Another Cruise

Yes, Veronica is off on another cruise.  Come join us, we're going to have a fabulous time!!!

Fabulous Cruise Supporting Leukemia & Lymphoma Research

Quilt Cruise for a Cause

Summer Quilting Fun in the Caribbean

A Tropical Adventure at Sea with teachers and educators
Rob Appell, Veronica Cox, Diane Harris, Linda Pumphrey, and Margie Ullery

July 26-August 2, 2015

Quilter Cruise Prices begin at

$1149.00 double occupancy,

discount for non-quilters.

Your cruise includes:           

 - All shipboard accommodations

 - All shipboard meals and entertainment

 - Quilting workshops

 - Use of new Janome Horizon sewing machines

 - Sewing machine technical assistance, you won't even have to thread your own needle if you don't want to!

 - Open Sewing Time

 - Make it/Take it nights

 - Welcome VIQ (Very Important Quilter) Reception

 - Welcome goodies, door prizes and surprise gifts

 - Special evening events and gatherings

 - Show and Tell Gathering/Farewell Party

 - 24 hour complimentary room service

 - More tropical quilty fun than you ever thought possible

 - Private optional shore tours

 - Cruise T-shirt

Read about our teachers and workshops

Read more about our ship

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Another Cruise

Yes, if you're looking for a cruise to join us on, we've got a couple.  I'll tell you about the one that goes out of Galveston in May.  this cruise has Winnie Fleming, Denise Greene, Veronica Cox and
Now we've added Suzy Seed from Sulky.  This cruise is filling up fast, we've got about 7 spaces left.  So come on and join us, this is going to be the best cruise ever.  We've got lots of door prizes and fun, fun, fun!!!  Call Mike really fast at Rockport tours, tell him Jaggie told you to call.  Hurry!  You don't want to miss out on Winnie's class.

Sewing Cruise

Ahoy Matey!  I'm kayaking!!!!  Having fun in the sun!!!  Come join me and...Veronica.  She's teaching, and I'm having so much much fun, check out my nice "tan" fur.  Look at that blue water, yummmmy.

Join us on  this is a sewing cruise.  Veronica and all of the teachers have great projects for you.  We'll see you onboard!!!  Just look the furry "little" guy, that'll be me me.  I might be hanging out at the berry bar, do they have one of those?  I'm going in search of it.  Judy, one of my favorite "huggers" will be there.  When you call Bonnie to sign up, tell her to sit you at my table, it's the funnest one of

all.  You know not everyone gets to party with a bear and sew and cruise.  I'm shoving off now, see you in the waves...  

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NOW BOOKINGRound Bobbin Sewing Cruise May 10-17, 2015  Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico • Belize City, Belize • Roatan Honduras Departing from Galveston, TX for seven nights on Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas Sponsored by Sew Fun Cruise Instructors: Connie Crawford Connie is a licensed designer for Butterick Patterns and is owner of Fashion Patterns by Coni. She is a nationally recognized lecturer, fashion specialist, educator, and author of sewing and pattern books, including A Guide to Fashion Sewing, The Art of Fashion Draping, and Patternmaking Made Easy. Drawing on her 35 years of experience in apparel manufacturing and 23 years teaching fashion design classes in patternmaking, sewing and draping at The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, Connie created her own pattern line with true-to-body fit from sizes X-Small to 6X. Londa Rohlfing Londa's passion is teaching design and techniques to create well-designed and fitted wearable art garments, with specialization on sweatshirt and knit top bases. Londa's innovative Talking Patterns™ provide step-by-step instructions that can be read, seen and even HEARD online. Londa has had articles published in Threads, Sew Beautiful, Sew News, Creative Needle and Sew Savvy magazines, and is a designer and guest instructor on It's Sew Easy PBS sewing series. She also is regularly selected to be on the select Faculty at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. C&T published her book: Sweatshirt Transformations in 2012. She travels the country inspiring and teaching sewers at sewing expos, quilt and sewing guilds, and shops. Veronica Cox Veronica is the owner of Bear Thread Designs, Inc. and has traveled extensively, teaching fusible appique using The Applique Pressing Sheet. She has demonstrated the technique at quilt shows, quilt shops, cruises, quilt guild meetings and on television. Veronica was taught to sew by her grandmother at the age of four. She learned how to sew buttons, and she sewed buttons on everything in sight. She learned how to use a sewing machine by sewing through her finger and has since learned the proper way to use a sewing machine. She has sewn for herself and her two children while they were growing up. In 1990, she was introduced to quilting by her mother-in-law. After her first class she was hooked. Veronica has taught many classes and workshops. She also does trunk shows on stage and loves to pass her 70+ quilts around in the audience. Sam Fung Sam is an educator for Janome America. Prior to joining the company Sam had his own custom sewing business in Texas where he designed and created wedding gowns, brides maids dresses, home decor, and other things. Some of Sam's creations appeared in the opening numbers of the Miss Texas Pageant. Whether teaching adults or children, his passion for and love of sewing is apparent. Complete class listings will be included later but you can reserve your cabin now by contacting: Bonnie at CruiseOne 800-784-4480 Prices start at $910 per person Leave your sewing machine at home. Sewing machines used on the ship are sponsored by Janome America Price includes class fees. Kit fees are extra when applicable.

