{"id":637,"date":"2008-11-15T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/i-did-not-attend-houston\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:37:46","slug":"i-did-not-attend-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/i-did-not-attend-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did Not Attend Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div > Nor have I ever attended the International Quilt Festival in Houston, but I would like to sometime. Depending on life, finances and the state of the universe it could be as soon as next year. In order to attend Virtual Houston, head over to the QA blog for some entertaining photos and commentary by Pokey Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see that she has a picture of Pamela Allen, doing what she does best: showing off her style (though she is a pretty great teacher as well).<\/p>\n<p>I also love the Caroline and Co booth. I wonder if I could paint one of my rooms with those orange stripes; people may rebel and\/or develop a sudden, recurring bouts of insomnia. I do like the cheerfulness, though. <\/p><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:4F1CAC0D-7142-4805-9C92-6761F8C9EB6E:0 CLIPMARKS.COM --><\/p>\n<div class=\"CM_CTB_Content_Wrap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<div style=\"border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/clip-to-blog\/\" title=\"clipmarks' clip-to-blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.clipmarks.com\/blog_icon\/66e035d6-dce0-4d80-99e3-9abec295a3e8\/4F1CAC0D-7142-4805-9C92-6761F8C9EB6E\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;\" \/><\/a>clipped from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/11\/houston-what-a-long-strange-and-wonderful-trip-its-been.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/11\/houston-what-a-long-strange-and-wonderful-trip-its-been.html\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\">www.quiltingartsblog.com<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" cite=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/11\/houston-what-a-long-strange-and-wonderful-trip-its-been.html\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content9.clipmarks.com\/blog_cache\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/img\/39836A49-28E2-4581-A674-EFAD626D272E\" alt=\"Pamela allen\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/clip-to-blog\/\" title=\"clipmarks' clip-to-blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content6.clipmarks.com\/images\/clip-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;\" \/><\/a>clipped from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/10\/houston-day-2---3.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/10\/houston-day-2---3.html\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\">www.quiltingartsblog.com<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" cite=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/10\/houston-day-2---3.html\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content7.clipmarks.com\/blog_cache\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/img\/EEA65A5A-4D8C-45B9-BC3D-8E0DD66B520A\" alt=\"Caroline and company\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" cite=\"http:\/\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/quilting_arts_blog\/2008\/10\/houston-day-2---3.html\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content8.clipmarks.com\/blog_cache\/www.quiltingartsblog.com\/img\/C8CE9C51-AC26-4A12-A686-1265E42675FE\" alt=\"Yum\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;\">\n<table style=\"font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" style=\"background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px\" width=\"107\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/share\/4F1CAC0D-7142-4805-9C92-6761F8C9EB6E\/blog\/\" title=\"blog or email this clip\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content9.clipmarks.com\/images\/c2b-foot.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog it\" width=\"107\" height=\"17\" style=\"border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nor have I ever attended the International Quilt Festival in Houston, but I would like to sometime. Depending on life, finances and the state of the universe it could be as soon as next year. In order to attend Virtual Houston, head over to the QA blog for some entertaining photos and commentary by Pokey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/i-did-not-attend-houston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Did Not Attend Houston&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[388],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","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\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}