Embroidery

I was busy all day with my booth but I went in early on Saturday morning to take a quick look at the show that I had helped set up. Quite a few quilts in the show had been quilted by me, and I tried to take pictures of the others, so I would have something to show that you haven’t seen here before. It was a great show, lots of amazing quilts. The only big quilt I had in the show was the finished sample of the Tuxedo Cats. Two blocks haven’t been published yet but here is a preview of what the finished quilt looks like.

My booth was right next to the entrance, and everybody had to pass me on their way to the hall with the big quilts. It started a little slow but around lunch time on Saturday things got very busy and stayed that way almost until the end of the show. Looking at the pictures of my booth, I realized that I have several patterns that I have been selling at shows but never uploaded to the website or even mentioned here on my blog. I will start working on that… we’ll see how that goes with the Christmas rush coming up. One gentleman was in awe of my Pansies pattern, he loved the colours and how realistic the flowers look, and after he had seen the show he came back to my booth because he wanted to vote for my Pansies as Best in Show 🙂 He was very disappointed when I told him he had to find another favourite quilt since my sample was not part of the actual show.

Encounters like this one make up for the negative parts. Somebody actually stole from me this time. Three patterns went missing and haven’t turned up. I also stopped someone trying to walk away with another three and made them pay for what they picked. It might have been an honest mistake but judging by their behaviour (which had made me watch them in the first place) I don’t think so. I usually just have one bin of patterns out for people to dig through, and that makes it easy to watch and pay attention to where the patterns go. This time I had three, apparently that was too much for the busy time. Next time I will be prepared and go back to just one bin.

But enough ranting, it was a great show, we had a lot of fun, and I enjoyed those two days very much. Here are a few impressions of the show, I hope you enjoy them as well.

As you can probably tell by the silence, the Christmas rush is in full swing, and I have no time for blogging. I have come to the conclusion that I will never find the time to post pictures from the quilt show but here are some videos instead. Our guild member Norma H. took pictures of everything and spent a lot of time turning them into videos and uploading them to Youtube. So grab a cup of coffee and enjoy! And thank you, Norma, for all the work you put into this.

Ich stecke hier bis über beide Ohren im vorweihnachtlichen Quiltwahn und habe keine Zeit zum Bloggen. Ich bin daher zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass ich wohl nie Bilder von der Quilt Show posten werde, jedenfalls nicht in absehbarer Zeit. Stattdessen gibt es heute Videos. Eines unserer Mitglieder, Norma H., hat alles photographiert und dann viel Zeit investiert, aus den Bildern Videos zu erstellen und diese auf Youtube zu posten. Viel Spaß beim Besuchen der virtuellen Show, und vielen Dank an Norma für die Mühe, die sie sich gemacht hat.

My friend who wanted to help me with my booth at the quilt show this year unfortunately became sick two days before the show, so I didn’t really have much time to look at the quilts. But I did a quick tour and took pictures before the doors opened, and there were lots of really great entries. I always feel very inspired after visiting a quilt show and I want to make half of the projects that I saw and don’t even know where to start. I put the pictures together in several collages, there were just too many. And there is also a lovely video on YouTube, thank you very much to Linda B. for making it available.

 

Meine Freundin, die mir eigentlich an meinem Stand bei der Quilt Show helfen wollte, ist leider zwei Tage vorher krank geworden, so dass ich allein war und keine Zeit hatte, mir die Quilts in der Show in Ruhe anzusehen. Ich bin aber kurz durchgelaufen, bevor die Türen geöffnet wurden und habe Bilder gemacht. Es waren tolle Quilts dabei, und wie immer bin ich nach so einer Show sehr inspiriert, möchte mindestens die Hälfte der Projekte auch nähen und weiß gar nicht, wo ich anfangen soll. Die Bilder habe ich wieder in Collagen zusammengefasst, es waren einfach zuviele. Und ein Video existiert auch, ich habe es hier eingefügt mit Dank an Linda B. für die Arbeit, die sie sich damit gemacht hat.