Cruise

Want to join us on a cruise?  Here is a cruise with Cactus Quilts, we leave pout of Galveston, so it's close for some of us.  We'll be highlighting cruises all week.  We've got quite a few you can still join us on.

Cactus Quilts presents 2nd Annual Quilting Cruise  Cactus Quilts presents 2nd Annual Quilting Cruise Royal Caribbean's 'Navigator of the Seas' Date:  April 12 - 19, 2015 Type:  7 Day cruise   Galveston to Falmouth, Jamaica; George Town, Grand Cayman;   Cozumel, Mexico   plus Quilting Classes/ Workshops during 3 fun sea days Experience a life-time adventure that cruising has to offer with three unique ports of call plus quilting classes.  Our Quilting classes/ Workshops are held during "at sea" days and we schedule classes outside of port time.  Our goal is to make your quilting/cruising experience a true pleasure and memorable.  The quilting classes will challenge the quilter by adding some new tools/ techniques to their quilting tool box,  while achieving success. We will live, laugh, learn, and go home with lots of memories of our  quilting cruise. Cactus Quilts cruise Teachers includes:  Veronica Cox, Lynn Roddy Brown and Karen E. Overton. The three quilting classes are listed below..      Cruise Schedule Day                Port ***                  12-Apr            Galveston, Texas       4:30 PM (Depart)       Welcome Aboard Gathering   13-Apr            Cruising/ Quilting Class                          14-Apr            Cruising/ Quilting Class               15-Apr            Falmouth, Jamaica             16-Apr            George Town, Grand Cayman                 17-Apr            Cozumel, Mexico               18-Apr            Cruising/ Quilting Class and Final Gathering                   19-Apr            Galveston, Texas     7:00 AM (Arrive)      *** Cruising Schedule is subject to change.            Call Today Cruises by Al & Pat Magee (713-729-3040) to book your passage and call us (409-965-9778) to sign-up for the classes.   For additional information please go to www.cactusquilts.com 01 - Quiltsmart Mini Mariner's Compass Instructor: Veronica Cox Veronica will teach you to navigate your way with a short cut to piecing this classic quilt pattern. Using a special interfacing made by Quiltsmart, you will be able to complete this intricate quilt in a fast and easy way. The completed mariner's compass block measures 21" x 21". Kit includes the pattern, fabrics and Quiltsmart special interfacing. 02 - Puss in a Corner Instructor: Lynn Roddy Brown  This class is to be a fun, no pressure day of sewing. Lynn will cover scrap quilt theory, precise piecing and designing on a wall. Fabrics from you stash can be used to make this delightfully scrappy version of a traditional Puss in a Corner quilt. The 64" x 81" size is great for naps. The wonderful thing about scrap quilts is that if you are having fun you can make a larger quilt but if you want to stop with a smaller project that also works. Kit includes the pattern and fabrics. 03 - Illuminated Journey©2014 Karen Overton This is an original design by Karen Overton celebrating the 2015 Quilting Cruise offered by Cactus Quilts. The design is based on Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Designs Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star Ruler and project sheet. The centers are the same but you will have the two of different border treatments, one quilt with Piano Keys Border measuring 38" x 38" and other with the Diamonds Border measures 32"x32". Kits will be available in two color options (light or dark background). Kit includes Fabric and Pattern.  Required tools will be sold separately.  Quick Links www.cactusquilts.com Cactus Quilts 1811 6th St. N. Texas City, Tx 77590 (409) 965-9778 Hours: Monday-Friday 10:00am - 5:30pm Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm | cactusquilts@aol.com |

