance is Lance knows that I'm going to be in job. He doesn't know that I'm only going to be gone for two days. If I'm gone for four days and she can take them the other two days, I get two days of Michelle time that we're not sharing. We we're not sharing each other with anybody else. It's just the two of us. Very fun. Okay. Well, then that's a win for everybody. It is. It is. But I was like, okay, Michelle Hamilton, that's not like just a hop, skip and a jump. That's we moved back to the Kansas city area a few years ago and. Hamilton became my local. Hamilton's farther than an hour from Joplin, but I live in Parkville. How far is Parkville from Joplin? Two hours. Okay. So I'm not going to drive it all in one day. I would take them home and then another day head over. I was like, that's a lot of driving. Oh, you are. You are very, very, very generous. Absolutely. She is. So then when I commandeered her, uh, her little tag, she did. She stole my tags. I am going to be behind and we're going to tell John. It's all Rochelle's fault that my, that she's on chapter six and I can't even start chapter one tonight because she took my tabs, but that's okay because I'm going to make some more tabs. I already have them on order from Heather. Um, she's sending them to me. So that's awesome to be so gracious that I'm sending the bag back with her. So I designed the bag, but I'm keeping the tags. But then, um, um, Janelle Abbott came out yesterday and today. And so those two are working together because Janelle has a 3d printer. Oh yeah. So in their big thing to do this, they came up with this. What if, what if? Yeah. Because you should have seen the, it's, it's so interesting to watch the minds of makers that do this for a living thing that they have. And, and then having John involved with it and that, you know, all, all of us in there doing this whole, how do we get these tags? That's fantastic. It's going to be really good. Yep. That's awesome. To create something that those, those, uh, fabric sheets will, will actually hang on so they can sit next to your machine, sit on your cut table. It's going to be fantastic. I, I'm super excited. I need to see pictures. I'm very visual. I put it on my Instagram. I, I posted them on the tabs on my Instagram yesterday. You did today? Yeah. And it's the tabs and it's, it's, it's, it's showing the tabs from, and it shows the book. And it is pretty dang amazing. I'm telling you, so then she's sitting there and she says to me before I start using, she goes, oh, we need to change this because this is the, this is the 2.0, but the 2.1 needs to be, these tags need to go back here. And I said, I don't know if they need to go back there because I think they're working quite well for me. Good. Oh, those are very cool. They're amazing. And, and then a couple other other things. And it's, it's again, it's interesting when you're working on this stuff because the woman that printed them for her, you know, when we have a lower case, we have a B, we always put a line underneath our B. So you don't, it doesn't, so it's not a P. And so I did those because those weren't printed on there. So I took a black sharp, you put it on, but now you've talked with the woman and they'll be redesigned for it. Very cool. Okay. But who made, who made the little claw things? Think of that because she doesn't use them. Who made the little claw things? I don't, you know, this is something that somebody else asked me for. And, and she said, oh, that, I didn't even think about that. And I said, well, with the lower case, you know, you're you and you're in and your B, P, Q and D. We don't need to be any more confused. Exactly. We're all confused as it is. Okay. But who made the claw things that they're clipped to? Those are so cute. You know, it's one of those things that just, you know, I, but that's like a no brainer. Like when you think about how can you do it? I need to, I need to just do this. So I, I actually did those on the long arm. So cute. I love those. Those are really cute. It's so nice. All the letters, you know, I mean, because we were given letters from just one set of letters that I use a lot that I have to put back on the, you know, on the little paper card, but they're harder for me to put with the paper cards and things. And when Michelle and I were talking about, well, part of it is she was making fun of me because I cut when I do all of this. I, you know, I, I take up, I take my striphology ruler and I cut one inch squares with my striphology ruler out of paper. And then I write the letters on there and then I clip them. Well, because I don't want to have to rewrite these, because I know that every chapter is going to use the same one. So I saved those little scraps of paper and then I sat down when I finished with them, I