Give-away goodies + Quilt Market + I ♥ Minneapolis
June 7th, 2010
GOOODIES!
For dessert. Not until after this post is finished.
Now boarding, Alaska flight 38
Good-bye Seattle. Hello Minneapolis.
Waiting for me below… AlmostUtopia. If only MN had an ocean - it’d truly be Utopia. What a beautiful state filled with beautiful people. Beautiful, friendly, nice people. Minnesota Nice people.
I was just getting over a cold, and then I got hammered with it while in MN (I blame my flight) - so I’m missing lots of bits and pieces of market. Missing photos, missing people who I wanted to see but didn’t/couldn’t. An abbreviated, prescription drug induced snapshot of my trip to Market. I could not have made it through Market without my Nurse Nightingale when I was so sick, and my interpreter when I lost my voice - Pam. And to my roomie Karen - you took such great care of me and made me feel so loved and cared for. Thank you Pam & Karen - from the top, bottom, sides and middle of my heart!!!!!
Twilight on Crack Hotel
Or to someone who’s hip, young, trendy, cool and likes sleeping in a black box and showering with a wall of window to the bedroom - and showering with essentially a shiny garden hose for a shower head, (or has a really cool suite like The Pioneer Woman did)… then you must give The W Hotel in Minneapolis a go. Bottom right) ME: Hey Karen, what’s the weather like today? KAREN: Sunny with a chance of brick. 
Sample Spree
Clockwise:
1) Showin’ off her bling - cuter than cute Lizzy.
2) For YEARS we’ve been blog/flickr pals… I FINALLY get to meet The Adorable One - That silly lil Doe.
3) Funny-girl Kathy of Teacher’s Pet. Are those boxes for meeeeeeeee?!
4) Another one of my blog/flickr pals… me and Miss Minnesota Nice Mary of Mary on Lake Pulaski fame. Mary was as nice as I imagined her to be + 1000 times more.
5) Cara - we met over having some words. Words with Friends, that is! Cara’s first time as an exhibitor. Yay Cara!
6) All around sweethearts and Sample Spree queue entertainers… Jennifer, Kaye, Stefanie, Doe & Cara. Are Stefanie and Doe just not too cute?! If I were Paula Abdul I’d want to squish them/squeeze their heads off and dangle them from my rear-view mirror. But I’m not Paula - so I’d like me a set of Stephanie & Doe salt and pepper shakers. Or S & D bobble heads.
7) No photos, I only heard rumors… that Carrie saved the day for Vickie at the Lecien table and snagged her the last bundle of Holiday Happy for her. Carrie is not just a rockstar and Schnibble Queen… but she’s my hero too!
Breakfast
Karen, Pam and Flat Nat - amazing breakfasts at the Key’s Bar & Grill at the Foshey. Amazing Gin Fizzes and finger lickin’ ooie gooie make-you-weep pecan rolls.
Lunch
Brit’s Pub… on EVERYBODY’S list to eat at. Pam and I are able to snag a table in the much coveted shade at Brit’s Pub. Outdoor eateries in Minneapolis are plentiful and wonderful. A foodie’s paradise.
Cake Party!
Mother/daughter dynamic dynamo - Cherri & Lizzy’s Cake Party to celebrate Cherri’s breathtaking new book City Quilts and Lizzy’s adorable newest fabric line Castle Peeps from Andover.
Clockwise:
1) Yes, I’d love a piece of that one, Lizzy.
2) Melissa’s friend Unicorn tries to french kiss Flat Nat… and Jana (aka Carol) behind her does nothing to stop it.
3) Scott brought me an RX all the way from Seattle. I heard whisperings that he brought a bag for Patty, too.
4) Who’s this? OIC… it’s Caroline of jcaroline.
5) The cool kids table - smile and say “Glee!” -Beth, Melissa, John and Scott.
Eat, again? Ok!
L to R:
1) Me with Flat Nat toss ala Mary Tyler Moore. It’s Minneapolis. It’s the law.
2) Pam, Cyndi and I have the best salads for dinner at the News Room. And lucky Cyndi gets carded for beer. I got offered the senior menu.
3) On Radio KPKM I said I was going to be Pam’s weather girl. So here it is. Minneapolis was hot. Not unbearable hot… but hot enough to want to traipse in the fountain.
Maybe just a nibble for now?
Nope. Not yet.
Lecien
Goodness in the Lecien booth - Flower Sugar II, my Holiday Happy (pinch me) and Brenda’s beautiful Durham “Anew“.
In the line-up… aaaaah-dorable sweet Kate, me (apparently I either forgot to do a mirror check - or - my goal for the day was to look like a gaucho from Fogo de Chão. Steaks anyone?), Brenda, Pam and Nireko.
Karen, Pam, Elizabeth, Keiko, Brenda, Meg, Jennifer, Nireko and Tracy made some of the most AMAZING samples for the Lecien booth - check out their blogs and see what they made - the booth was oozing in cuteness thanks to them. (I hope I didn’t leave anyone out!!! Please let me know if I did). Cover your keyboard with a drool towel. 
Izzy & Ivy
Oh. My. Gosh. I love Team Izzy & Ivy! I called my mom and asked if I could keep them. She said no. Too cute for words… so they get four pics. L to R: Jana, Shasta and Jenny. My new BFF’s + medical team + everything. By far the coolest, hippest (I bet they would like the W), funnest, darlingest peeps at Market. I can’t wait for SLC next year. I think Team Izzy & Ivy is going to turn Utah upside down and back up again. As if they haven’t already.
Vegemite not included
The Roo Crew from Down Under!
1) Lynette from Lynette Anderson Designs. Not just a friend, but a twitter and Word with Friends pal. It was so wonderful to finally meet her. And she’s so lovely and fun - as I knew she would be!
2) Anni from Hatched and Ptched. Lynette intoduced me to her - and like every Aussie I’ve ever met… so friendly and nice. Australia… the Minnesota of the southern hemisphere. Aussie Nice.
3) Kellie and crew from Don’t Look Now! Who is that pulling a Wilson behind that pillow?! Hey, it’s my lovely sister-wife Anna! Well if Anna is in Minnesota, and I’m in Minnesota… then it must be sister-wife Sarah’s turn to be with hubby.
4) Aussie, Aussie, Aussie… oi, oi, oi - wish you were there Natalie Lymer (aka Flat Nat’s mum), Rosalie and Natalie Ross too!
Don’t look now…
But there’s a constant, HUGE crowd at the Don’t Look Now booth. No suprise - jaw dropping gorgeous, happy and unique. You can’t help but smile when you see the amazing quilts of DLN. Even the rockstars come to see DLN. I’m sooooo in awe of the masterpieces cranked out by Kellie. Awe. If Don’t Look Now comes to a show near you… RUN, not walk to it. 
From the Land of Tall Trees
My Oregon, Washington & Montana friends. Clockwise:
1) My sweet friend Mo of Lime Gardenias. Just over the hill from me - why we’re practically neighbors. If we were crows. And we flew. Mo’s big debut of her gorgeous Party Dress line with Blue Hill Fabrics. I sure wish Mo could have been at Market!!
2) Also in Mo’s neighborhood is Michelle from Busy Bee Quilt Designs. Michelle was MIA while I was at her booth, but luckily I caught her mom Birdie. I’ve been lucky enough to sew with Michelle and Birdie. Well… they sewed… and I danced with my chair.
3) Just up the river (the Columbia) in SE Washington is Crabapple Hill. I love Crabapple Hill and have made countless embroideries using CH patterns. I even won a blue ribbon on my quilt with the Crabapple embroidery on it. I finally got to meet Meg… the genious behind CH and fellow COSMO floss user!
4) Sandi, Sandi, Sandi… my dear and amazing friend and my milk buddy for life. Or as Sandi calls me… her milk soul mate. Yea… we both love milk THAT much. I have photos of Sandi… but saving them for my [future] Iowa post. Oh, and DYING over Sandi’s chairs. Montana monschmana… those chairs look like they’d much rather go to Oregon.
5) The Anne’s! L to R, Anne B. of Cottons n’ Wool and Anne S. of Bunny Hill. I’m *related* to The Anne’s by both our Oregon and Walnut Creek connections. And because I’m Super Fan #1. I’m so excited for Anne S. - who has joined the Moda family - and joined in a big way with the debut of her oh so yummy Lily & Will. YEAY Anne! I heart The Anne’s soooo much! If you’re counting… I typed “Anne” seven times. Eight.
6) My pal, my sistah-friend, my neighbor, my lunch buddy, my roomie, my travel pal, my personal shopper… Karen is like having a dozen friends all lovingly wrapped into one awesome friend. Karen’s latest beautiful line Dear Dorothy debuted at the Timeless Treasure. And just look at the sample in her fabric… it’s an Izzy & Ivy pattern!
7) My oldest and bestess and dearest and funnest friends Leslie. We were neighbors at one time - like only a block from each other neighbors. We were inseparable, from sun -up to sun-down… until she moved back to Michigan. There were rumors we wanted to start our own commune - but instead - Leslie’s mom opened up Hearts to Holly quilt shop. Leslie is the person responsible for putting a rotary cutter back in my hand somewhere around 1999. When Leslie and I do get to see each other, there’s a photo we take to show her kids that Leslie is growing taller and I am shrinking. If anyone saw me bawling at the MCC… it’s because I had to say good-bye (again @#$!) to Leslie.
Mi amore, those who I adore
1) Clockwise: Elizabeth “MacGruber” Stumbo (my BFF, my mug-arita buddy and super stylist for all things APQ/Quilt Sampler/Q&M), Jill Abelo Mead (my Quilts & More editor and my cheerleader and she’s got a sassy new hair-do!), Karen, Linzee (freelancer to the House of Meredith - she’s like me… but she quilts with letters and writes beautiful profiles in American Patchwork & Quilting and Quilts & More), Pam and me.
2) Sherri of Sherri Falls of This & That fame. Pam (who knows EVERYBODY) introduced us - we would soon be going to Iowa together, so Pam and Roseann both thought I should meet her right away - not to waste ONE MINUTE of not knowing her. To say I adore Sherri is an understatement. More on Sherri in a future post.
3) Bonnie and Camillie - another amazing and adorable mother/daughter dynamic dynamo! A. Dor. Able.
I spy - some happy for my eyes
Clockwise:
1) I love Riley Blake. Love them!
2) Pillow & Maxfield. Loved their booth, loved them.
3) Cara’s first time as an exhibitor. Yay Cara!
4) Lakehouse Dry Goods… I love all things Lakehouse. Every market I tell Holly I want to move into her booth. One day I will be sucessful.
