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Funny story from Columbus quilt show

The quilt show in Columbus was lots of fun but I wish all of you could have been around for the following incident.

I was walking along admiring quilts and taking pictures when I spotted a very small, fairly elderly lady with a pair of scissors cutting one of the quilts on display.

I found one of the white gloved volunteer ladies and I asked her if it was alright for that lady down the isle to be cutting one of the quilts. She immediately yelled, "Oh Lord", and started running toward the offending lady.

Of course, I had to follow to see what was going on. The volunteer started yelling for the little elderly to "Stop!, Stop".

Much to the volunteer's relief, she found out that the little lady was the quilt maker/owner and she was removing a piece of fabric that had been basted over her name prior to the quilt judging. She apologized to the volunteer and said that she had not been able to find a show volunteer to help her get that ugly fabric off of her quilt.

I told the little lady that I had "told on her" and then we had a nice discussion about her quilt. The volunteer said that she was so concerned because when she was working at the show in Paducah a few years ago, someone had thrown bleach on a displayed quilt.

Like I said, I really had fun in Columbus.

Jerry in North Alabama

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MaleQuilter
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LOL! Jerry, I'd have had heart failure myself if I'd seen that little elderly lady cutting a quilt! And that's probably at least partially because of what happened in Houston (that's where the bleach incident occurred) -- I was there that year and really couldn't believe anyone could do such a thing. It was awful.

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Sandy

Sandy, that bleach on the Elvis quilt, tho i didnt see a pix of it afterwards, is tantamount to 'quilters terrorism'. he shoulda been hung without a sleeve. just stick pins thru his loose bits. i'll not elaborate on that, use your imagination. chilly before dawn in the south pacific, jeanne

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nzlstar*

Too funny! I travel with a Swiss Army knife, but I don't usually have scissors. At some quilt shows the white-glove ladies descend if they even see you waving a pen around because they think it might get on the quilts.

I had fun in Columbus too. I made the 11-hour drive mostly for my 2yo nephew though, the quilts were just a bonus.

Louise in eastern Ontario

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Louise

I sure wish you had let us know you'd e here, so we could have met. Gen

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Gen

I thought of it, but I was feeling kinda shy and I was travelling with someone else.

Next year?

Louise, in eastern Ontario.

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Louise

No need to be shy---we're a friendly bunch

Hope so. Gen

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Gen

I agree, Jeanne -- but I believe he did eventually end up in prison. It was all because he'd been selling unsafe, inferior long arm machines and some of his customers (including the maker of the Elvis quilt) had "dared" to ask for their money back. When I say "unsafe", I mean electrical shorts and fire.

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Sandy, it sounds like he had a loose wire somewhere else.

Jerry in North Alabama

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