Wow! What an experience you guys! I've basically been looking forward to SS13 since I saw (on IG) how much fun everyone was having last year and got completely jealous. But seriously, totally awesome. My friend, Ale and I got our tickets the minute they went on sale and basically acted like 12 year old girls about the whole thing. Talking about being roomies, planning pre Sewing Summit projects, discussing how over packed we would be and how big of an extra (empty) bag to bring to carry home our goodies.
Photo dump coming up. My apologies for the picture quality. All pictures are camera phone only. I'm not even sure I know WHY I brought my Canon with me. ;)
Here I am. DFW ------> SLC bound. Obligatory foot/handmade bag/airport pic. (in the aqua skinnies I HAD to purchase the evening before leaving) ;)
Obviously, the first thing you do when you arrive in Salt Lake City to attend Sewing Summit, is go fabric shopping. Here we were at Material Girls Quilts and Pine Needles.
The class line up was so great this year. I had several wonderful and insightful lectures and hands on sewing classes. Here I am with Christina from The Sometimes Crafter in her Foundation Paper Piecing class. I loved finally getting to meet her in person and her class was great. LOOK at that little block I made!
I took the Personal Branding lecture with Olivia Omega and guys, she was AWESOME! So much fun! She insisted that we take a selfie. In class. And post it RIGHT THEN. So here I am with Kaylee, who actually happens to be a local friend that I met through Instagram and our love of sewing. But definitely go check out Olivia's Website and Blog. She has so many wonderful things to share about being yourself and being authentic on your blog.
Heather Bailey was the keynote speaker. HEATHER BAILEY! Her story was wonderful. She talked about how she got started designing fabric for Freespirit and touched on all the other super amazing things she's done. She was beautiful, inspiring, wonderful and sweet and she was genuinely happy to be with us during Sewing Summit.
I didn't get pictures of EVERY class, but I really did take some great ones. Publishing a craft book. Photography. HTML for bloggers. LEGGINGS! I MADE LEGGINGS! And they FIT! I'm pretty pumped about that.
But what I FORGOT to mention, because I'm such a terrible blogger, is that I TAUGHT MY OWN CLASS!!! I taught a group of 30 people how to make mini dresden plates! They did so well! Which is awesome because I was pretty nervous about it. I have a pretty roundabout way of doing things sometimes that I always think only make sense to me. But they made some super adorable tiny dresdens. I got wonderful feedback and felt pretty special to be among so many other talented teachers and speakers.
So that's about it in a very small, short nutshell. I'd have to say, one of the coolest parts (and maybe a little scary) is meeting all these people you have become real friends with, that share the same interests and have never actually met face to face. A really cool feeling. Thank you to Erin and her crew for putting it together. Nice work.
xoxo