5) Hemma Design… a Swedish inspried company from Minnesota. Really caught my eye (and Karen’s too). Love the simple happy look of Kathy’s [Kathy on right, Mary on the left] that’s oh so Swedish.
6) Last but not least… check out the delicious yummies fo dear sweet wonderful Nanette of Freda’s Hive fame made for the RJR booth. Darling! The only thing better than seeing Nanette’s yummies… would have been to have had Nanette there with them!
Checking out… Checking in
Good-bye Minneapolis (and the crazy Twilight on Crack hotel)… Hello Des Moines (and your beautiful vintage hotels filled with light and brightness). Lots to show. Lots to tell. I’m still on a Cinderella high - I’ll be blogging my Iowa trip after I rest up.
Now it’s time for dessert
Fresh from the oven… a little Holiday Happy to go around. I was going to do a give-away with 2 fat quarter bundles of my Holiday Happy - but one of the fat quarter bundles had unprotected sex and gave birth to 4 little fat quartlettes (9″ x 10½” cuts). So 5 winners instead of 2. One comment per person - no fuss no muss… just leave a comment by noon PST on 6/14/10. I’ll have random.org pick the winners. EDITED IN: Contest is now over - anything past comment #506 is too late (sorry). Winners to be announced shortly.
I still need to add who I wanted to see but couldn’t make it… and who was there but somehow missed them… and who I saw but didn’t get a picture of (need to draw my pics) - but It took me 3 days to finish this post/edit the photos - so I’ll write a part two-er to this. I really should double check for typos and make sure all the links are correct…. I’m taking a nap.
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Farting around with needle & thread and then blogging about it.
Rest up so those creative juices can flow freely again. Thanks for all the inspiration!!
June 7th, 2010Holiday Happy makes me happy!!!
June 7th, 2010Looks like a lovely time. I would love to get my hands on some of those fat quarters. :) :)
June 7th, 2010Ooooh! I am sooo in love with your fabrics. Lecien is my favorite fabric company. You 2 are a great combo. Definitely making doll quilts and clothing with the fabrics. Yea!
June 7th, 2010xoBerrie
You are HILARIOUS! Best QM post yet :)
June 7th, 2010It was worth the three days of posting/editing for us. Great Market recap. Thank you for sharing.
June 7th, 2010best quiltmarket post yet. how lucky are you to have been there and meet the people who inspire me.
June 7th, 2010I loved this post and seeing all the photos from quilt market! Wishing I had been able to go!
June 7th, 2010Love the pictures! Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to get my hands on some Holiday Happy!
June 7th, 2010What a wonderful time you had!!! Love all your pictures..thanks for sharing. When will your fabric hit the stores?????I can’t wait.
June 7th, 2010To My Dearest Zombie!
June 7th, 2010This was, in fact, the most fantastic Quilt Mzrket post I’ve ever read in my life (and my opinion has nothing to do with the fact that we have a 4 picture spread)!
You make me laugh, and I’m going to have to read this post again and again to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
I have already told you of my deepest love of Gnome-a-claus. If one of these stacks were to come to my house to live I would take it out to dinner, and give it it’s very own room.
I love you Zombie-babe!
I love seeing everyone’s market posts. Looks like such a fun time!
June 7th, 2010That was the best Quilt Market post that I’ve read yet. So many great pictures of food, fabric and people. It looks like you had a great time!
June 7th, 2010Brits Pub was awesome and so was Hell’s Kitchen…lots of good places to choice from at this Spring Market..
June 7th, 2010yes please! i’m buying it no matter what. i love christmas quilts, and i see this one in my future!
June 7th, 2010Thank you for the pictures from quilt market. It’s so nice to see all those wonderful booths and quilts. I love your new line and am thinking up projects as I type this!
June 7th, 2010OMG…what a great post on market.. would love to be sitting outside right now having a nice drink in one of those sidewalk cafe’s….
Thanks for a chance to win …
June 7th, 2010Ohmygosh what a wonderful post. I love how you organized your photos. I love that you were there and I was there with you. And that I met your people & and you met my people. And now we’re all people together. I ♥ u. xo
June 7th, 2010love those colors!!! love your pics from market also, looks like you had a lot of fun
June 7th, 2010I agree - fabulous post about Market. Makes me feel partly like I was there and partly like I wish I had been. So thats cool.
June 7th, 2010Love, love, love the fabrics.
Ohhh, I loved this post, seeing all the great photo’s of market. Thanks ;-)
June 7th, 2010Those fat quarter bundles are the perfect colors, I luv them.
Deb
Am I allowed to leave a comment, and plead for some of your cuter than cute fabric? If so, I just did…if not just disregard this groveling of mine.
xoxo!
June 7th, 2010What a wonderful early Christmas present it would be to win one of those!
June 7th, 2010Lovely recap!
June 7th, 2010Oh Ms. Zombie, you slay me sometimes! I never thought FQs were so promiscuous! I would love to win a bundle, even an illegitimate child bundle of your lovely fabrics!
June 7th, 2010Thank you for sharing all of that market fun! Someday I hope to experience all that quilting goodness. Still laughing about the Twilight on crack hotel….
June 7th, 2010Looks like you had a wonderful time!! I’d love a chance to win some of your awesome fabrics!!
June 7th, 2010I have been lusting after your fabric since the first time I saw it on your site! LOVE IT!!!!
June 7th, 2010It is first on my “fabric I HAVE to have” list. Did I mention I LOVE it. LOL
Looks like you got pretty good coverage of market to me! Your fabrics are gorgeous, would love the chance to win some :-)
June 7th, 2010Hmm, i’m not above grovelling. I am eagerly anticipating this fabrics arrival. Ok well, even if i don’t win, i’m still going to procure some ‘cuz it’s so awesome. Great market round up! :)
June 7th, 2010What a terrific post, so nice to see all those smiling people surrounded by yummy goods (both the food and fabric varieties)! Thanks for helping the Market-less share the cheer.
June 7th, 2010With all the news reports and pictures, I feel like I’ve been to quilt market myself. Even though I never left home. I LOVE your fabric. Gorgeous!!
June 7th, 2010as an ex-minneapolis girl, i have to thank you for the pics of my old stomping grounds - it made me homesick and happy at the same time!
June 7th, 2010You are so funny…not so much gaucho cute…as you are Holiday Happy cute ;) Love the new fabric. Maybe Bunny Hill Ann can come up with a cool new quilt so that you can have a 2nd fire quilt with your own fabric? Hmmm… Congrats again on the new line :)
June 7th, 2010OOOO! Yes please!! those santa gnomes are just the CUTEST!!! I got a real feel for the market from this post too - a little crazy, and WAY too much fun!
June 7th, 2010Thank you so much for the very nice & organized post about market! It’s like a precious photo album of all the fun stuff. There were so much information and too many to write about. You did all the work for me. It was my third market to visit and I had a great time there. I hope to meet you again sometime soon!
June 7th, 2010ohhh man. just found out that market is in salt lake city next year… wouldn’t you know that i would be moving the year it comes to my state. i shall be coming for a visit then. thanks for the great photos… and for your SUPER fantastic new line. i will get me some of that amazing fabric. oh and thanks for a chance to get some now!
June 7th, 2010How. did. you. do. this?
June 7th, 2010I link. I share. It’s a lot of work… a labor of LOVE, but girl you rocked the link love! Shows what a big and fun-loving heart you have.
I love your Cinderella high! Energy is buzzing right off my monitor.
And, true: I am a bit green with envy… I could do some Mpls time, and I would love to browse the Market aisles, rub elbows, and what would I do after seeing all those inspiring quilts and fabrics?! Probably pass out from the thrill. Thank you for sharing, and I think I will find enough links and new blogs to love to last me until next year!
Crossing my fingers and toes until June 14th.
I love your fabric. I have asked for the notification as soon as they get it at the Fat Quarter shop. I can’t wait to start playing with it.
June 7th, 2010Loved the post! In love with your fabric!
June 7th, 2010Bummer about getting sick at Market! So happy to see your fabrics!
June 7th, 2010Wow, yummy food, good company, & fabric. Sounds like heaven. And I always wondered what my fabric was doing alone in the dark cos it seemed to multiply. Guess now I know it really does.
June 7th, 2010What a very happy fabric line. One could do so many things with these fabrics. Hope to see them soon.
June 7th, 2010glad you are feeling better! Thanks for sharing the wealth! :)
June 7th, 2010Your Holiday Happy fabric makes me happy to look at it. It is so darn cheerful and cute. Thanks for the great market post - how did you manage all of that while being sick? Amazing.
June 7th, 2010Absolutely the best market thread ever - and I would be proud to give one of those wee quartlettes a good home - I would nurture it and love it !
June 7th, 2010Wow! The best Market recap I’ve seen! Thanks!!
June 7th, 2010Glad you had a good time despite being a bit under the weather… Of course I would LOVE to make something wonderful with your fabric!
June 7th, 2010Fabulous QM blog. QM must have been a blast. Sooooo much fun.
I love Christmas quilts and sure would love to win one of your “Holiday Happy” fat quarter bundles.
Thanks for sharing your QM memories with us and for giving us a chance to win some HAPPY fabric.
Pauline F
June 7th, 2010Whew! I’m exhausted just reading about it! What fun you had! Great giveaway too! Thanks for the chance at those great fabrics!
MGM
June 7th, 2010Sew cool! I love the quarterlettes!
June 7th, 2010quartlettes..did you just make that up? fabulous! thanks for an amazing recap!
June 7th, 2010Great market recap! and the chance to win some Holiday Happy!
June 7th, 2010Woohoo!!
I’ve read quite a few market posts but never thought “OH I wish I were there, too!” until this post.
There is so much goodness, links and info here that I’ll have to come back a time or two to really suck it all in.
If I had the time I’d drive up there and ‘pinch you’.
Is this post for a giveaway? I too would feel like a rockstar if I won me summa yo FABOOO Holiday Happy. And seriously, that pic makes it look SOOO happy!
hugs and kisses.
ps: It makes me happy to see you mugging with all the other quiltland peeps cuz YOU look so happy!
June 7th, 2010quartlettes, huh? Thank goodness it’s not another one of those baking names–I gain weight just looking at them ☺
thanks for the awesome play-by-play! It sounds like you had one heck of a good time!! “Happy Zombie” is quite appropriate…
June 7th, 2010i’m on inspiration overload! WOWZA! so much fun stuff! thanks for sharing!!
June 7th, 2010oh my goodness! you look like you had *such* a great time! congrats again on your fabric!
June 7th, 2010I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your new line!! Thanks for all the pictures. It’s fun to see what happens there.
June 7th, 2010Thanks so much for the wonderful glimpse into quilt market!! I love, love, love Holiday Happy! Your the best!!
