Quilt Show thoughts.

Hello again, yesterday I went to a quilt show in Edinburgh, its an anual event by Grosvenor Exhibitions.First of all this comppany charges vendors a high price for the booth and this has resulted in fewer and fewer vendors.One vendor I know well told me yesteday that this will be her last time in Scotland as the overheads are just too much so yet again we in Scotland loose out. Two vendors I wanted to buy from were missing and I only bought two books (like I NEEDED another two books) two little pieces of fabric, well they were cheap and some buttons, all in all a cheap day out. Now for the quilt, as usual Grosvenor had a number of quilt exhibitions within the overall exhibition, I'm not sure if this is too fill space because of a poor entry exhibit and at £10 +per entry I can see why the entry section may be small, that said there were one or two quite nice quilts however the overall standard in the judged section was questionable, e.g. one quilt was Highly Commended, this quilt was poorly bordered, did not lay flat and the corners were dreadful. My first thought was that this was a first ever quilt but when I read the artist statement I discovered it was a quilter I know and she teaches, so I had to wonder what the judges were thinking when they made this award.I did pick up a couple of entry forms and hope to enter one show in England and the next Scottish one after all if I am going to be critical I should put my quilt where my mouth is. This was probably my last time visiting this show as Campbeltown is just too far away. I still need to finnish my pair's quilt and do more packing in my studio so its back to the grind stone.
Take Care
Janette

hello again, long time no write!!!!

We have been very busy packing. Its incedable what you can fit into a 13ft. sqr. foot space. I need to get my Stretching Art piece finnished soon and hope to mail it off in July (ish) I will not have sewing space in our llittle caravan so this piece needs to be ready before we move. The theme is famouse pairs, my first piece started as Adam and Eve but morphed into Sonny and Cher, this is still w.i.p. and I stated over, his time Adam and Eve and that apple emerged, however because of time restrictions it also is w.i.p. I hope to finnish this in the next few weeks. Tomorrow, feb. 26th. I will go to a quilt show in Edinburgh, meet my friend Margaret, have lunch and a girly chat, see quilts and spend some money, even tho I have said I dont NEED anything, who ever said quilters dont need stuff anyway I am looking forward to some R&R.The plans for our new house arrved today, they have been submited for planning permision so its a wait and see for now. We are getting to grips with packing and can see some progress and we have decided to use one room in the new house for computers etc. so I will not be off line for months as I first tohught. Its 11 weeks until we move, this sounds like a long time but in reality is NOT so time is important. I am sorry to go on so much about house moves etc. but thats what dominates at the moment. I will post (try to post) photos of both A&E and S&C. Thank you for your visit. Happy creating.
Take Care
Janette

Hello, it's been a while............

Hi, It's been a while since my last post, partly due to visits to Campbeltown, our new home, and restricted time. I have been trying to sew, did some work on brown paper which was not very interesting, however I did work on tissue paper, (white) and some sheer fabric to make a little landscape I like. I will try to post photos of this, and also photos of another challenge, whish is "Pairs" I decided to make Adam and Eve but they morphed into Sonny and Cher and are still W.O.P. but I will again try to post, after I had that out of my system I did make Adam and Eve, also W.I.P., this is for an on line challenge list I am on. (sorry I cannot remeber the addi) On Wednesday I bought some of my friend Jenni's fabric (Jenni lost her battle with cancer recently) and have sketched a small quilt I will make using this fabric, again I hope to post this here. I feel I can now sew again after thinking only of packing, I feel I can take a day off now and then and plan to visit the quilt show in Edinburgh at the end of Feb. I'm quite looking forward to this day out because I will meet up with an old friend and have some retail therapy then look at quilts, not a bad way to spend a day!
We had our achitct's plans to-day and like one idea over the other, it gives me a "hobby room" upstairs and I like that idea, at present I have to go outside to my studio and I do'n't always want to do that and in winter I can go out in daylight and walk into darkness, so an indoor studio sounds good to me.Keep looking and I WILL post photos.
Thank you for visiting.
Take Care
Janette