My favorite part of the weekend was definitely meeting all of my online buddies in person and making some new friends along the way.
So much crammed into one little weekend- where to begin?
Here goes....
We stayed at the beautiful and luxurious (but affordable) Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. Super large, fancy room, all to myself. LOVED the giant, super clean tub-
and had a Pretty Woman moment with bubbles and my iPod before the reception on Friday night.
The reception kicked things off and it only took about a minute to find some friendly faces in the crowd.
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| Candice and me; Faith, me, Angie, AnneMarie AnneMarie, Amy, Angela, Me, Kati, and another one of Faith and me |
The Old Red Barn Dinner Friday night was so much fun- a lot of laughing, chatting and sewing talk.
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| Ali, Chris, Amanda, Valerie, Elena, Amy, Me |
A BIG thank you to Dana for putting that together and for the lovely gifts.
Saturday kicked off the classes:
Blogging and Social Media with Dana Bolyard (Old Red Barn Co.)
Free Motion Quilting with Allison Harris (Cluck Cluck Sew)
Quilting 101 with Amy Smart (Diary of a Quilter)
Applique with Natalia Bonner (Piece -N- Quilt)
Followed by these on Sunday:
Aspiring Author Panel with Jenny Wilding-Cardon, Bari Ackerman, Amy Ellis, Gretchen Hirsch, & Ali Winston
Improv Piecing with Jessica Berrett (Urban Patchwork)
The Social Media class was great as was the Free Motion Quilting one. More details on that later.
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| Jessica from Urban Patchwork |
I really loved the improv piecing class where Jess taught us how to piece curves - a new technique for me - and I totally "got" her style. It absolutely speaks to me. I've got several sketches and projects in the works that are along the lines of her style of quilting.
I also found the author panel to be one of the most informative classes for me. One of my goals is to write a book so this was definitely a great class to attend.
I'll admit to being a little star struck at meeting the teachers- a few of whom knew who I was- which was CRAZY!
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| Me with: Dana (Old Red Barn Co.) Jessica (Urban Patchwork) Vanessa (V and Co.) Amy (Diary of a Quilter) and Allison (Cluck Cluck Sew) |
Saturday night Elena and I had arranged a group for dinner. We asked about 10 blogging friends to come and many of them in turn brought a friend or roommate.
It made for a fun group, and I felt so honored to get to hang out with some super talented ladies.
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On a total whim, almost last minute, Elena and I decided to see if we could get some goodies together for swag bags, and we were completely blown away by the generosity of the sponsors. I mean, seriously had no idea we would get such a good response. We called several people/companies on the off chance that a few would say yes and low and behold, they almost all did. It was staggering.
The good news is that we have a few extra goodies to share so there will be a special giveaway for you guys very soon!
The swag bags from the Sewing Summit were awesome and filled with wonderful goodies and treats: batting, chocolates (that lasted all of five minutes-yum!) charm packs, thread, labels, a fabric glue stick and patterns- oh my!
All weekend long, gifts and giveaways were flying. I won two quilt patterns from Allison at Cluck Cluck Sew and a self sharpening ruler too- can't wait to use it.
There was lots of sewing going on in the evenings, fabric swaps (thanks Kati and Kaelin) and special gatherings to learn new techniques like zip pouches (thanks Claudia) or frame purses (thanks Michelle!) Hopefully it all sank in because by the end of the day I was too tired to sew!
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| Me with: Michelle (I Like Orange, too!) Erin (Two More Seconds) Faith (Fresh Lemons Quilts) and Rachel (Stitched in Color) |
But I'm not worried- we're bloggers- staying connected is what we do.
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| Me with: Amy (Stitchery Dickory Dock) Elena (Breakfast for Dinner) and Amy Kati (From the Blue Chair) and Amy (Sukie, Don't You Know My Name) |
Plus we have next year to look forward to and that is the fun part.
Hopefully you'll join us.
Now that you've made it through the lengthy recap post, pop over and visit me at Patchwork Posse for Trunk Show Tuesday today!
Hope you had a great weekend too!
39 comments:
Looks like the most fun and inspiring time!
Of course the teachers recognized you - you`re a rock star too! Looks amazing Jennifer - so happy you had such a great time.