June 7th, 2010Oh my stars and garters! You had more fun, viewed more eye candy, noshed more and imbibed more than any one person should be allowed! I bet your fabric had sex while you were out partying! Thanks for such a great post. You do resemble Mary Tyler Moore…spooky! :p
June 7th, 2010This was the BEST post on Market I have read so far!!! Bless your little Happy Zombie soul for taking us along. I love your new line and I hope both it and you are wildly successful!!
June 7th, 2010I’m not sure which I’m drooling over more…the fabric bundles or that yummy pecan roll! :)
June 7th, 2010Wow…you’ve got everything covered! So many great pictures from market…and those fat quarterlette bundles are soo cute! Thanks so much for the pictures too!
June 7th, 2010Oh MSS I love this vicarious quilt market dream! I know you were a hit and people from Chico/Paradise came back with reports that your Holiday Happy is the bomb!!! Like Christmas with a touch of Easter. That is a good good thing. Think Santa with peeps and jelly beans! Woot!! xo Pam in Chico
June 7th, 2010Please enter me in the giveaway
June 7th, 2010Thank You :)
(The fabrics are lovely )
Please enter me in the giveaway. Holiday Happy is so bright and cheerful. A great way to bring some color into my neutral palette home. Bring on the color!!! :)
Reference your post: OMG, looks like you ahd so much fun. And thanks to your links I am finding some great blogs too. Thanks!
June 7th, 2010Monica, I just kept reading through your post going, yaay! There’s more! And more! Look at that…I want that! Thanks for making me (almost) feel like I was there. I know a lot of time went into your post and I hope you know how much we appreciate it!!
June 7th, 2010AIEEEEEE! I just love your fabric and am so looking forward to seeing it in real life. Crossing my fingers!
June 7th, 2010Ooh, I am breathless just reading your post! Winning some Holiday Happy would be breathtaking, too!
June 7th, 2010What an amazing post! So awesomely happy and makes me determined to never. miss. another. No, I’m not putting myself in the running for the fabric…even the illegitimate bits…it wouldn’t be fair. I still have a little left that I smile at from time to time.
June 7th, 2010SO funny! Gave birth! I would love to be a new parent!
June 7th, 2010Thanks for the great recap of Market. I love Christmas + love your fabric = would love to win your Christmas fabric!!!
June 7th, 2010Yummmm the best dessert I have seen in ages! HUGE congrats to you on your beautiful first line of fabric. I hope there are many more to come.
June 7th, 2010melissa
Great coverage of Quilt market! I love your dessert.
June 7th, 2010Craziness! Love the DLN stuff, very original!
June 7th, 2010Looks like you had a wonderful time! Thanks for the giveaway!
June 7th, 2010If this is the post you did after being so sick, I can only imagine what you would have done if you had been 100 percent!!!!!!
June 7th, 2010This is such an amazing post, I sure feel like I was there, except touching all that fabric! Love it all!
Thanks for your take, it is always “The Best”!!!
xo
A great collection of photos! The trip looks like it could get overwhelming - thank goodness you had friends to keep you well fed and taken care of! :)
June 7th, 2010I cannot wait for this line to come out. Beautiful work.
June 7th, 2010Wow, what a great post!! I really enjoyed reading it:) I also really love your new fabric line and loved the bags made with it - such a cute idea! I would so love to win one of your bundles of joy - please enter me into your give-a-way!
June 7th, 2010Laura T
Holy Cow!!! You get the award for the best market blog post ever!!! And the fabric…I want it!
June 7th, 2010So many great pics from all the blogs!Yours particularly were fab! The stacks of fabric look good enough to eat!
June 7th, 2010Oh my it sounds like you had a wonderful time and so glad that you took all of us along for the ride - even if it was after you got back. Thanks for sharing all the photos.
June 7th, 2010Karen
I love all your pics. Sorry you got so sick!!! :(
June 7th, 2010Love all the QM pics, and love your new fabric!!
June 7th, 2010Loved reading about your travels!
June 7th, 2010Thanks for the run down on the Quilt Market…it looks like quilter’s heaven.
June 7th, 2010How much fun was that?!! While reading your post, I felt like I was at a party so I made myself a daiquari, slapped on some lip gloss and lived vicariously!!! Just let me know when the dancing starts so I can put on my twirly skirt and crank up the tunes! Hey, what’s doin’ in Iowa (Des Moines is my home-sweet-home!)? :-D
June 7th, 2010I wish Icould have been there! Thanks for the shout out- it is so fun to see my samples on your blog!! I hope you have finally really recovered and I can’t wait to hear about the rest of your adventures post market!
June 7th, 2010Someday I want to find a way to sneak into Quilt Market! I am so jealous looking at everyone’s pictures.
Thanks for the great giveaways!!
June 7th, 2010Sorry to hear that you weren’t feeling well at quilt market. It looks like so much fun and many late nights of fun! I love your new fabric!
June 7th, 2010Looks like you had a great time at Market in spite of not feeling so good. Thanks for the great post.
June 7th, 2010love these fabrics!! thanks for the chance to win!
June 7th, 2010Looks like you had a great time! I’d love to win…thanks for the chance to win!
June 7th, 2010Looks like you had a great time at market (despite being a bit “under the weather”). Thanks for a great giveaway!!
June 7th, 2010I hope you feel better soon and thank you for sharing all the great photos :)
June 7th, 2010Please enter me in your yummy giveaway!
June 7th, 2010Oh, I LOVE this fabric! I have never been totally and completely enamored with a Christmas line before this. I think this is the year that I will finally make a Christmas quilt, though!
Thanks for such a great giveaway!
June 7th, 2010I’m starting to think I’m the only blogger in the world that didn’t attend the quilt market!
June 7th, 2010I think it’s only fair to mention that June 14 (comment deadline) is my BIRTHDAY! I better get the memo to random.org.
Oh my word, Market sounds like a BLAST. Thanks for sharing so much with all of us who can only dream (sigh). Seriously, I feel like I have new super-fun wicked-cool quilty friend.
June 7th, 2010Great roundup of quilt market - love the Lecien Flower Sugar II!
June 7th, 2010The photos are terrific and the fabric looks even better! Thanks!
June 7th, 2010those fabrics are just delicious! that’s all there is to it!
June 7th, 2010So many pictures, so many links!! I am having so much fun finding new people adn blogs from your post and all the beautiful quilts in your shots!
June 7th, 2010Random.org needs to pick ME. Seriously. Because I missed Market, missed you, missed Cake Party, missed The Cool Kids. Whine whine whine. Fabric will make me feel better.
June 7th, 2010Awesome post! MAWK….thanks for all of your hard work!
XOXO,
June 7th, 2010Stefanie
WOW! You we’re one busy bee!
June 7th, 2010And please, enter me.
yep, the best quilt market post evah!
June 7th, 2010I stayed at a W once and felt just about the same, but I do remember really comfortable beds! Thanks for all the pictures, and I would just love a pack (any way, any kind) of your fabric!
June 7th, 2010Thank you for the givaway! that fabric is just super cute!! Polly
June 7th, 2010Hey look, there’s me! I didn’t get a chance to pick up any Holiday Happy while at Market (geez, it was crazy inside sample spree), so yes, I’m throwing my name into the hat even though I was there and all that!
June 7th, 2010wow, i’m exhausted just reading that! thanks!
June 7th, 2010Holy Cow, what a trip. I wish I was a big name in the quilt business and could go. I am jealous!!! Looks like so much fun was had. Can’t wait to find your fabric here.
June 7th, 2010love your little christmas gnomes, fabulous.
Glad you liked the Aussie girls, we aim to be memorable!
June 7th, 2010OOOHHH, how cool it would be to win!!! :o)
June 7th, 2010What a fun post. Love the giveaway. Thanks for sharing.
June 7th, 2010Your pictures from market are great! And those fabrics are delicious!
I could have SO much fun if I won!
thank you for the great giveaway!
Sheilac
June 7th, 2010Just when I thot I’d seen about all of the market, you show up with pics of booths I’d never seen at ALL……*S*
Thx for taking the time….and for the great giveaways.
June 7th, 2010Fun post! I laughed, and then held myself back from reading the ending… I’m amazed I did. What cutie patooties!!
June 7th, 2010Thanks for the great giveaway!
Brilliant! Best. Market. Report. Ever! There’s no way I could have kept all that straight — you’re amazing!!! Hear Tell Ms. Sarah did a great job with the Hubs — which freed us up to have a fantastic time!!!
June 7th, 2010Wow! I love that line! I’m totally jealous of your market experiance! I so want to go…. maybe one year!
June 7th, 2010Thanks for all the super pictures and great links! Love, love, love that fabric!!!
June 7th, 2010OMG that is an exhausting list of fun, fabric, food, friends, and fashion. Oh, and an amazing pile of fat quarters to love on. What a fantastic start to your next career :) Glad you had such a good time. I’m not surprised it took three days to get this post up, LOL!
I hope R.N.G. picks me.
June 7th, 2010OMG, if this is you when you’re sick, I can’t even imagine when you’re at your peak! You are amazing, Monica! Your new fabric is fabulous and I’m glad you had a blast at Market!
June 7th, 2010Looks like you had a blast! I’d love to win. :)
June 7th, 2010Pick me!!! Christmas in June would be awesome!
June 7th, 2010I’ve been a lurker for a couple of weeks now… found you through Amanda, at crazymomquilts.
Jumping up and down… “Pick me! Pick me!”
I really want to make your Chinese Lantern Quilt :D
Julie
June 7th, 2010P.S. Glad you’re blogging again, though the time between posts gave me time to read back through some older entries.
June 7th, 2010Great pix and information - almost as good as being there. All of you creative types in one place - Wild!
June 7th, 2010Wonderful pictures, such a detailed report and your brightly colored fabric…thanks for the great post! and the chance to get even a quartlette of Holiday Happy.
June 7th, 2010WOW! what a wrap up… and to think you were sick!
June 7th, 2010LOL….I would have needed a nap after that post too!! I loved every minute of it though! Sounds like even though you didn’t feel well, you had a blast with a bunch of amazing people!! Yay!
June 7th, 2010Wow! I’m pooped just reading all of that never mind how tired you must have been from seeing it all, then writing about it for us AND having a cold!!
June 7th, 2010Thanks so much for sharing, looks like you had a great time. Now I’m off to check out all these tabs I just opened thanks to your links! :)
I love your happy holiday, the colors are too wonderful! I don’t know how all you lovely designers do it?! I hope I get to win some :)
June 7th, 2010L*O*V*E your fabric line Sooooooooo much!
June 7th, 2010The best blog about Quilt Market…so many photos..you must have had a wonderful time..so much “eye Candy”. would love to win some of your fabric, thanks for the chance to win some..I will say HI to the DLN girls when I see them …hugs LindaB (Melb Aust)
June 7th, 2010Love your fabric! I hope some of it finds its way to Sweden!
