{"id":310,"date":"2012-09-24T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/day-4-sun-sept-23-moscow-quilt-exhibition"},"modified":"2021-04-03T23:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:29:36","slug":"day-4-sun-sept-23-moscow-quilt-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/day-4-sun-sept-23-moscow-quilt-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 – Sun Sept 23 – Moscow Quilt Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was my big power point presentation to the Russian quilters at the
\nMoscow quilt exhibition. They extended the exhibit by one day and also scheduled
\na fashion show after my presentation, so it was a full day of quilts, photos and
\nfashion for the ladies who came from all over Russia. <\/div>\n
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Several of our eQuilter customers came to meet me, which was very special.
\nOne of them was Alexandra Nikulina who I interviewed in a video at the
\nBirmingham Festival of Quilts in August. She brought me a good luck charm
\nnecklace which was a tiny stuffed doll figure on a cord, which she put over my
\nhead and insisted that I wear for the day. Several other customers brought me
\ngifts as well – a Christmas ornament made from eQuilter fabrics – a porcelain
\n"Moscow" collector thimble – a crazy quilt eyeglass case – and several ATC
\ncards. <\/div>\n
 <\/div>\n
I thought I was totally prepared when I had the power point file not only
\non my laptop, but backed up on a flash drive. Wrong! I didn't realize that the
\npower cord was not drawing any energy from the plug, so 30 minutes into my
\npresentation my laptop battery died! We got two other laptops and tried to run
\nthe power point from the flash drive, but they only had Power Point 2003, which
\nwas not compatible with a PP 2007 file. Rats! Finally after about 15 minutes we
\ngot it all sorted out and found a way to resume the presentation. I showed
\nimages of over 200 quilts from 7 different quilt exhibitions around the world.
\nThe quilters in the audience were absolutely fascinated, and it was so great to
\nintroduce them to so many new ideas in contemporary quilting. I look forward to
\nseeing what the Russian quilters will do with these ideas, in the next year or
\ntwo!<\/div>\n
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After signing many autographs and taking many photos with quilters and
\ntheir quilts, we settled down to watch a fashion show with lots of great
\nwearable art. Several of the designer-models were familiar to me …. having
\nseen them at the Birmingham fashion show last year. Fashion sewing is evidently
\nquite popular here!<\/div>\n
 <\/div>\n
Then my gracious hosts had to close down the show and take down the quilts.
\nFinally we went out to dinner with a quilter from St Petersburg who translated
\nfor us over a Georgian meal. It is customary to order juice for the whole table
\nin a cute little glass pitcher. One of these pitchers was filled with a bright
\nemerald green liquid, but with a sprig of herbs in the concoction. They said it
\nwas a very special medicinal drink with no chemicals – all natural and herbal. 
\n(except for the green food coloring?) <\/div>\n
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I had some delicious Georgian bread (similar to Indian naan bread) and
\nseveral interesting vegetarian dishes.  Some of the tables had couches instead
\nof chairs, and some patrons were smoking from hookah pipes! Smoking is legal in
\nRussian restaurants and the men smoke like crazy, so by the end of the evening
\nmy eyes were burning from the smoke. My hotel lobby is full of cigarette smoke
\ntoo, so you really can't escape it here. Apparently there is some talk of
\npassing laws to limit smoking in restaurants here, which would be helpful.<\/div>\n
 <\/div>\n

After dinner we went back to my hotel via the famous Metro which is deep
\nunderground and decorated with gold and marble and glass mosaics murals. That
\nwas on my list of things to see, so I was glad to check that one off on the
\nfirst day out in Moscow!<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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