I’m sitting in the Qantas Club in Sydney supping on cappuccino, crackers and dip…
She-Daisy resonates in my ears and I’m actually in a world of my own. I will get home at about 11.00 pm.
Just finished a delightful weekend with the Australian Quilt History Group. I gave a talk on Friday evening and classes yesterday and today… not bad considering I have only been back from USA for 5 days….
However… I admit to crashing on the settee for about 5 hours straight the day I arrived home…. The limbs went into free fall and said stay. The brain froze and I don’t know an antidote to 40 hours of traveling.
First stop on my way home was the local café to get a proper latte and then I could say “I’m finally home”
Next day I had time to play with my precious grandson Kodi, have a haircut, got the nails done and attended to the washing, shopping and spent time with the Travel Agent to organize the next tour. I admit with my hand on my heart to driving on the wrong side of the road (for a short distance) of sending out incorrect patterns to a client of almost missing the plane to Sydney and forgetting the time and waking Keith up an hour early to pick up son Jamie from the airport.
I was terrified I would forget something for the business case and checked it numerous times through the fog…. But the classes were super and the students moved mountains…and I took all the correct class handouts. !!!! whew.
I have 4 weeks home, but they will be busy with classes and I have a long tour to prepare classes for. However, I don’t have to catch a plane for two weeks at least….
2005/05/09
2005/05/01
Kansas City Market.
Morning folk... It's been interesting already this morning.
I ran out of milk and they want $2.50 for glass and $2 for delivery... so I have just eaten a breakfast of tinned clam chowder and crackers (with a fork)and diet coke. (lucky I take a lot of vitamins)
We got caught in a hotel change over. We have had to beg in our best Aussie accent to have our room serviced for the past two days. Yesterday the hotel was Doubletree, and today it is the Raddison...go figure.
I'm on the pull out bed in the other room and went to go to bed early this morning.. and no bedding... it keeps disappearing even if the room is not serviced.!! and then I find out my spoon I collected from Mc Donalds was missing too. Hence the soup with a fork. It's amazing what becomes important to you on the road. You still have to eat, wash, iron and work and become very innovative.
Yesterday on our way back to the hotel we spied an antique sewing bust on the side walk near the trash can.
OOh we were so tempted, it was gorgeous. It even had a bustle. Some 20 minutes later as we were having coffee and lime pie in the hotel restaurant.. we see the wonderful bust being wheeled across the road by an excited conference attendee. Obviously she has a car, not a plane... how tempting, how lucky she is and the bust will retire to a loving home.
This is the last day for business and tomorrow we travel. As I sit in my hotel room high above the city of Kansas the sunny day outside the window gives the promise of warmth and comfort.... Unfortunately the TV news tells me the opposite it is very cold...
I spent this early part of the morning packing and re-arranging bags.. I pack everything in the air pressure bags, it helps with bulk, but not weight which is something that I am always aware of.
Spring Market...
The floor space covers about 9 football fields. 1334 booths and 9 different quilt exhibits takes the fittest amongst us at least 3 days to get around.
Friday night was sampler spree, where some 1000 folk line up for 3 hours before the opening time... It becomes a bit of a feeding frenzy especially around the Moda stand.
There are seminars each day and quilt shop owners get to share with the best in the business. I have taken 3 of these seminars. I learnt a lot as a Tutor at the seminars. I probably have looked at some aspects of Quilting a little differently.
Those of you who have taken classes with me know that I am very particular about the products I use and I have had the opportunity to talk with manufacturers and distributors alike. I've been able to look at packaging, printing the trends in quilting notions and of course the latest fabrics. I have wonderful threads to audition and lots of new ideas.
I am in awe of the way the vendors decorate their booths. Di has photographed many of them and I follow behind her. Wish we could do the same at home...
I didn't see any Aussie magazines there though. You know, our magazines are highly prized.. maybe I missed them.
Time is racing on and I have people to meet and so little time. So the blog is finished for the day.
I ran out of milk and they want $2.50 for glass and $2 for delivery... so I have just eaten a breakfast of tinned clam chowder and crackers (with a fork)and diet coke. (lucky I take a lot of vitamins)
We got caught in a hotel change over. We have had to beg in our best Aussie accent to have our room serviced for the past two days. Yesterday the hotel was Doubletree, and today it is the Raddison...go figure.
