Looking out our 18th-floor window at a cloudy morning. Like the reflections on the windows.
Flowering tree at street level.
Hilton Netherland Plaza at right........
On Friday the 8th we began with the vendors. I don't think there were as many vendors as in the later years of the show in Chicago, and some that we liked, and were used to seeing, were not in Cincinnati. Maybe next time.
Vendors tend to be very unhappy about having their booths photographed, and I wasn't in the mood to argue, so you'll just have to look at those from-a-distance pics I showed the other day, and imagine all the temptations.
One of the things that is excellent about a big show like this is the breadth and depth of the selection of topical material. Fabric, fabric, and more fabric, of course. Much of it vastly more interesting than you will ever find in your local JoAnn's....... Fiber people generally are drawn to the way things *feel*. If you buy cloth online, you don't know until too late that a particular piece is nasty to the touch..... Even if you mean that cloth for something that will hang on the wall, rather than something to snuggle under on a cold winter night, you still have to touch it when you work with it...........
And even with books it's nice to be able to pick them up and look at them. I find the print is getting smaller and smaller (especially in magazines -- publishers, take note! -- a major advantage to ereaders, like Kindles, is that a person gets to choose the size of the print, and with an aging population, tiny print may well drive your erstwhile happy customers into the hands of the epublishers....!!!)......
Ann Arbor's library used to have a good craft selection, and, of course, as the home town of Borders, we used to be able to find the new craft books just steps away. Not any more, in either case; they prefer to provide other stuff now (both, believe it or not, offer coffee -- something you'd have found in neither place, not that long ago!).
It was nice to see a large selection of the books I'd been reading about online, in person where I could determine if I could read the print, or, if I wanted to............
But I've got pics of none of it.
After a time, my buddy went to a luncheon lecture, and I went up to check out the food court in the ballroom.
The ballroom! Excellent!!!!!!!!!!
(The food court, not so much. Not much variety of selection -- all hot greasy sandwiches -- and HUGE lines: wait to procure; wait AGAIN to pay. Forget that..............)
Let's concentrate on the ballroom!
This is the ceiling. All that curvy stuff is lengths of light-weight fabric. Which moved in the breezes. Panels of the same fabric hung down the walls, as you may be able to see, in the distance.
Like the rest of the convention center, this room was vast, with very high ceilings. Very cool.
I hope you can see the fabric moving.....
The cloudy morning turned into a gorgeous day!!!
We did go back to the show after finding me a tuna salad sandwich at the hotel restaurant. Sheesh.
I did take pics of one more quilt I wanted to show you, but, alas, I forgot to snap a pic of the documentation, and I don't think it's fair to the artist to not credit her......... It was lots and lots of appliqued circles..........
Ah well.
I felt that the amount of interesting work was sadly less, in this show, than in previous shows. In previous shows there have been a lot more pieces. Smaller works -- journal quilts, for example. Much of the most interesting work has been the smaller works. (Think of that excellent coffee cup I showed you yesterday -- small work; lots to look at!) Without any collections of smaller work, there was less to look at, and less to remember.
Too bad.
Walking out, after the show ended at 7:00 pm on Friday, looking for supper. A beautiful evening!!!!
Netherland Plaza, again....
After supper we stopped at Graeter's -- Ohio's own ice cream. I had coffee ice cream, and it was lovely.
In order to facilitate chronological traverse of these posts, a link to the next one is here.
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