East Cobb Quilt Show

We had a wonderful time manning our vendor booth at the East Cobb Quilt Show this weekend in Marietta, GA (metro Atlanta). Here are some photos:

This is the show floor with the vendors on the second floor overlooking the quilts. Perfect setup!


This is Bill being a very good booth Assistant Manager...


Our booth...


The rust dyed wall quilt is by Frances Arnold and the four needle felted and embroidered pieces are by Mary Ann Mauney.

Wide Backing Fabric

Here's another sateen wide backing fabric for a double or queen size quilt. The color won't be this bright after I rinse it, but it'll be pretty.

Yesterday's Fruits

These are yesterday's fruits from the fabric dye pot. They're both wide backing fabrics for quilts, and they will soon be available at Marybeth Tawfik's long arm studio, Cambridge Lane Quilting Studio in Athens, GA...



If you click here, you'll bring up our local guild's newsletter with information on Marybeth Tawfik's new studio. Clicking here will get you to her last website with fellow long arm machine quilters in The Netherlands.

The Light at the End

It has been a long 8 weeks of dyeing fabric and making pincushions, but last night I dyed my last batch of fabric for the Pensacola Quilt Show. When all is said and done I'll have about 775 yards in folded fabric and probably 150 yards in 4" x 20" pieces for sale.

My favorite stack of fabric has been the browns...

Some of the browns are actually Bill's rust dyes.

This is the staging area...simply because it's the only empty space in the house. Like I wrote a couple of entries ago, this has been a whole-house event.

I priced the wool pincushions yesterday...about 60 of them. They are delicious!

Some of the multi-colored fabrics turn out beautifully too.

I'm off to rinse the last batch of dyes...

Goodies

It's been a long, long day of preparation for my upcoming vendor booth. Started at 8:00am and stopped a few minutes ago, around 10:00pm, minus some eating and resting breaks. Here are some of the spoils of the day...

Hand-dyed fabric yards

Half-yards

More half-yards & fat quarters

Hand-made wool pincushions

And the edge scraps, noodles, that I'll use in my new Fabric Beads class in 2010. Yummm.