Hey! I’m back from Salt Lake City and Quilt Market! Actually, I’ve been back for a few days but I’m just now getting into the swing of things. I was so lucky to have my parents come into town to watch the boys so that my husband, Dave, could come along with me this time! He’s responsible for these photos, which is great, because I always forget to take pictures.

We got in late Thursday night and hit the ground running both Friday and Saturday mornings with demos, or “Make ‘n Takes”, at the Brewer Booth. Brewer is one of the sewing supply distributors that sells my sewing pattern line to retailers.

Here’s me moments before market opened with all of my Felted Bird Nest supplies ready to go! I was seated at a table and a reeaally high chair right on the aisle opposite of Brewer’s main booth.

One of my first “customers” was the president of Brewer. The marketing girls cajoled him into making a nest brooch before things got busy. Do I look nervous? I think he was nervous, so I was too. But he did a good job! Yay!

On Saturday we made Felted Flower Brooches in the morning and my pal Patty Young stopped by to make one for her mom. Later I was back to sign copies of the Country Living: The Mom’s Guide to Running a Business book that I was featured in. My signing was at 4pm and I knew Heather Bailey was there signing before me at 3pm. When I arrived at 3:55, there was a huge line. So I hung back waiting for what I thought was Heather finishing up her signing. Finally my husband said, “I think that line is for you.” For some reason I could not understand what he was talking about. (Keep in mind that this was the end of 3 very long days of travel, appointments, walking the show and social events!)

D’oh! The line of people was for ME. For MY book signing. Silly me!

Next to me was the author and TV personality, Mark Montano doing a stenciling Make ‘N Take project. He’s talking to Lisa Lam of U-Handbag. I met both of them for the first time during this trip.

I also got to meet with my new “family” at Robert Kaufman. That’s the company that is producing my licensed line of organic fabric for the fall that I am SO excited about! We chatted about the release, sneak peeks, upcoming project ideas, and about booth concepts for next fall! That’s right, I’ll be having my own booth in Houston next October. Yippee!