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Fashion avec Front!
Wednesday 1st September 2010
Jennie: At long last we have got some pics from the Fashion show at the Festival of Quilts. All of us are eagerly awating the video because it was such a special occasion. such a pity that none of us spoke any Russian other than 'Hello' which works in most languages and 'Niet' and 'Dosvidana' and 'Spasiba' - for those who are not multi-lingual - that is 'No', 'Goodbye' and 'Thank you' plus I could manage 'Vot on' which loosely translated means 'Here is. They seemed to understand 'Vot on mein...
Patterns for Needlefelting from Maggie Davies
Monday 30th August 2010
Val: My apologies that these products were loaded up late; so if you have already seen the video you might like to check out these lovely patterns that are available.
Festival of Quilts - day 4
Sunday 22nd August 2010
Val: A day to remember I think; Jennie was busy teaching and I met the boys from Bizview.tv at 8.45 with their entry passes. Hubby was drafted in to cope with selling Jennie's books on her stand as well as membership to Justhands-on.tv complete with golfing hat - I have to say he did well!! (not sure I'll get him to do it again, not because he did anything wrong; more about now he knows what he's in for!!!) Manning a stand is a constant with so many visitors, but I have to say you are...
Festival of Quilts - day 3
Saturday 21st August 2010
Val: Wow another busy day and that glass of wine is really very appealing. It is really so exciting to be surrounded by so much inspiration and that obviously shows in the spending; I do hope that all that good intention doesn't fade on the way home. Those who come by coach must have a great time comparing shopping notes!
Fashion Sans Frontiers
Friday 20th August 2010
Val; Rehearsals for this started at 3.30pm - large ballroom; catwalk; large screen; sound system; lights; 2 film crews - sounds very organised?!? Two teams - the Russians and the Brits - and masses of outfits. Communication was interesting between the Russian team and the rest of the world but on the essential level of patchwork everyone was fine!! I am writing this 'after the event' and the event was magnificent; you will be able to see it all on the site in a couple of months; our...
Festival of Quilts - day 2
Friday 20th August 2010
Val: Well my day to wander round, organised the filming for Sunday, do some shopping and see the quilts - a treat I've not had in years. Still very busy and still lots of overseas visitors. Got chatting over coffee (as you do when every seat counts) to a couple of ladies who had picked up Karin Hellaby's new Pinapple book. I'd also been accosted - always in the nicest possible way - on the shuttle bus from the hotel by a lady who was volunteering on the Roses from the Heart exhibition - an...
Festival of Quilts - day 1- postcript
Thursday 19th August 2010
Val; What a first day!! Advance ticket sales must have been huge - they were starting to queue at 9am (doors didn't open until 10!) still Starbucks did a roaring trade. It was BUSY; hopefully everyone had a good time; we didn't get to have lunch until 4pm! Lots of overseas visitors (and by that I don't mean just north and west where they print their own version of our money!).
Festival of Quilts - day 1
Thursday 19th August 2010
Val: Well after sailing through all the checkpoints yesterday because there were girls in charge, we had a slow crawl through this morning; give a man a yellow jacket and a clipboard and 'jobsworth' rains. Still a few last minute things to primpt and price but otherwise ready for action.