June 7th, 2010Sounds like you had a great trip and I look forward to read more,
Lotta in Sweden
OMG!!!!! I have been waiting and waiting and waiting….as patiently as I possibly can for this crazy fun fabric to come out!! And now a GIVE-A-WAY???? I would be in STASH HEAVEN if I won! This fabric makes me so happy every time I look at it!! Cross my heart. You are the BOMB for doing this! I cannot WAIT for this to be available! This corn-fed Iowa gal needs some bright Holiday Happy in her secret stash of goodies! :o)
June 7th, 2010I am sure I am the lucky one in any way. Because when I not win the dessert, I´ll buy it :-) SO BEAUTIFUL fabrics!!! Lovely, cute, a-must-have!
June 7th, 2010Greetings
Gisela
Thanks for sharing the great times you girls had and I’m so glad Holiday Happy gave birth.
June 7th, 2010What a yummy dessert!!! Love your fabric…..I can make room for this dessert!!! Hope to win!!
June 7th, 2010Woo Hoo…would love to win, and IF I do, please don’t give up on me. Off on vacation for two weeks and may be computer-less. But be assured IF I should win ( BIG IF) I will walk all the way to wherever to pick up such a lovely prize!!!!
June 7th, 2010I love your new fabric line and can’t wait until it’s in the stores. I’m glad you’re feeling better. There’s nothing worse than being sick at Quilt Market!
June 7th, 2010WOW
June 7th, 2010looks like a wonderful time had by all…and the fabric is DELIGHTFUL :)
Looks like you had fantastic time at QM—I think I would have been swooning at all the luscious fabric.
June 7th, 2010Oh I love the little babies. Such a cute and clever idea. btw I LOVE the W in any city
June 7th, 2010I enjoyed your post and all of the pictures are so fun to look at. I’d love to wind a fat quarter bundle or the little fat quartletts. Sooo CUTE!
June 7th, 2010Thanks for the wonderful giveaway. I think my daughter and I could make something really fun with a bundle!
June 7th, 2010Heavens! That is a mega update! Looks to have been a fabulous gathering. It’s always great to finally chat to someone in person that you’ve been chatting to for ages online.
June 7th, 2010Fish and chips! My boy would be so jealous.
Holy cow Monica! That was the most comprehensive quilt market post! I love all the links- and I even found some patterns I want to buy now (Hemma). Sorry you were/are under the weather. I hope you are feeling better. As for your fabric- I just love LOVE the gnomes. They are so cute! I “gno” they want to come and live at my house. :)
June 7th, 2010Thanks for a wonderful blog journey through the quilt market. When you not have the oportunity to be there in real, a blog journey is great. Feel like I have been there :)
June 7th, 2010Those fabrics are beautiful and I would love to win :)
Enjoyed reading about your trip to Quilt Market. Thank you for the giveaway.
June 7th, 2010Make me a happy girl and choose me! I love,love,love your fabrics.
June 7th, 2010love the recap, love the fabric lline so cute and fresh.
June 7th, 2010Oh my oh my oh my!! I loved every picture of market! I am still jealous, but also on a sugar high from all the candy-sweet pictures! Yummy!
June 7th, 2010Oh, and the giveaway? PLEASE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR!!!! OH PLEASE!! PICK ME!!!!
( sorry, I lost control of myself a minute there…)
Thank you for the chance at this fabulous giveaway Ms. Monica!!
Oh my, how I wish I could have been on that trip. What a delight for the eyes this post was. I will cross my fingers really tight for some luck here. Thanks for the giveaway and thanks for sharing your pics.
June 7th, 2010Love the new fabric, would love to win one of the giveaways. Will be buying it when it hits the shops. Hope your feeling better too! :)
June 7th, 2010Another post that left me with my chops hanging open! Wow what a time you had of it. Hope you are feeling better now but looks like you squeezed in a little (a LOT) of fun anyway :D
Do you know what made me laugh the most? That there is a pub called Brit Pub! LOL! Is that like us having Hard Rock Cafe over here? :P
Hope I can enter your giveaway, am sneaking in a comment anyway - and wondering what your atitude would be to a bit of bribery and corruption?? :D :D
Loved this post!
June 7th, 2010What a marvellous exhibition! I would love to be there. And I would be extremely happy to get your fabrics :)
June 7th, 2010Thank you for the great visit to the market! I would love to play with some of your happy fabric
June 7th, 2010; )
Oh, Monica, you make me laugh and smile and feel as though I was along for the ride. Maybe that’s why I feel so tired! You sure caught on fast to all things Minnesotan, like Minnesota Nice. Did Roseann give you lessons? There’s an actual book called “How to Speak Minnesotan.” I’m sad to hear how sick you were, and I’m glad you’re feeling better. I know your fabric was a big hit!
June 7th, 2010looks like u had fun, thanks for recap
June 7th, 2010Hi Monika,
June 8th, 2010oh thank you so much for your market recap - it was so much fun to read, as always!
I was so sorry to hear you had a cold on your first market with your own (gorgeously cute) first fabric collection…!!!!
I just LOVE HH & I can’t wait for them to arrive in the stores!!!
Twitterschnitzel-Grüße ;o)
Julia
Golly, what a stunning show/market, I’d give my eye teeth to go to that. Thanks for sharing the photos. Can’t wait for Sugar II to come out but would equally love to get my mitts on that yummy Happy Holidays please!
June 8th, 2010Hen x
Thnaks for the great play by play. Can’t wait to hear about I-o-way……
June 8th, 2010Looks like you had a great time even with a cold. Hope you are better. Loved all the pictures… and the bonus food photos.
Aloha.
June 8th, 2010Love your blog! I am a beginner quilter and I would love one of these goodies to help me build up my fabric stash!
June 8th, 2010Wow! You mean there were people you didn’t see in Minn?? Glad the girls from Down Under represented well.
June 8th, 2010Lovely wrap up and wow love the photos thankyou for allowing me the opportunity to visit Quilt Market from my lounge chair - yes the drool cloth is in place. Given me some more sites to go and visit THANKYOU
June 8th, 2010Fab blog and beautiful quarters!
June 8th, 2010Oh your such a tease making us read to the end about your fabulous trip to Quilt Market. Hope your feeling better now though. I did enjoy reading your post and putting faces to names and now I have new links to go and look at. Would love to win one of the fat quarter packs or one or their illegitimate mini packs. Can’t wait to see your fabric collection in person!
June 8th, 2010Wowsers..I made myself a cuppa tea before I started and whilst reading your post it got cold.. I LOVED this post!! thanks for all the pics and what everyone is up to!! Oh How I wish I could go to market!!!! I love your range of fabric I am not a huge FAN of chrissy fabrics (chrissy = christmas) but I am in LUST BIG TIME with yours!!!
June 8th, 2010Lissa
Australia!
Thanks for taking us along on your adventure! I am exhausted. Thanks for the chance to win!
June 8th, 2010Such wonderful eye candy! Looks like so much fun!
June 8th, 2010Love seeing all the fun chicks and dudes you got to see/meet. I’m so happy for you and your success, but I know it’s cuz you’re the FABULOUS MONICA!! :) Thanks for finally getting the pics up. I was wondering if you decided to stay in MN! :)
June 8th, 2010I just love your blog.
June 8th, 2010Joan
I am very jealous that there is no such market in Germany. I need to convince my hubby that Minneapolis is worth visiting. Love your fabric!
June 8th, 2010Hum…that breakfast looks great =D
June 8th, 2010It looks like you had a lot of fun!
Thanks for all those great pic and for this amazing giveaway.
gorgeous fabrics, love your blog!
June 8th, 2010Thank you for your fabulous report on market, and for sharing all those wonderful photos with us. I was sorry to read you had a cold while at market, but was glad to see it didn’t stop you from enjoying yourself. Those Pecan Rolls look yummy!
June 8th, 2010Congratulations on your success.
These are great photos. I’m sorry you got sick…booo… maybe next year will be even better!
June 8th, 2010Do I qualify as a pesson?? (You did say one comment per pesson.)
What a post! By the time you boarded the plane home you must have felt liked the “walking dead!” This is a great giveaway and I would love these fabrics. Thank you.
June 8th, 2010Oh (wo)man! I wonder if Quilt Market next year could be a good excuse to take a trip to the US from Europe…. I want to go there toooooo! Thanks for a lovely giveaway too :)
June 8th, 2010GOOD TIMES! Love the photos, thanx for sharing the love!
June 8th, 2010Wow…I think I’m dizzy from all that… What fun, though! Thanks for a chance to win some goergous fabrics.
June 8th, 2010Thank you, Monica, for sharing your trip to Quilt Market - despite being ill, you took us on a wonderful ride!
It was so nice to put faces and blog names together and see all the beautiful booths. It took a long time to read your blog today because I kept going back and adding your new friends to my Favorites list! Have to confess, I went back and reread it and really looked at the pictures a second time (going back for another link after this is posted).
Can’t hardly wait for your Holiday Happy fabrics and Santa gnomes!!!
June 8th, 2010What a fun post! Great photos and stories.
Dessert is the right description for your fabric–your line is as refreshing as sherbet or sorbet. I’m glad the fat quarters reproduced–it gives more chances to win!
June 8th, 2010MMMMM, so yummy I could just eat/quilt it up!
June 8th, 2010OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just looking at those colors have made my day all sunny even tho it’s raining….THANKS
June 8th, 2010great post, well deserving of a nap. I look forward to seeing and touching the Happy Holiday when available.
June 8th, 2010Thank you for sharing quilt market with us.So many of us can only get there through the kindness of others. I love your new fabric also, and can hardly wait for it to be released. So many plans in my head of what I’m going to do with it!
June 8th, 2010WOW what a BIG post full of inspiration and upcoming goodness!!! I hope you are finally getting over ur sick bug. I look forward to getting my hands on some of your fabric out here in Australia.
June 8th, 2010Thanks for the market tour. Sorry you weren’t feeling better, but so glad you were able to do as much as you were.
June 8th, 2010You have made me want to quit my full time job and just play with your fabric!
June 8th, 2010Thanks for a glimpse at Market, and what a yummy little stack of fabric!
June 8th, 2010OMG - I’ve gone Gnome Gnutty! I haven’t felt screaming “ooh, ooh pick me, pick me!” like this since elementary school. Thx for the great market post and giveaway - you’re so thoughtful! :)
June 8th, 2010Loved your pictures from market. Thanks so much for the giveaway!!!
June 8th, 2010Really fun market post! I would love a chance to win some of your gorgeous fabric - thank you!