I found another picture from our cruise.  Can you see it, it's kinda' hard.  There is an Indian, a construction worker, a police officer, do you see where I'm going with this?  Yes, the whole atruim, from deck 2 to 13 were singing YMCA!  Yes, we were.  What a fun time.  They even had John Travolta join us.  Ok, so I guess it wasn't the real John Travolta, but he was pretty good looking anyway, or so the ladies said.  I ran off to the dining room,I heard they had a bowl of blueberries, yuuuummmmy, my favorite.

Hello, where did everybody go???

So Friday started off as normal, we sewed and sewed.  We got done at noon.  Scott and Veronica put all the machines up and then we had a farewell party,  After the farewell party we went to dinner. We had pork chops and mashed potatoes, oh, so good, they have the best mashed potatoes.  After dinner, Michelle, the travel agent on this cruise came to our room to talk to us.  Vickie jumped in the shower at about 6:45 p.m. (time is important).  Now keep up, here we go--the best part.  So half way through her shower, Vickie screams out, (why?, you ask).  Seems all the power went out on the ship. Yep, really, it did.  So after we figure out that we are not the only ones in the dark, we get the iPad for Vickie to have some light.  We sent Michelle back to her room, and darn if she didn't have power. So we sit in the dark.  Then Veronica decides she's going to take her shower.  About 8:00 p.m. the Captain says "ladies and gentlemen, ... we seem to have a water leak", WHAT???  Water leak?  Not good, we're IN the water.  So 8:01 p.m. and we're out of our room.  They announce they're going to have a comedian in the half of the ship that has power. so off we go.  Then our cabin steward tells us that decks 0 and 1 are flooded.  Ok, where are the life jackets?  Where is my life boat?  Stay calm, we don't need them...yet.  Ok, 9:30 p.m. we go back to our room, WE GOT ONE GLOW STICK!!!!!   That'll take care of the dark cabin, the dark halls, try going to potty in the dark.  Ok, we're fine.  We're in a sauna, so maybe I'll lose some weight tonight.  We call Scott, he's got power, he's upset cause he has no TV, Really?  I'm sleeping with my clothes and a life jacket on in the dark and he wants TV!

So now Veronica decides she's going to try to get some sleep, 'cause she has to drive us home tomorrow. So she gets her jammies on, gets in bed but only after they set up a "trap" for anyone trying to sneak into their room, 'cause they are going to sleep with the doors open.  Here is the"trap" in case you need one.  Put a table in front of the door, then a chair and then the garbage can.  Then if somebody sneaks in, you'll here a couple of tha, thunks and then you get up and beat him with your glow stick!    

