I arrived in Salt Lake City to set up our Quilt Market booth, stayed throughout the show, and left the morning after booth tear-down. Our presence at the show was the culmination of so much work over the past year or so—it’s kind of mind-boggling how quickly the week of the show went by in comparison to the previous weeks and months we had spent planning, coordinating, packing, and prepping.

After all that time spent focusing on our own presence, it was truly awesome to become part of the bigger picture, see as much of the show as I did, and just to have been there from the show’s beginning to end. I can’t say I will always want to stay for such a long haul, but having done so this time, I am so glad I did. Because if you’ve never been at a show the ENTIRE time, you always kind of wonder, and you are always kind of unsure as to whether or not you really got the full picture, whether or not you really “get it.”

Here are some photos of the sights I saw on the show floor at Spring 2011 Quilt Market in Salt Lake City.

The C&T Publishing and Stash Books booth

The Stash Books section is on the left side of the aisle and the C&T Publishing books and products are on the right side.

View of our booth from the second floor of the Exhibit Hall. I think I see C&T CEO Todd Hensley and author Carolyn Woods!

We had a ton of our Spring 2011 season authors at the show and many of them did book signings and giveaways in our booth or in one of our distributors’ booths. These events were really well-attended and really upped the energy in the exhibit hall.

Here is Joyce Becker, author of Quick Little Landscape Quilts, at her signing.

And Monique Dillard, author of Fat Quarter Winners…

and organizing queen Carolyn Woods!

Many of our authors’ booths were near the C&T booth, so of course I had to stop by each one and say hello. Here is Quilt Remix author Emily Cier.

Author Emily Cier

Carolina Patchworks is her pattern company and the fine art quilts she had on display from her latest line of patterns, such as the below Mona Lisa, are absolutely breathtaking.

Marlous Carter, author of Wonky One-Block Quilts was in the booth next to ours and was a fantastic booth neighbor. Thanks so much for all the chocolate, Marlous!

Here’s Becky Goldsmith of Piece O’ Cake Designs…

And Debra Gabel with her book Quilt Blocks Across America in her booth which was right behind ours.

And author Colleen Granger in her booth showing off one of her fabulous Circle Quilts.

And finally, here is a pic of our trade show team taken on the first day of the show.

Starting on the left side in the back row: Sales Director Sandy Balin, Publicity Manager Megan Scott, Publisher Amy Marson, Sales Reps Shirley Montano and Ruthmary Schauer. Sitting down are Creative Director Gailen Runge, and Senior Account reps Letty Perez and Tina Farman.

Related posts:

1. Lura Schwarz Smith’s Spring Quilt Market Review
2. Quilt Market Wrap Up
3. Spring Quilt Market in Salt Lake City – The Tulips!
4. CHA – First day of the show!
5. C&T at the 2010 NAMTA Trade Show