June 8th, 2010Great pics! I’m so sorry that you were sick during market. I can hardly wait for your fabric to come out!
June 8th, 2010That was without a doubt the most comprehensive Quilt Market post. I should have just waited for it. Great pics, great reading. I enjoyed it, and I can see that it took a lot of time to do it.
June 8th, 2010Congrats on your new fabric! It’s very fun and colorful - fits my style perfectly. Your pics / post of market were excellent - almost like I was there with you!
June 8th, 2010Your new christmas fabric is so cheery! I have two kid-free weeks in august and plan put them to use making a holiday project or two. thanks for the chance!
June 8th, 2010Oh, Monica, I’m temporarily overwhelmed…I wonder if when you are at the Quilt Mart if it ever feels that way to you? So much to take it…so much to want to NEVER forget. It is so apparent that you have the time of your life meeting old and making new friends. But…the best of all…Monica…is that you went to Market with your very own ‘baby’. Your beautiful fabric…that came out of your very own imagination!!! How much fun could that have been? What an experience. Thankyou for your diligence in getting all of your memories in ‘order’ so you could share with us. I love your notes and photographs..and getting to see the smiling faces that are behind so many of the gorgeous fabrics that delight all of us at home. I look forward to the availability of your fabric. My name is on 3 lists.
June 8th, 2010Oh! I used to work in a quilt shop and always wondered what my boss was doing at Quilt Market. Now that I know, I’m insanely jealous that she was meeting such lovely designers and fondling all of that fabric.
Feel better very soon. Your new line of fabric looks yummy!
June 8th, 2010Random.org Dude!! Pick me!!!
I feel like “Flat Nat” after that wonderful trip to market via your blog photo’s! I would love to win some of your fabric wonderfulness :)
Lisa
June 8th, 2010Just adore your fabrics! Would love to work with those happy, fun colors and patterns!
June 8th, 2010Looks like you had a lot of fun. I’m a massive fan of Don’t Look Now. And I love your holiday fabrics - so cute!
June 8th, 2010Nerys x
I’m small enough (sometimes!) to fit into a pocket; can I climb into yours and vicariously enjoy your world for a day? Love your colors, your words, your joy - your smartypants-ness!
June 8th, 2010Looks like the show was alot of fun. I will have to make sure that catch a show when it comes to Cleveland.
June 8th, 2010I love this post. So much color and it looks like a fabulous time. I love the door knob in that photo.
I had to laugh at this …
2) Pam, Cyndi and I have the best salads for dinner at the News Room. And lucky Cyndi gets carded for beer. I got offered the senior menu.
How funny!!
From one LOST fan to another Pam
June 8th, 2010Great market post. Looks like fun was had by all.
June 8th, 2010Great market post! And that fabric is just WoW!
June 8th, 2010Fabulous post… fabulous giveaway!
June 8th, 2010You are such a hoot!!!! I love reading your blog and I kinda/sorta/almost/maybe felt like I was there with you and all your buddies. Can wait to see more pictures! Love that Happy Holiday! It actually looks happy!
June 8th, 2010Oh so beautiful fabric!! Hope to be a lucky winner! thanks for this wonderful giveaway!
June 8th, 2010nadra
Wow, Monica! I feel like I went to market right along with you. Only I didn’t. It looks like so much fun. One day, one day… I hope I win one of your fat quarterlette bundles. I don’t know of anyone here in GA who is going to carry it. Waaaahhhhh!
June 8th, 2010What a fun post, MONICA!!! You wouldn’t know that you were under the weather. HOW MUCH FUN this was to see everyone. Like I told Pam, it is great to see the faces behind the names.
I would L - O - V - E to win one of the baby bundles! *** insert a drool here ***
LECIEN is one of my favorites and top it off with YOUR design = better than a pecan roll anyday!
xo
June 8th, 2010becky
WOW what a post! So much eye candy. I felt like I was really there! Thank you for taking the time (even if it was 3 days) to share it with the rest of us wannabes!
June 8th, 2010I never refuse desert!
June 8th, 2010Love your fabric it’s so fresh and cute :-)
Oh My Stars! Thanks for making my day yet again.
June 8th, 2010Market looks like great fun. Sorry you had such a bad cold. I love your new fabric. I really hope you pick my number!
June 8th, 2010I am looking forward to your line coming out so I can buy lots and lots!
June 8th, 2010Wow, looks like you had a fabulous time!!!
June 8th, 2010Oh my - your fabric is lovely. So many projects are going through my mind already…
June 8th, 2010I posted about meeting you in person at Market. It was a highlight for me. Sorry you were so sick. It sure was a great couple of days.
June 8th, 2010What can I say your fabric makes me drool. I’m not ashamed to say it either. I cannot wait to get my hands on some. I keep scrolling back just to look at it. It’s absolutely lovely.
June 8th, 2010THANKS FOR THE MARKET VISIT!
June 8th, 2010BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL FABRICS!
THANKS SO FOR SHARING!
LOVE,LINDA
Oh those are the best kind of dessert! Very, very yummy with 0 calories. Can I have one? Please?!
June 8th, 2010Love the fabrics!
I live next to the right-side lake in your airplane photo.
June 8th, 2010awesome post, sweet photos, but the dessert- YUMMMMMMY!
Jessica
June 8th, 2010proboh1@yahoo.com
I love your new line! So cute…it’d be totally fine by me if you draw my name. =)
June 8th, 2010I love MN too! (Minus the mosquitos). Would love to make a quilt with these happy fabrics.
June 8th, 2010Sorry you were under the weather there. I’m sure your fabric was a huge hit so please pick me to send some wonderfulness to.
June 8th, 2010Your fabric is on my wishlist! I LOVE Gnoma Claus!!!
June 8th, 2010the lobby in the W looks PINK??!! is it? that is fabulous!!
June 8th, 2010Quilt Market sounds like a lot of fun!
June 8th, 2010I would LOVE to win some Holiday Happy. Thanks for the great giveaway (and all of the Market pics)!!!
Monica, there are a ton of comments before me again! But I want you to know just seeing those fat quarter packets is making my heart race!!!!! Maybe if I am lucky enough to win one of these…I can make my very first quilted item! I found a shop right down the street from me that gives lessons! Be still my heart! OK….have to go get that paper sack again! :):):)
June 8th, 2010can’t wait for your fabric! situation critical! love it! love it! love it
June 8th, 2010Holy Post Happy Zombie! LOL LOVE it! And the prize at the end is the best part! I hope I win. I hope I win. I hope I win. (picture me standing at the mervyns window) ;o)
June 8th, 2010Great post! I will have to go back when I have a few hours and click on all the links! Last time I was at quilt market was also in Minnesota but it was sometime in the 90’s. I miss it when I see all of the fun that went on.
June 8th, 2010mmmm … Brainzzz
June 8th, 2010ok … now that is out of my system. Your recap of Quilt Market is fantastic, wish I could have been there to join in the fun. I can’t wait for your brilliant little gnomes to hit the stores, with that said … I would LOVE to win some *fingers crossed*. But one way or another I shall get my hands on some. Hope you are feeling better. :-)
Just found your site through another. Am going to make the “Poochie Bag”…thanks for the freebie pattern! Would LOVE to win! Thanks for the opportunity!
June 8th, 2010Such beautiful fabrics and your post introduced me to lots of new designers to look for. THank you, thank you!
June 8th, 2010Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous!!
June 8th, 2010Oh random.org please pick me!!!
June 8th, 2010Yummy! Thanks for the great giveaway and the fun market report. Sounds like you had a blast.
June 8th, 2010Looks like you had a wonderful time and what beautiful fabrics!
June 8th, 2010Those fabrics are so darn happy!!! Love ‘em.
June 8th, 2010Thank you for sharing all your market photos! I can’t get enough of them- so fun! I had lived in Minneapolis way back when… it’s nice to see how it’s grown up! I’m ready for dessert now too!
June 8th, 2010Loved the photos! Love the fabric!
June 8th, 2010Love all the bright colors!!
June 8th, 2010Man, it took FOREVER to get to the end of 241 comments just so I could add to it! Sowy to those that follow me. ;0
Anyway, Monica, I read your entire post and enjoyed every word! You must of been up all night typing! ;0
June 8th, 2010Now with 245 comments I’m not sure you could even read mine, let alone comment back. And I’m fine with that so lets talk rhetorical questions. My gosh Monica! How long did it take to make that post with all the hyperlinks included and all the pics put into cubettes??? Frickin long time. I bow to that amount of concentration to get it all in and get it right. I read it all. I clicked, I went, and I was (to be continued)
June 8th, 2010WOW! What great photos! Thank you for sharing with all of us who can’t attend, makes us feel like we were there. Hoping to be a lucky winner!
June 8th, 2010(yes, I’m finishing my comment here.) wowed. So your work was not in vain. I was feeling my little quilt was a little bit on the ordinary side compared to all the wonderful stuff there but I had to work within the confines of what I was given. And my own talent limitations, mind you. That said, I’m overwhelmed with praise for you and all the other women that work so hard to get market at the level it is in.
Your fabric is wonderful. Lecien is my favorites. I can’t wait to get Monica’s fabric. I am going to support Nadine and get it at my LQS instead of online. Nadine promised to phone me.
YIPPY KI AYE HAPPY ZOMBIE!!! You are so amazing.
June 8th, 2010Oh…that looked like so much fun. I would have been in fabric envy overload zombie land!! Lucky you!! And Lucky me..if I win that fabric!
June 8th, 2010I so enjoyed your blog. Sorry you were under the weather. Thanks for the chance to win!
June 8th, 2010Holy shnikes, what a post!! And what delicious fabric! *drools*
June 8th, 2010Hope you are fully recovered and feeling well….I’m adding to the drool pool…would love to have this gorgeous fabric. Thanks.
June 8th, 2010Lovely post. Lovely quarters.
June 8th, 2010Ooooo…too much fun! I wanna go! Thanks for the generous give-away, please enter me for a chance to win all that fabric-y fun :)
June 8th, 2010Smiles, DianeM
I love all your fabric, it’s so colorful and pretty to look at :)
June 8th, 2010For a sick woman, you did a rockin’ job reporting on Market! You did an amazing job, even for a well woman. I think perhaps you have a career in journalism…Monica, cub reporter! Loved all the photos and thanks for the kind words. So fun to finally meet you all.
June 8th, 2010You had a great time in your travels. I’m so jealous …. wish I could have been there. The fabric looks great too!! Please enter me in your giveaway …….Thanks
June 8th, 2010sounds like you had a nice time. linda gerig
June 8th, 2010Every post I see about the Quilt Market is amazing, looks like heaven. Thanks for the great pics and giveaway.
