Colorado Rug & Fiber Quild Hook-in

Macaela and I drove to Denver for the Colorado Rug & Fiber Guild Hook-in.  It was a long drive, but we had a lot fun.  Macaela is a good navigator.  I didn't know that she could read maps.

 Here we are with the hand dyed wools.

Here is a table displaying our Halloween Night Hooked Rug and Needle punch.

 Some more wool.

More wool.  I just love wool.  It is so soft and fun to work with.

Tonia won a ribbon for her bench.  I think she should bring her bench to my house.  I have a lighthouse room that it would go in.  She does great work.

I thought this pin was way cute, it was made out of wool.

I loved this.  The Gals from the New Mexico Guild made this.  It is a box, turned into a carrier.  Way cute.

Yes, I loved this too!  It is a carrier made out of an ice cream bucket.  These gals are super creative.

We had a lot of fun in Denver and it was nice meeting Cathy and Cheryl.  Wouldn't it be nice if I had a picture, but alas, I didn't think of that then.  Future tip for myself.  Take more pictures.

Booth at HMQS in Salt Lake City, Utah

I took a few pictures of my booth at HMQS.  We met a lot of people. It was a lot of fun.  I didn't get to see very much, because I went to Denver Friday afternoon.  My Mom, Aunt Marsha, and sister Vicki took care of the booth for me.  Thanks so much.  Mom is a great sales person. 

I met Gina from Fresh Picked Fabrics and Cranberry Quiltworks.  Gina had some great quilts and patterns in her booth.  Gina won first prize for the best booth.  I know, I know.  I should have taken some pictures, but I didn't think about it then.  You can check out Gina's quilt shop at http://www.cranberryquiltworks.com/.   

Also, I saw Nadine from Material Girls, and as usual she has cute quilts.  You can check out Nadine's shop at  http://www.thematerialgirlsquilting.com/. 

I met Barbara from Quilt Soup Patterns.  I just love her quilts.  You can check her quilts out at http://www.quiltsoup.com/. 

We had a lot of fun and time went quickly and we sold a lot of wool.  I talked to some rug hookers and some potential rug hookers.  Thanks to everyone that came and visited with us.

Butterfly Pillow

Look at the beautiful pillow that Linda made.  It is gorgeous!  She used as-is wool, hand dyed wool and embroidery floss.

Quilt Fest at South Towne Expo and Colorado Rug and Fiber Quild

I am very excited!  This week, starting on Thursday, I will have a booth at the Quilt Fest.  Well, I am excited and nervous.  I have never done this, so I don't know what to expect.  I hope everyone likes the wool that I am brining.  My Mom, sister Vicki, and Aunt Marsha are going to help me with my booth, because I am going to be in Denver for the Colorado Rug and Fiber Quild on Saturday.   I will post pictures when I get back.  So I better get some patterns drawn.  See ya!

Utah Rug & Fiber Guild Retreat at Daniels Summit Lodge

I just got back from the Utah Rug & Fiber Guild Retreat and I had a lot fun. It was exciting to see all of the rugs that everyone was working on and the ones they brought to show. The ladies in the groups are sooo talented. There will be pictures posted on the Utah Rug & Fiber Guild blog. Macaela took a lot of pictures for me so I will add some after they have been imported. Londi did a wonderful job teaching us about how to do different finishes on our stools, piano benches, baby high chairs. They all turned out wonderfully! Thanks Londi for all of your hard work and patience. On Saturday Londi taught a class about color and freeing ourselves from our chains of using only one pattern for our backgrounds and other areas in our rug. I am going to try and be a little more free with my patterns and colors when I hook. I think that everyone liked the colors that I had dyed. They looked so pretty on the tables. Angela and Nancy brought their wool also and they had some beautiful wool.

 This is some of my hand dyed wool.

 Here is some more.  I think I got carried away with dyeing.

 So I had 3 tables of As-Is and hand dyed wool.

 The As-is wool.

 A picture of all the Rug Hookers

Don't they look like happy rug hookers.  The sad part is that we were getting ready to go home. 

 Londi is teaching us about color.

 This is a picture of the lodge.  There was a lot of snow!!!!!  The food at the Grill was excellent!

Mary is working on her baby high chair.  Isn't that a beautiful blue!