Today Sophie and I went to MileHiCon for the first time. It is a SciFi/Fantasy Fan conference, and from the moment we walked in Sophie had a giant grin on her face as we mingled with Vulcans and Klingons, Steampunk characters, pirates and Harry Potter characters, and some scary drippy zombie/vampire characters.
There were lots of ladies in corsets who clearly wanted to wear their Renaissance Faire costumes one more time…and there were too many guys dressed in Captain Kirk's signature jersey.
Sophie came dressed as Phantom of the Opera, although she had to leave her long black velvet cape at home because it drags on the ground. (Great for onstage, not so great walking through a crowd)
When the Klingon Batliff Bop started, she signed up enthusiastically. She was eliminated in the first round, but she played against a kid several years older. (and several inches taller) After Sophie watched how the big kids played, she went up to the judge and asked for a rematch against a kid more her size. After the tournament, she was matched up with a boy a couple inches taller than her who had taken 3rd place, and she trounced him soundly. (These are foam rubber batliffs wrapped with duct tape) Everyone was so surprised! Several people asked if she's been taking martial arts (yes), then she put on her Phantom costume and strode out of the ring.
I get a real kick out of the Steampunk Victorian-era costumes, and other costumes like the Pirate Queen that are obviously sewn by their wearers and worn with great dash and pride. Sophie and I started plotting our costumes for the MileHiCon next year.
We are a family of SciFi nerds, but we also love historic fiction. Paul and I found common ground on our first blind date, because of our mutual love of Star Trek and Monty Python. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, but also costume historic dramas like Merlin and Downton Abbey, are favorites at the Rubin household. (We love BBC miniseries!)
Are you an avid costume-maker, SciFi fan, re-enacter or do you just like to dress up and pretend you live in a fantasy or future reality?
A week from now I'll be writing to you from Quilt Market in Houston, then I'll be staying on for the following week for Quilt Festival. Tuesday night I'll be presenting the big World of Beauty prize at the IQA Award Ceremony, and Sophie and I are planning to attend the Quiltapalooza on Thurs Nov 3. Hope to see you there!
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Hey all you Hoffman Challenge Fanatics!
We've got a pile of the new challenge fabric ready to ship – be one of the *first* to get your rotary cutters on this romantic large scale floral!
It's Double Dipping time this week, with so many new batiks and new hand-dyes/tie-dyes that we had to split them into 2 categories!
We're also Double-Dipping Asian collections –
with Kona Bay's newest collectible "Tranquility" group, and several new Japanese and Chinese themed coordinates.
McKenna Ryan's new set of patterns are in stock now – and they are Bellissima!
Are you anxious to head out for Houston's big Quilt Festival week after next? We have Pokey Bolton's International Quilt Festival Magazine in stock and ready to ship out! If you're not making it to Houston this year, you'll definitely want a copy of this annual publication.
If you contributed a quilt to eQuilter's relief effort to the Japan tsunami survivors, there's a lovely article about the project in the new issue of Quilt Magazine.
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Squee!!! Luana, you are not only a quilter but a fangirl, too! As am I. I enjoy working sf and fantasy themes into some of my quilts, some obviously, some not so obviously. I recently made a pattern for paper piecing a TIE fighter. ; )
Luana: I’d like you to know that I love your newsletter and your blog. I feel like you are a close friend and I look forward to each newsletter. Sophie is lucky to have such a wonderful mother.