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Feb
28
And it’s over
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With no closing ceremony, the quilt show melts away for another year.
The Bargain Garden
They came, they bagged their bargains, they left almost nothing behind.
The Harvest Building
Tear-down time in merchant-land.
The Crosseti Building
Take-down underway.
Clean tarps to lay the quilts on.
Hard work going on by dedicated guild members, their kith, and their kin.
The line for quilt pickup.
Within an hour the building is clear.
…and the work on next year’s show starts… tomorrow.
But tonight, rest.
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Feb
27
Up and running
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The Bargain Garden
That's a lot of bargains.
The Harvest Building
Auction quilts and vendors at the ready.
The Crosetti Building
The show, beautifully hung and decorated.
Tin Can Alley. (This year's theme is Recycle, Reuse, Renew.)
Of course I had to zoom in on the tin can dog.
My bright little spot.
Such a fun day.
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Feb
27
The miracle of a guild show
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This weekend is my home guild’s 32nd annual quilt show. I look forward to it so much every year. I have a big smile on my face every minute of the weekend… can’t help it. This year I did my best to capture a photo essay of the stages, from nothing to everything to nothing again. It’s quite a miracle what happens. Well, if a miracle can be due to the hard work and step-uppitty-ness of a whole lot of quilters, their spouses, their kids, and their grandkids. What a community.
The PVQA Bargain Garden.
Laura, our BG coordinator, collects donations all year. She sells at every meeting but despite that, our storage locker was jam packed and so was Iris’s garage!
Before the first load arrived.
After we got things kinda sorta sorted from the garage delivery, then the truck from the storage locker arrived. Holy cow.
The Harvest Building
Another building at the fair grounds, where lunch, quilts, vendors, and the stage for the fashion show and live auction will be.
The Crosetti Building
The main exhibit hall, getting ready for intake and setup. My booth location is to the right side, near the front.
The racks are up and the layout is mapped. The menfolk like to come and help because they get to climb on ladders and use power tools. Yes, that's right, these racks are assembled and disassembled every year.
This year the show chairs charged a special assessment to purchase backdrops for the show. Not sure yet how they're looking.
It’s 6:00 in the morning and here I am blogging. (I often don’t sleep well due to the excitement.) I got my booth all set up yesterday so today it’ll be all bright and shiny when the doors open for the show at 10:00. Oops, except that it’s going to be rainy today. Oh well, what can you do. My spirits won’t be dampened. 
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Nov
1
Pat’s pics of antique quilts at Houston
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Daily blogger Pat Sloan put up a post showing some of the antique appliqué quilts that were displayed during Festival in Houston. They are so amazing.
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Oct
20
PIQF favorite
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Pacific International Quilt Festival was last weekend and as usual it was a colorful, energetic, heavenly concentration of quilts, quilters, and wares under one roof.
The quilt that reached out and grabbed me this year was Fragrant Memories by Rachel Wetzler of St. Charles, Illinois.
Fragrant Memories by Rachel Wetzler
Rachel graciously consented to my posting her quilt on my blog. She reports, “It’s one of my favorites as it brings back ‘the good old days’ when mom’s warm bread or rolls awaited me after school. Yum!”
The description read, “One of my favorite childhood memories is coming home from school to the aroma of mom’s homemade bread. This quilt is one of five in my Simply Sensational series using architectural settings to highlight each of the five senses.”
I think Rachel succeeded in the smellorama department, don’t you? I wanted to step right into that kitchen and dive into a cinnamon bun.
This quilt won the Best of Country ~ United States award in the World Quilt Competition.
Rachel is an amazing quiltmaker. I found this interview with her on the Alliance for American Quilts website that was done in connection with the Q.S.O.S. project. She talks about the series and about how it wasn’t all that easy to make LOL! (I imagine not!)
Thanks, Rachel, for sharing your fragrant memories with us.
Until next time,
Much more from PIQF,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Oct
4
Blogger’s Quilt Festival coming up
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Amy at Park City Girl is sponsoring another internet Quilt Festival for those who have Market envy. (Just kidding! If you’re making the pilgrimage to Houston you’re welcome too .
Click the logo to learn all about the Festival, And, if you have a blog, consider participating! You’ll get to showcase one of your quilts for whole bunches of appreciative quilters. I’m a prize sponsor and there are lots of others too.
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Jul
29
A funny thing happened in Long Beach
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Got home on Monday from the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach. All went well and it was a blast and a half! The convention center was much better prepared for the onslaught of quilters… everybody got in the door and got fed!