put them back in alphabetical order again. So she's making fun of me that it's like, why are you throw the piece of paper? I said, I already have to make. I showed her my 1.01. That's true. That's true. I showed her the 1.0. She said, I would never use those because I don't have a place to put them. So the little fabric sheets, that was so when she saw it, she would say, oh my goodness, Michelle, I want to have this. And then I would say to Rochelle, I'm sorry, you told me you would never use them. Oh, there you go, Michelle. And like it is, this is one of those things. And I've said this, I said this when I did the quote for Reba. You did. There is no, there is no reason to have the skill if we do not share it with others. And it is, I truly believe that that if you can, you should. And if, and if, why would I be given this, this ability? I mean, even if I hack my way through it, why would I be given the ability to do it if it wasn't to share it with others? I love that. Okay, Rochelle, I have a confession to make. Okay. I am currently recording this in my cozy earth, essential socks. And I think I've officially become a sock snob. Okay. Now wait a minute. Are those, is that what's sitting here right here waiting for me? Yes. I haven't even had a chance to open my package yet. I know I'm so bad about this. I'm so bad about this. I, I can't help myself when, when people send us packages. I feel like I've got to rip into them. I know. And you know, you always do this. And when the packages come to my house, I never open them. We need to have people start sending them to me tomorrow. Okay. But I'm telling you, I've always been, I've always been a socks on girl. Cause I don't like cold feet and I don't like walking around my house in bare feet. But these are like a total revelation. Like they're plush, temperature regulating. It's like a yummy hug for your ankles. Okay. It's so good. Now I really am jealous. These are, these are pretty soft and they're very thick. I wonder how they feel in someone's like running shoe. Oh, well, I haven't actually put them in. I haven't worn them in my shoes, but that's a really good point. But I, I'll tell you right now, they don't leave annoying tight elastic. Cause I hate that. I'm like marks around your ankles by the end of the day. And you're, you just don't want to take them off. Okay. So I'm looking at this and it looks like the back here, this little piece that's sitting here is so that your so your shoes don't rub on your ankle. No, they don't eat your socks. Oh, so that I, I used to say, I'm sure that's a design that's there. Yeah. And did you see what, did you see what else you got? Okay. Okay. So this is a real, first of all, I, I love the bag. So, and I, I, I'm thinking, is this my comforter? Have you used your chair? Okay. Rochelle, I'm going to tell you it's dangerous. It's like a cloud that actually behaves itself. It doesn't rain. It's just a cloud on top of you. And you know how you always want to stick one leg out? Like you can tell you to stick a leg out to regulate your temperature. No more of that. You don't actually have to do that. It is like a perfect, like yummy hotel, luxury weight. And you feel like tucked in and yummy. It's so good. It's so good. Okay. So as soon as we get home, I'm going to put this on my bed, but what, what are these little, are these little hooks that are here on the end of this, or doesn't right up? So that you can tie onto your duvet covers and then it doesn't shift around in your, in your duvet cover. Like, you know how I can, I literally cannot stand when that happens. And look at how pretty this is with that lace that's on there. It's so pretty. It's pretty. So pretty. It's pretty. That's very pretty. So, you know, Leslie, it's all about these tiny upgrades that they've done, that the lace that's on there and those little hooks to go onto your buttons. You know, we spend so much time focusing on our quilts and our projects that we sometimes forget that the things that are touching our skin all day. And all night, much, as much as that matters. Yeah, it does matter. And I don't really think about that, but it's those little routines and turning them into a real choice because nothing makes me crazier than getting in a bed and being hot or too cold or whatever is so nice and it's good for our sanity. Well, we need to discover how care and every detail transforms simple routines into moments of true comfort and peace. True comfort. So if you guys want to experience this too, head to CozyEarth.com. Use our code IQ for up to 20% off. And if you get a post-purchase survey, make sure you mention that you've heard about CozyEarth right here on inappropriate quilters. You guys, you want to experience the craft behind the comfort and make every day feel