QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Thursday, May 17, 2018

Spring Quilt Market 2018---Virtual Floating Booth


Well, we forgot to sign up for a booth rental for Quilt Market in Portland but I had an idea. No where in the Quilt Market rules do I see a prohibition on parade floats. So here's the plan for a virtual floating booth that we can ride up and down the aisles throwing out Tootsie Rolls as we float by.


We looked at a lot of vintage photos for ideas. What would get our point across---we sell quilt patterns in our Etsy shop. Sunflower Pattern Co-operative.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/499583790/

Floral concoctions probably not a good choice. 
Flowers would droop by Saturday afternoon.

or Friday night.

Sunflower wheels? Get it? Horse probably a bad choice.

Self-propelled might be better.

Civil War theme? We do sell a lot of Civil War repro patterns.

Here it is! 
Based on a float from the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

We'll be up all night with papier-mâché and trying to keep the machine threaded. 
Look for us in the virtual aisles all weekend.

5 comments:

  1. Wow, can I help? That is the biggest sewing machine ever!

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  2. I hope someone will take photos and post them!

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  3. I guess Blogger needs to add those silly little laughing emojis! Have fun!

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  4. those vintage photos are wonderful.....I live on the east coast, but was out west in Santa Rosa, CA last week and
    found a treasure trove of photos at an antique mall.....the best are to be mailed to my 93 yr old father-in-law
    to make him chuckle.....as I did looking at your terrific blog post!
    Holly

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