{"id":3217,"date":"2019-03-19T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbieanne.live\/abblog\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2019-03-19T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:27:05","slug":"festival-of-quilts-from-how-i-see-it-feel-it-work-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbieanne.live\/abblog\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Quilts\u2026. from how I see it, feel it, work it\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where to start?\u2026\u2026. at the  beginning, as an eager beaver beginner, \nscarred stiff when I looked at the displayed quilts, would I make \nsomething so wonderful and complicated, could I make even?! \u2026\u2026for many \nyears I was just a visitor, jostling, bumping, stretching through \nbetween others, ferreting into low corners of stands to see what \ntreasures could be found, buying copious amounts of fabrics and \n\u2018stuff\u2019!!  There\u2019s always room for \u2018stuff\u2019, stuff the \u2018stuff\u2019 in a \nlittle corner of one of the bags, you just need to remember which bag, \nwhat stuff and why\u2026\u2026 was there a why, did I actually have a plan or just\n an excuse for the stuff?\u2026\u2026 I love \u2018stuff\u2019!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it was entering \nquilts into the displays (competitions, nah!!! \u2026.in truth I was just so \nchuffed to feel I was at a point where I felt I could enter, I really \ndidn\u2019t care what the judges might think, that was my quilt up there on \ndisplay, embarrassed, but so chuffed!).  Then off around the halls to do\n a bit of ferreting for stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I went as a tutor, hour workshops, half days\u2026\u2026 then went I search of stuff, ferreting into low corner etc etc etc\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\n I went as a stall holder with the release of my book\u2026.signings, \ntalking, smiling\u2019s, patterns, kits, more books\u2026\u2026. not a lot of \nferreting, only the few minutes before you all arrived or just after you\n all left\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another year included supporting the Quilters Guild \nraise funds, as a known tutor I was asked to donate an unfinished item \nI\u2019d made for the anonymous sales table\u2026. donate I did, then I was off \nlike a whippet ferreting!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now\n I go as \u2018Me\u2019 \ud83d\ude42   over the years of ferreting for stuff I\u2019ve met and \nmade many friends within the quilting world, stall holders, tutors, \norganisers, and the lovely student public-type people\u2026..loads of smiling\n now goes on along with natterings and many happy moments.  I get to see\n friends from other countries, we party and exchange news and update \neach other on what we\u2019ve made, what we\u2019re making and why we\u2019re buying \nall that lovely \u2018stuff\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\n also get to help one of the most popular stands at the show, the book \nand fabric stand, Kalquilts \/ Kaleidoscope Books.   You\u2019ll see my quilts\n all over their stand and me making an idiot of myself on the till, \nespecially when I have no idea of a price!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.this was my very \nfirst taught\/published Mystery Quilt, displayed here at the FoQ on the \nKaleidoscope stand along with several other quilts\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like\n so many of the stands, they\u2019re run by a family firm, they take care of \ncustomers, they have the highest respect for their customers.  Seems to \nme they\u2019re possibly THE busiest stand in show, they get mobbed from the \nmoment the show opens.   It\u2019s a place where people arrange to meet \nfriends and travel companions after they\u2019ve been off ferreting.  Its \nwhere people head to just before they go home to pick up the heavier \nbooks so they don\u2019t have to carry them around while they\u2019re ferreting.  \n And its now become a place where people head to say hello to me and \nfind out what I\u2019m up to!!  I\u2019ll be there again this year, please come \nand say hello, I hope to have two of the UKQU Mystery Quilts on display \nwith me, maybe even three!!   Dragonfly Quilt, A Colourful Outlook on \nLife and Rubies & Cream which will have gone public by then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(\u2026\u2026..this is the stand before the doors open)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and\n this is me making an idiot of myself curtesy of Sylvia (the lady that \nruns this, the UKQU website, told you I get to see people I know!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The show means all manner of things to all manner of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a place to be inspired by, to meet and greet friends and like minded creatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s\n a showcase for many small family businesses, designers, tutors and \nmore, all people who need your support, your continued support, many are\n going by the by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your support is what makes quiltshows happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s you displaying your quilts and coming along to see them in their full glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without all the little creative businesses and quilt displays we would all starve of inspiration and stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make sure  you come and say hello to me!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy thought towards this years shows\u2026\u2026. Abbie xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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