intentional. Cozy Earth. And she definitely shares selfishly. I just love the community and the fellowship. So then I start cutting him. And I don't ever sew or cut things at retreat. This is the first time you've ever seen me do something like this. Yeah, like, like this. Absolutely. Because I'm the actual instructor. But the project. I know where they know you are. Yeah, when they know I am. That's right. But because the project that everybody's working on, they're cutting and they are now PC 96. And then what are you guys making 42 flying geese? Oh, that's the peeps, right? That's the quilting with the peeps. It's a lot of half-square triangles and flying geese, but oh my goodness, it's so darling. And then then again, this one here, when she saw what the, what the project was going to be, because a lot of times people don't know what their project is until they get here. But I sent out to the people because we're doing some machine applique. And, you know, I'm going to either use white or black to applique around. Yeah. So she looks at this and says, she's like, I don't know. When you have as many things in my head that will rattle around, you also have to honor the things you don't want to do. Yes. And machine applique is one of those things that I have chosen will never be in my wheelhouse. But like blanket stitches and satin stitches and actually physically doing it. But I have an embroidery machine that goes by robot. And so when my robot can make my little chicks, I came with 25 chicks already done. Her chicks already made. Oh, there you go. And they're super cute. They are cute. They are really cute. And I know my, I know my bandwidth and that's part of it is just honoring that. So I was like, I'm not doing, I'm not doing that. And there you go. I'm just going to do it with Michelle and, and she, I think you appreciated this piece for me. So when she came to Gallentines this last year, she saw the quilt and she said, you know, I love the fabrics, not really that crazy about the quilts, but I want to redesign the fabric into something else. And she said, I'm going to make sock monkeys. I was, and you know how much I love a sock. Oh, you love sock monkeys. So, so you knew I was so, so she switched it totally out and everybody's like, is it okay to do that? I'm like, it's your retreat. Right. What you want to do at your retreat. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So two of the ladies last night, I, I got up very late this morning. And I didn't get up to like four o'clock this morning. And two of the people, I get out there and I think that maybe they had just got it. But well, there are actually three of them out there because, and Belinda gets up early in the morning. And Dee gets up early in the morning too. She was a little bit later than I was. She slept in this morning also. But I thought that they all just got up early. Two of them hadn't even gone to bed yet. Oh, that sounds like me that time I was out at Missouri star. Yeah. Yeah. Well, because you were crazy woman. So in that, well, then they, but the thing is, is they had to be up for breakfast because we were leaving at 10 o'clock this morning. Oh, my, you know, because we had a field trip. So that's super funny. So are you getting a lot of sewing done? I have, these guys have got a lot done. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. And I think, well, actually I got, well, because I sew very early in the morning, you know, I mean, I, I started eight o'clock is, you know, from eight to four. That's when you get instruction time kind of things from me. So anytime before that and after that. So I actually came with John and, no, yes, with John and Tinkerbell cut. And I've sewn both John and Tinkerbell there. They're completely finished. And then Adam sews, he's so funny. This morning, Ron and I, or Ron and I were doing a, a live and his big thing was that when he saw Tinkerbell and I held up, D took the photo of me with Tinkerbell and then, you know, that's the one that we, we got out there and he says Tinkerbell is my self portrait. He, because, because the hair looks like mine and you're so little. I'm like, I'm five, nine and a half. I'm not okay. You're not five, nine and a half. And the Tinkerbell though, I am a little confused by it. Why are you confused by it? Because I thought Tinkerbell wore like lime green, like a green dress. And in the, in the quilt, she's not wearing a green dress. So maybe in the book she was, and maybe Hollywood gave her the color dress, because remember with Dorothy's shoes, Hollywood was one that gave her ruby red shoes. Her shoes were gray. And I don't know. I need to understand this more because visually for me, I think of Tinkerbell wearing green. I think in the story, she's in pink. In pink? Well, because