QuiltCon was an amazing experience. The organizers did a fantastic job of putting it together. The best was meeting up with old friends and making new ones, along with being able to say hello face-to-face to so many quilting idols and unabashedly telling them that I loved their work. Really, I had no shame in going up to complete strangers, whether famous or not. Being around that many people who geek out on quilting like I do was an incredible feeling. Spending time with my friends was such a special treat. All the lunches and dinners, Moda Party, walking around the convention center, classmates, beemates I got to meet in person for the first time and people I had the pleasure to talk to otherwise just made the whole experience.
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| Eating lunch at Iron Works. Nancy Zieman is in that booth behind us and Latifah Saafir took this photo right before she sat down and ate with us! |
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| Stephanie, Kathryn, Susan, Theresa, Christine and me |
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| Chris, Chrystal, Maggie and Wyna looking adorable outside QuiltCon |
My roommates Wyna, Maggie, Chris and Chrystal were the best ever and the experience just wouldn't have been the same without them. Plus I have to thank them for putting up with me for so many days in a row.
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| I spy Christine Perrigo's bias challenge quilt! |
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| Face #1 by Melissa Averinos (Judge's Choice winner) |
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| quilt by Sherri Lynn Wood (anyone help me out with a name of the quilt? my photo wasn't good) |
The inspiration I got from seeing the quilts in the exhibit and also all the charity quilts in the two lecture halls is something hard to put into words. I wish I had a whole extra week just to sit and look at each one in more detail. It is incredible to see what other quilters are making. I took lots of photos so I can go back and look at them, but that isn't the same as sitting right in front of them.
I also took two classes and attended some interesting lectures. My classes were Considering Curves with Sarah Nishiura and Gee's Bend workshop. They were both good classes. I knew the base techniques for the curves but Sarah had some great tips that improved my work and seeing her in class examples opened my eyes to how I could work with improv curves. I'm going to go over the Gee's Bend quilters in another post because I need to talk about that all on its own.
For lectures I attended Maker to Making a Living: Moderated by Jacqueline Sava with panelists Brenda Groelz of Handi Quilter, Denyse Schmidt, Mary Fons and Heather Givens; Masterpiece Theatre: Modernism in American Patchwork with Bill Volckening; Simple Quilts by Yoshiko Jinzenji and Take Better Quilt Photos with Meg Cox.
All in all, it was fun, enriching, inspiring and I have to admit—exhausting (but in the best possible way)!
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| Sarah Nishiura in front of our class blocks |
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| Yoshiko Jinzenji's work is awe inspiring |
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It was so nice to meet you in person!
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