quilt show vendors

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Are you hot to see the vendors? Some people can't wait. Some people go see the vendors before they go see the show.

Did I say this is a huge show? Look at the sign in the upper right. We are just about to cross aisle 800. They go up above 2000 (by 100s).

I'm not sure if I took this pic at the edge of the space between the show and the vendors. The edge was somewhere around here, give or take an aisle or two.

It's wide, too. We are talking hundreds and hundreds of vendors.





As a person whose house is already way too full of everything (sorta wish I could "take back" those days of unrestrained thrift-store shopping....), I am seriously and studiedly anti-acquisition. I have a terrible time getting rid of things, but I have gotten MUCH better about not adding to the excess I already possess.

Here are some things that caught my eye.

How nice that I can collect them in the camera (and the computer) where they take up NO space at all, and never get dusty!

Silk. Mmmmmm.





These people had some seriously excellent antique quilts.





Isn't it nice that we can serenely collect these images (with permission, I may add) and not impact either the bank balance or the space in the house?





Love the bug and love the violas..... This woman was heavily into the details. Can you see the bug's little legs? (as always, click on a pic to see a larger version)









Love the fabrics. Look what she does with that stripey one.





A technical tour de force in the "shoot me now" category. I can surely admire her work, and I really really do *not* want to ever do this. At least on this scale. I can imagine hand quilting an artist trading card (2.5"x3").............









Lots of vendors will yell at you (as nicely as they are able) for taking pics.

Sometimes you can understand this. If they make their living selling patterns, and someone copying and selling their pattern would cut into their livelihood, well, you can understand that they don't want that to happen. They don't know that I am never going to *make* one, nevermind study it hard enough to be able to make up a duplicate pattern.....

Sometimes you totally cannot understand it. One of the most fun booths to look at has a combination of vintage trims, buttons, etc, combined with new (ditto). One of the reasons it is so enticing to the eye is that they have arranged everything by color.

Now why, we ask, would *they* be yelling at people for admiring their booth? Near as I can see, the main "concept" is the arrangement by color. Ya don't need a pic to keep that one straight in your mind........

Perhaps there is something much subtler going on that they don't want anyone to record, but if so, it went well over my head.

So that would be part of why I don't have more pics of things for sale. A) I don't like getting yelled at, and B) I am respecting their desire to force people to pay (to get into a show) for the privilege of seeing/buying their goods.

No, wait. I can't "respect" that. Nor "honor" it. Hmmm. I guess I am "standing aside" because of their desire to force people to pay to see their goods.

Humph.


This booth was full of indigo-dyed cloth. I don't know if he would have minded had I asked to take pics of the patterns on the cloth, but I figured he couldn't reasonably object to me taking a pic of the ends of these little rolled-up pieces. He said it was ok.





Yarns and ribbons for embellishing ... anything/everything. I'm more of a minimalist than an embellisher, but I love looking at and fondling this stuff. I think one reason fiber people are so heavily into acquisition is that this stuff is at least as much fun to pet as it is to look at..... Mmmmmm.

I want the job of deciding what to put with what, in packaged sets of goodies.....





This is Jeanette's (yummy yummy) Fabric to Dye For.

Fire child, jumping into the arms of her mother. (My interpretation of this cloth.)











More silk. These are light shawls (or very big scarves).





Of course there were machines, tools, books, buttons, beads, and TONS and tons of fabric. It takes a person with more stamina than I to look at all of this in one day. Even when my feet hold up, my brain shuts down after a while......





In order to facilitate chronological traverse of these Chicago quilt show posts, a link to the next one is here.

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