I have to warn you: this post is going to be scatter-brained. I spent a good bit of time going through my photos and my suitcase, trying to figure out how to blog about the super amazing Sewing Summit, but I don't know that it helped much. I feel all over the place, so exhausted but happy all at the same time. It's been hard to get back in the swing of real life, I'm definitely missing all of my Sewing Summit peeps. I'm still working on unpacking and finding homes for all of my new goodies, trying to remember all of the fun we had, and catch up on everything that I missed while I was gone.
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| When I got to my gate in Phoenix and saw "Salt Lake City" on the board, I almost squealed! |
Despite being ridiculously overtired from hardly sleeping the night before and getting up super early, I couldn't help but grin while trudging through the airport on the way to my gate. Even while rushing across the Phoenix airport to catch my connecting flight, I felt super excited. As Salt Lake City came into view while I was on my plane en route to the Sewing Summit, my iPod was blaring my current favorite song, Coldplay's "Paradise." That was kind of the theme of the whole weekend. I couldn't imagine a better way to spend a weekend :)
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| Mountains in SLC |
I roomed with
Lee and
AnneMarie, and it was so fabulous to finally meet them in real life. They are just as sweet and wonderful as they seem on their blogs! These two girls have been my support system in the blog world for pretty much the entire life of my blog, and it was so great to get to hang out in real life. We did a little three-way roommate swap (hence the lovely pouches you saw yesterday) and
AnneMarie made me a lovely pillow, using one of my favorite collections right now, Happy Mochi Mochi Yum Yum! Isn't it adorable?
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| Gorgeous pillow from AnneMarie! |
Lee's working on finishing up a super fab mini for me, she totally deserves extra time after rocking out her
first fabric collection (did you see
it???), so stay tuned for that. She did make me an awesome voile scarf, which I adore (and am wearing in this pic), so thank you,
Lee!! Miss you roomies already!!!
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| Amazing roommates - Lee on my left and AnneMarie on my right |
Amy was fabulous, too, showed us some great fabric shops, and was an awesome friend all the way around.
Amy carted me (and my ridiculously heavy bags) to and from the airport and kept us all cracking up throughout the weekend. After our mini shop-hop, we headed to the Little America...but we had a minor problem along the way. There was quite a thunking sound coming from the front of the car, and we all started to get a bit spooked. We all dutifully hopped out of the car when we got off the freeway and kicked the tires, trying to track down the mystery noise...but none of us thought the front passenger tire was about to come off the car. It later pretty much
did, on her way home that night, but I'm happy to report that her car now has a clean bill of health, and she's none the worse for the stress of it.
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| Amy is even funnier in person! |
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| Um...maybe I went a little overboard with the fabric?? |
We had an amazing dinner with the bee girls from the
{Sew} Beautiful bee - all but two of us were there at the Summit, and it was wonderful to get to meet everyone. Here's hoping that next time around, we can all get there and get a pic of all of us together!
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| Saturday Night Dinner, photos by Faith |
I also had the awesome pleasure of getting to give a swap item in person - Darci was my partner in the Pretty Little Pouch swap, and I got to hand-deliver her pouch, which was a ton of fun. And let me just tell you, Darci is the sweetest! She kept swinging by to tell me how much people loved her pouch throughout the weekend. So glad she liked it!!!
The fat quarter swap that
Kaelin hosted on Saturday night was a boatload of fun. I had visions in my head of chaos (think Sample Sale chaos), but we were all really civilized and grown-up about it. I got some super fab new fat quarters for my stash. Speaking of my stash, I have often joked that SLC is quilting mecca, and their fabric shops did not disappoint in the least. I found tons of goodies! My suitcase was positively filled to the brim on the way home, between all of the fabulous new fabric finds and the goodies from friends.
I loved all of the awesome classes at the Summit, especially
Amanda's awesome Marvelous Minis class. She has so much personality and is so passionate about fabric and sewing, you can't help but feel inspired after listening to her talk.
Jeni did an awesome talk on fabric and color as well, and I loved getting to spend some time in the Sewing Room, practicing some new FMQ stitches and trying some new improv techniques.
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| Amanda is so inspiring! Her love for mini quilts is contagious. |
All in all, it was a super fab weekend, and I'm so sorry that it's over already!!! So happy to have met all of these wonderful people in person. I am having so much fun watching on Flickr and Twitter and seeing all of the fabulous photos from the Summit, so much fun that I've barely unpacked!
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| My work from the improv class |
It's a miracle I was able to cram everything into my suitcase, not to mention for it to wind up being under 50 pounds (just barely). My Weekender, on the other hand, was a solid 30 pounds or so. It was so super heavy!!! I absolutely wish I had added more padding to the straps. Mental note, if I ever make another one, I suppose. :)
, by three super-talented ladies I'm happy to call my friends: Katie Blakesley of 