Well, we were almost asleep and Scott pops in to "protect" us.  I guess from the other glow sticks on our deck.  He had a little light, and he's swinging it like a disco ball, that was fun.  Good thing I didn't have a seizure.  Then at midnight, the Captain says, Ladies and ... a little worse than we thought..., what, now deck 2 is flooded.  Yikes, it's coming up!  Then our cabin steward, Taylor and his supervisor, Allison decide we need light.  They bring a 4 foot long light bulb to tape it to our door. When Veronica saw Allison with it, she said "Are we having Star War battles?"  Allison says, "who is your father"  and after we died laughing Veronica says "no,no,no, it's Luke, I am your father" then they proceeded to tape the flood light to out door.  You could land a jet, and we're trying to go to sleep.  We kick Scott out, crawl under the blankets and gets a couple hours of sleep.  Nobody tried to get in our room, Taylor and Allison patrolled our halls all night long.  Their rooms were on deck 1, they told us in the morning that their rooms were flooded.  We got dressed in the dark, went to eat breakfast and got off   the ship.

Here is our ship again, Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas.

                 
It left a day late, so I guess they got the "leak" fixed.  What an adventure!  I guess they have better PR people than Carnival.

Grand Cayman and Cozumel

Day 4, we got to Grand Cayman.    Here I am, sailing away in Cayman.  We had fun, fun,fun.  We shopped till we dropped.  We took lots of pictures, but again, they're gone.  So we got lots of walking in.  We went and had the best fish sandwich ever.  Check out my new clothes.  We got these in Jamaica.  I got a Rasta hat, I love it.  My shirt says Jamaica on the back.  Thanks Scott, he always buys the best clothes.

Day 5 we arrived in Cozumel.  Yes, that great fish sandwich caused Veronica to have achy joints, so we took a taxi into town.  We went to the swing bar.  No not a swinging bar, a swing bar.  They don't have seats to sit on, they have swings.  So we ate lunch while in our swing.  We had an awesome lunch.  We love this restaurant.  This donkey was outside the restaurant.  I just had to jump on for a picture.  Isn't he cute?  

Oh, and I got a balloon bracelet.  See it on my wrist?  This is my bed, I have to share with Veronica because Vickie is in the other bed.

She has to share with Bunbun.  He's got really big ears.

Tomorrow is our last day to sew.  Then we put the machines up and get ready to get off on day 7.  Come back for more adventures.  Tomorrow we have the best adventure of the whole week.

Technical Difficulties

Well,we're back from our cruise.  It was great right up until the day before we got home.  This was a very memorable trip.  We had no wi-fi in Jamaica, or Cayman or Cozumel.  We took lots and lots of great pictures, but Kevin got Veronica a new smartphone on Sunday and they lost all the pictures in the transfer.  Let's just say she is not a happy camper right now.  See is so mad, she's returning the phone and getting back her crappy phone that does not lose pictures.

We did get one of me,  Jaggie in class with Scott.  Check out my VIP tag, I got that from the cruise people.  It really should be a VIB, you know Very Important Bear.  We'll, let it go, this time.

So let's start on day one.  Veronica's been having a little more difficult time with her food sensitivities and allergies this past month, and she didn't want to be sick on the cruise so she decided she would tell the food staff before she went.  All the paperwork was in and they told her to check in with the chef on day one.  So there they all go to see the chef and discuss food.  All went well, until dinner.  Veronica ordered a Caesar Salad, she got a bowl of lettuce, she asked for the cheese, they told her she couldn't eat cheese.  She told them she just wanted a little bit, she told them she could handle that, sooooooooo, they brought her a huge bowl of cheese.  She took half a teaspoon and sprinkled it on her salad, then they passed the bowl around and everybody at the table got more cheese, when it came back around it still looked full.  Then on the first night in the room, Veronica sneezed and coughed all night long, Vickie and I were about to throw her overboard!  Vickie got up and put in earplugs.  Poor Vickie.

Then day 2, we were sailing away and sewing  and then dinner comes along, same thing.  Veronica got a sweet potato with her meal and she was so happy.  The chicken was ok, nothing to write home about, and then they get to the room.  More sneezing and coughing, so now we're figuring it's got to be something in the room.  This is the only place this happens.

