More fun at Quilt Market

The Hotness of Quilt Market.. and the Quilting Hottie button... who knew that passing out these buttons would be so much fun?!

Tula Pink, Tula's mom (I like to affectionately refer to her as "Mrs. Pink"--she was uber cool & so nice!), Angela Walters, Valori Wells, Scott Hansen, Rob Appell, were all wearing Hottie buttons.. everyone we met was so sweet and down to earth, and fun! It couldn't have been a better experience!  I wish I could have been there today for the show and for take down tonight. (Had to leave the show a little early Saturday, take the light rail to the airport and fly home last night..when you're flying standby for free you have to grab the flight that is open-ugh.) *sniff* But I really can't complain.

Beth was originally going to bring only 200 but I surprised her and ordered 400 more.. so glad I did! We started the show with 600 buttons and passed out almost ALL of them! (It wasn't a gimmick for QM either.. Beth has been passing them out for years at her trunk shows and lectures.) :)

In fact, Angela Walters WANTED a Hottie button, b/c she saw it on her friend.. so she came over to the booth, which was conveniently located right across from the Handi Quilter booth, where she did a demo, to get one. :)

Her demo was interesting and kind of made me want to try out one of those big beastly machines. :) It inspired me to try a little FMQ practice after I got home on my machine.. and I wasn't as intimidated.  Thanks Angela!  I might actually move on from straight lines yet!

I didn't realize that Valori Wells' family owns the Stitchin' Post in Sisters, OR until I listened to her School House presentation.  I visited there about ten years ago, and that is where I bought my first FQ set! So I think I can blame her for my fabric obsession. ;)  hehe  She was so sweet when I gave her a hottie button.. see the booth in the background on the left, the brown one?  Ours was about three over to the left from that.  Handi Quilter was right out in front of us, in an island booth. Valori's booth was gorgeous.

We had the rather "loud" booth in an otherwise sea of neutral colors, lots of brown, burlap, wool, etc.  Which is great.  They had GORgeous things, but.. which one of these is not like the others? haha It wasn't planned to be that way, but there it was.  The pennants I made came in handy!

We had soo much fun!!

I sure would have liked to give Hottie buttons to Amy Butler and David Butler, too, but missed them on the first day.  Didn't see them again after that.  Did see David at Amy's School House though, the day before Market opened.. he was about to talk about his new line.. I would say he's def. a Quilting Hottie..

Here is a pic of his display..

Katie Pedersen, of Sew Katie Did and co-author of the book Quilting Modern with Jacquie Gehring (Tallgrass Prairie Studio) came by the booth..

..and we were giving her a button and admiring her patchwork skirt that her friend made for her.. it was sooo cute!

She was so sweet, we had no idea who she was as her name tag was flipped around, and Beth asked her if she had a shop, and she said she was an author. Further into the conversation she said that she co-wrote a book with Jacquie Gehring, and they were doing a book signing down the aisle in ten minutes and we should come, WHAT?  Okay!!! Beth stayed in the booth, but they were so sweet, they gave me a signed copy for her, too! Thanks Katie!  And Jacquie was soo nice, I LOVE her.  I still can't get over her gun quilt and when I mentioned it, she told me it was recently in the Wall Street Journal! They were soo sweet. Here is Katie telling Jacquie that she recruited me from down the aisle to come to the signing. :)

I had the time of my life.. the most fun any mom can have when she "runs away from home with her girlfriends" for almost a week! :) I have so many pics it's unreal.. it was so much fun to just wander and take photos of all of the booths.  

I will close with a couple of photos of display quilts that were amazing.

I have a couple of fun ideas for future posts but feel like I need to get permission first to post the photos. :)  I'll work on it.  Until then, I'll be working on my Make it Right Challenge project and hoping that I get it done on time to enter.  

Thanks for reading, hope you've had a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by. I am home, having Market withdrawals now.. :/ Have a great week!

xoxo

Quilt Market Photos..

It officially opened today.. Day 1 of Market, but day 3 for us.  Beth got lots of good feedback on her School House presentation from people who came by the booth, and we passed out brochures, and cards and buttons, and then this evening, Kathy drove us to her house for dinner. She cooked us such a wonderful dinner, and her and her husband are just so sweet!  Hard to believe we only just met her on Wednesday!