it's kind of a pinky coral. Yeah. I think, I think when Disney did the adaptation, I think that's when she turned green. But I may be completely wrong. Well, my Tinkerbell, my Tinkerbell may end up in green. Because that's what I think of as Tinkerbell. I don't think of Tinkerbell in this other color. Yeah. It's your quilt. It's your quilt. I know. That's why like Rochelle put red slippers on Dorothy when she did, wizard, when she did the Oz one. And I'm like, I can't, like I keep looking at it and I keep thinking, I don't feel Tinkerbell-ish when I look at this one. I need green. Well, what? You piece Tinkerbell, no matter what she's in and you see her in the actual you feel, so we have her on the board. You do feel the pixie magic. I mean, right now, if I were to fart, it would be pixie dust because I am so into Tinkerbell. Well, for Michelle's sake, you don't do any of that. Especially since I'm wearing a skirt. And I'm wearing a scorts to today. Are you wearing your scort from Costco? Costco. Oh, what color are you wearing? I'm wearing navy blue. That's what I have. No, I have the black one on. I wore navy blue yesterday. I'm wearing navy blue today. Well, I actually started in in my the plum color. Yeah, I didn't buy that one. I bought that one because I already had, I thought, well, I'll add that one because they still had them. So I'm like, they're only $9 and I'll wear them all summer. But then I had to, I don't remember why I had to change clothes. Oh, I had fabric all over me from cutting and I had to run up the street. So I changed into the navy one. You're not wearing an apron when you're cutting? No, but I really should be because it's messy. It's super messy. Because you'll be happy you're having the apron because then you can just flip it off and you don't have to, you don't have to change clothes. Or cut naked. Yeah, I've got too many windows. And then then my neighbors are doing something. I guess, you know, it's this battle of the neighbors thing, you know, who's got to have the projects going every, you know, spring and summer. And it this year, it's their turn. And they've got workers over there. And I think they're redoing their fireplace inside. I don't know. Oh, there you go. So are you in a tornado watch where you are? Because we are. We are. We're under a tornado watch. And we're not a warning. We're a watch, right? We're under a watch. All of us are under a watch. No warnings yet. Tell how late do you know? Let's see. It's effective until April 2nd at 2 a.m. Or 12 a.m. Oh, that's what it says. So I have to make sure that I because because here in the big house, the tornado shelter is actually in my bedroom. So I have to make sure that I leave the door unlocked to the big house so these guys can come in if we need to be in the shelter. Yeah, you might have to hop in it. It's not like you haven't done it before. That is very, very true. That's, you know, the nice thing about it is we can fit 12 people in there. No problem. That's fantastic. We don't like having 12 people in there, but we can do it if we have to. And hopefully you won't have to. I know because I, you know, I was looking at the sky and I don't think it looks bad. No, but it feels weird outside. It has a weird vibe. You think you feel that electric look? What's that? You feel the electric kind of look of a storm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I made sure all my main equipment is unplugged. By the way, speaking of equipment, I reached out to David at Jukey Junkies. Yep. Because I'm looking into that industrial Jukey. Oh, you are going to? Okay. Mm-hmm. I don't know if I'm going to pull the plug on it yet. I'm still debating. Okay. I don't like the table it comes with. There's a different table that's an option and he's trying to source it. And he hasn't sourced it yet. So it still has the oil in the well though, doesn't it? Yeah. And the new table will too. And they don't have a, yeah, the new table would too. But they don't have to be, you don't have to do maintenance on these. No, you don't. So where will you put it if you get it? So I'll put it, it'll go where my other machine is. And that machine will come into here and I'll sell that, I'll sell my big island that's in this room. The island that the lift, the one that the lifts up and does all that stuff that we used to record on? No, that one will come in here because it's in the other room. I'll move it in here and then the island I have in here for my YouTube channel, it'll go, I'll sell it because I can just use my white table, my regular one. Well, because we know that island, we know that table fits in there because it used to be in there. Back at me, speaking of that, what did you do with the round table that we had in there for there was a couple, I told