Day 3, we get to Jamaica, and Mr. Walker picks us up.  He always picks us up and drives us where we need to go when we go to Jamaica.  So he takes us to Negril, it's 2 hours away but a great beach.  Nobody was there, it was great.  I got to be the lifeguard, but those pictures got lost.  We ate cheeseburgers, fish, shrimp, lots of fries and even took a dip in the water.  Do you know that everybody honks their horns in Jamaica.  You honk, hang out the window and yell at people, you yell to say hi, you yell for them to get out of the way, you yell at them to tell the person you hit you're sorry and keep on going.  We had a great time and we even went shopping when we got back.  Here is a picture of our ship on the way back to it.

Yeah, ours is the little one.  The one next to us was the Oasis of the Seas,  we were on Serenade of the Seas.

So when we got back, we were informed that because Veronica mentioned the sneezing and coughing in the cabin, they had steamed and wiped down our room with vinegar.  They changed the filters and the took all of the towels and linens and washed them in a special soap.  Guess what, no sneezing, or coughing!  Yippppeeee!

So tomoroow I'll tell you all about Cayman, I gotta go check things out in the warehouse.  You know this bear is nosy.

  





    

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!!

Today is packing day.  Veronica is leaving tomorrow for snow country to visit a friend, then it's back home in time to pick up her suitcase full of quilts to go to the Bay Area Quilt Guild for a lecture and then home to grab her suitcase for a cruise going to Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Cozumel.  Here I am in my hammock in Jamaica last year

and this is me in Grand Cayman, how do the braids look?

Oooooooooooh this was a wonderful beach in Cozumel.

Wanna go cruisin'?  Check back tomorrow for a cruise deal.

Investigative Reporter Jaggie on "My Dresden Plate"

Here it is, my Dresden Plate.  My one sad little Dresden Plate.  I took several on the cruise this past week, I thought I'd have it all done, a whole quilt, but sadly no, I barely got one block partially done. Yes, we took both grandchildren, they're 4, we had a great time, we marched in Dr. Seuss's parade, went to the puppet show with all those towel animals that they make and put on your bed.  Santa was on the cruise, we took pictures with him, had a pirate party, went swimming, ate ice cream, hung over the balcony, well, not too far, as I'm pretty short.  More like I looked over the edge.  We had a green eggs and ham breakfast, I ate normal food, like an omelet that was yellow, not green.  But the kids had fun.  Dinner was exciting, those waiters spoiled those kids to no end.  The waiters sang and danced for us every night except the first night.  It was great!

Next cruise is coming up in 3 weeks, and I'm sure I'll get much more quilting done on that one.  It's a quilting cruise and so I'll have a machine in my room and no parades, no green eggs and ham and no pirate parties.  Sounds kinda' dull to grandma after this great family cruise.  Well, the next family cruise leaves Dec. of next year.  I guess I'll leave the quilting home.  
 

Veronica, as told to 

Hawaii here we come

Yes, we were worried that Carnival was going to take all of our rooms.  We've got room for  a few more quilters.  The whole ship is sold out except for our few rooms.  So if you wanted to go, you had better get moving.  We've got 8 spaces left.

Kaye Wood will be teaching her Quilting the Kaye Wood way.  You don't want to miss out.  So call Mike at Rockport Tours, his number is 888-937-3488.  He will get you hooked up to go on this cruise with Kaye, Veronica and me, Jaggie the Bear.  See you onboard.

More fun in my room on the cruise ship

Our cabin steward made us this snake.  Scarrrrry!

Here I am hanging out with my new buddy.

Close up.

Here is my balloon hat I got after an outing in Cozumel.  Pretty flower.  I can't eat this one, it's a balloon after all.

This is the one they made for Scott, just a little big for me.  

I got this guy joining the party after we got back from Cozumel.

My bunk.

Pam Holland's class

Pam Holland also taught four classes in two days on our cruise.  Here are some pictures from her class.  Everybody made great appliques.  Here is one students half done project.  The best part was when I walked in and saw that everyone was using one of our Applique Pressing Sheets.  Thanks ladies and great work!!!

Here is Pam working on somebodies project showing them how to shade.  Pretty cool!