June 8th, 2010Wow, awesome trip up and down the aisles at Spring Market!! One would never know you were under the weather. Keep doin’ what you do best :D
June 8th, 2010count me in for the giveaway! :) Always love a good one!
Your pics from quilt market look beautiful! I can’t imagine the creative overload you must be feeling. :)
June 8th, 2010I absolutely love your gnome fabric line! It was also fun to see all of your buddies at market. I love following several of their blogs too.
June 8th, 2010Wow what a post, Did you actually get to do anything but work?
June 8th, 2010Wow! For once, I’m a little happy for the lack of birth control:)
Thanks for the chance to win!
June 8th, 2010Thanks for sharing the quilt market. Looked like a great time. Hope you and Flat Nat had fun.
June 8th, 2010Wow! What a post! Almost feels like I was at Quilt Market, too! Love me some fabric and would LOVE to win this!
June 8th, 2010Tis the season to be Happy - Happy Holidays! I love the Quilt Market update, thanks.
June 8th, 2010Looks like a whirl-wind trip! Thanks for leaving such nice comments about Minneapolis, it is a wonderful place to live :)
June 8th, 2010LOVED seeing all the photos from market! Thanks for sharing them - they’re wonderful!
June 8th, 2010No doubt about it - your blog and cheery fabric make me smile, even at the end of a long, busy week! And it’s not EVEN a holiday!
June 8th, 2010Great pics of Quilt Market and what a great fabric giveaway….sigh, one year it will be my turn to go :).
June 8th, 2010Thanks for sharing the wonderful story of the
quilt Market and your experiences. For those of us who are not able to be there, your pictures and play by play give us the chance to feel the creative excitement. I love the bright fabrics and know that sewing with them will lift the mood that our wet spring has created. I am energized by your post and appreciate the gift!
Michelle
June 8th, 2010in seattle
My head is spinning after this marathon of a post. Wow! How did you pack SO MUCH into your time in MN??? Swoony colors, GOR-geous fabrics, chock-full-o-fun post! Well done you!
June 8th, 2010OMG!!!!!!! YOU’RE BAAAACK!
I’ve been checking EVERY DAY for this post…and the ONE DAY I’m out-of-pocket you post and LOOK! 278…no wait, someone just poasted…279 COMMENTS!!!! ACK!!!!! You are SOOO POPULAR!!!!!!!! EVERYONE was waiting for you. YAY!
YES! YES! YES!
June 8th, 2010GIMME! GIMME! GIMME!
I’m SOOOO making that lantern sampler. SOOOOO STINKIN’ CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Can’t WAIT to see what’s up your sleeve next!!)
The fabrics look so lovely! Would LOVE to win a stack! :)
June 8th, 2010Thanks for sharing all the information and the pictures … amazing! I’m crossing everything I can think of in hopes that I might be a lucky random winner.
June 8th, 2010I love reading your blog. You are such a funny story teller. Love the new fabric.
June 8th, 2010Oh my gosh,even though you were sick it looks like you had an amazing time! I am green, just green I tell ya with envy. So I guess I’d better get on the ball, learn to draw and figure out how to design a fabric line…oh wait, may I can just WIN yours! (Glad your back and since I once lived in Iowa for 9 mo I’ll look forward to your next travelogue)
June 8th, 2010Liebe Monica,
June 8th, 2010it´s so sad that you have had a cold, but the pics you´ve shown us are so beautiful and in combination with your writing….it was fun to read!!!
Ich wünsche dir weiterhin gute Besserung und alles Liebe!
Sabine xox
Wow - so much to do, so much to see, so much to be envious of. Glad you perservered for our sakes and shared your wonderful trip.
June 8th, 2010Awesome post Monica! Pam took a great photo of us! Had to take my claustrophobic sister home before sample spree started so sadly did not get any Holiday Happy, so I’m wishin’!!
June 8th, 2010Oh, I’d love one of these bundles; count me in! And thanks for such a great, newsy post!
June 8th, 2010Great photos of your trip..sorry you were not feeling well, never fun when away from home and comfort but it sounds like you had great caretakers.
June 8th, 2010Love love love your fabrics!!!! When are they available to purchase???? Can’t wait.
Love this post will all the pictures, details and links! The fabric giveaway is wonderful icing! :)
June 8th, 2010A giveaway YEAH!!!! ( happy dance, happy dance, happy dance) Please throw my name in the hat !
June 8th, 2010your fabric range is so fresh and happy - gorgeous!
June 8th, 2010Your holiday fabric is so fun, I have been looking forward to getting some and can’t wait to start my holiday projects. Thanks so much.
June 8th, 2010Great colors, I love the fabrics! Greetings from Slovakia :-)
June 8th, 2010oh, my goodness–what a fun place that has to have been and all those great and super talented people!! speaking of which…your Christmas fabrics are so adorable, so i’m super excited about the possibilities of winning. thanks for the opportunity and have a great day and don’t be sick, ok!!!!
June 8th, 2010Thank you for a great post about quilt market. I love your new range of fabric can not wait to get my hands on some.
June 8th, 2010Oh my goodness my head is spinning and I am drooling at your post of all the show stuff! Awesome experience and I so love your fabric giveaway…I hope I win! Thank you for the chance.
June 9th, 2010OMG Monica! It was just like living Market all over again–plus more! I always love how everybody sees something different at Market. And thanks for the bloggy love. You were the perfect roommate–congestion and all! (-:
June 9th, 2010What a beautiful post!!!! and thanks for such a generous giveaway.
June 9th, 2010Wow, what a post and what a giveaway!!
June 9th, 2010i almost felt i was at quilt market! and wow your fabric looks gorgeous!
oh how I would love to have been with you all please enter me in the draw I
June 9th, 2010would love a chance to have a play with
youe Happy Holiday fabric
hugs Beth
ooooh, hope I win this one! Glad you liked don’t look now - I’ve done one of Kellie’s workshops and it was SENSATIONAL! She is so sweet, and her work is amazing.
June 9th, 2010Lot´s of colours in your words and in your fabrics :)
June 9th, 2010Smiles from Portugal!
Can I just say SQUEE! again? Sounds like you had a wonderful time at Market. Am v. jealous but will feel better if one of those wee bundles comes this way!
Can’t wait to hear about the rest of your trip.
June 9th, 2010Your blog has to be one of the best I have ever seen - it’s so bright and lively and a pleasure to read. The photos from Market make me feel like I’ve just visited myself. The fabrics in the give-away are just fabulous and so happy….. hope I am lucky enough to win them.
June 9th, 2010Glad you had fun at market, and thanks for sharing your photos!! Thanks for the chance at winning :)
June 9th, 2010I was waiting for you to post!
June 9th, 2010Love all the photos. The fish and chips look so good…made me want to eat my screen!
I’ve been waiting for DAYS to read your quilt market post!
June 9th, 2010Cute & happy colors ! Thank you for the market- photo-tour and for your lovely posts.
June 9th, 2010I LOVE your blog design !
Those fabrics are so cute, and to win would really make me happy!
June 9th, 2010the colors make me happy!
June 9th, 2010Now you’ve done it. I look like Elphaba from “Wicked.” That is, green….with envy!
June 9th, 2010Love all the pics. Thanks so much!
June 9th, 2010Oh please, oh please pick me! I would LOVE to win some of this gorgeous fabric! THanks for the opportunity!
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June 9th, 2010Thank you for the giveaway and a great blog! The pictures are so nice.
June 9th, 2010Wow! What a post!! How many wonderful impressions!!! And how many talented people!!! I envie you all!!!! All the best from Croatia!!!!
June 9th, 2010I love the bright beautiful colors of the fabric so inspiring for projects
June 9th, 2010Gorgeous fabric! Sounds like you had fun at Market inspite of things. Fun post!
June 9th, 2010Oh, I love the colors. So happy.
June 9th, 2010I LOVE LOVE LOVE your fabric line. I am dying to get my hands on some.
June 9th, 2010Fabulous review! I am sooo bummed I didn’t get to meet you at market, and so sorry to hear you were sick, you poor thing!
Your fabric was even more adorable in person–I’d love the chance to get my hands on one of those bundles!
June 9th, 2010Ooooohhhhh, you lucky duck, what a great trip by the looks of it. Fabric looks wonderful!
June 9th, 2010Loved all the pictures and your running commentary is hilarious.
thanks for a chance at dessert..
June 9th, 2010Wow! Your pictures are beautiful! And gorgeous fabrics! Thanks for the great giveaway!
June 9th, 2010Shoooooo WEEEEEEE !!!!!! Good golly Miss Monica !!!! That was one GREAT Quilt Market post ! I’m exhausted ! (and you must have been on some good meds !) CONGRATS !!!
June 9th, 2010Your pictures are amazing…I would love to be a holiday winner.
June 9th, 2010Love your new line!
June 9th, 2010Commenting!! Thank you for the market review — so much to look at and what lovely fabric.
June 9th, 2010I want some of your fabric so bad! I love your new quilt and the fabric.
June 9th, 2010OHH! Pick me! These colors make me sooo happy, and I just love the chubby gnome santas!
June 9th, 2010WOW!!!! Such a vunderful tour, especially of my very vunderful Hotel — can’t vait to spend more “evenings” there vith the Holiday Happy to keep me company. (Such darlink necks on the Gnomes — and sooo tasty.)
June 9th, 2010what FUN fabrics!
June 9th, 2010I would love to be randomly selected.
June 9th, 2010Thanks for taking the time to put together this post - I ‘met’ a lot of people I wasn’t aware of until now. And thanks for the giveaway - your new line really puts a smile on my face every time I see it!
June 9th, 2010I am so happy to hear that you were at market, and even though you were sick, you had a good time, except for that dreary hotel room! I hear the foood is great in Minnie ha-ha, so I hope to get there soon, high cholesterol and diabetes included. Love love love the lecien fabs. Gimmie gimmie!
June 9th, 2010Thanks for the great tour of Market…looks like an overwhelming visit what with all the lovely creative things on offer…just like your giveaway!! Please count me in :o)
June 9th, 2010lol .. naughty bundles : ) I love this fabric!! Thanks for sharing your whirlwind weekend, and for a chance to win too!
June 9th, 2010You are too funny- great re-cap. Thanks for the giveaway! Mary
June 9th, 2010What an awesome ginormous Market post! Great photos! And thank you for the giveaway(s)!
June 9th, 2010What a lovely post, wish I was there! Lovely fabric too!!
June 9th, 2010What gorgeous eye candy! Wish I could have been there but your post was the next best thing :) Barb.
June 9th, 2010can I please come with Flat Nat next time? I’m almost as small….
June 9th, 2010What lovely fabric! Thanks for offering the giveaway!
