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Any one else go to the Vermont Quilt Festival?

I went on Saturday, with my Mom and 2 of her friends from her quilt guild. One of them had a quilt entered and got a 3rd prize ribbon, so she was very happy. There were many beautiful quilts there, but I have to say over all I was not as wowed as last year. Last year was my first time at a large quilt show, so I am trying to decide if it was really better last year, and I am just jaded, or if they just were not quite as impressive, or if they just were not the kind of quilts I prefer. Hard to say, and I certainly don't want anyone to think that I didn't respect all work and creativity that went into the quilts in the show.

They also had a nice selection of vendors. I was good, and only bought one fat quarter for not reason other than it was too cute not to take home, but did find several complementary fabrics for my next project, so that was great.

They did have one scary mishap, where someone bumped or fell into a row of quilts and almost the whole row went down. I never want to see that again, it took them more than an hour to set everything back up.

Heidi in Mass.

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Heidi
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One of the quilts that had fallen was the one made of small blocks ...all done by hand ! There were 400 blocks in it and as usual the picture that I have seen of it doesn't do it justice...It is beautiful ! It represented a small portion of each cover of Quilters newsltter from Issue 1 to 400. I got there just as they were rerighting everything. I didn't know the show closed at

6 pm and after getting there at 1:30 I just had a short time and missed some of the quilts...and vendors too.
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MB

On Jun 29, 8:10=A0pm, Heidi wrote: =2E

Well that explains that question I had. DD and I were looking at quilt and we went around the corner to look at the quilts in that row, and they had it all closed off and there were all the quilts in a pile on the table and the volunteers kept telling everyone "we are re- hanging the quilts now, this area will be reopened as soon as everything is rehung". And we weren't sure what was going on....I've always thought that a whole row could fall if someone bumped the racks just right, now I know that it is actually possible.

I hope that noone got hurt.

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scrapquilter

I didn't think there were as many "wow!" quilts either.

And as usual I thoroughly disagreed with many of the choices and not-choices of the judges. At VQF anyway, it seems as if it's easiest to get a prize if you have a huge amount of quilting, so much so that often the design of the top is nearly ignored. And it helps to embellish with geegaws.

I really enjoyed the Bird quilts, and didn't like the Florence Peto quilts much. Some of the antique ones were just lovely.

The youth quilts were the beginning of a new generation! Youngest maker was 4 and 3/4 years old. And that quilt was wild!

I really like it at the Fairgrounds instead of Norwich. No hills, all in one building, air-conditioned, plenty of bathrooms, convenient places to Sit Down, and places to get different kinds of food.

Martha

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Martha

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