{"id":606,"date":"2008-10-16T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/piqf-2008-day-1\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:15:34","slug":"piqf-2008-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/piqf-2008-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PIQF 2008 Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artquiltmaker\/2945689443\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3247\/2945689443_4b534f1ac6_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;\" >  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artquiltmaker\/2945689443\/\">PICT2528<\/a> <br \/> Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/artquiltmaker\/\">jlapac<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>TFQ and I went to the PIQF Preview tonight and it was wonderful. Apparently, most people who attend, attend to shop. I saw two ladies leaving with Jem Platinums! We have started to attend the preview in order to take photos. I barely looked at the quilts, but just shot photos (http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artquiltmaker\/sets\/72157608068541986\/) so I wouldn&#8217;t have to worry about the crowds. It was great! And I know I will be much less cranky tomorrow when I can just look at quilts.<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled to say that people entered cheerful quilts. Not exclusively, but my overall impression is cheerful. I am so happy, because after EBHQ and APNQ, I was getting worried about the state of quiltmakers&#8217; psyches. There are also a lot of quilts with a ton of details on them, so I think people have just been sititng in their studios for the past four years waiting for Nov.4.  I didn&#8217;t look much at the vendors, but will work on that tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie&#8217;s Quilting Bee is about 2 miles away. We went there before the show opened and looked around. I bought an 8.5&#8243;x4.5&#8243; Creative Grid ruler and a pattern for a tote bag from Gail Abeloe for Tracey Brookshier Design Studio. It is similar to the Eco Market tote, but has a square bottom and no side panels. It will be interesting to try it out.<\/p>\n<p>The tree quilt above is called<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Leaves on a Tree<\/span> and it is, coincidentally, by Gail Abeloe. Gail is the owner of Back Porch Fabrics in Pacific Grove. Nice work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PICT2528 Originally uploaded by jlapac TFQ and I went to the PIQF Preview tonight and it was wonderful. Apparently, most people who attend, attend to shop. I saw two ladies leaving with Jem Platinums! We have started to attend the preview in order to take photos. I barely looked at the quilts, but just shot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/piqf-2008-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PIQF 2008 Day 1&#8221;<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[388],"tags":[314,330,335],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","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\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}