Anna Maria Horner's booth at Market

Anna Maria's booth at Market was just so beautiful, I couldn't take just one photo.  Unfortunately, every time I had a minute to sneak over to her booth to say hello, she was either gone or busy chatting up all her fans!  Boo.  Oh well, at least I got to gawk at her gorgeous booth in solitude.

some of my favorite fabric and pattern designers!

Joel Dewberry!

Amy Butler!

Lizzy House!

Alyssa from Penguin & Fish!

more quilt market photos...

I couldn't have done it without my friend Lindsey's help! (Thank you, Lindsey!)

I hung all of the bags, plus a printout of my fabric designs, from carabiners.  The carabiners attached to washers, which I stitched to canvas.  The canvas also had the names of each bag printed on it so that people could easily see which pattern belonged to which bag.

Close up of the huge applique logo!

first day at quilt market

My first day at Market was a success!  More about it later, when the craziness is all over :)

Hello, there!

Oh, look!  It's my mom!

The lovely finished quilt.... quilted by the amazing Sue Baddley of Summit Creek Quilts!

My logo is a giant applique!

Purses hanging from carbiners attached to washers and canvas.

spring (market) is in the air

I've been so busy with preparations for Quilt Market and for the Market itself (only one more day!!) that I haven't had a chance to post photos of my progress!

My fabric arrived from Spoonflower a week before Market... so I got cracking and sewed up all of my bags and had time to make a small quilt, too.  The quilt is the Kitchen Window quilt from Elizabeth Hartman's book, The Practical Guide to Patchwork.

Smith & Edwards is the most amazing store ever!  Their slogan is "We have everything... if you can find it".  SO true.  It took me a bit, but I walked away with heavy canvas for my booth "walls" and carabiners and washers for hanging my bags.

Knee deep in canvas! 

Canvas is up, and now we can start hanging the bags...

graduation!

 I graduated!  May 7th marked the last day of a long journey in college... I started fresh out of high school at the University of Pittsburgh as an English writing major, and 3 schools and 8 years later, I graduated with a degree in Interior Design from Utah State University.  I also moved 5 times and have lived in 4 states since I left Pittsburgh!  What a crazy ride it has been.

My dad and I with the Wellsvilles in the background.

Graduation dinner at Le Nonne, one of my favorite little restaurants in Logan!

Our little house.  A bit ramshackle, maybe, but it has served us well for the past few years.  Notice the moving truck in that first photo --- our next stop is Denver!

Spring is (finally) here!

Okay, I have to backtrack a bit. Blogging has been on the slow side lately, given a super busy last semester (!) at school, preparing for Quilt Market, and preparing for a new city. But still, spring didn't arrive TOO long ago in my town in northern Utah, so here we go: