Press Perfect Giveaway and Market Recap

Lazies, Just a quick note…ending soon is Clover’s Press Perfect giveaway for a few of my absolute favorites from this line. Hop over to their blog for the details and to enter. Then read on for a quick recap of market below.

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Market floor

Quilt Market Pittsburgh 2014

This is a picture of half of the show floor during set-up. Notice the guy on the bicycle. He has the right idea. I didn’t even make it to this part of the show! There were 28 aisles and I was in aisle 2!

Okay, so I’m home from Quilt Market in Pittsburgh. Wow, what a great/busy/exhausting/fun time. I am mortified to tell you that I only took two pictures. One of the show, one of my dinner. That’s how it goes sometimes. Actually, I did find a few more pics on my phone when I got home. But I missed get smooch-shots – all the lovely friends and peeps I got to hug and smooch on. I usually get some selfies and it just didn’t happen.

I love the scenery on my way from Columbus, Ohio to Pittsburgh, PA. I’m an architecture junkie and bridge architecture is no exception. I love the simplicity of this design as well as it’s awesome green color.

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Arriving in downtown Pittsburgh. I love the cityscape. Bordered by rivers, all tucked in nice and neat. Pittsburgh downtown

There’s a nice sushi bar inside the Fishmarket restaurant at the Westin Convention Center. I did partake. Repeatedly.sushi

Thank you to everyone who came to see me at the Clover booth. I was demo-ing with Pat Sloan’s beautiful Moda fabrics all weekend. Nothing like a little pretty to work with. I love Pat’s aesthetic. Lots of shops took videos of me doing my demo. I’m anxious to see how those turned out. Shops – let me know if you post a link.

Pat SloanWe hosted an early morning class for Press Perfect with some fabulous shop owners. We did an in-depth overview of each item, what it’s for, how it came to be, why we need it, and then we all played. We had pressing stations set-up around the room and we got to use each item in a real-life setting. Thank you for getting up early with me and making the class a success.

Next up, some sweets from my Clover friends from Japan. Yum and yum! Thank you! It’s a true treat for me to see my associates from Japan. Not only are they truly delightful and good partners, but they embrace my overt nerd/geek/engineer. It’s like we form our own Big Bang Thoery of sewing.

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Finally, it’s always good to be home. Here, I’ve just gotten off the highway at my exit for home. The weather was fabulous and sunny. Windows down, sunroof open and a good tune on the radio to bring me back to beautiful Westerville to my hubby and my Honey.

Joan Hawley

So, another adventure in the books. I’m home for a while and look forward to some quality time with my peeps – Honey and Hubby.

Enjoy!
Joan