Quilted Jonquil

I forgot one of my purchases!  It just so happens I cut a piece of my First Saturday block wrong and I found the exact same Kaffe Fassett fabric in the Back Room at Hancock’s of Paducah so I’ll be able to fix my mistake

Here’s what it looked like in the Back Room…..that’s me in the black “Got Fabric” t-shirt on the left

Judy Laquidara from Patch Work Times gave an invite to visit her at her cabin while in Paducah for homemade apple pie & ice cream.  Since we’ve contracted with Judy to give a workshop and the opening lecture for our Quintessential Quilt 2009 show, we thougth it would be fun to meet her in person.  Darlene RSVP’d and we received this reply from Judy: “We’re staying out at KY Dam Village State Park in one of the executive cottages. Watch for the signs .. not sure which cabin we’ll have til we get there.  In front of our cabin will be my silver Honda CRV, and there should be vehicles there with plates from LA, KY and IN.  We should be easy to find.“   So we didn’t have a cabin number and note the absence of a timeframe

Darlene & I caught up with Jan and Sandy from our quilt guild on Thursday afternoon and since they decided to join us for dinner at one of the local churches, they also joined us for our adventure to Judy’s cabin.   We made it to the state park and luckily it was still light out as we drove all around the first cabin area to no avail.  So we did the smart thing and went to the reception desk!  We arrived to find Judy, her mom & dad, three of Judy’s friends staying at the cabin and another quilter from Pennsylviana.  Judy and her friends had drapped quilts over the railings and one of them was the quilt Judy had finished for her father.  We had a great time talking, sharing stories and discussing the quilt show.  It was well worth the trip!  Here’s a picture of us and we are from left to right: Darlene, Judy, Me, Jan and Sandy.

As promised, here are pictures of my Paducah purchases (click to enlarge pictures).   First, Olfa frosted rulers (the best I’ve used), a mini hand dyeing kit for 6 graduated gold fat quarters, some more Best Press (expensive so I use it sparingly but its fabulous stuff), chalk, soapstone & graphite marking implements, two different thimbles, back up surgical seam rippers (now with handles), three “hurt” books (one an older Gwen Marston), a 2009 show catalogue and a couple of other things

Here’s my fabric haul:

I snagged some solids at $1.49/yd, some Jo Morton’s for $4 and $5/yd and a couple of civil war prints for $3.50/yd too.

The big pieces were $3.50/yd and the rest were $4.00/yd.  The pink and green fabrics are just too fun and I picked up some nice lights.  The piece on the bottom left is one I already have but it’s a favorite so I took what was left on the bolt.  The yellow one looks way better in person…love it, love it, love it!

Last, but definitely not least, earrings made from buttons from the 1950′s.  Aren’t the bunnies fabulous?

And, of course, my new-to-me used Nolting long arm that will be coming the middle of May.  Woo Hoo!!!

I had a fabulous time in Paducah.  There are plenty of rumors that the show won’t be held there next year due to the hotel/convention center upgrades not being completed but I sure hope it is.  Darlene & I hooked up with a couple of other members of our quilt guild and went to one of the dinners by a local church.  We enjoyed good food, nice dinner companions and entertainment.  When you leave a quilt show at other conventions, the show is over, when you leave the Paducah quilt show, it continues with all the wonderful downtown businesses displaying quilts, the Rotary Antique Quilts show, Hancocks of Paducah, local quilt shops, artists shops and just so many wonderful food places. 

It would be a shame to loose that….but a vendor mentioned rumors have it that St Louis is currently tops in the running for the show.   Hey, right across the river’s not bad if it can’t be in Paducah! 

I’ll have pictures of my purchases and more about the show later but for now, what’s wrong with this picture?

Could it be the long arm sewing machine is missing?  Why could that be?  Perhaps it has something to do with this being my most expensive trip to Paducah yet!

Here’s a picture of a machine similar to what I’ll be getting in about 3 weeks to replace the missing sewing machine.  No more Cranky!! 

I can not wait to sew on a machine that: 1) sews without having to constantly fuss with the timing and 2) has a stitch regulator.  Yippee!

I’m off to Paducah  

Be back soon!!

I had so much fun stuffing the bag (see previous post) that I asked my SIL to make special trip back to the Quilter’s General Store to do it all again when we visited a couple of weekends back

This time there were so many good pieces, I bought 2 bags!!!  Again, many of them are Jo Morton fabrics and some with at least 1/4 yards.  Fun, fun, fun!

Many of these strips are salvage to salvage, woo hoo.

My SIL also gifted me with many scraps, lots and lots of scraps.  I was having so much fun sorting, folding and fondling all the scraps on the drive home that I might have gotten a scrap or two in this picture that was from the scraps bags but I think these are all from my SIL

We made pincushions from some of the scraps and here’s mine:

And last, but certainly not least, here’s a picture of the dish towels I “improved” as a gift for our hostess for the Quilt Show in Paducah.   We stayed with a Paducah resident last year and we must have been good because she’s having us back this year.

Darlene & I leave bright and early Wednesday morning, 6:30 am to be exact and will go straight to the quilt show.  Yipee!!

Over at Camp Follower Bags & Quilts Tia Curtis has posted some more pictures of the Bushfire Quilt Project.

I see both of my blocks are in this quilt.  There are bright, happy colors in this one!

I said I wouldn’t be doing anything in my sewing room this weekend as we were gone this weekend but I did get some sewing done

I finished hand sewing the binding on the first mountain quilt on our road trip to Memphis.  It’s a nice sized quilt and the picture doesn’t do it justice.  The picture was taken as the last of the sunshine was disappearing.