you, I sold it to this little couple for almost nothing. They needed a table and chairs and so I sold it. Okay. Okay. I was like, like we had it and then it's gone and now we're in chairs and now I have a little table to put my notebook on. Yep, it's super cozy. It's cozy, cozy, cozy. You get to get the cozy, we have all these things that are all these things that are blooming down, blooming down, blooming down. Michelle's doing such a nice job holding the phone. Oh, it's so nice of you, Michelle. There's so many other skills. Because I don't know if you noticed this, but I had to get up and leave so while she was talking, I told her, keep talking, I had to go get something because I didn't have the notebook with me so I had to go in the other room. Oh, well, yeah, you got to have the notebook. Because without the notebook, how do I close? And then I was thinking, well, do I know where the notebook is? Oh, geez. I didn't know what it is. What can I make up to close with? But I had something really good, but I'm not going to tell you what it is because I might need it some other time. So you're going to save it up? I am going to save it up for another time. Okay. That works. But not for now, not for now. So today is first day of Passover. Yes. And we were talking about the things and I had sourdough here. So Derek, Michelle's husband loves sourdough and so I send sourdough home every time that we do something. So I came with two loaves that I had baked here that we were going to eat and then I had five loaves that I brought that I put in the freezer. Oh my gosh. Well, I couldn't eat the loaves of bread that we had and I was like, okay. So I kind of look at Michelle and I said, well, I think they might want some fresh sourdough for dinner tonight. So I have to take one of those loaves out. So she says, sure to this, right? Well, because I didn't think of it. So Michelle and I fixed dinner together tonight and because I didn't think of pulling the bread out. Dee's here and I said, Dee, how do I heat this? She said, is it frozen? I said, it is. She goes, well, put it in the oven for about 20 minutes. So I put it in the oven at 20 minutes with the other things. So how do I know if it's warming up? She said, well, you take a knife, you put the knife in the center of the bread because we didn't have a thermometer here and then you pull it out and you feel the blade. And the blade is cold. You know, you need to put it back. You know, you know, you need to put it back in and you can't get the knife into the bread. That was the other thing. So Michelle takes it out and she's trying to stab it in. She can't, it's still frozen. So frozen after 20 minutes, you can't get the knife. We got to feed these people. Dinner's ready to go. So we're like, okay, microwave. Microwave. So we go to put it in the microwave and we're trying to figure out how to decrease the power. And I was like, just do it full power. It'll just be tough. And she's like, nope. We got it. We got it. We got it. So then it was delicious. It still wasn't up to speed. So then we put it back in the oven for another 10 minutes. It was good and crunchy on the end. It was crunchy. So then I said to Dee, because I didn't bring my saw with me, you know, my sourdough saw. Yes. I said, Dee, you're good at cutting the sourdough. Will you come cut this for me? I'm a sourdough. Did you at least have a serrated knife? It took a huge village for it. Did you at least have a serrated knife? We did. And that's why I asked her about it. She said, you just have to have a super, super, super sharp one. Sharp one. Okay. And most people don't have a super sharp one. And that's why my saw works so well because, and also the bread is harder to cut when it comes out just hot like that. We needed to let it cool down. But we didn't want it. So we probably would have been better taking it out before the center got totally done. And it would have continued to cook through. But she sliced it and we went through another loaf of bread. And then she asked me if we had a scale because she brought her starter and she's going to make some bread. So we'll have, so we'll have some fresh Dee sourdough tomorrow. Dee,licious. See what I did there? Dee,licious. I did hear that. That was, that was a very, very good. And then we had all of, you know, all the quilt coats that you could do. Because you know, I ended up making nine of them. Yeah. So I had all the little scraps. And so I wanted everybody to have at least a couple of projects that they could go home with that were finished. Yeah. And so we, we made these bunny rabbits out of the, the, the old quilts that I had. Oh. So everybody was able to finish that. Yes. And then we did our feed bags and everybody was able to finish the feed bag. And then a true to Michelle