Then.. it had to happen sometime as we're not getting that much sleep and have been on our feet for the better part of three days, but we finally lost it and spent about 30 min laughing uncontrollably while trying to talk to each other when we got back to our hotel room. Yes, we are grown women. haha  

Here are some pics of the day..

Michael Miller had this gigantic swan paddle boat in the booth..

..and I loved these lines..

Jodie from RicRac is here from Australia (I told her Hi for your Sharon!) and she brought her amazing selvage dress!!  I was so excited to see it in person.  I have drooled over it online for a long time now, and it is just so amazing.

I think I just might do a whole post on her booth b/c there were so many cute things in it and she is such a lovely person. (and her daughter too!) :) But seeing the selvage dress in person was def. a highlight of the trip!!

Bikes seemed to show up a lot.. which is kind of funny.. b/c I've had them on the mind a lot lately too.. you'll understand why eventually. ;)

Here are some more colorful and fun booths..

..lots of tissue flowers at Kanvas Studio..

Another bicycle.. :)

Henry Glass was all about going places.

This one was fun..

Tula Pink's booth.. again.. the amazingness of the butterfly quilt is unbelievable. She was signing books today and was so kind and accommodating, and witty, and fun with everyone she met.

This booth was sooo pretty!!

Everything in this booth is made out of batting, even the reindeer!

Here from Osaka..

Heather Bailey..

Off to sleep before another long day tomorrow.. I have to leave tomorrow to fly home, before the day is over.  Fortunately the light rail runs right past the convention center and straight to the airport, so I can leave from there.. This has been the most fun!  I hope Beth has lots of sales orders tomorrow.  Fingers crossed for her.

Thanks for checking in..

xoxo

School House and Sample Spree~Market Day Two

Today was the day to finish the booth set-up..

..and experience School House and Sample Spree. :) Listened to some fun lectures.. Beth's School House presentation went GREAT, it was a 15 minute session in one of the smaller rooms and there were people standing in the back of the room even!  Yay for her! :)  I have no pics of that, as I was holding up quilts for her.

Aside from helping out in hers, we also attended lots of others.  Let's skip the small talk and get to the photos. :)

Amy Butler.. Belle.. (she is wearing the staple dress pattern designed by her good friend that I've been reading about lately)

Valori Wells.. Wish..

Eleanor Burns, Pat Sloan, and Alex Anderson and Rob Appell talking about Island Batik's partnership with Operation Homefront for "Quilted in Honor"..

Look at the quilt that Rob Appell designed for the cause.  So amazing.

Listened to Tula Pink talk about her new book.. and then call her bestie Angela Walters up to talk about the UH-mazing quilting on the quilts!

Angela talked about her own new line, Legacy..

It was such a busy and full day, capped off with Sample Spree.  I'll try to post more pics tomorrow of some of the people we ran into today.  Was so fun!

For now.. do you believe this line waiting to get into Sample Spree? I had to take it in three photos. The entrance is at the top of the stairs in the upper right corner of the pic.

Then it snaked around and down the stairs.. Beth and her local helper Kathy, who has been helping so much with driving us and booth set-up, etc. (and is even having us over for dinner tomorrow night!) couldn't believe how LONG the line was.. but it didn't stop there..

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It kept going and going.

This whole experience has been so much fun so far, and I'm sure it will continue to be.  Let's just say that if this were a Star Trek convention and if I were a "trekkie" I would probably be dressed in costume by now. haha! 

More later.. MUST sleep.

xoxo

Quilt Market Day 1~Behind the Scenes

(pssst... look who we met!)

It's finally time for Quilt Market and I'm so excited to be in Portland helping Beth in her booth!  Set up was so much fun today. (#2144) 

Tula Pink's booth is near Beth's.  She and her mom are so sweet and we had lots of fun visiting a little bit with them! Her mom was binding away on one of the quilts. That butterfly quilt in the background is so stunning, I can't even tell you..  It was quilted by Angela Walters, and is so amazing and gorgeous.. everything about it.  

Valori Wells was setting up her booth, which is near Beth's too, and was kind enough to let me take a photo. :)

Lots of construction going on all around!  Saw tons and tons of crates coming in at the loading docks and on forklifts.

Lots of familiar names.

Even Craftsy is here..

Lots and lots of others..

Loved seeing all of the crates. :)

This one was a favorite..

And no.. the men's room is NOT in the C&T crate. ;)

More to come..along with lots of photos.  Stay tuned. :)  Tomorrow is more set up.. School House, and Sample Spree.