Spring Market Take Two

 

Amy Butler's new line of yarn, I can't wait to knit something with it.

Anna Maria Horner signing my books.

 

Adorable baby booties from her new book Handmade Beginnings!!

 Anna Maria and I on the lovely couch in her booth.

Heather Bailey and I (my bag is made from her Saturday Market Tote pattern, in Nicey Jane Fabric, her newest line.)

                                My mom and I with designer Joel Dewberry


I am currently sitting on my bed, watching episodes of Daria, while I try to recount the highlights of my first Spring Quilt Market. One would definitely be Pam twirling in the middle of the street and pretending to toss a hat up in the air like Mary Tyler Moore (the conference was in Minneapolis.) Others are meeting Anna Maria Horner and Heather Bailey, two of my favorite textile designers. Sample Spree was interesting...a bunch of crazy quilters running, literally running, to get fabric at super discounted prices. We did get some cute things though, some nice fabric from art gallery, kokka, and seven islands, and a few really cute patterns. I met a lot of nice people and generally had a good time hanging out with my mom and Pam.

Spring Market

Umm...here I am? Well sort of... at the moment I am sitting in the hotel in Minneapolis listening to Camera Obscura (thanks Erick, for posting them on FB) waiting for my mom and her friend Pam so we can go eat. I took what I am going to say was a three hour nap while they were off doing stuff. It may have been longer but I think it was needed since we got up at 5 AM to get to the airport this morning.

Tomorrow I am going to the Mall of America. I'm not a huge fan of malls, but I don't think I can miss this one, then to some of Spring Market. expect silly picture of my mom, Pam, and I with out favorite fabric designers, buying things we don't need.

Home Home

So I have been back home for about a week and a half. Last weekend I headed down to Greensboro with my mom to visit all my friends at Guilford while my mom hung out with her friend Flo. It was an interesting weekend. Seeing all of my friends after three and a half months was wonderful. It was a little weird, everything is different. That is the hard part about being away for a long time, not only that my life continues without the people I love, but that everyone else's lives continue as well, and I am not there to see it. I came to Guilford on a perfect weekend. Alethea was heading up WQFest. For those of you who don't know, WQFS is one of the top rated college radio stations in the country and I happened to come to Guilford on the weekend of the first ever WQFest, getting to spend all of Saturday listening to live music with some of my best friends.

But I am getting ahead of myself. Back to the whole getting home part. There was this huge volcano in Iceland that spread a huge cloud of ash over most of Europe making air traffic impossible for almost a week. I left on April 23rd, one of the first days that airlines were flying, and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be getting home. I flew from Florence to Frankfurt, then Frankfurt to DC. I was relatively sure I was going to be camping out in the Frankfurt airport for at least a night. But I got lucky. My flight from Florence to Frankfurt was delayed an hour (not the lucky part) so I had about five minutes to make my connection. I got off the plane and there was a bus to drive all of us going to DC directly to our gate (well sort of) we got to the terminal, skipped security, had our passports stamped and sprinted to the gate.  I got on the plane and it took off ten minutes later. It was a pretty surreal day. I was sitting next to a very sweet German couple who did not seem to mind my snoring through half the flight.

I was home for a day, then headed down to Guilford. I got there in time for the Senior Thesis Art Show. It was one of the best thesis show I have ever been to at Guilford. There were nine seniors displaying art,  and all of them had beautiful work, from drawing and print making to painting to photography to sculpture and installation.

And not we are back to where I began. WQFest. The headliner was The Tallest Man on Earth, one of my favorite singer/songwriters. I saw him live in Barcelona and it was one of the best shows I had ever seen, so I was really excited to see him again, at my school with all of my friends. This picture is of me and Alethea watching is awe, if you look closely you can see us there in the dark.  The Tallest Man on Earth's real name is Kristian Matsson. He is from Sweden and it actually not very tall. We talked to him before and afterwards. He was so nice, and was glad I enjoyed the show at Guilford and in Barcelona. He even gave me hug.

Some other highlights of the weekend include Greenleaf dinner on Friday night (African curried soup,) shopping at Target with Alethea, and going to Jan's House at midnight with Fran and Justin, my former flatmates.

Now that I am back home I need to work on finding a job. At the moment I am filling in at The Artful Quilter, where my mom works. In my free time, i.e most of my time, I have been watching bad tv and knitting or sewing (new books!), not to mention napping. Oh and some yoga thrown in there.