Norman Quilt Show

It is a lot work, especially for Tom and I, but we really enjoy being vendors at quilt shows. We packed up fabric bolts, notions, books and moved them to Tulsa in June. Wonderful show, lots of vendors and quilts to look at and dream over. Just don't ask who bought one of Lola Jenkins' wall hangings while she was there, just because her grandson wanted it desperately. I will deny everything. (Secret - good things are happening for Lola, and she may not be a "regional" artist for long.)
Last week was much less work, and thus a lot more fun for everyone at Patchwork Place. We did pack up but just drove it down the street for the Norman quilt show. And there was still some fabric left in the shop for the out-of-town attendees and a few locals who also came to the shop during the show. Patchwork Place employees were challenging each other as to who had the most sales, at the show or at the shop. Surprisingly, they were very close both days of the show. The show was slightly ahead one day, and the shop the next. What fun.
Amazing how things happen. As a sponsor of the show, I had the privilege (extremely difficult privilege) for choosing one quilt for a "Sponsor Award". The quilt I chose was (unknown to me at the time of selection) was the most wonderful whole cloth machine quilted wall hanging by the show's featured quilt artist - Carrie Miller. I'll post our picture, if I can borrow one from someone else. I was temporarily without a camera at the quilt show, that's terrible. But I had just dropped the shop camera and broke it, and lost the charger for my personal camera. So no pictures for the blog this time.

Return from the Obsolete - Shop Hop Winners

Well, sometimes life just gets in the way of what we really want to do. Getting to this blog just did happen the last couple of months, and that should just not happen. Of course, a lot has happened - Quilt Market, Shop Hop, kids summer class, two major quilt shows, etc...etc... But I should not have quit blogging, and promise not to do it again.
Shop Hop - we made it through another and had lots of fun meeting all the folks who had not been to our new location. We had to reorder fabric to fill all the finishing kit orders, which has now arrived. So if you passed it up, we have the border in now, in the pink and blue.
Our winners in case you have not already heard are:
Grand prize - $75 gift certificate from each shop - Prisicilla Martin, Arcadia OK
First prize - $50 gift certificate from each shop - Lisa Higgins, Waynoka OK
Second prize - $25 gift certificate from each shop - Lisa Crabtree, Ralston OK
Third prize - gift basket donated by Checker Distributors - Cathie Haldik Piedmont OK]
In a couple of weeks we will start planning the next shop hop for 2011.