June 9th, 2010I would love a chance to win your cheery fabric!! Thanks for all the market pics. And if you thought the W was wild the next time you’re in Vancouver check out the Omni, the entire bathroom wall is glass looking out on the main street….oh and not one way glass either!!
June 9th, 2010What a great giveaway. Love your line. CongratS!
June 9th, 2010Sounds like you had a great time…I’ll be watching to read the second part.
June 9th, 2010Robin
Wow - for someone who was not particularly well, you got about! Fab wrap up of market :-)
June 9th, 2010Hi! I loved your post about quilt market, you always make me laugh :) I would love to win some of your super delicious fun fabric. Sign me up!
P.S. I am sorry you were so sick during market, that totally sucks :(
June 9th, 2010Thanks for the opportunity to win!
June 9th, 2010Gail
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed Minneapolis!
June 9th, 2010so many pictures and good things to see
please add me to your draw, I’m impatient for these fabrics to reach Australia
June 9th, 2010someday… some day I will go to quilt market - I wish - until then I will live vicariously through those of you who do get to go!
June 9th, 2010So many pretty pretty colors! And yes, MN is a NICE place - my momma is from up there!
June 9th, 2010fab fab fab pics and tales from market. Excellent, yes it was. Fabric? Incredible fabric unprotected sex or not, I want me some. Sooooooome. Please?
June 9th, 2010OOOOhhh I would love to win such beautiful and cheerful fabrics! Hope I’m one chosen in the drawing! Thanks for all the pics of Market. What a treat.
June 9th, 2010It would be wonderful to have Holiday Happy to work with before the holidays. I have soaked up Quilt Market virtually. Hope you had a good time despite not feeling 100 percent.
June 9th, 2010I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all about the show. How I wish I could go to one. Lots of good things happening. Please enter me in your fab giveaway and fingers crossed I win one of the fab prizes. :) Thanks heaps. Vicki from Australia
June 9th, 2010Please enter me in your giveaway. I would love to win the beautiful fabrics.
June 9th, 2010Thank you,
Ladybug
Thanks for sharing your awesome journey through the quilt market!! I would love a chance to win those beautiful fabrics.
June 9th, 2010well, I have chocolate for you……
June 9th, 2010I LOVE quilt market and I LOVE Lecien fabrics! :) Yea!
June 9th, 2010Gorgeous fabrics! Thanks for a lovely chance to win, and thanks for the wonderful pics of market for those of us who didn’t get to attend.
June 9th, 2010Thanks for sharing!
June 9th, 2010wow, the pics.. thanks for the heads up about drool cloth. :)
June 9th, 2010Luv the new fabric! Enjoy reading your blog! Please pick me!
June 9th, 2010I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…..I LOVE your fabric.
June 9th, 2010Thanks for the recap. I would love a chance to win - gorgeous colors!
June 9th, 2010Love your fabrics!
June 9th, 2010Looks like a fun trip - thanks for the chance at the giveaway!
June 9th, 2010Holy COW!!!!!!!!!!! I’m exhausted just reading your post…..what an absolutely amazing experience this must have been. And meeting all those fabulous people and drooling over all that luscious fabric. SO awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
June 9th, 2010Thanks for all of the pics from market and for the giveaway.
June 9th, 2010Wow! Great post and great giveaway!
June 9th, 2010Holiday Happy makes me happy! So cheery and wonderful :)
June 9th, 2010Holy Kamoli. I feel like I was right next to you the whole time! Who needs Market when you can just read your blog!? jk I would actually die of excitement if I ever went. Thank you for all the detail and humor! Always the humor. Love it!
June 9th, 2010Can’t wait to see what else you have to share. And I LOVED seeing pics of you! It is nice to put a face with the culprit of so many pain-in-my-side blogging laugh fests I have that leave my family thinking I am a nut job. Thank you. THANK YOU Happy Zombie!
Oh pretty please can I win! I never win and those are GORGEOUS!
Thanks for the generous giveaway!
June 9th, 2010I seriously think I am drooling over those fabric bundles. Seriously.
June 9th, 2010I’d be honored to take in one of the sweet fat quarterlettes and give it a good home. I’ll name it Frankie and treat it very nicely…. until I cut it up and make a quilt. Oh the sweet and cruel destiny of fabric!
Ahem… thanks for the chance to enter!
June 9th, 2010Oh, I am so sad I missed you!! It looks like you had so much fun!! I hope your feeling better. I got me lots of Monica yumminess at sample spree!! I am scheduling a date with you at Market, so pencil me in now!!
June 9th, 2010Nadine
Whoa! Is this a crack hotel hang over or did I just have a trip and never left home? Thanks for the really fun photo fantastic introduction to Minneapolis Quilt show and the links to the friends of Happy Zombie. I enjoyed every second of the blog!
June 10th, 2010ooohhh! I love your little Santa gnomes.
June 10th, 2010Love, love, love Holiday Happy! Can’t wait till it hits the stores.
June 10th, 2010Wow, that was terrific indeed. What fun you must have had. Those bright fabrics tempt me ;-). So yes, I would love to win them and sew something fun with it!
June 10th, 2010looooove that fabric!
June 10th, 2010i would take good care of one of those fq packs that were just born
thanks!
Beautiful fabric. I want it. LOL
June 10th, 2010Sounds like you had a blast at market. Those fabrics are gorgeous! I’d love to get my hands on them.
June 10th, 2010GOOD HEAVENS, WOMAN, take a breath! I can’t even imagine how long it took to compose and link this fabulous post! What a post. In a nutshell. I was trying not to feel toooooo badly that I missed all the fun. But now I feel just awful. Thanks. ;-b
June 10th, 2010Wow! Great photos, thanks for sharing them all. Thanks for the giveaway of your fun fabric. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
June 10th, 2010Oh my goodness do I love your fabric! I really really hope that I win (as I’m sure everyone does…) Love your blog too- the colors just make me happy!
June 10th, 2010Oh my goodness, this blog was so fun to see! What beautiful pictures you have, and I love the fabric selections! Good luck to me!
June 10th, 2010What fabulous eye candy in your post! Thanks for a chance to win and create some eye candy of my own.
June 10th, 2010It looks like you had an amazing trip!
June 10th, 2010When I grow up I want to go to market!!! The fabric is so bright and cheery - hope I win!
June 10th, 2010Now that you are so busy and FAMOUS, I’m sure you don’t have time to read all of these comments! What a fabulous report on Market, and I’m sorry you weren’t feeling well. I would love to win a sample of your adorable fabric.
June 10th, 2010WOW! What a post. Thanks for keeping us up with all that’s new and fun at QM!
June 10th, 2010Love the new fabrics.
Wow what a fun time you had at market, and so glad you enjoyed the company of my fellow Aussies. You have the Aussie call down pat.
June 10th, 2010Love your fabric, love your funny and wonderful market recap, lust for winning osme of these yummy fat quarters.
June 10th, 2010What an upbeat fabric line. Please enter me in the drawing.
June 10th, 2010Hi–I hate it when fabric multiples (yeah, right). I ordered a bunch of Seasons and still need to choose Cosmo. I’m really wanting the whole line of everything. Hope to have for an October quilt show. Take care and congrats!
June 10th, 2010Beautiful fabrics, fun colors. Looks like market was great, wish I could go one day. Thanks for the chance to win.
June 10th, 2010Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway. I would love a chance to win one of those packs. This is the first time I meet you and I’m very pleased! Your fabrics are amazing!
June 10th, 2010I’ll be back soon.
Eli
So jealous! I wish I could make it to the quilt market :( Maybe next year!
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
June 10th, 2010Have you been kind to your self and gotten over that cold? Rested up after Market?
June 10th, 2010Good! I hope to get the fabric!Thanks for the give-a-ways! It’s sweet of you to think of other quilters.
I missed tickets to Sample Spree and was standing in the overflow line until 9:00. By the time I got in, Lecien table was EMPTY!!! So bummed. cheers, Kristyne
June 10th, 2010Thanks for the fun recap! Hope my name pops up for the great fabric:)
June 10th, 2010Sounds like a fun time was had by all - learnt a lot from reading your post - and what a wonderful introduction to new experiences and people
June 10th, 2010thanks
Oh- I wish I could be at the marked once in my life.. But it is to fare away. ;-)
June 10th, 2010The fabrics are soo great, I would love to take care of some of them…
Wonder if they ever come to Norway…
Hugs ,-)
I love your photos….they are so fun to see. :) I just love your new line of fabrics….so cute!
June 10th, 2010I thought your blog was fun and the fabrics awesome!
June 10th, 2010Fat Quarterlettes had me giggling up a storm! Great giveaway! :)
June 10th, 2010What a wonderful market report–thanks for all the great pics! Please pick me oh great Random Number Generator. Love-love-love the Holiday Happy!!!
June 10th, 2010What a fun blog! and an exciting give-away! Thanks.
June 10th, 2010Beautiful blog! Sure looks like you had a fun trip :)
June 10th, 2010WOW thank you so much for sharing all those delightful photos of market. I sure wish I was there! It looked like so much fun!
June 10th, 2010You appear to have done quite a bit despite the illness. I love the MTM bit- it was a must do. I totally love your new fabric. It really is “happy”.
June 10th, 2010Oh Baby, those are some fine looking offspring! Sounds like you had a great time. Cheers!
June 10th, 2010JOY! Thanks for the opportunity to live vicariously through you :-)
June 10th, 2010My heart has been filled with fabric love!! Thanks for the pic-trip to market and “muah” for a fabulous fabric line.
June 10th, 2010I love the pictures of quilt market they look awesome. Wish I could go. Thanks for the chance to win.
June 10th, 2010was just thinking about holiday gifts… could really use some of that!
June 10th, 2010OMGGG you were one busy gal even with being sick. Isn’t that sucky being sick while fun is going on around you? Just not fair.
June 10th, 2010great give away!!!
that was a lot of info! thanks for the quilt market post–it helps us, who have to live vicariously through you talented people, feel like we’re part of the action too. i’m crossing my fingers for that beautiful pile of quilty goodness!
June 10th, 2010Great giveaway! Your pics are fabulous!
June 10th, 2010I just need to win because we’re neighbors and I really, really do NEED that fabric!
June 10th, 2010I love seeing Quilt Market photos, thank you. I would love to be able to go. Great giveaway - thanks for hosting it. Crossing my fingers!
June 10th, 2010What a round up and what amazingly pretty i must have it of loose an arm fabric!
June 11th, 2010Thanks for all the Quilt market photos. :-) Love the Don’t Look now quilts. Love the Giveaway :-)
June 11th, 2010Have Fun
Cheers
WOW! looks like you had a great time! I’m so envious! my dream is to one day make it to market. looks so inspirational! Hope you’re feeling better!
