Quilt Market Part 1

This time last week I was still in Hou­s­ton, Texas abso­lutely amazed and in awe of everything I had seen at Inter­na­tion­al Quilt Mar­ket!   I mean ser­i­ously, that place is noth­ing short of amaz­ing and, for a first timer like me, such an excit­ing place to be.  To say I was a little over­whelmed would be the under­state­ment of the year!   The first day just flew by and, thanks to some not so gentle encour­age­ment from some friends back home, I did man­age to pull my phone out of my bag on the second day to take some pho­tos.   These are just a few of the awe­some quilts I got to see.  Trust me when I say that there is noth­ing like see­ing them up close and personal!

Not the best photo in the world but this Moda Design­er Timeline quilt by Josh Dunn was just stun­ning.   It was part of the Mak­ing of Moda dis­play.   Who would­n’t give for just a little bit of that selvage fabric!

This gor­geous mod­ern quilt is by Lissa Alex­an­der and was also part of the Mak­ing of Moda dis­play.  Lissa is so incred­ibly tal­en­ted (Tone It Down is still on my list!) and this quilt was just spec­tac­u­lar to look at.

My favour­ite quilt in the Mak­ing of Moda spe­cial exhib­it was this sig­na­ture quilt.   It was so much fun look­ing through all of the sig­na­tures and spot­ting some famil­i­ar names from around the world.   Moda were col­lect­ing sig­na­tures for a future quilt and I’m quite excited that I got to sign a piece of fab­ric before I headed home.

This gir­affe quilt was hanging in the Fibre­works booth and was designed by Laura Heine.   Laura has a series of col­lage quilt pat­terns like this one and I may have pur­chased just a couple.   They were all truly stun­ning quilts and one of them is now on my list!   You can find Laur­a’s shop by click­ing here.

I call this next little series of quilts the Circle Quilts, they were both amaz­ing!   First is Dot by Kathy York.   You can read all about this awe­some quilt on Kathy’s web­site by click­ing here.

And then… this circle of wow! by Laura Gamaleri…   It took me a little minute to be able to read it all so I thought I’d pop what it says here…

Quilt! Life is short, live your dream. Quilt! Start cre­at­ing, do what you love and do it often, share your pas­sion. Quilt!

And in between all those words Laura embroidered more words.    Such a beau­ti­ful quilt!

I spent a little bit of time with the gor­geous Amy Sin­i­baldi’s.  Her booth was just beau­ti­ful and it just did­n’t seem right to only take a pic­ture of one quilt.  So I took a pic­ture of the booth!   I’m really look­ing for­ward to hav­ing a play with Amy’s first fab­ric line Paper­ie when it comes out.   It’s just so sweet and so is Amy.

And last (I figured sav­ing my favour­ite quilt until last was a good idea!) is this fab­ulous little quilt by Bri­gitte Heit­land of Zen Chic using her soon to be released fab­ric line Flow.   Can I just say — I love this fab­ric line so much.   I can not wait to make a gazil­lion things out of it!

Like I said it was awe­some and amaz­ing and I still can­’t believe I was there!   Later this week I’ll be back with Part 2 of my Quilt Mar­ket exper­i­ence.   I hope you’ll pop by and read all about it.

Until then happy quilting,