Happy Monday Folks,
I am back today, feeling a bit under the weather, but wanted to share the first part of my Fall 2010 International Quilt Market Review and to start the first round of giveaways.
I'll start by showing you my booth again.
Sadly, these are the only 2 pictures I have of my booth. As I looked through my photos, I really did not get many pictures in again this year! When you have your own booth, you just don't get in all the meetups and photoops. And when you do get in photos, it is usually with someone else's camera!
Anyway, I will finally do a showcase of all my new patterns (all 18 of them) toward the end of December when the first round is scheduled to ship out. Of course I'll be doing super fab giveaways during that time as well. I should probably organize a blog hop, but I am not even sure how to get that rolling, so I'll have to think on that. But know it will come and I think you all are going to love them! :)
I did alot of sample sewing for Timeless Treasures again and featured several of their collections on my new patterns. Emily Cohen, the creative director over at TT Fabrics is just a gem and such a pleasure to work with. I can't believe I did not get a picture of the 2 of us together..next time for sure! I do have some of their fabrics to giveaway today (and more to come in the next 2 market/festival posts as well!). You'll see them at the end of the post.
Let's move on to a few folks I got to meet at Market.
The night before Market officially opens, Caroline of J. Caroline Creative, along with folks at Michael Miller Fabrics, Stash Books and Interweave co-hosted an event called Fabric 2.0. This was my 3rd year attending this event and I was surprised at all the new faces again this year. It was fun to meet up face to face with folks that I've "known" through blogging, flickr and email. The host had some awesome giveaways going, and I ended up winning the grand prize of the evening. I won a copy of Lunch Bags, a copy of Socks Appeal and a jar of Caroline's new ribbons. Yum! My son is keeping the Socks Appeal book...he is ready to learn to sew now! Yay!
My daughter kept most of the ribbon and the lunch bag book. But I do have a second copy of the Lunch Bags! book to share with you all today in the giveaway and I am throwing in some other goodies to go along. You'll see all of it at the end of this post, okay.
I had alot of great folks stop by my booth at Market. One meeting that blew me away was having Nancy Zieman of Sewing with Nancy, stop by.
She was heading to the bathroom and spotted my booth and came over. I was in the middle of taking an order and could not talk with her at that moment, so she went off to the bathroom, but then came right back to me! She told me she wanted to make all my patterns for her granddaughter. I almost fainted!
Another person that stopped by my booth is the fabulous Monica of The Happy Zombie Blog.
Monica's blog was one of the first blogs I started reading way back when. I think through flickr, I saw her red and aqua studio and fell in love! Monica is always Happy and Funny on her blog and she is even more so in person. Monica is now a fabric designer with Lecien. I have to get my hands on some of her fabrics...they are beyond sweet!
Monica introduced me to her friend Mo, who is a fabric designer with Blue Hill Fabrics.
As expected, since she is a friend of Monica's, Mo was super fun, super sweet and just super easy to talk to. She gave me two little fat quarter and card packs to share with you all. I am actually keeping one for myself..sorry! You'll see the one up for grabs at the end of this post with the other giveaway goodies.
Next up for the day is Susan Knapp. I've admired Susan's work for years and so you can imagine how tickled I was that she stopped by my booth and said she followed my blog and wanted to meet me. Susan is a true fabric/textile artist and is a prolific author. If you have not visited her blog, you need to! I know I took a picture with her, but it must have been with her camera. Geesh. I need to be better with the camera next year for sure!
I also had the pleasure of meeting up with Tricia Waddell and Barbara of Interweave Press.
Both are fabulous ladies. Tricia is the Editor for Stitch Magazine, a fabulous sewing magazine geared towards today's modern sewists. I have an copy of their most recent issue in the giveaway today as well.
Okay, so on to the giveaway for today.
There are 2 prizes:
Prize 1: 1 fat quarter and some cards from Mo and a copy of STITCH and 4 yards (1/2 yard cuts of 8 different fabrics) of fabric from Michael Miller fabrics.
Prize 2: A copy of Lunch Bags! book, some ribbon from J. Caroline Creative and 1.5+ yards of laminated fabric from Timeless Treasures.
You can get up to 2 entries in today's giveaway. I am going to make you all work a little bit today, because let's face it, this is some great loot!!! :)
1. Go to the Stitch Blog, Stash Books Blog, Timeless Treasures site or Michael Millers website and look around, then come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite book, project or fabric is (share a link if you can, because we all want to see...we may want to add your item to our own wish lists!). Feel free to tell us what you'd make with your favorite item as well.
2. Blog, facebook or twitter about this giveaway, linking back to this post. Leave a comment on this post telling me what you did and again, share the link if you can.
I will close comments on this giveaway on next Monday, November 22 and announce the winner shortly after that.
Okay, that is it for today. I am going to drink some green tea while I add a few more items to the website. Then off to run errands before it is time to get the kiddos from school.
Have a great day!
Sheree
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