June 11th, 2010Lieve Monica ~ thank you so very much for this wonderful post. So nice meeting so many of your friends and seeing what a good time you had.
June 11th, 2010How very very excited you must be, with such a sweet, bright and happy fabric line finally on the market. Once again, GEFELICITEERD!!! You will make so many people happy these holidays. I am happy there was some unprotected sex ;0) Makes the chance to win bigger.
Have a lovely weekend and enjoy your Holiday Happy babies! xo
One day I’ll get to a Quilt Market. It’s a dream, but it could happen!
June 11th, 2010Love your happy post. It was so cheery and colorful. I can’t wait for part two!
June 11th, 2010What about absolutely wonderful post. My goodness you’ve been busy.
June 11th, 2010Love all of your pics and commentary.
Loved your review of Quilt Market!
June 11th, 2010Wow is all I can say. Great pictures! Someday maybe Market will be in my future. Look at all the talent, just another WOW!
June 11th, 2010Thank you for your generous giveaway. But thank you more for the wonderful post. I know it must have taken a chunk of time, but it gives us all here in cyberland a taste of what it was like to be there!
June 11th, 2010LOVE LOVE LOVE the fabric!
June 11th, 2010Hi,
Love your site, your chat and your lovely materials (OK, fabrics). The quilts are fantastic inspiration to someone just starting out.
June 11th, 2010Miss Happy you are such a STITCH!! Pun intended! Always love your sense of humor and thanks for sharing all the great pics and explanations of pics! For those of us who can’t go to market, it’s always a treat to see it through the eyes of those who got to go. Blessings!
June 11th, 2010Bravo! Love all the pics! You deserve a nap after all of that! Flat Nat looked like she had fun too!
June 11th, 2010Thanks for a chance to win some beautiful fabrics. Your market post is wonderful.
June 11th, 2010I love that fabric! Thanks for the chance to win. I’ll be crossing my fingers!
June 11th, 2010OHHHH! pick me please ramdom number generator….thanks for the giveaway!
June 11th, 2010I have seen it in personnow and Im in love!!! I cant wait to make my cherry christmas!!!
June 11th, 2010I’ll keep my fingers crossed I get lucky on this one…I’m so in love with this line and those little gnomies!
June 11th, 2010pick me sp!!!! xxx
and - great post - can’t believe you managed that whist full of it!!!
June 11th, 2010You just lived my DREAM going to quilt market. So happy for you and a little bit jealous all at once. How amazing to be surrounded by so many wonderful, creative people! Congrats!
June 11th, 2010I’ll bring the Dorito chips.
June 11th, 2010Great photos from Market. Congrats on your fabric line. Awesome fabric! Take care!
June 11th, 2010i just love dessert!! enjoyed reading your recap of the quilt show…especially the part about the aussies BUT it’s not us who talk funny!!!!
June 11th, 2010OK, first time I’ve commented on a blog, but who could resist that prize?!
June 11th, 2010Just discovered you on the PMQG and I love your voice. I’m keeping my fingers crossed to win the fabric. Anything red and snow-flaky makes me happy!
June 11th, 2010I love your photos and I can not tell you how much I love this fabric. I have never bought a fat quarter bundle before but if I dont win this will be the first time I do. But I am hoping because you are having your giveaway on the 14th and you are a day behind us here in Australia so that makes it the 15th here and its my birthday on the 15th I have my fingers crossed that I win a wonderful birthday surprise :-) I loooovee your blog too. It always puts a smile on my face :-)
June 11th, 2010AWESOME!!! Thanks for sharing, Monica. ; ) YOU are a Rockstar!!!
June 11th, 2010You are an amazing tour guide ~ I feel like I was there!! Love love love your Holiday Happy……
June 11th, 2010wonderful post and delicious giveaway mmmmm
June 11th, 2010Seriously, I was imagining you sick in your room almost all the time, so I’m super glad to see you made it out for part of Market–at least for the eating part! LOL! Great photos! Oh, yeah, and please put me in the drawing, thanks!
June 11th, 2010Thanks for the great giveaway. Glad you were able to enjoy some of Minneapolis, despite your cold. Since I grew up there, I am definitely partial!
June 11th, 2010love the fabric wish it were mine and I love quilt market and wish non vendors could attend
June 11th, 2010Oh how I wish I could go to Minnesota…it looks like you had a ball! Inspiration and loveliness everywhere. Please please enter me in the draw…I think I would die and go to heaven if I won!
June 11th, 2010ha ha - love the multiplying fq packs! And your Quilt Market update is fantastic! Cannot wait to get my hands on your fabric - it’s too cute!
June 11th, 2010Looks like fun! And love the colors of the fabric!
June 11th, 2010Thanks for the awesome quiltmarket wrap-up ! The fabric looks beautiful - i love the yellow !
June 12th, 2010It wass almost like being there! Your’e a hoot! love your blog.
June 12th, 2010wonderful pictures and commentary as always - I’m so sorry you were sick for your trip! thanks for the chance to win!
June 12th, 2010oooo, it looks like you had so much fun. everything looks awesome. add me to your drawing so I can have fun too.
June 12th, 2010Looks like you had lots of fun and I love your fun happy fabric.
June 12th, 2010What wonderful pictures of all the fun you had. Everyone looks like they had a blast.
June 12th, 2010I would love to win Holiday Happy! I have been looking for years for the right fabrics to create a little Christmas cheer that will fit in in my orange and pink living room.
Hugs,
June 12th, 2010Anneke in Rotterdam
Wow! What a fun market report! Your new fabric is absolutely awesome! It would make my summer if I won some.
June 12th, 2010Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Beautiful fabric!
June 12th, 2010Love your fabric!
June 12th, 2010Thank you for all the blog gorgeousness! And the fabric is icing on the cake!
June 12th, 2010Man, I love seeing Market through the different blogs. Thanks for sharing.
June 12th, 2010What a great giveaway too. Thanks for letting me play along.
I’m so glad you took so many pictures. I spend hours looking at all of the new lines and links to other designers. So much talent…
Thanks for the giveaway, your fabric is so cheery!
June 12th, 2010What an awesome trip! I am just now getting into sewing and those fat quarters look absolutely yummy!
June 12th, 2010You sharing the market is really fun. The fabric would be great to work with.
June 12th, 2010Beautiful blog and beautiful fabric!
June 12th, 2010Oh so glad you went to Brit’s Pub I love that place. They have lawn bowling on the roof. Thanks for a great giveaway. The fabric looks awesome.
June 12th, 2010Bummer that you were sick at market - but oh be still my heart. Love the fabric bundles.
June 12th, 2010Glad you enjoyed our MN nice:) Beautiful fabric - what fun
June 12th, 2010Really looking forward to quilt market in Houston and hoping to actually make it this year. Thanks for the fun and informative post. I have new blogs to stalk!
June 12th, 2010What an awesome market post! Love, love, love your new fabric line!
June 12th, 2010Great post! Looked like a great time!!!
June 12th, 2010wow, great market roundup. And your Holiday Happy is just so…happy! (but I guess you get that all the time!) I love how it’s so very you - your colours and style and sense of humour, but still fresh and new! yum!
June 12th, 2010I love love love the fabric. Gorgeous!
June 12th, 2010Your blog truly keeps me inspired, thanks for sharing all the pics of your trip.
I would love to have a product from their unprotected sex! What wonderful happy fabbies! Pick me! Pick me!
June 13th, 2010Great photos of lovely people and quilts! Lovely fabric - I’d love to get a bit of that! :o) Ase, Stavanger, Norway
June 13th, 2010Oh my what gifts! and so many ppl who want to put their hands on them. And so am I!!!!
June 13th, 2010I’m craving those fabrics! Glad to see you are having a good time on your trips!
June 13th, 2010What a happy blog…..love all the pics and catching up and especially the picture of my beloved birth state from the sky!!! would love to be entered in the drawing:)
June 13th, 2010cant wait to get my hands on some of your fabric!!!!!
I wish I could go to market. Looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for the great giveaway!!
June 13th, 2010Had so much fun reading your report and looking at the photos. It is great to get a glimpse of what happens at these markets. Love the Happy Holiday, the colours are just so beautiful.
June 13th, 2010I love your projects! And I love your wonderful outlook on life!! I so hope I win one of those beauties!!!
June 13th, 2010Random number generator, please be my friend…. please, please….
June 13th, 2010Dang lady! You’re a stud with all those hyperlinks! You rock!! No wonder it took three days, whew! Sure looks like you had a blast though :o)
Love your fabrics, hope Mr. Random picks my number!
oxo~Lisa
June 13th, 2010Thanks for the trip to Quilt Market! I had fun and only wish I could go in person! Wow almost 500 comments! I feel like that snowball in H*&&, that people refer to! Have a great week.
June 13th, 2010What a fun happy blog you have. Makes me smile just to look at it. and the fabric makes me grin.
June 13th, 2010Loved gnomes since Junior High (70’s) when I first got addicted to all things gnomish.
June 13th, 2010Fabulous Market pics! Thanks for sharing. Would love to see some of your goodie fabric!
June 13th, 2010I’d love to have one of the quadruplets, now, please enter me in the drawing and pick meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, (take it easy now, calm voice) thank you for the chance!
June 13th, 2010Hope this is a case of better late than never… I would LOVE to win! Thanks for the great giveaway!
June 14th, 2010WOW - those links will distract me from doing what I am supposed to be doing today… ;)
Thanks for the giveaway.
June 14th, 2010Looks like a lot of fun!! Love the fabric!
June 14th, 2010I am definitely ready for dessert!
June 14th, 2010Love, love your post. So colorful. Thanks for sharing!
June 14th, 2010Tammy
I can hear a set of those fabrics saying ‘I want to go to Texas where it is hot and muggy’. Do you hear them?
June 14th, 2010Looks like you had an absolute blast! I absolutely love your fabric collection, and you are working with a great company, Lecien makes some of the best fabrics!
July 14th, 2010Wow! What a beautiful blog. Just love this. I added you to my blog addresses!
August 3rd, 2010with love from Holland,
Ineke
I would love to order the Happy Holiday bundle of 5 color ways from you as seen on your blog for quilt show. I want to make the japanese lantern quilt - it is so beautiful. I have had little luck in locating an online store with exact colors and amounts to make this project.
So, I am turning to you, our local NW designer - I think the air helps us be creative. Thanks
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Hi Mary Ann - I love that you want to make my lantern quilt with my fabrics! I have a listing of brick & mortar and online shops that have told me they carry Holiday Happy on my Holiday Happy info page. Even if a B & M shop doesn’t have an online shop… many times shops are happy to make an order over the phone. - Monica
August 15th, 2010