Hello my friends!

Well, one week from today I’ll be headed off to Quilt Market. My goal was to have everything I needed to have done completed by today.

How’d I do?

I’ve been working on charm packs of my fabrics to give to interested fabric companies. I honestly have no idea how charm packs normally come packaged, but I didn’t want them to be all floppy, because they would end up mangled from being carried around all day. So, I made these little labels.

And then I attached them to 5-inch square pieces of white picture matting board that I cut with my trusty x-acto knife. I cut all the fabrics with my pinking shears (my rotary pinking blade is either dull — which it shouldn’t be — or just didn’t like this fabric). Then I stacked them all up as neatly as I could. And tied them up with little matching bows.

Of course, I ran out of ribbon before I finished. There are only 8 each of the boy version and the girl version, so 16 charm packs. It took a lot of fabric and way more time than I expected to make these!

As for my other preparations, I have been working on some new artwork, that, truth be told, I like much better than the two lines I had printed up at Spoonflower. Ah well. Unfortunately, this new stuff mostly didn’t make it into the digital portfolio I sent out, so there could be some folks who say they don’t want to talk with me, BUT if they only had seen the new artwork, they would be all over it! But there could still be a chance to talk to them at Market. You never know.

Nearly everything is ready for me to sit down with my repositionable double-sided scrapbooking tape and my portfolio and get everything fixed in. If I don’t do that over the weekend, it will be top of the list next week.

I now have two appointments with fabric companies, one Saturday at 10am and one Sunday at 10am.

I also have a friend who works with a well-known fabric designer, and my awesome friend mentioned to this designer that I was going to be at Quilt Market trying to sell designs, and this designer offered to introduce me to the folks at the fabric company she works for. So that’s awesome!

I also have another fabulous friend that is attending a party on Saturday evening hosted by yet another fabric company and she offered me one of her guest slots. Most excellent! Do I have great friends or what?

Less awesome: my first e-mail rejection letter today. Hey, I only need one company to like my work, right?

The biggest task I have left for next week — figure out what the heck I’m going to wear!! (Priorities, right?)

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

I’m pretty excited about how it turned out. It’s not perfect, but I’m very happy with how it looks printed on the fabric!

I hope sepia tone and blurry photos aren’t too much of a tease, but since I’m going to be trying to sell this, I’m not sure if the companies who might be interested in buying it would want me to have posted detailed photos of all of it on the web. So, I’m afraid this is about all I’m going to show you of the actual fabric before Quilt Market!

Off to put together some digital files to e-mail to companies pre-Market!