Trucking through Life... New Job and a Road Trip!

These are the Educators in the Salt Lake Handi Quilter Studio...

 UNTIL JULY 18th.  And then I joined them.  It is my dream job! Quilt EVERYTHING! These are the people who trained me.  I rented in the studio for 2 years.  I made 25 quilts going up to quilt once or twice a week and then they moved to a new studio and quit renting time on machines and I had to BUY my own machine.

So I had only been on the job about a week when they asked if I could go on the road.

MILWAUKEE Quilt SHOW...

I wasn't so sure about the whole thing.  It meant I had to make all my flight connections by myself.  No one else went from Salt Lake at the same time I went.  But I got it figured out....

THIS IS HOUSTON.

Houston is where they have the big International Quilt show every year.  When I got my laptop computer I put a picture of Houston on the wall paper.  My goal... get to Houston on quilt business.  Pretty cool everything worked out the way it did.

Most of the time in Milwaukee I was in a classroom with 12 of our sewing machines set up.  I made sure everyone had a good running machine, thread, bobbins, good tension, etc. AND  since I was in the classroom I got all the good quilting ideas and techniques the teachers were doing.  A couple of the teachers gave me their books.  I learned a lot, good stuff.  I also spent some time in the Vendor booth selling and demonstrating and answering questions... but mostly just had a great time talking to people who love to quilt as much as I do.  I think this job might turn into a job at some point, so far it is just a whole lot of fun.

It could be worse.  I may end up with my mug on the back of a moving truck, so I have to tell myself ...It could be worse.  Although, I'm pretty much loving everything about this JOB!