{"id":3332,"date":"2009-10-14T21:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T04:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2016-08-23T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:48:21","slug":"piqf-2009-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/piqf-2009-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"PIQF 2009: First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the preview for the Pacific International Quilt Festival 2009\u00a0 this evening. It was only 1.5 hours long, so I didn’t get to see everything. Some first impressions:<\/p>\n

There were a lot more bolts of fabric than in previous years, as opposed to kits and fabric packs. I was pleased to see that I would be able to buy some yardage, if I want. There were still fabric packs.<\/p>\n

Many of the vendors from past years were there and I saw a couple of new ones. I was nervous that the vendor hall would be empty because the Quilt Festival in Houston is on at the same time.<\/p>\n

People didn’t seem to be buying much and I heard a vendor say that most people just look on the preview night. I bought one FQ. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I went to the preview to take photos when it wasn’t busy. I intended to take as many as possible, but I started taking them and just felt depressed about it, so I stopped and, then, only took pictures of quilts I really liked. I still managed to take a few hundred pictures. One thing I learned from this experience was that I need to make quilts – at least show quilts – that are interesting. I need to make quilts that people haven’t seen before. That is if<\/strong> I want to show quilts in the future. That is not to say that I have to show my quilts and that I can’t make any kind of quilts I want. I think if I am going to show quilts they have to be special and interesting.<\/p>\n

Lots of landscapes and realism type quilts. There was one with a castle (Rheingau?), a triptych of big leaves, another of redwood trees, an Italian Piazza, etc.<\/p>\n

The colors used in the quilts are a lot brighter; the quilts are not as depressing as they have been in the past. A few tree quilts, but not as many as last year.<\/p>\n

The World Quilt Competition Quilts were very interesting as usual.<\/p>\n

Reef Quilts\/Patterns (not sure of the name) has some tote bag patterns that I want to look at more closely. They look like they are large, have plenty of pockets and interesting detailing without being too strange.<\/p>\n

\"by<\/a>
by Debbie Bosio & Yvette Ebaugh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was beautiful machine work again, especially sheer types of embroidery. I am not sure of the name, but it is the kind of embroidery that the newer model machines do.<\/p>\n

\"Pamela<\/a>
Pamela Allen's Cinderella Making her Getaway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pamela Allen had a Cinderella quilt, which I thought was great.<\/p>\n

There are some pretty Christmas fabrics with fun motifs in non-traditional colors such as turquoise, soft green cream and a light pinkish red.<\/p>\n

\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2008 at PIQF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FOTY 2008 was there and it didn’t look like I thought it would.I like the location where they hung the quilt. That wave on the bottom makes me crazy. Perhaps I am just nervous about having two quilts there? I didn’t see the Nosegay yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the preview for the Pacific International Quilt Festival 2009\u00a0 this evening. It was only 1.5 hours long, so I didn’t get to see everything. Some first impressions: There were a lot more bolts of fabric than in previous years, as opposed to kits and fabric packs. I was pleased to see that … Continue reading “PIQF 2009: First Impressions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[314,330,335],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-exhibits","tag-other-artists","tag-quilt-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}