228: Final Quilt Market post…maybe
admin June 7th, 2010
Hey you all! thanks for all the great comments here lately….it is good to know that I am not completely writing to the wind…. I think I actually do have some more Quilt Market posts to do…but I really needed to get things caught up around here….So I posting this post tonight and with it another set of prizes. And while I am typing this I am printing out all the comments from the last 3 or so posts that had prized attached and will be announcing them tomorrow or Wednesday in another post. I don’t really have a lot of time tonite to post either, but I wanted to share with you some more highlights from Market…
First on the list are the Westminter Laminates….these are just incredible. When I heard about them, I definitely thought of thick bulky oilcloth….These are NOT that material!! They are very pliable and sewable it seems… 
And to prove it…Look at this!! Ruffles! out of Laminate! Can you believe it? I couldn’t ..even a rosette. Everyone MUST try this now!! Really….
Back over at the Seven Seas booth where all the fine Japanese Imports were….were these cool little kits….aren’t they the yummiest assortment??
And little wind up felties…too cool!
And Heather Ross’s newest Line with Kokka….Far Far Away II....
But the REAL highlight for me was meeting and chatting numerous times with Anna Maria Horner....
This lady TOTALLY amazes me. She designed all these fabric and these projects….and she has 6 KIDS!! From 18 to 1! AND she is as sweet and genuine and thoughtful as she seems in her blog. I would have to say that her blog is my very favorite for the way she mixes family and design and pain and laughter. My heart is often stirred by her musings on parenthood. It is such a wonderful and difficult and ultimately fulfilling and draining life work…and Anna Maria captures it all …..surrounding it with beauty as she goes….including her now famous Quilt Market Spring ‘10 shoes!
Here she is smiling on the last day just as much as the first day!! 
Yeah, I really enjoyed meeting her here at Market. My first quilt for Free Spirit was for her Good Folks line, and then I did a Flannel Little Folks quilt last year for Free Spirit too. I have emailed her on numerous occasions, and generally made a pest of myself…and she was still nice to me here in Minneapolis!!
And then there were her equally charming and beautiful model/assistants…. Allie with her Incredible Red Locks and Charming Smile…
And Alexia with her Stunning Snow White features and Gentle Grace….
One more thing before I go to the prizes for this blog post. Anna Maria lives in Nashville, and saw many of her neighbors lose much during the flooding they had there this Spring. So she has this going on to help…I will talk more about it later, as I am psyched to help out on this project. But I wanted to make sure you knew about it as well if you felt inclined to help with the effort.
And Anna and I put together these little gifties for 3 lucky winners….A free pattern from her newest book Handmade Beginnings and some of her flannels and prints….and two little notebooks…(the third prize gets a little extra flannel)...
For this project why don’t you tell us all about your first memory of something that someone made for you as a child…not bought in a store, but made by hand or with their hands for you. And when we get somewhere between 30 and 50 entries, I will start drawing names randomly.
And I promise I will get winners of all the previous prizes announced tomorrow evening my time (Pacific) so if you are on the East coast it may be later for you….
Are you still enjoying these market Photos?? I still have an SD card full of Floral pictures from around the Blue Nickel Studios here to share that I took before Market…so eventually you will get to see them too…
Thanks for dropping by the Blue Nickel…..see you soon!
Scott
