{"id":3366,"date":"2009-10-22T06:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2016-08-23T17:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:47:47","slug":"piqf-2009-last-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/piqf-2009-last-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"PIQF 2009: Last Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am very grateful to have a show of this magnitude nearby. I always leave feeling like I must go straight home and play with fabric. I usually don’t get to play with fabric, but thinking about it is half the work.<\/p>\n

While I don’t always like the quilts that people enter, I respect the fact that:<\/p>\n

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  1. they entered the show<\/li>\n
  2. they had the discipline to get the quilt done<\/li>\n
  3. there is an abundance of color<\/li>\n
  4. the vendors show up, create beautiful booths and have fabric for me to buy<\/li>\n
  5. quiltmakers have taken the time to get their quilts finished<\/li>\n
  6. people are trying new things<\/li>\n
  7. quiltmakers are still in love with their machines and continue to push them to the limit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I would like to see the Mancusos shake things up a bit. I am not sure how, perhaps rearrange the quilts and vendors, have a tote bag or ATC display, have a display of blogger’s work (there are some great bloggers not the least of which are Posy Gets Cosy<\/a> and Sew Mama Sew<\/a>).\u00a0 It was nice to see some new vendors at the show (due to Houston being held at the same time) and the vendors being rearranged a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am very grateful to have a show of this magnitude nearby. I always leave feeling like I must go straight home and play with fabric. I usually don’t get to play with fabric, but thinking about it is half the work. While I don’t always like the quilts that people enter, I respect the … Continue reading “PIQF 2009: Last Thoughts”<\/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":[335],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","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\/3366","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=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}