A Houston quilt show question

Aha. Since my question's been sitting here about 5 hours unanswered, I may conclude the following: Houston quilt show attendees: (1) never left the food court (2) never left the vendor area (3) really did go look at quilts (4) were on the final frontier - searching Houston for a fine Margarita. Polly

"polly esther" asked > I've noticed in the ads for the Houston show that they mention 'dolls'.

Then they have classes, after which you must go to the vendor area to get the tools to do that project at home. Suprise, surprise, your teacher is now in a booth in the vendor area selling tools. Methinks I smell a rat. Frank Reid

I don't know, but the margarita idea sounds great!

Sherry Starr

The dolls are wonderful. I am going to take more of a look tomorrow. My hubby and son will be going with me...

Too bad you are not here. There is a Japenese Woman that did a quarter inch hexicon's and made quilts with them. Over a hundred thousand on the quilts. She did several quilts like this and they are huge! It takes her a year from start to finish to do a quilt....

Yea we all finally left the food court after laughing and having a good time... : )

Barbara

yes, they still do it and yes they have BOTH ... some really creepy ones and some beautiful ones too. This year they had a category that was dolls from literature (or some fancier take on that title) which had a really neat cinderella who's dress was like a tiered cake. Our own Nancie Roach had a doll entered again this year. She was one of the beautiful ones :) if i get her permission i will post a pic on my website of her doll for you. There were probably 80 or so dolls that i saw altogether.

Kellie

Howdy!

Yes.

Some beautiful, some creepy, some just weird, others wonderful. Some win prizes and ribbons. Some inspire. Some for sale. Some funny, some goofy, some ugly, all incredible-- 'cuz I can't do that!

These dolls were not at the show but they represent, quite well, those on display:

Howdy!

It was nice to meet you, Barbara. Y'all were still laughing when Nona dragged me to see The Quilts. (Yes, Frank, we saw the quilts first thing after the RCTQ lunch meet-up. ) Nona, not a quilter at that point, fell in love w/ the first quilts she saw, some very bright, contemporary quilts. When we got around to the front of the show/entry where the Winners were on display, many of them w/ the quilters/artists standing beside their award-winning quilts, talking to the public just like regular people!, Nona thought she'd made it to heaven. (Nona is my s-i-l, a rock&roll singer who has been a quilt-appreciator up 'til now, agreed to go to Houston with me-- maybe telling her "we'll stay at the Hilton next door" helped sell the idea. ) One of the best parts is the way many of the winning quilts were made by "new to us" quilters, not the same names we see at all the big shows and on the covers of magazines over & over. New names in the winner's circle, quilters who were just delighted at the response and attention they received from the rest of us. ;-)

Btw, it was the batiks *sigh* that finally got to Nona. She is wild about the batiks. Each vendor we passed she had to fondle the batik fabric. *sigh* Such a chore to keep her company (egg her on ). Finally I made her choose 3 fqs, assuring her that w/ the addition of some of my stash (she IS my husband's sister, I can share ...I think) we can put together a lovely..well, okay, bitchin'! table runner, I do the quilting, she does the embellishing. Smart vendor, she was selling little packages of coordinating beads & sequins to go w/ those batiks. ooooo-ha-ha-ha-ha! Hooked another one!

More dolls:

Thank you so very much, Sandy. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the tour. That was such fun and a nice trip down memory lane. I was a dollmaker in another, much earlier life. Sometimes, I find a doll that is a good gift for the shelter when I can give them some spiffing-up and a special outfit. Polly

but there aren't any of the really creepy ones on that page lol

Kellie

Of course you have permission to post Victoriana. Another view is on my webshots at:

Thank you. That's not something I do much anymore but I do very much enjoy seeing the skill and love that go into dollmaking. Polly

Your dolls are beautiful!

Your dolls are awesome, Nancie!

You should have seen the faces of the other show visitors when Nancie reached over the rope and lifted up her doll to show me her "unders"!!! The look of shock was priceless!

I can just picture Nancie doing this :) She sure is a neat gal:)

Butterfly