Pittsburgh Quilt Market, part two...
One of the reasons I loved Pittsburgh so much was the convention center. The roof of the building is made from translucent fabric, held up by a series of cables; the quality of light in the entire show was simply amazing.
This Frosted Candy quilt by Gerri Robinson was published in McCall's Quilting magazine in February 2005. 
Ric Rac Garden, by M2, is the first project that Megan ever made for us...
This Simple Simon quilt is by the now famous Mark Lipinski...he humored me by adding one of my favorites: fabric covered buttons! In addition to making a few quilts for our booth, Mark did several Schoolhouse talks for us, and had the women rolling in the aisles with his disarming & self-deprecating sense of humor...Sis, Gerri, Mark and I laughed till our sides hurt at dinner every night, too...
This Candy Machine quilt is actually a whole cloth from our Cotton Candy collection. We used over-sized ric rac (from Cheep Trims) at the edges with our Tiny Ticking stripe as a border. It's still one of my favorites...On the right is Gerri Robinson's Floral Sampler quilt...the over-sized pink flowers are from our Les Grand Fleurs collection...I have seen a lot of very striking quilts made out of this fabric over the years...another favorite of mine.
The pictures from the back of the booth are MIA! I can tell you this - we had so many projects to show in Pittsburgh that we tried a custom made swing-arm display system (like you'd see in a rug store)...By the end of market, several of the arms broke off, sending quilts flying and we haven't used it since.
We saved the best for last (apparently)...since we won our one and only booth display award from Quilts Inc for our first booth at Houston Quilt Market 2003.
Back in two shakes...H2
Cool!
Posted by: pam | June 29, 2007 at 08:06 AM
Wow -- more fantastic quilts. I do love that Grand Fleurs fabric! I still have some, and made a quilt for my mother out of it last year. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Angela | June 29, 2007 at 09:23 AM
After seeing the wonderful light filled convention floor - Now I'm looking forward to when Spring Market will return to Pittsburg! Thanks for all the wonderful photos!
Posted by: Bren | June 29, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Pittsburgh's Convention Center really is the nicest I've been in in the states...And the Andy Warhol museum is in Pittsburgh too.
Oh, and there is a mini "SoHo" area that's only a stone's throw away that has really fun places to eat...we are all about the food, right?
H2
Posted by: Holly Holderman | June 29, 2007 at 02:13 PM
I can't believe you've only one Best Booth display once??? Your Booth always looks fantastic!
Posted by: Di | June 29, 2007 at 03:42 PM
Pink and green is one of my favorite color combos--especially for little girls clothes. This booth is so lovely.
my favorite quilt is the ric rac garden--really sweet.
sheree
Posted by: sheree | June 30, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Wow!! Very beautiful quilts.
Posted by: Robinia | August 30, 2007 at 06:19 AM
I love love love the frosted candy quilt and would love to make it for my granddaughter. Is the fabric still available to purchase? This will be my first quilt.
Posted by: Teresa Brooks | December 15, 2010 at 09:09 AM