Throughout last week we have been as busy as politicians in an election campaign with all our doings at Quilt Festival in Houston. You know, visiting with many of our friends who also attend this event, sitting in on lectures, going to receptions, checking out new materials on the market, discussing future projects and – of course – enjoying the many different exhibits of traditional and contemporary quilts.

We consequently had very little time to meet the public, which is important for us. So many of the visitors walking through the exhibitions have a profound interest in what they see, and given the opportunity they would ask all kinds of questions about a quilt that has attracted their attention. They would ask questions about how it was made, which materials and technique were applied and so on.

Well, most of this visitors can read on a information sheets, but it is not the same compared to entering into a dialogue and ask those questions directly to the maker(s) of the quilts and perhaps also get the story behind it or be pointed to a given detail which may not be apparent at a first glance.

Such dialogues enriches their visit to the exhibition and ours as well, because we get this additional dimension of a personal contact with the viewers of our works and learn which impact they have.

We love these dialogues with the visitors and regret that we have not had all the time we could have wished to meet them this time. In contrast to politicians we cannot cover our absence with TV-spots.

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