Interview with Pat Yuille at the GDCIC

Lots of new and exciting ideas for my blog as well as for GDCIC! The above video is a short clip of the interview I had with Pat Yuille last week. She was gracious enough to invite me into her home for the interview. In order to watch the entire video you must be a member at the Gather Dream Create Inner Circle. Go here to learn more.

Pat and I met several years ago when we ran into each other at the quilt market in Minneapolis. I was vending with my punchneedle and rug patterns so it must have been around 2004. Many months later I was at my friend’s shop, Wren in the Willow, for a signing and guess who showed up….Pat! She chuckled and said she was my stalker. I was so delighted that she lived nearby! We had a great conversation and decided to meet for lunch that next week. After that lunch, we both got busy in our daily lives and lost touch for a while….more like years.

When I launched Gather Dream Create Inner Circle in 2013, I decided to get in touch with her and ask her if she’d be willing to do an interview for the GDCIC. I had lost her number due to getting a new phone so I did what most people do when trying to find an artist. I went to the internet. I hoped she had a facebook page or something but no luck. I even contacted a couple of her licensees to see if they could get me in touch with her but still no luck. (who’s stalking who now?)

Finally, one day I discovered Pat’s email address buried in my studio and I emailed her. We met for lunch and I asked her for the interview and a couple months later, voila! Here we are! Many thanks to Pat for opening up her home to us and sharing her knowledge about art and licensing.

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Starting next week, here on this blog, I will be posting product reviews and licensee spotlights! I am very excited to share these ideas with you. The first product review will be JoSonja Crackle Medium and the first licensee spotlight will be Park Designs.