Spring Quilt Market 2011

Prepare yourself for an extra looooong post full of LOTS of pictures

First things first- my booth!

Did you hear the exciting news!? My booth won 1st place for single booth! You don't even know how excited I was. So excited that when looking through all the pictures there wasn't a decent one I could post because they all had me looking like some deformed creature.

Here's an upclose pic of the chairs and boat (before I had the cute beach bags on them)

I think that boat may have been the piece that swayed the judges- LOTS of comments from passers by on that one.

I was very fortunate to have my Dad's help with all of the little vignette's around the booth.

There's a secret behind the design of those bouys- but I'm not telling

Whataya think of that ball!?

This is Sarah Jane, another new designer for M&M. I have been a fan of her blog and artwork for several years so I was jumping up and down when I found out that not only would she be at market, but that I would be able to meet her and work with her at M&M!

Meet Violet Craft and her debut line for M&M Peacock Lane. Her line is fresh and new. Great colors! Oh and it has elephants- I LOVE elephants. Don't worry, there's peacock's too. :o)LOVE this girl!

A sweet shot of Sandi's booth- the 1st place winner for double booth!

Camille is by far one of my favorite people! She is so sweet and genuine- just like her new line for Moda that she designed with her Mom, Bonnie- RUBY! It is delightful and coordinates perfectly with Bliss (...if you even have any left in your stash!)

And of course, Sweetwater. Have you seen HOMETOWN? It was on the top of my list for sample spree. Love the colors. Love the concept. Love those gals over at Sweetwater!

This is Thankfully Sew's booth. I am super lucky to live close enough to Terri that I get to have lunch with her roughly every month or so. She is AWESOME!

Terri designs a series of "Long & Leans"- this is one of her new ones and a FAVORITE of mine!

My girl Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts! She just released a STACK of patterns and they are fabulous. Lovin' her designs!

Do you know my neighbors Izzy and Ivy? (They live a couple towns over from me!)Their booth was so cute! Looked just like a little park with TONS of little kid clothes. They also introduced a new product- Sprinkles. Check out they site to learn more.

My friend Jenny has been designing cute quilt patterns and had her first quilt market booth here in Salt Lake City with her pattern company Sweet Ruby.

Hey look, it's that former crazy old lady that's rockin' the scene with her company Ribbon Candy Quilt Company. Although her company has been around for a while this was her first market and that girl was ALWAYS busy. I barely got in for a quick picture!

Man oh man- leave it to Cori to execute a booth I could only think of! Chitter Chatter designs had a beach themed booth as well with all of the elements I wanted to include in mine but couldn't figure out how to make work. It was SO COOL!

Check out Jillily Studios booth! It was an ice-cream (Sorbet) shop to promote her new line for Henry Glass- Sorbet Garden. It was so fun. She even gave out tiny ice cream cones. And, she won the award for Creativity. I should say so!

Ah, love this lady too! Barbara Jones of Quilt Soup is always so kind. She kept a close eye on me in Minneapolis and is always so sweet to ask me how I'm feeling. She was showing her new line Cherry Fizz (for Henry Glass) but had lots of quilts hanging with SUMMERTIME (one of my fave's from her!)

Another sweet girl, Amy, from Kati Cupcake let me take a pic of her booth. (Why is she not in it!?) She is AWESOME and has some of the cutest bag patterns out there.

*I'm announcing the winner of the fat quarter pack.....TOMORROW! (sorry!)