Venice Quilt Show

I've uploaded the pictures...enjoy the show! 

Naples Quilt Show

I added pictures of the quilt show to my Flickr accout
 here's the link:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/27961629@N08/sets/72157623579974062/

Gary visits Paducah!

One of the two quilting sites I belong to has had a Flat Stanley type thing going on. His name is Gary and he is our quilting bug. Gary visited me prior to leaving for Paducah so he got to go along on the trip. Gary had a blast!

Gary in the hotel in Tallahassee, FL....here he is checking out some sewing I was doing in the hotel room. The next picture he is all tucked in bed...sewing and traveling sure does wear him out!

Next on the trip was Paducah! But first he had to watch Shirley quilt a quilt on her machine...Gary is thinking that he needs one of these..

The next day it was head into Paducah and hit the Quilt Show!

Here he is at the Batiks By Design booth at the Kentucky Mall. Gary kinda lost himself in the fabric! He was in 7th heaven!!

Gary then went to lunch and had his first martini...

Gary was awe struck at getting to meet Queen Eleanor

After all that Gary went home and slept for the rest of the trip. He is now in Maryland and we are waiting to hear a progress report on how he is doing...sure hope he is ok!

Home from Paducah

All I can say is we had a great time. Jim even commented he wished we had had more time to view the quilts!!! I did a ton of shopping and even picked up things that were actually on my list of things to get. Below are pictures of what I bought. Now before some of you have a heart attack...LOL...AQS sets up a storefront downtown and sells some of their books for $5.00 each! So needless to say I couldn't pass that up...The fabric stash ended up being in the 60 yard range. Most of it came from Eleanor Burns tent sale for $3.50 - 4.00 a yard. The cool thing is that most of what I bought was paid for with tips from work! How awesome is that?