victoriasews Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 This is my first time to MQS. How is shopping frenzy night different from the other times? Can\'t you shop anytime during the show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheryll Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 There are no other events scheduled during this time. There are specials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 Shopping doesn\'t start until Wednesday at 3 pm. Some vendors offer specials for an hour or so. Like Cheryll said, there are no other events scheduled when the "Frenzy" starts. That is also the first time you will be able to view the quilts at the show. After that initial door opening "Frenzy" then you can shop anytime the vendor mall is open during the show, from Wednesday thru Saturday. Just check the schedule because they close during any of the events. Last year they gave out tickets and gave a way door prizes at the "Frenzy" too. It\'s kind of fun. Everyone lines up at the door like cattle going into a barn, well, you know...The area outside the doors are packed with everyone wanting to bust through the doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 I\'ve never been to an MQS Shopping Frenzy but my guess is it\'s the vendor\'s turn to have center stage so they are opening the barn door wide open and let everyone run free with cash & credit cards flying. I can only imagine.... It\'s probably like Dollar Day at KMart only a gazillion times better. ;) ;) Sounds like fun. Can\'t hardly wait to experience a thousand quilters screaming as they run top speed through the aisles.... (Don\'t tell DH but because I don\'t regularly shop at Kmart, I\'ve been stashing cash away special for this fun shopping spree) LOL Yeeee Haaaw! Git outa my way cuz here I come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renae Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 LOL.........Shana you are going to have way to much fun I can see it now. Whatch out girls Shana is taking my place........and I am sure you are all going to be laughing A LOT!!!! Renae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nineva Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 OMG, Shana, I did not know you were going to MQS. I cannot wait to meet you. Are you going to do the Tuesday night get together. You are sooooooo funny. I just gotta meet the woman behind the humor. Can\'t wait.;) Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 LOL! Nancy, I\'m really not funny in real life...Just on a computer. And, No, sorry can\'t do the shop hop on Tues eve as I have a class. But I am there the entire week so we will be seeing each other for sure! Looking forward to seeing you! Shana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 The shopping trip is acutally Tuesday afternoon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nineva Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Nooooooooooo MB. My Karen McT class lasts until 3. What time are we going? Wahhhhhhh. Does it help to whine?? Nancy:(:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sew4fun05 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 I am still new and trying to figure out all the wonderful things for the LA machines. What are the shows to go to and take classes at? I hear people mention the MQS show and others that I do not remember. I would really like to be able to do these next year. Can anyone advise what shows I should be looking at? Thanks for your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Nancy, don\'t whine...I can\'t take it!! We will go as late as possible. I will call the quilt stores to see if they can stay late. Then we will leave the convention center at 3ish, go shopping and then out to eat...how\'s that? Just....no whinning!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Susan, I will try to give you some web sites that I know of. other may chime in to give you more info. MQS is Machine Quilters Showcase put on by Internation Machine Quilters Association, thier web site is www.imqa.org - it is held in Overland Park, KS every year in May. MQX is Machine Quilters Expo, their web site is http://www.mqxshow.com/. I have never been and don\'t know much about it, but their web site should help. I\'m not really sure if any others are specifically for longarm machine quilters. But someone will be popping in here to give more information. Hope this help some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sew4fun05 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Thanks Mary Beth. I listen to you ladies chat about all these wonderful shows and the classes that you take and have not known anything about them. All these show abbreviations are new to me. I will take a look at these. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hibbs Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 The Show officially opens on Wednesday and that is why we start with a shopping frenzy. Many of the vendors run specials throughout the 3:00-7:00 pm shopping and show time. There are door prizes throughout, also. Thursday evening at the Tiki Treasures many of the teachers will be there with their new books and techniques so you can also get your books autographed that evening. Linda Taylor is giving a $1000 gift certificate to one of her retreats for some lucky winner at the end of Tiki Treasures. And there will be door prizes and the prize one of you will undoubtedly win for "best Tropical" outfit. This is going to be a fun evening ending with the auction. AND to start out everything on Wednesday, you won\'t want to miss the Quilts of Valor Ceremony at 2:15. I\'m looking forward to meeting you at the show. I know a few people from this chat but haven\'t met some of you. See you soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Humm...prizes for "best Tropical" outfit...do I see a coconut bra in Sam\'s Mom\'s future?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltingnanny Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 I\'m looking into my crystal ball !! Hmmmm, I see Shana in a grass skirt !!! LOL Is the frenzy held on the regular sales floor or in another area ? I wonder if it\'s like the sample spree at quilt market. I know I will like it, tools, cool stuff, what\'s not to like ! Glenda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 The Frenzy/Vendor Mall is a huge room behind closed doors with the beautiful quilts. On Wednesday when the doors are flung open and the wild quilters run to their favorite vendor for "deals" we will be able to view the quilts too. To answer your question, the frenzy is just a term used for the mania that will take place. Yes, it is the regular sales floor. The following link is the vendor map showing all vendors at the show and the quilt exhibit floorplan....like I said before...I print this out, highlight the vendors I really, really want to visit, then when the doors are flung open I throw my map in the air and take off...I forget everything I have planned and just go nuts!! http://www.imqa.org/PDFfiles/VendorMap2008.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liz2075 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Hey I just want to pipe in and say I\'M GOING! But I\'m so new I don\'t have a clue what I\'m doing! I\'m also big fat and ugly so I\'m thinking of hiding...well if they have big corners! I just know you are all perfect and beautiful...but I\'m going to be peeking to get a glimpse of you all! Oh I\'m driving so I can take my puppy! Wooot anyone need a ride from Indiana? I\'m really terrified of driving. LOL ANYONE free gas I say! ( my puppy is a 11 month old 80 lb golden) So, If I can pick up anyone please yell. However for real, driving is hard for me so IF I do this alone, I\'m taking a couple days. I can\'t and won\'t drive in the dark. I can certainly ride in the dark. I hope I get to meet all of you! Are those driving buggies allowed on this shopping spree? I don\'t walk very well very far. So, I\'m renting me a buggy! Liz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarthaProvencher Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Can\'t make MQS. Wahhh! But did have a great time at MQX. I think it\'s probably a smaller show, but wow! Great access to great teachers (McT, Cavenaugh, Patton, Taylor...). Great quilts. And great shops. Kingsmen, Superior, SewBatik, and all the longarm companies were there. I took 12 classes, angel\'d a 13th, and I was so overloaded!!! Wouldn\'t have missed it for the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Elizabeth, No hiding...and this is no beauty contest!! We will be meeting in the lobby, you will see a sign on a table that should say "APQS - CHAT". Please come up and say "hi". Have a safe trip, take your time...you will do fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Liz, good to know you are coming. Looking forward to meeting you! Who cares how tall short or otherwise we are...we\'re all people and quilters and it\'s all for fun. No worries about what we look like. So, just curious: who\'s gonna puppy-sit that 80 pound chunk of luv while you\'re scooting around at MQS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocoholic Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 You all sound like you will have so much fun. Waaaah! I want to be there too. I didn\'t even know anything about MQS until I read it on this chat. To think I could have been happily ignorant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyeQ Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Mary Beth do we know where we\'re going to eat on Tues? I\'m in class until 3p, but really want to save my moolah for the vendor mall so don\'t want to go shopping but would love to meet up for dinner w/you all. Any plans for that yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltingnanny Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Come on and join us for a \'shopping tour\'. If you hold my purse, I will hold yours and that way we won\'t spend any money ! Deal ? Glenda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 No deal, Glenda. Sorry but it won\'t work very well cuz I\'ll end up holding your purse and spending your money and you\'ll do the same with mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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