A Big Thank You!

 

 

Hello Everyone,

 

The quilt show was a great success thanks to my helpers, our friend Yvonne, and my sister Gail.  I couldn't have pulled this off without your help and encouragement.  You both were invaluable! 

 



Set up was last Friday, and it took four of us, Mr. Joe, our daughter Caren, and Gail to get the booth transferred from our living room to the fairgrounds.  (The ladder didn't fall over during the whole show.....amazing!)  It was supported by zip ties and bungee cords.

I had pictures of the original layout, but in the end, we flipped the whole booth.....now that threw me for a loop!  But it just worked out better and I had more room to display the quilts.

 

Linda, one of the shop's customers entered her Madrigal quilt in the show.

It was beautiful!

Another customer, Rae, entered her Heartfire quilt in the show. I hadn't seen Rae's quilt before and it looked wonderful in the jewel tones.

I only had time yesterday morning to walk around and snap a few pictures before the doors opened.  There were many beautiful quilts, but I just couldn't get around to see them all.

The Quilts of Valor section was full of red, white and blue.  USA.....USA!  This is just what the doctor ordered after the heart-wrenching events that took place in our country this week.

The Amador Valley Quilt Guild is a fine-tuned machine. They couldn't have been more organized or helpful and made my first vendor experience an absolute pleasure. They were so attentive to our every need. You girls rock!  Your quilt show was a great success and I look forward with great anticipation to your next show in two years.

Now to YOU, all of the quilters that stopped by to introduce themselves, give me a hug, shake my hand, and bought my patterns.  I was overwhelmed!  Many of you drove miles to get to the show from all over the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley. I appreciate you. Your support means more to me than you will ever know.

What I learned during the last few weeks while preparing for the show, is that you can't do it alone.  It takes an enormous amount of support and encouragement from your family, friends, and Melissa and Leslie from In Between Stitches, and YOU, the readers of my blog.  You inspire me to design, write blog postings, and share my love of quilting.  I love meeting you, I love getting your emails and comments, and I love seeing so many of you that have taken my classes.  A sincere and heartfelt thank you to you all.  Now it's time to get back to creating and quilting!

Soon,
Lynn

Shopping for Goodies in my Livingroon

Hello Everyone,

 

Time to pack up the "mock booth" that has been set up in my living room for the last ten days and take it all to the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton for the Amador Valley Quilt Show.  I knew the little tool box holding fat quarters would come in handy one day.

 

Melissa, the owner of In Between Stitches, packed up an excellent selection of quilting goodies for me to sell at the show. Along with my patterns, I have kits, fat quarters, fat quarter towers and notions filling my booth. 

Mr. Joe rigged up a ladder on two tripods so I could display my quilts.  They aren't arranged perfectly just yet, but they will be perfect when we set up for real this afternoon.  Since the ladder with the quilts didn't fall over in the last ten days, we figure it's good to go. (Famous last words!)

My sister Gail and our daughter Caren will help us set up today.  Four extra hands and eyes will be helpful during the set up.  I'll take more pictures once we are all set up at the show.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I've got to start packing!

Soon,
Lynn

P.S.  For the Love of Baskets pattern is now available for purchase online at In Between Stitches.  Click HERE for the link to the shop.

It's Almost "Show Time"

Hello Everyone,

 

.......and the winning photo for the pattern cover is......photo #6!

 

 

 

I included a few of the other pictures on the back of the pattern.

 



 

I want to thank all of you for your well thought-out comments on my last post. So many of you were very detailed in answer to my questions regarding pattern covers and what attracts you to them.  The emails were pouring in from all over the world, and I sincerely appreciate the time that you took in response to my questions.

 

I responded directly to everyone that I could.  There were many of you that supplied me with great responses, but I had no way of contacting you.  So here is a blanket (or quilty) "thank you", to the no-reply folks.  It is frustrating for me not to thank you personally, so this will just have to make do for now.

 

Set up for the show is at 2pm tomorrow, Friday.  In all of my hustle and bustle of preparing my booth for the show, I forgot to mention that Alex Anderson is the featured artist.  Alex Anderson from The Quilt Show.  Now that's pretty exciting! The Amador Valley Quilters put on a wonderful bi-annual show with over 400 quilts on display, demonstrations, and this year there will be a special exhibit of the Quilts of Valor.

 

My to-do list is getting shorter.  Just some finishing touches today, two quilt labels, a few more patterns need pricing, and just a few more errands need to be run.  Somehow, everything seemed to get done, one task at a time, and now it's "Show Time!"....well almost.

 

Soon,

Lynn