Spring in Minneapolis

It's time I finally recapped the market experience this year. Spring Market is different; it's smaller and travels to different cities! This year, it was in Minneapolis. I love Minneapolis so I was pretty excited. We packed up the booth! Same booth as Fall Market with different insides. And new quilts!Since it's Fathers' Day, I will give a shout out to my awesome Dad, aka the booth builder! Those are my notes and directions for the booth that he's putting it together. It's really a miracle that he still takes my calls.At the close of the first day of set up, this is where we were! We had walls and everything unloaded.Back in the hotel room, there were lots of shenanigans with these two amazing ladies! Angela of Bunny's Designs/Fabric Supply and Nicole of Fist Full of Fabric are my dear sweet friends who volunteered to help me with booth set up. We had to put pillow forms in a lot of pillows! I really could not have done it without these gals. I'm lucky to have them as friends!!At the close of day 2, we had this! I was pleased that the bed frame actually worked out and only collapsed once (with me underneath it and my phone ringing). Hattie's Dresden hung on the back wall and Squiggly Bits & Salem Square adorned the bed.This is a version of Squiggly Bits made with Cotton + Steel basics. I had pieced the rows and was running out of time and my sweet friend Tessa of The Sewing Chick finished piecing the rows, quilted it and bound it. She's the best! I love the square quilting she did.This pillow is a scrapalicious version of Salem Square made with Hello Darling from Bonnie & Camille. It was made by Chrissy of Sewlux! She's awesome:) And here are two more made by dear friends! This Blue Ridge table runner was pieced and quilted by my dear friend Sarah of Stitching & Bacon. See that gorgeous Liberty pillow? Nicole not only helped me in my booth, she quilted that! And didn't even bat an eye when I suggested 1/4" straight line quilting. She's good peeps!One of the best parts of market is seeing what everyone else is up to! Carolyn's booth was perfection, as always. She has a new block of the month that's stunning! And had a neat hand sewing element in her booth.I had to visit my friends at AccuQuilt! They were showing off the GO! Big which is fabulous and that cute animal quilt which had a bunch of animals all made from the owl die.Melody was showing off all the pretty new Cotton + Steel fabrics. Their booth is always so clever. And full of vintage things that I want to steal for my house.Dear Stella had a lot of great projects!Emily Herrick is one of my favorite people at market. She's really funny and obviously quite talented. Her booth won an award for creativity and her new line is sodalicious!Tula's booth was quite inspiring! Her Eden book offered free patterns (and pillows to make with the scraps!), as well as a guide to make this rainbow Butterfly. And the most exciting news?! Wide backs! They're gorgeous!!I love visitors to my booth! The Pinks came by! Tula, her Mom Kat and her brother Cameron. They're tons of fun and absolutely hilarious! My Salem Square, mixing Eden with True Colors is to the left and Hattie's Dresden made with True Colors is to the right. I do love to sew with her fabric:)Sara of Sew Sweetness stopped by. She is really so sweet! She made a dress with the wide back fabric from Tula's new collection that was just clever and awesome!Heather Bailey stopped by! I made Georgia's Dresden with her Clementine line. She's quite inspiring!The adorable Miss Kingwell stopped by for a nap! Squiggly Bits is made with her first line for Moda, Gardenvale. It's deliciously scrappy.I failed to get a picture of her cute face, but it's always great to see Jacqueline of Soak!  There was an emergency handmaid delivery because Minnesota was still experiencing winter! I had to head over to the announcement of the newest shops in Quilt Sampler because one of my fave shops is in it! Lynn of Stitched with Love posed for me! Congrats Lynn and crew! Well deserved recognition for a great place!And now I must start getting ready for Fall Market!xo LC