I'm on the pull out bed in the other room and went to go to bed early this morning.. and no bedding... it keeps disappearing even if the room is not serviced.!! and then I find out my spoon I collected from Mc Donalds was missing too. Hence the soup with a fork. It's amazing what becomes important to you on the road. You still have to eat, wash, iron and work and become very innovative.
Yesterday on our way back to the hotel we spied an antique sewing bust on the side walk near the trash can.
OOh we were so tempted, it was gorgeous. It even had a bustle. Some 20 minutes later as we were having coffee and lime pie in the hotel restaurant.. we see the wonderful bust being wheeled across the road by an excited conference attendee. Obviously she has a car, not a plane... how tempting, how lucky she is and the bust will retire to a loving home.
This is the last day for business and tomorrow we travel. As I sit in my hotel room high above the city of Kansas the sunny day outside the window gives the promise of warmth and comfort.... Unfortunately the TV news tells me the opposite it is very cold...
I spent this early part of the morning packing and re-arranging bags.. I pack everything in the air pressure bags, it helps with bulk, but not weight which is something that I am always aware of.
Spring Market...
The floor space covers about 9 football fields. 1334 booths and 9 different quilt exhibits takes the fittest amongst us at least 3 days to get around.
Friday night was sampler spree, where some 1000 folk line up for 3 hours before the opening time... It becomes a bit of a feeding frenzy especially around the Moda stand.
There are seminars each day and quilt shop owners get to share with the best in the business. I have taken 3 of these seminars. I learnt a lot as a Tutor at the seminars. I probably have looked at some aspects of Quilting a little differently.
Those of you who have taken classes with me know that I am very particular about the products I use and I have had the opportunity to talk with manufacturers and distributors alike. I've been able to look at packaging, printing the trends in quilting notions and of course the latest fabrics. I have wonderful threads to audition and lots of new ideas.
I am in awe of the way the vendors decorate their booths. Di has photographed many of them and I follow behind her. Wish we could do the same at home...
I didn't see any Aussie magazines there though. You know, our magazines are highly prized.. maybe I missed them.
Time is racing on and I have people to meet and so little time. So the blog is finished for the day.
Spring Quilt Market 2005
Have you ever thought how the goods get from designer to consumer?
I'm lucky to be at Quilt Market in Kansas City.
I must admit, I haven't seen too much of the city but I did visit a few shops the other day and I thought you may like to share a visit with me.
Harpers Fabric an Quilt Co.
It's a great shop, beautifully decorated with friendly staff. Fabrics range from pastels to the latest vintage and I was really impressed by the samples they had on display. I think you can tell a lot about a shop by the samples they share with their customers.
It is nestled in a great little street of exclusive shops and supports a wonderful coffee shop over the road.
Prairie Point Another shop will a large range of fabrics...they state they have some 5000 bolts. Great staff and once again an impressive environment to peruse fabric.
Quilters Have, I can't find a web page for this shop...
These three shops are quite close together and it was great doing our own shop hop.
There is an amazing book out which gives directions to many quilt shops in the USA... it's almost as big as a telephone book.
Keith and I used it a lot in our last trip... and then set the GPS to the address published... it worked a treat every time.
Now I figure with 22 million quilters in the USA we could actually produce a quilters GPS!!!! What do you think?
I purchased a pattern and fabric for a Jacket... Now I just need to make it up....
Fabric is around $8/$10 per yard
I'm lucky to be at Quilt Market in Kansas City.
I must admit, I haven't seen too much of the city but I did visit a few shops the other day and I thought you may like to share a visit with me.
Harpers Fabric an Quilt Co.
It's a great shop, beautifully decorated with friendly staff. Fabrics range from pastels to the latest vintage and I was really impressed by the samples they had on display. I think you can tell a lot about a shop by the samples they share with their customers.
It is nestled in a great little street of exclusive shops and supports a wonderful coffee shop over the road.
Prairie Point Another shop will a large range of fabrics...they state they have some 5000 bolts. Great staff and once again an impressive environment to peruse fabric.
Quilters Have, I can't find a web page for this shop...
These three shops are quite close together and it was great doing our own shop hop.
There is an amazing book out which gives directions to many quilt shops in the USA... it's almost as big as a telephone book.
Keith and I used it a lot in our last trip... and then set the GPS to the address published... it worked a treat every time.
Now I figure with 22 million quilters in the USA we could actually produce a quilters GPS!!!! What do you think?
I purchased a pattern and fabric for a Jacket... Now I just need to make it up....
Fabric is around $8/$10 per yard
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