Fabrics,  Quilt Market,  Quilts

Kansas City Quilt Market

I’m home and it feels so good.  Kansas City was a wonderful host but there’s no place like home.   We spent 6 days in the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City and I feel like I only know a teeny bit!  It’s huge and goes on for several blocks.

The downtown area is surrounded by tall buildings with many styles of architecture.

Of course the old buildings are always my favorite.

Sample Spree at any quilt market is a shopping frenzy.  People line up hours in advance to get in.  This was only the start of the line and it went on forever!  Quilter’s can shop like no one else and they proved it once again at Sample Spree!

I think we may have had more exhibitors this market than attendees.  The aisles were filled with creative booths, new designs and fabrics.  It was wonderful for the shop owners!

The first day of market is always the most exciting.  Here’s a few closeups of our booth…

I’m still writing patterns and I’ll get them on the website as I get them done.   My newest block of the month is in both fabric and wool…

It’s enough to drive you crazy isn’t it? Pumpkinville” is the fabric version and “Pumpkin Hollow” is the wool version.

I may be a little distracted for the next several weeks because guess who’s arriving from Germany today?

My granddaughter Lily arrives later today!  She’ll be here for 2 weeks. Her first birthday is on Saturday and we’ve ordered up a cake and a party!  She’s not had “sweets” so can you imagine what she’ll do with the cake?

I’ll be back as soon as I can to show you a few more market pictures and of course Lily pictures too!

27 Comments

  • Mary Ann

    I love both pumpkin quilts, so hard to decide! My granddaughter Ilika just had her first birthday last Saturday which also entailed her first sweets. A cupcake made with organic whole wheat flower, organic eggs and organic sugar…lol. Her face was priceless, she tries out the icing tentatively, kind of mushs it around her mouth and then her eyes light up! And she grabs the whole thing with both hands…you can imagine from there, priceless and oh so adorably cute! I know Lily will enjoy her sweet too!

  • Nancy C. in Utah

    Anne, your booth is completely awesome! I can’t wait to see more pictures of Market, but more importantly really, I hope your time with Lily goes very slowly! Enjoy and get all the hugs in that you can. Be sure to get pictures of her reaction to her first sweets!!! Hugs…

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