2008 Quilt Market: Some Quilts

Of course, these are just a very few quilts. For more, go to
Quilts.com
And please, whatever you do, don't reproduce these excellent photos. I read the rules about photography on the show floor and am an offender because I don't have the names listed. Just don't reproduce these anywhere and I think I'll be OK.

2008 Quilt Market: Pat Sloan

Here's the one celebrity picture that I have, Pat Sloan signing her newest book. Pat's one of my favorite people so it's great to have a chance to see her in person, you know? She'll be there for Market and Festival...the woman has nerves of steel.

I do not. Market was just enough for me.

2008 Quilt Market: The city

This trip to Houston had bee-yoo-ti-ful weather. On the first day, I walked the mile from the hotel down to the convention center to help set up. And the park built across from the convention center it just fabulous and the people were really enjoying it. The fenced area is a dog run in the park. I am totally jealous. I want a park just like this here in Benton. I probably won't get one.

I posted the view from my window because we had some conversation about the state of the city after the hurricane and you can see the debris on the roof and the missing windows. On both Friday and Monday, there were guys outside those buildings replacing windows (another job to add to my list of things that I cannot do).

2008 Quilt Market: The LA booth

So I've managed to load some of my photos from Quilt Market already and this first post will show you what the LA booth looked like. The first one is kind of a "before" but really an "almost done". And the the second shows it as you'd see it if you were lucky enough to hit the quilt market looking for fabulous quilt books to buy for your shop.

I really should have done a much better job with my camera work because Susan and I were frequently in the presence of greatness, but I have no photos to show for our efforts. I did manage to snap a few photos of Pat Sloan's book signing (who is definitely greatness, but as I've ridden to lunch with her in a minivan, she's more like family than celebrity) and the quilts, but not a single celebrity or other designer shot. I was asleep on the job (and highly medicated but not always for the right things, but sniffling and sneezing doesn't really present a professional image, you know? Of course, neither do pink Nikes but that just had to be done.)

Susan and I were lucky enough to meet some exciting new designers and spent some time at an impromptu meeting withThe Crochet Dude in the middle of an aisle. Linda Lum DeBono and I conducted most of our business crammed into the seats of a full SuperShuttle van on the way to the hotel from the airport, but we're sorta used to that by now. I'm hoping that those new designers will show up in some future posts...