Yesterday at the Quilt Market trade show I had 9 meetings, including a lunch meeting with a delightful buyer from one of our largest distributors. I walked about 3 miles on the floor which is carpet over cement. Not the most comfortable flooring to walk and stand on all day.
Today I got to walk the floor after a morning of meetings with authors, distributors and magazine editors. I saw some amazing new fabrics, great bright florals, some great architectural prints and paintings by Laura Gunn that have been interpreted into fabric by Michael Miller Fabrics. Paula Nadelstern has another terrific new line with Benartex and Moda has some delightful new prints and focus fabrics. There were several new exhibitors with patterns for children’s clothing.
I also saw two new products from Simplicity that are sure to be a big hit with quilters. They are the bias tape maker and the automatic rotary cutter. My favorite is the bias tape maker because it creates bias tape in strips as small as 1/8″ and as larger as 1 ¼”. It folds and presses in one step, and can even make binding! This is too cool!
Tomorrow is another day and I will wear more comfortable shoes and re-walk the floor and the exhibits to make sure I don’t miss a thing.
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