Quilt Market Recap, Part 2

Salt Lake City is a beautiful city. The weather was gorgeous Saturday morning, and I decided to take a walk outside before heading to the convention center. Our hotel was a block away from Temple Square, one of Utah’s number one tourist attractions and world headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Salt Lake Temple

The temple itself is a magnificent building that took over 40 years to build. The grounds around the buildings were immaculate and the flowers were in full bloom.

Tulip garden

There were tulips in all colors and sizes as well as petunias, pansies and other colorful flowers.

More tulips

And more tulips

I could have spent the day there admiring the beauty! But I headed inside to begin the work day! Here are some of the designers I visited with.

Bonnie Sullivan and Monique Dillard

Bonnie had a block in 100 Blocks, vol. 1 and Monique has had blocks in all 3 so far. Their booths were next to each other.

Monique Dillard

Monique “borrowed” her quilt that she had made for the vol. 3 gallery back to show in her booth. It will be part of a gallery exhibit here in our Golden, CO offices this summer.

Eleanor Burns

Eleanor had a block in vol. 1 and will have one in a future issue of 100 Blocks.

Konda Luckau

Konda has a block in vol. 3.

Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson

Barb and Mary, the two sisters behind Me and My Sister Designs, had blocks in vol. 2 and vol. 3. These two are such a hoot! It took three tries to get a picture of them where they were both smiling and not making funny faces!

Doug Leko

Doug had a block in vol. 2 and a quilt, Rhapsody in Bloom, in the March/April ’11 issue of Quiltmaker. Doug is an amazing young designer who has already been quilting for quite a few years.

Pam Vieira-McGinnis

The delightful Pam Kitty Morning has had blocks in all 3 volumes of 100 Blocks.

Carol Hopkins

Carol had a block in vol. 2, and you’ll be able to see another of her wonderful designs in one of our fall issues.

Amanda Murphy

Amanda has a block in vol. 3 as well as a quilt, Cafe Mocha, in the March/April ’11 issue of Quiltmaker. Find more of her wonderful work in the July/August ’11 issue of Quiltmaker and future issues of 100 Blocks. Amanda also designs fabric for Robert Kaufman.

Julie Herman

Julie had a block in vol. 2 and vol. 3. She also had quilts in a couple of our regular issues—Cornflower Fields in the March/April ’10 issue and Raspberry Dessert in the May/June ’11 issue. This was her first booth at Quilt Market.

Lynette Anderson

Lynette had blocks in vol. 1 and vol. 3. You’ll see more from Lynette in future issues.

Marcia Derse

Marcia designs fabric for Troy Corporation. We love her fabric and have used it in patterns for Quiltmaker.

Alllison Harris

Read about Allison in her blog Cluck. Cluck. Sew. We’ll be working with Allison and some of her designs in future issues of Quiltmaker.

Market was fun and exhausting. We found new designers, new fabric and new notions that we’ll be sharing with you in future issues of Quiltmaker.