QuiltCon 2015 Follow-up
It's been a wonderful few days in Austin, where I'm attending QuiltCon.
Admiring City Center by Angie Henderson at the QuiltCon 2015 exhibition hall
There's really nothing like being with folks who love what you do. On Thursday morning I started chatting with a young woman from Victoria, B.C., as we walked across the lobby floor. She said "I want to live here!" And I said "In Austin?" Her response was that the location didn't matter so much, but she wanted to be with people who loved what she did on a day-to-day basis. She'd tried to describe her passion to her work colleagues, but they didn't understand and were glad she was going where others did, because they'd heard enough. My guess is that she won't stop talking when she returns—she may be so pumped full of enthusiasm that she makes a few quilting converts.
I may or may not have purchased some of this fabric at Stitch Lab's booth in the vendor area
For coverage of QuiltCon,
—though she was on of the three jurors for QuiltCon (along with
and
) UPPERCASE editor Janine Vangool wasn't able to attend and asked me to to cover for her. You can find words and photos about QuiltCon 2015
and
, with more to come.