Houston Quilt Market 2016, part three

Not all of the beautiful quilts are in the show part.  The vendors have wonderful samples up in their booths, 

Laura Heine

Andover Fabrics, Alison Glass

some minis...

primitive Gatherings, fro moda fabrics, a wool quilt,

more minis! at Laundry Basket, Edyta Sitar

and some other moda samples

gingiber

zen chic

lots of rainbow brights still going strong

Tula Pink

some really cute train cases

more Westminster fabrics, their solids,

Elizabeth Hartman's booth was adorable, and she won the prize for best single booth, unsurprisingly

she had made dozens of these really sweet fabric plants

Camelot fabrics:

Art Gallery Fabrics

Tim Holtz

the view of the show floor from above, 

in one direction

and the other direction

More Great Quilts

More great snippets of quilts from the shows at International Quilt Festival in Houston:

love the stitching on this!

In the Modern Quilt Guild Show-- can't find the label of who made it!!! :(

Lots of circles on quilts

by Barbara McKie

by Allison Aller

by Mary Williams

by Nancy Sterett Martin and Karen Sistek

close-ups of the feathers and quilting, so effective!

The Houston Convention Center

This morning I started to look through some of my photos of Quilt Market in Houston last week, and wanted to share a small overview,

this is a view of the Convention Center from the park across the street

The park (Discovery Green) is an unthinkably huge! improvement over the gravel parking lot that used to ocupy the space

it's a nice place to walk through now

this is a view of the vendor's booth area taken from an escalotor, it goes on for 22 long aisles

 We spent lots of time in the Westminster Fabrics booth.  Each designer had a little area featuring some quilts, smaller items and a mannequin showing the fabric in the upcoming lines:

 And in a ring around the Westminster booth were smaller booths where the designers had their own presentation.
For example, this is David Butler, aka Parson Gray:

close-up just because

Tula Pink's booth, I liked the VWcushions

a view of the moda booth--lots of ordering fabric going on

 And in the other end of the convention center were the quilt shows.  What would be a post without a good quilt to end with?

by Janet Fogg

by Janet Fogg