Quilt Market Part 2

Friday:
I went to my first class (it was on TAP, Transfer Artist Paper), it turned out to be pretty fun. Then I made my way down to market. It was a whole lot of inspiring awesomeness and I met most of my favorite fabric designers (trust me I am still on a huge high from that!):

 (photo 1: me with Amy Butler, photo 2: me with Liesl of Oliver + S, photo 3: me with Heather Bailey)

(me with Anna Maria Horner)

Modern Quilt Guild meetup was the highlight of the whole trip! It was great meeting people whose blogs I have been devouring for such a long time.

(me with Heather from {House} of A La Mode)

Saturday and Sunday were filled with tons of walking, seeing gorgeous fabrics and lovely patterns. Plus, meeting more people:

(from right to left: Julie of Jaybird Quilts, John from Quilt Dad, me, Katy from I'm a ginger monkey, and jenny who works at the Quilt barn!

Overall, the experience was simply amazing and I am determined to make it to the fall market in Houston!

Home Again... part 1

I made it back on Sunday afternoon from my little adventure known as Quilt Market. I had such a delightful time that I was sad to see it come to an end. One of the best parts was meeting a bunch of wonderful people. So here is the mini recap: (sorry for the not-very-good photos, I only had time to take them in the evening)

Wednesday:
Drove down to Salt Lake and managed to squeeze in a little bit of fun shopping. My number one find of that day was this Anna Maria Pattern:

We settled into our hotel room after making a quick dash to Whole Foods (and now a little love note: Dear Whole Foods, How I miss all your wonderful goodies like sonoma chicken salad and scrumptious tortellini pasta!) Whole foods makes me miss San Francisco even more...

Thursday:
Up fairly early (hit the gym) and then we head off to the first day of quilt market. I attended many sessions of schoolhouses and stepped out of my shyness to meet some of my favorite bloggers. (yeah, i am way to shy and a little on the geeky side but everyone was so nice!) Then came everyone's favorite thing: Sample Spree. I found it pretty fun, even with all the crazy pushing and shoving. These were my big purchases:

 The patterns are from Modkid and Hot Scott Patterns, the fabric is Little Apples by Aneela Hoey from Moda.


The day was capped off with a trip to walmart and some Wendy's french fries.

part 2 coming later this week...