Day 2 - Spring Market

Here are a few of my favorite booths so far...

Kathy Schmitz - cozy fireplace




Sandy Gervais - best at representing Moda's theme, Country Fair




And, Me and My Sister - Hopscotch is just TOO cute!




We tear it all down and head home tomorrow night. See ya again on Tuesday!
Lynne



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Day 1 - Spring Market

Here's a first look at KT at Market. More tomorrow.



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Location:Salt Lake City

We have a Winner!

Congrats to Elizabeth (jonandbettyann@aol.com) - you're the winner of the Simply Indigo charm pack. Doesn't hurt that we share a b'day. Happy 5th to you a little early.

Here are a couple more pre-market peeks. Using the same 1/4-circle template, we played with plaids for a few More Frayed Edges. Simple shapes cut on the bias are stitched to a front and back square, then sewn together in rows. Since all the block squares' edges are on the bias, the exposed seams fray and curl but never unravel for the softest, cuddliest throws around. Three options in one booklet - American Waves, Simply Squared and Pretty Pinwheels. The larger 2 throws are perfect in school colors for that special college grad in your life. My nephew took a Frayed Edges quilt to KState with him, washed it ALOT and it only got better. He still loves it. Great for gifting those that may not be quite as quilt-worthy, if you know what I mean :). Available in June.

Charming Thursday - Seasons

Ladies, so sorry about Charming Thursday post - or not. Messed up somehow with the auto scheduling and can't fix it from here. We'll catch up after market.
Lynne

Market Sneak Peak

Have you ever gone to town to get your haircut and came home in a new truck??? After all the traveling Lois & I have been doing, a bigger vehicle has been a topic of conversation, but by no means did I think I could take the time a few days before market to purchase one. Just so happens that a Yukon XL (looked like a semi to me from across the street) beckoned to me saying, "Think of all the cool stuff that would fit in me if you take me to market. You wouldn't have to choose, you could take EVERYTHING!" How could I not listen to that? I looked/test drove/negotiated/called Robert/took it home. Pretty easy. Now my list of junk to take has expanded and I'm tickled to have the space.
A few days after market, we'll take off for a week in Indiana, beginning at the Moda Wholesale Show in Shipshewanna. I thought I'd have to ship a bunch of stuff, but no more! Now, if I can just get the hang of backing this beast up in parking lots!

Okay, so now you've heard me go on and on about the "Beast". Time to reward you with a sneak peek of some market goodies. We started with a 10" square, two 5" squares and a bit of bias cut plaid and ended up with a cool block that's been fun to work with. Shown here are 3 of the 4 projects using this block and our new template (the fourth quilt using the Layer Cake and 2 charm packs just came back from the quilter. Lois will be whipping down binding in the car on the way to market!) The large quilt features our new Cattails & Clover fabric line. Stay tuned for lot's more during/after market.

Simply Indigo

I've always loved the 4th of July with it's red/white/blue decorations, picnics, family gatherings and - of course - the fireworks. My birthday is the 5th of July, but very often, we have birthday cake as part of our July 4th party. As a child, my Dad convinced me that everyone in the country was shooting off fireworks to celebrate my birthday, too. How naive - how cool! Now, I have a couple of my grankids convinced of the same thing. At least no one in our family forgets my birthday!

So, that brings me to my favorite summer decorating theme - patriotic red/tans/navy. One end of my studio is full of Americana all year thru and the porch sports red/tan/navy all summer from Memorial Day until Labor Day. Several items stay out all year so I can enjoy them. One of them is this stack of wooden boxes with wool flag-themed tops in front of a ladder with old feed sacks in my studio at the cabin.

I'll take more pics this summer as I pull out my red/tan/navy junk and share. I just ran across a box of 1" strips all ready for a log cabin quilt in this line. I'm going to make it my summer project. I'm kinda surprised I found any of it cut up - it's one of the fabric collections I've hoarded!

Win a Simply Indigo charm pack and the pattern for the flag boxes by commenting here before Sunday at 10pm. Tell me what you love best about July 4th.

It's May already???

Congrats to Tammy from Missouri, you're the winner of the Scrapbook Garden charm pack and book. Please email your address to ktquilts@twinvalley.net and we'll send it right out. Thanks for commenting.

The countdown is on - only 6 days left until we leave for Salt Lake City for Market. We have our Christmas Advent Calendar with ornaments to countdown to Christmas. Maybe we need a Market countdown quilt - yeah, that's the ticket - with ornaments like a ticking clock, a bottle of Advil, running shoes, a pile of unfinished quilts and an empty suitcase. And there are more suprises -  a broken copier, a sick quilter and oops! no motel reservations. Yes, just a few of the things we look forward to twice a year as we get ready to show our wares at quilt market. Speaking of which, I better get to work and finish a couple of things so none of these ornaments show up on my quilt!