Well, here I am at Quilt Market having a fantastic time. On Friday, I had a schoolhouse lecture to introduce my new book, A Russian Journey in Quilts. Although the room wasn't packed, there was a nice comfortable number of attendees who seemed really interested. A friend of mine kindly recorded my lecture and I watched it later that night. I was pleasantly surprised at how comfortable I was and how much energy I showed. My schoolhouse was actually only 15 minutes and although I ran out of time, I told those attending that they had to get the book to find out the rest of the story.
Yesterday (Saturday) I had a book signing at the Kansas City Star booth. All of my tickets were gone and more people showed up than there were tickets, but by the end of the signing I had several left over copies because not everyone came to claim their copies. Apparently there were a lot of signing all around the same time. Guess they had a better offer. LOL!
Took some time to visit the antique quilt booths, of course, and marvel over the amazing treasures there.
I also made some great contacts that will hopefully help.
Well, time to hop in the shower and get started on the day. Talk to you later.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
International Quilt Market
I know I know, I've been away from blogging for quite a while, but I do actually have a legitimate excues, or rather many legitimate excuses. First, I've been doing a lot of events to promote my new book, A Russian Jounry in Quilts. Second, I've been doing a lot of events to promote mt new book, A Russian Journey in Quilts. :)
Back in September, I attended Quilting Around Chautauqua for I believe the eighth year in a row. It was marvelous. In the evenings, my friends and I had a Dwnton Abbey marathon because two of the four of us weren't really familiar with it at all, while the third hadn't seen the first two seasons. Well, was I surprised at how great it was, although there were some historical glitches, but boy, were my eyes opened. I'm looking forward to the next season starting in January. Did you know that Downton Abbey quilt fabric will soon be available? I've seen some of the ads in my quilting magazines and it looks very nice. While at Chautauqua, I also did some book signings at my friend, Melanie's booth. It started out rather slowly, but then a lot of people seemed interested. Sold quite a few books AND met a lot of really great quilters!
One thing about Downton Abbey that really struck me was the overlapping of it with my new book, A Russian Journey in Quilts. Downton Abbey focuses quite a few episodes about WWI in Britain and my book focuses on WWI in Russia. Interesting connection between the two, I think.
Tomorrow I'm headed to my third International Quilt Market in Houston, TX where I will be promoting my book to the world, so to speak. Looking forward to it, but nervous of course. I'm also going to try to get connected to a fabric company again. So we'll see how that goes. Stay tuned.....if all goes well during the next five days, I might even have some time to blog about Market while I'm there and show you some of the cool things to see.
I have a Schoolhouse lecture on Friday at 2:05 PM and a book signing at the Kansas City Star book at 2:45 PM. Wish me luck.....maybe I'll see you there.
Back in September, I attended Quilting Around Chautauqua for I believe the eighth year in a row. It was marvelous. In the evenings, my friends and I had a Dwnton Abbey marathon because two of the four of us weren't really familiar with it at all, while the third hadn't seen the first two seasons. Well, was I surprised at how great it was, although there were some historical glitches, but boy, were my eyes opened. I'm looking forward to the next season starting in January. Did you know that Downton Abbey quilt fabric will soon be available? I've seen some of the ads in my quilting magazines and it looks very nice. While at Chautauqua, I also did some book signings at my friend, Melanie's booth. It started out rather slowly, but then a lot of people seemed interested. Sold quite a few books AND met a lot of really great quilters!
One thing about Downton Abbey that really struck me was the overlapping of it with my new book, A Russian Journey in Quilts. Downton Abbey focuses quite a few episodes about WWI in Britain and my book focuses on WWI in Russia. Interesting connection between the two, I think.
Tomorrow I'm headed to my third International Quilt Market in Houston, TX where I will be promoting my book to the world, so to speak. Looking forward to it, but nervous of course. I'm also going to try to get connected to a fabric company again. So we'll see how that goes. Stay tuned.....if all goes well during the next five days, I might even have some time to blog about Market while I'm there and show you some of the cool things to see.
I have a Schoolhouse lecture on Friday at 2:05 PM and a book signing at the Kansas City Star book at 2:45 PM. Wish me luck.....maybe I'll see you there.
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