Quilt Festival Chicago Bound......

It's time for Quilt Festival Chicago and we are ready.....the vehicle is loaded, our feet are up and it's almost time to call it a night.  Tomorrow will be a long drive headed north.  Wednesday will be a long day with setting up our booth....BUT....then the fun begins....catching up with old friends, meeting new ones and just being around all the creativity will be wonderful.  It has been 6 years since we have been to Chicago...wooohooo!  If you are going come on by Booth 1035 and say hi.

Check out our new line of hand-dyed counted cross stitch fabric, absolutely luscious...would also make great backgrounds for applique and mixed media art work as the texture is wonderful. 

Thanks for stopping by.

First Two Events Are Under Our Belts........

Our fist retail show of the year was QuiltCon in Nashville it was so much fun.  We got to catch up with friends, see beautiful, inspiring quilts and booths full of goodies.  Kristin vended at the first QuiltCon in Austin and was so excited about all the younger attendees, well those attendees have aged a bit over the years but it is still an exciting show to attend.

Here are a couple of pics of our booth;

 I am always amazed at how many examples we can hang and how many of our products we can get into a 10 foot by 10 foot booth.  Our goal is to inspire the attendees and hopefully we do that.

We quickly drove home to repack before our next event and look at what we found....

a bit of spring.....

Then we headed back to Nashville for the Needlework Market, open to wholesale buyers only.  We introduced our new line of hand-dyed Aida cross stitch fabric.  Also introduced were our new counted cross stitch designs, 4 photo realistic flowers and a funky bird.  This isn't as much of a stretch as you may think...we specialize in textured fabric...this has texture, just for another use.  Look for them in our booth and eventually online.

The set-up for this show is really cool your booth is the front room of your suite, here is a peak through our window.

Once you walked in, color seems to envelope you, this is our cross stitch fabric, left corner has a bit of our velveteen in it;

Before they can reach the corner they were tempted by our hand-dyed cotton organdy...someone called it eye candy and it really is;

 Now we have a few projects to tackle and a bit of dyeing to do before we head to Chicago for Quilt Festival March 28th thru March 30th.  Please stop by, introduce yourselves and check out all the new goodies we have since we were last in Chicago.

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully you will again.