form. Well, this is just the thing, you know, when you have good fun. This is the thing. So at winter wonderland, one of the projects, Michelle was working on something else and we had one of the projects and she said, I don't know if I'll get this finished. And I said, so if your friend Rochelle would sew it for you, would you be happy? And she said, sure. So I made her apron for it. Yes. So then today we're starting to needle felt these bunny. And I said, would you just apron that bunny for me? Oh, what a good idea. A little bunny. How cute. I need to see the bunnies. Put it on my shelf. I, you know, my bunny is going to be my flamingo farmer. I have all these little flamingos that stand on a shelf. And so, um, which I don't know where I get them from. I just say, where do you get them? Do I get those flamingos from? But my bunny is going to be my flamingo farmer and he can sit there and he can corral his little flamingos on the shelf. I've got a shelf. Love that. Just all kinds of knickknacks. That's a great idea. Where would you be getting these flamingos? Do you think, Leslie? I saw a bunch of flamingo. You got flocked. I saw that on Instagram. She did. You know, like I said, it's, it's not very often that people get me, but you know, I've been, I've been Google eyes and now I've been flocked. And so, yeah, you have buttons, but you, you're still finding buttons, aren't you? You know, I have, I actually have a bowl in my bathroom drawer because I find them in the most interesting places in my toiletry bag. And then I have an Oseh Hills cup in my sewing room and in all of my sewing bags that I bring. I'm still finding buttons. And so I just drop them into that cup. I don't know. Someday I'll have to make something with the buttons and that I've gotten at these retreats. Okay. But if you think I'm a crazy button person. No, no, no, no, I'm not a crazy button person. That way I, I never you, I have never purchased 50 pounds of buttons at once. Oh geez. Michelle cannot say that. I can't. I cannot tell a lie. I cannot say that. That's a lot of buttons. And I will, I don't like buttons. So, uh, I would be completely out. Rochelle was coming to visit and we created this little piece of art. We did a sawtooth star out of buttons on a piece of canvas. Okay. And so I went out and searched buttons. That would be pretty. And I would, I would be into that. It turned out so darling. Everybody's was different. They were great. They were, they were darling. And so I went out and searched the buttons and I, I kind of figured out how many buttons each person needed times 14 people. And I figured I needed about, about 20 pounds of buttons. So I found buttons and you know, when 25 pounds of buttons are $50 and 50 pounds of buttons are $60. Oh yeah. She got 50 pounds. Absolutely. Of course I'm talking about, she did. So, so then get this though, because they're all assorted colors. Yeah. So she makes her family sit down. Oh geez. She's making them sort them by colors. And it is. It is. It's beautiful. It is, it is beautiful. So then I, I'm saying something about buttons. We were talking about something and I said, I don't understand why those buttons haven't come home with me yet, but we have another project that we're working on. And so every time that, that we get together at her place, she always has something button-ish for me. That is so fun. That is so fun. Those buttons. Well, you get to keep those and then that, and that it's safer for all of us if you keep them, Michelle. Well, this is this. So Bethany is here and Bethany had all these packages sent to her and here, you know, here out here at Osh heels. Yeah. And why did she get all the buttons? Because she saw the piece of like making the bracelets out of the jump rings. Oh yeah. The buttons. So you take a 10 millimeter jump ring and you put it around the buttons together and it kind of creates a chain. Kind of like the instruction paper chains. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so she buys all these jump rings and she buys all these buttons. And so then she kept coming over and giving me the heart shape buttons. The red one is in the yellow ones and all that. Any button that was heart shape, but they're, I think they're big. They're big. I think they're too big for a bracelet. Yeah. But she has other buttons. Oh, those are just the big buttons she got. So, oh my gosh. I like big buttons and I cannot lie. Well, guess what? It's time for you to wind us down. I will wind with this. How about this? Keep the head and brain. The world needs your unique life. Never be afraid to explore a new world for your heart will always be your home. Oh. So, lovely. Bye everybody. We thank you so much for listening and look forward to another one. So until next time, stay inappropriate.