Did I mention that I'm chairman of my guild's quilt show in April? This week has been filled with working on many of the items on my to-do list that have to be done by now. Just keeping up with the lists of things yet to do is an accomplishment. We're past the date for entry forms to be turned in, and are trying to hold the line on not allowing late entries.
Having been chairman of a number of international conventions for organizations I belong to, I've got a lot of experience with keeping and checking off lists. My DH says I'm the world's best list maker - I have lists for everything. Those lists go into notebooks. I have notebooks for every organization I belong to, sometimes multiple notebooks, depending on what I'm doing for that organization. And those notebooks are stored in tote bags so they are easy to carry to each meeting. What I haven't figured out how to do is store all of those tote bags with their notebooks between meetings! I mean, some of those notebooks are 2-3 inches thick!
Anyway, back to the quilt show. Yesterday was spent at the venue for the show, measuring for booths again and deciding where to put booths, depending on what their function is. One exciting part of our show is a display of Liz Porter's quilts. We got the list of quilts she's sending this month, so now we've got to get busy working on the booth layout so they can be best displayed. One of the quilts is at the studio as it is the featured quilt on one of the Love of Quilting programs to be released later this year. How neat is that!
Today I worked more on the lists, then sent all of the information to the company that is going to do the poles and drapes. Not only do you have to provide the height, depth, and width of each booth, you have to give them the list of who goes where, and a list of lengths of poles that the quilts are hung on. We have our own chain, so that part is easy - assuming we have a sufficient supply.
I'm LUCKY. LUCKY. LUCKY to have members on the steering committee who have done this before, so answers to questions I had about putting a quilt show together were readily available. I did tell one of the members that I wasn't even sure what questions I needed answers to at first. Everything seems to be coming together, though, so I'll let you know after the show how it went.
Happy quilting.
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