National Quilting Day

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Replying to myself (always a good conversation): a scrap bag of pics

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Thanks for the fun quilt show! I enoy your work. Randal's second quilt is amazing. I spent the day cleaning. This evening I am sewing up a new shower curtain. It isn't quilted but it has a strip pieced into it. A small quilt I sent off in the mail the other day safely arrived. Maybe that counts? Giving quilts away is most of the fun of making them when they make someone happy. Happy NQD back at you Sandy! Taria

and a Happy NQD to you all, too! I went to TSWLTH and got fabric and thread for a new project.

I went to the Glendale {CA} Quilt show, held at the Burbank Marriott next to Burbank Airport. I took a crafty gal from my knit/textile group; she is piecing a trip around the world in 1.5" finished squares. We met up with her sister, mother and family friend.

Thankfully on Fri I had purposely chosen to go through my list of projects for the upcoming retreat, so I was chastened to buy any fabric or pattern. Not that I didn't want to!

The show was very inspirational, and I fell in love with an original design by one quiltmaker. I left my contact information with the guild representatives, in the hope this gal will contact me and sell me her paper pieced heart pattern. This was the one year I was willing to buy a CD of the quilts, and the one year they decided to not do that! Sigh....

Today it is more organizing, and realizing once again I have more patterns, fabric, and ideas than this lifetime can contain.

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Thankfully on Fri I had purposely chosen to go through my list of projects for the upcoming retreat, so I was chastened to buy any fabric or pattern. Not that I didn't want to!

The show was very inspirational, and I fell in love with an original design by one quiltmaker. I left my contact information with the guild representatives, in the hope this gal will contact me and sell me her paper pieced heart pattern. This was the one year I was willing to buy a CD of the quilts, and the one year they decided to not do that! Sigh....

Today it is more organizing, and realizing once again I have more patterns, fabric, and ideas than this lifetime can contain.

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It was a great couple of days. Started out at 7:30 Friday morning meeting two friends to go to the Lancaster, PA quilt show. We parked out of town and took a shuttle bus to the show. We were there before it opened, and only stopped long enough to eat our peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at lunch time! Then we stopped in Intercourse to check out the shops and ended up having Chinese food in New Holland, PA. It was a great show and I was so tired, I was in bed by 9:30.

Saturday was Guild meeting, and we had a potluck lunch. The committee did a great job of decorating and had a door prize for each member. The meeting was short and the food was delicious! Afterwards, I met my husband and our Senior's group at Stoudt's Brewery in Adamstown, PA for lunch (well, they ate lunch...I didn't) and a tour! The 70-year old owner gave us the tour, and he was quite funny and entertaining! All in all, two great days!

And, in between I finished four blocks for an Interquilt group that I participate in!

A local guild organzed a sewing day - such fun to get together and see people from other groups and what they're doing. I was sewing like crazy to get the binding on a couple of quilts for our upcoming show at the end of April. As of last night: one done, one almost ready and one sore finger from grabbing the needle.

Allison

Sandy: I loved looking at your quilts. Sure wish I could hand quilt like you! BigBearLady...heading up the hill tomorrow, where there was two feet of snow today!

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Finger cots, excellent for the grabbing the needle, saving your fingers: