What a fun, crazy, whirlwind of a weekend that was! My body is tired but my brain is energized. It was so much fun to be around people who love fabric as much as I do. For the first time in my life I could talk and talk about fabric without watching my listener's eyes begin to glaze over.
On Thursday I had my first celebrity encounter when I was heading back into the building after lunch at Burgerville. I saw this gal walking up the steps with this adorable tunic made from Jennifer Paganelli's fabric and ran over to tell her how cute her top was. I got up to her and realized it was Jennifer Paganelli herself!!!!! Ack!!!! She was loaded down with bags full of goodies so I got to help her carry some and had her all to myself for about 5 minutes. She is the nicest, warmest person and it was fun to sit in on her presentation and listen to all the great ideas she had for using fabric. Some even require no sewing and were just beautiful.
Here she is at her display in the Westminster section (I was ready to set up a cot and just live in that corner of the exhibit hall, the blankets were obviously provided for that reason). Cute!
She was so nice she let me pick 2 goodies from her bag for helping her out (all the not-so-helpful people just got one) and I'm going to share one. I'm not even going to show you the one I'm keeping for myself because I don't want any whining. Just leave a comment and I will pick a name Tuesday night. You don't even have to say something clever (but that would be fun too!) because I will use that random number generator thing. Here's what I'm parting with:
Two luscious fat quarters of Bell Bottom fabric in River and Grey colors.
The fabric manufacturers were handing out free goodies right and left and I'll be handing them out to you all week long! I have a real biggie planned for Friday!
Oh and I just got another delivery from Free Spirit (I've turned into Pavlov's dog. I start to drool everytime the doorbell rings!). I now have 2 more Bell Bottom Georgie Bouquet prints (in the Navy and Fuchsia). Go check them out! Fun!
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Ed. Revision
I'm going to make a slight change and draw the winning name Tuesday morning so that I can get another post and another fun drawing up (and lots of pictures!). So if you miss this one you can definitely try for the next one! Thanks! Jona
