Greetings From Houston!

We made it! Deb, Marilyn, Janet and Sharla left yesterday afternoon for quilt market in Houston. We picked up Belinda near Lyons on her way home from KSU Extension Update in Manhattan. We drove to Denton, Texas last night, arriving around 10 p.m. Today we were up and on the road by 7 a.m. so we could get to the Moda warehouse in Dallas early to shop! We got lots of fun fabric (114 more bolts to add to what we bought a couple of weeks ago) and can't wait to get home to start making shop samples.

Shopping @ Moda

We are most excited about the 'cheater' fabric (fabric already pieced in a crazy quilt pattern) that is in the same color scheme as we are painting the shop. We're going to make table squares for our coffee tables with it. We also bought a couple of coordinating bolts of fabric to make valances for the windows and tablecloths for under the table squares.

Our shopping carts loaded!

Tomorrow our day is packed. We start classes at 8 a.m. and have classes scheduled solid until 8 p.m. We have both fun classes (Schoolhouse Series which is 6 hours of mini classes of new techniques and gadgets) and business classes (anything from how to package fabrics to developing shop procedures). Then from 8-10 p.m. is Sample Spree. We're not really sure what all is available at the spree, but we've found pictures on the internet of women loaded down with goodies for their shops.

It's been a fun, but long, day and now we're in our hotel rooms winding down. If we're not totally exhausted, we'll tell you all about our first day at market tomorrow night!