Assisting with the Craftsy Open Studio set-up

Open Studios lives!  One of my favorite activities in past years at festival was participating in Open Studios, once sponsored by Interweave.  I enjoyed talking to festival attendees, demonstrating a variety of things such as screenprinting, monoprinting, free-motion quilting, and more.
It was thrilling to learn that Craftsy decided to underwrite this wonderful part of Quilt Festival!
Here are some scenes from the initial set-up:

Belen Timmons poses in one of the Open Studios windows

Here comes the Open Studios sign!

Pokey brought props from home and Jamie contributed 

a few of her vintage patterns

I stuffed some of my hand-dyed cloth into my recently-acquired paint cans

from the Moda booth.

Jamie and I hung letters from our "clothelines" in each section.

The Open Studios area was located just inside the Food Court area.

It was a fantastic location because there was a lot of traffic through this area,

and many people pulled up chairs to sit and watch the various artists 

demonstrate.  So much fun!

To see more images from Open Studios, please visit Pokey's blog.