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Ah! Autumn in New England. It's a race to get there before all the leaf-peepers descend on the state. (If it's tourist season, why can't I shoot them?)

Yesterday, a friend of mine and I took a ride up to Lake Winnipesaukee to shop at Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor. I had no money to spend, but it's sort of an autumn pilgrimage, and I could at least marvel at this quarter's crop of challenge quilts in person.

Keepsake had moved into a larger shop so they had the space to set up a special display of the top prize winners in both this and last quarter's challenges in one corner near the entrance.

(A challenge is: a Theme is named and everyone participating purchases a special pack of "fat quarter" fabrics. You must use at least 4 of the 6 challenge fabrics in your 30" by 30" quilt, but you are allowed to use two additional fabrics of your choice.)

This quarter's challenge was "Create a Spooky Night" and the fabrics were all Halloween-themed.

The grand prize winner was a stunning quilt based on Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

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All the cloudy strokes of the painting were done in multi-colored quilting. To top it all off, much of the piece was outlined and embellished in black and black AB bugle beads. I was absolutely floored. As in, ::klunk:: It must have been a full 60 seconds before I was able to breathe again.

Regrettably, Keepsake doesn't publish photos of the challenge winners on their web site, probably for copyright reasons, otherwise I would have sent you all a link to it last night. :-(

If you are a quilter and get Keepsake Quilting catalogs, photos of the winners will be published in the Autumn 2004 Newsletter. However, such a picture would hardly do it justice.

Arondelle

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Arondelle
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I would have klunked too. I love A Starry Night.

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starlia

I'll bet. You can borrow my paper bag any time you'd like.

The quilt sounds so cool! Have you ever entered?

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Margie

Oh, I've thought about it, recently in fact. I *love* Halloween.... :o)

However, it usually turns out that if there's a challenge theme that I'd like to take, I don't have the money to buy the fabrics. Or, I don't have the time. Or, both. :-/ We'll have to see what the next challenge is.

Anyway, there would have been no way to top the winning quilt. :-)

Arondelle

(Jeez -- I have to reset all my sig files, too. ::grumble, grumble::)

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Arondelle

Yesterday, a friend of mine and I took a ride up to Lake Winnipesaukee to shop at Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor.>>>

WAHHHHHHHHHH my best friend and I drool over their catalogs -- we've both said it would be the coolest place to visit and probably the most overwhelming too!!!

Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

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Cheryl

Overwhelming is an understatement. That's why I usually buy through the catalog. :-)

When they moved out of their old retail space at Senter's Market, they split off their needlework and gifts departments and gave them their own shops. The main store is still crammed. Unless you go in there with a specific plan, there's no way to find that one fabric that "speaks" to you. Every bolt is begging you to take some home with you.

Actually, I managed to spend less than $5, but it was *really* hard to decide. My girlfriend spent almost $100. I warned her that, like me, she's not going to live long enough to use all the fabric she's been collecting. She's only been quilting for a couple of years, so her stash is still relatively small. Just wait.... Heh, heh, heh.

Yanno, I was just thinking. (Dangerous, I know.) I've seen polyclay canes with quilt block patterns in them: Wouldn't it be cool to have glass quilt canes? I can see buttons, cabochons and square lentils.

Arondelle

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Arondelle

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Arondelle :

]I warned her that, like me, ]she's not going to live long enough to use all the fabric she's been ]collecting.

does anyone really expect to?

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vj

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Arondelle :

]"She who dies with the biggest stash wins." ] ]I've given up thinking that I'll ever use up my fabrics (or my beads) ]even if I live to be 1000. I just say that I'm a Fabric Collector, not ]a Quilter. ;-)

exactly. i collect beads and SILVER in all forms!

works for me!

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vj

"She who dies with the biggest stash wins."

I've given up thinking that I'll ever use up my fabrics (or my beads) even if I live to be 1000. I just say that I'm a Fabric Collector, not a Quilter. ;-)

Arondelle

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Arondelle

I don't have a stash anymore, of beads or fabric or yarn or needlework stuff..

I have S.A.B.L.E. (Stuff Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy)

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (LC aka Fiddy) :

]I have S.A.B.L.E. (Stuff Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy)

that works!

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vj

Isn't that the definition of a quilter though?

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melinda

Prolly. :-D

Arondelle

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Arondelle

I thought the quilter's motto was "She who dies with the most fabric wins..."

for beaders "She who dies with the most beads wins.. " LOL

Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

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Cheryl

As I've said before, I want to be buried like a Scythian princess with all my beads around me. It may be a BIG coffin by then if I have my way. Heck, we may even have to do a Viking burial and use the boat. Mike can live in the SH*D when I'm gone.

-Su

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Su/Cutworks

You'll need some very strong coffin bearers.

Tina

"Su/Cutworks" wrote...

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Christina Peterson

Or ones with Huge Pockets and a hand drill, and a few moments alone with the deceased. Diana

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Diana Curtis

Oh, no, I want the full monty, with the horse cart and everything. On the other hand the boat burial sounds convenient, I won't have to worry about which beads to take with me, and I can go into the afterlife with everything I need... laptop, microwave... chocolate stash.

Imagine me as the next Sutton Hoo in a thousand years. What a hoot.

-Su

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Su/Cutworks

Somehow I knew this would happen!

Grave robbers and I'm still warm!

-Su

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Su/Cutworks

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :

]Or ones with Huge Pockets and a hand drill, and a few moments alone with the ]deceased.

**SPLORT**
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vj

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