This year there was a Preview Party on Thursday night that started at 5:00. Here was my aisle at 2:00.
Hmm… well, it was all good by opening time. The shot also shows this year’s lovely grape carpet.
My little space in Vendorland.
I stayed once again at the Turret House, a lovely, comfortable Victorian B&B not far from the convention center.
Resident English bulldogs Winston and Waldo show their power-nap skills to visitors.
Winston, the white one and the younger of the two, would come trotting up to me, head-bump my legs, and swish in and out of my long skirt. That was jolly good fun.
My place setting one morning… dragonfly napkin ring and fresh-picked bleeding hearts.
On Friday and Saturday the show closed at 7:00, at which time I would stagger across the street to find something to eat. On Saturday I had just gotten my food at the tacqueria when Beth and Liz swept in and folded me into their party. They introduced me to another gal but I didn’t quite catch her name in all of the plate-moving and napkin-getting. All of a sudden this gal says to me, “Aren’t you the one who did my blog hop?” It was PAT SLOAN. I totally didn’t recognize her from her picture.
After we had all established who we were and how we knew each other, we ate our food and talked and talked and talked. It was wonderful. Let’s just say that the Lizzie B gals are an entertainment unto themselves. After at least an hour, all of a sudden Pat pointed to my apron and said, “Hey, that’s my fabric!” We laughed and laughed.
Wish I looked as perky as Pat after nine hours on the show floor.
Notice the sign above Pat’s head that looks like it says to Get Naked. Don’t worry, she kept her clothes on. It really says to Get It Naked… in other words, to order the lower fat and calorie version of their foodstuffs LOL!
Here is said apron.
The pattern is one of Gina’s at Threaded Pear. I added a monogram à la Laverne. The cute pin was gifted to me by the designer, David McNutt. Thanks David! I love it. And, obviously, I love the fabric!
Until next time… some really cool things coming up…
Kay
Quilt Puppy Publications & Designs
Jul
21
Road trip
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I’m off to Long Beach today a mite early for International Quilt Festival. It’s only a six-hour drive but I’m splitting it up because this year I’ll be all by my lonesome and there’s a Preview Night that wasn’t there last year. So today I’ll drive a little, tomorrow I’ll drive a little, unload, and set up a little, then finishing setting up and be all bright and shiny for Preview Night on Thursday, which starts at 5:00 p.m. Wow!
If you’re going to be at Festival this year, please come by and see me in Booth #817, right next to the Embellishment Village. Nice neighborhood!
Back on Monday,
Cheers,
Kay
Quilt Puppy Publications & Designs
Apr
17
My favorite quilt
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Today I’m writing about my favorite quilt as part of the Bloggers Quilt Festival put on by Amy of
Park City Girl.
My favorite quilt is usually the one I just started but if I had to pick just one, I’d have to say that it’s my Sixteen Baskets.
Here are the reasons why:
In many ways I think this is my best work. It’s hand appliquéd, back during the time that I favored the freezer-paper-template-on-top method (before I learned back-basting). The tiniest motifs are machine appliquéd or hand embroidered.
Each of the blocks is my original design… they’re published in my book Baskets to Appliqué. It was an exciting, emotional, fulfilling process developing the concept for each basket, and I still remember that time…. the mischevious kitty, the fat quarters rolled up, the nod to Baltimore, the pastel eggs inspired by Janet’s chickens who gave us eggs exactly those colors.
This quilt is also hand quilted. I took a picture that’s unevenly lit on purpose to try to get the quilting to show up. I love hand quilting and don’t get the chance to do it as much as I used to.
I love the soldier blue and the dogtooth border. (Also that it’s called a dogtooth border, because I love dogs.)
So that’s my favorite quilt. Thanks for visiting to see my entry in the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival! Visit Park City Girl every day through April 24 and get a ringside seat for other bloggers’ favorite quilts! It’s quite a show!
Until next time,
Kay
Quilt Puppy Publications & Designs
Apr
3
Santa Clara show this weekend
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Just a note for those of you in the northern California area. The Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association presents its 2009 quilt show, Garden Party, this weekend. The show is held at the Santa Clara Convention Center near Great America, same location as PIQF in the fall. This is a fun weekend. Hundreds of quilts will be on display, demonstrations will be held all weekend on various quilting techniques, and the guild puts on a fabulous boutique with many unique items. I’ll be there in my cozy little booth so be sure to come by and say hi! I’ll have my laptop set up so you can play with the CD from Easy Appliqué Blocks.
For more information, check the SCVQA website.
Hope to see you there,
(in the meantime the virtual tour continues)
Kay
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