It was so great meeting you and thank you again for a great dinner on Saturday night. I am so sad it's all over but my husband already said I should go again next year - yesssssss!
This is a beautiful documentation of our fantastic weekend. I am so glad I got to meet you and now I know we will see each other again next year. Yeah! Thanks for organizing the dinner and all the swag gifts. I'm still not home but will post by the end of the week.
XOXO
So happy to see what a fun time it was! I can't even be jealous--I love seeing creative types get together and share what they love! Thanks for the recap and awesome photos. I'd love to go next year :)
Thank you for sharing! Looks like it was a lot of fun. These events are great for keeping us going, aren't they? wish I could have been there!
Sooooo envious! Sewing Summit sounds like it was a blast!
Yay, oh my gosh how much fun! I have to go next year, have to. Thanks for all the pictures!
It was such a fabulous weekend! So fun to meet you. I'm already looking forward to next year. I'm definitely reserving a room next time after seeing how great yours was.
Looks like you guys are all having a lot of fun. :) Seems like tons of fun hanging with friends, and getting to talk sewing with others! Glad your having a good time.
Jennifer - you are so cute! I wish you were closer and we could hang out all the time!
oh, my goodness! Count me in for next year. Worth it just for a pretty room to myself and all that swag! Bonus of all the fun people and sewing!!!
Looks like you had an awesome time!
It was a great time and I was so happy to meet you, Jennifer! Thanks for organizing Saturday's dinner! : )
Awww, love your photos!! Thank you again so much for Saturday's dinner, even though we had table troubles, it was still a ton of fun :) So great to meet you!!
Wow - it looks like you all had so so so much fun - I am completely jealous!
It was a fabulous, inspiring, exhausting weekend! I'm so glad I had a chance to meet you. I am jealous that you found time for a bubble bath in that lovely tub! Next year, I'll make time for that too. :)
Jennifer! It was so great to meet you and I had such a fun time hanging out. Laughing together almost instantly at the ORBC dinner was a treat - I felt so comfortable with everyone like we all already knew each other. Which, in a way, I guess we did! I can totally see you teaching at the next summit!
What an incredible experience! I wish I could have been there. I'll file it in my dream vacation list! :) Thank you for giving us a taste of what it was like to go.
So jealous, looks like you had such a great time, and its great to meet up with all those people. Glad you had a great time
What an amazing job at recapping the whole thing! Definitely the weekend of my year. Amazing to meet you in person, and so many fantastic women! XO
Looks like you had a super awesome time! Yay for all of it :)
Ack, I wanted to meet you, too since I follow you but alas, time just wasn't enough to meet everyone. Next year?
This is a great recap, and I'm so glad we met! It was pretty crazy, and hard to spend time with everyone, but at least now we have a face behind the blogs. We'll hang out next year!
WOW! Looks like you had so much fun. To bad it was only 2 days.
Oh that looks like so much fun *sigh* Glad you got loads of pics though, and that hotel looks amazing!
It was such a pleasure to meet you!!! I can't wait until next year! :)
SO great meeting you Jennifer! What a whirlwind for all of us - great times. Thanks for organizing the dinner - it was a blast!
Thank you Jennifer for sharing your wonderful experience at the Sewing Summit here! I SO enjoyed this post!! It made me want to go there next year!!!
Looks like you had a great time!
Sewing Summit looks like so much fun! Glad you enjoyed and so much work making that terrific goodie bags for all of them!
Literally.so.jealous.
Next year I'm coming across the sea to join you!
I so want to go next year - it just looks like complete total and utter heaven! great post.
wow, great post on sewing summit! love all the details you captured. and cool that your goal is to write a book. :) can't wait to see the 12 gifts of christmas series. :)
ahh sewing summit envy again!, i will just have to go next year for sure.
Looks like a fabulous time...and the room...wow! The bubbles were definitely a good call. :)
Still in *bliss* land!! I'm having trouble focusing on anything else other than the energy I brought home after being with all you generous, talented, fun women!
Thanks so much Jen for letting me in your circle!
It was so fun meeting you! And I love that you are in NC as well. I really think we maybe need to put together a NC retreat. Somewhere in the middle. Or by me, whatever. :) Let's keep in touch!
Waht a fabulous, fantastic weekend.
But I notice everyone was young - no oldies like me seem to have showed up!
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