{"id":25455,"date":"2022-06-05T08:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T08:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=25455"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:02:24","slug":"yeehar-houston-quilt-market-is-on-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/yeehar-houston-quilt-market-is-on-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeehar! Houston Quilt Market is on again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">I am very EXCITED because I received an email to say:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; font-family: segoe;\">Quilt Market is on again!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Which means&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m heading to <strong>Houston, Texas<\/strong> <strong>in October for <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Quilt Market<\/strong> (the trade show for fabric shop owners) and I&#8217;ll be having my usual Funky Friends Factory booth&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25456\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Island-Batik-designer.web_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Island-Batik-designer.web_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Island-Batik-designer.web_-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Quilt Market is LOTS of fun for me because&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> I get to see quilt store owners who are stocking my patterns and to meet some NEW fabric shop owners who have NEVER heard of Funky Friends Factory!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25463\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-Quilt-Market-booth.jpg\" alt=\"Quilt Market booth\" width=\"581\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-Quilt-Market-booth.jpg 581w, https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-Quilt-Market-booth-480x329.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 581px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span class=\"large-body-text\">Will your local shop owner be going to QM?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"large-body-text\">I know there are a LOT of you who <strong>love to purchase printed patterns from your local quilt shops<\/strong>. So the next time you&#8217;re in store getting some fabric from them &#8211;\u00a0 PLEASE FEEL FREE to let them know what printed patterns you&#8217;d like them to stock. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I will be taking along all of the patterns that I designed since the last Quilt Market which was 3 years ago &#8211; before Covid was a thing! <strong><span class=\"large-body-text\">If they are going to be at Quilt Market &#8211; they <\/span>will be able to grab some of the new patterns!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"large-body-text\"><span class=\"h2\" style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Which NEW (printed patterns) will be at QM?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"large-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Whew, there&#8217;s been a lot of new Funky Friends since last Quilt Market! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span class=\"large-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/poppy-puppy-dog-sewing-pattern\">Poppy the PUPPY<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"large-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/beginner-bear-sewing-pattern\">Ben the BEGINNER Bear<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/chameleon-sewing-pattern\">Coco Chameleon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span class=\"large-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/keepsake-bear-pattern\">Keep Me KEEPSAKE Bear<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/wolf-sewing-pattern\">Winsome the Wolf<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/turkey-sewing-pattern\">Tom Turkey<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/keepsake-unicorn-sewing-pattern\">Kelsey KEEPSAKE Unicorn<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">&#8230;and the upcoming Meerkat!<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25464 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-patterns-since-QUILT-MARKET.jpg\" alt=\"New patterns since QUILT MARKET\" width=\"792\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-patterns-since-QUILT-MARKET.jpg 792w, https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-patterns-since-QUILT-MARKET-480x438.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 792px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">OOOH, I am very excited about the NEW Meerkat pattern&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; font-family: segoe;\">BUT I think that<br \/>\nsomeone else is NOT!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25458\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/A-Meerkat-teaser-web.jpg\" alt=\"A-Meerkat-teaser-web\" width=\"700\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/A-Meerkat-teaser-web.jpg 700w, https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/A-Meerkat-teaser-web-480x313.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080;\">OK, watch this space for Meerkat developments!!!!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-280\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"180\" height=\"175\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Till next time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Happy Sewing,<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pauline<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">xxx<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very EXCITED because I received an email to say: Quilt Market is on again! Which means&#8230; I&#8217;m heading to Houston, Texas in October for Quilt Market (the trade show for fabric shop owners) and I&#8217;ll be having my usual Funky Friends Factory booth&#8230;\u00a0 &nbsp; Quilt Market is LOTS of fun for me because&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/500.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25455"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25474,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455\/revisions\/25474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}