Quilt Show Weekend

Which means that it was l o n g but not l o n g enough.

 I was busy yesterday sewing blocks together for a donation/charity baby quilt... it's certainly 'different' lol, but I'm not changing it - it is what it is.  All I'm doing now is adding wide borders and then quilting it.  I like it the way it is.  So there!

Today, I decided that I would work on the jars of fruit wall hanging that Annette had started but hadn't finished.  YIKES!  The fruit blocks are supposed to start out at 9" x 6".. these are closer to 9" x 5 3/4".  The corners are snowballed but some aren't straight and I tried fixing one by putting a new corner on it; it didn't help.  I gave up (temporarily) and spent the rest of the time at the quilt show just sitting and chatting with people until the quilts were taken down and we could take ours home with us.  I had four to bring home...

I was tickled to hear how well we did with people visiting the show, voting, AND some even left donations - more than usual.  More people visiting than in past years was apparently due to more advertising, although some of us wonder since we were told that there was an article in the local paper but we didn't see it.  Some did see it, though.  And we don't know if anyone listed it on "What's Happening in Charlotte"s page on facebook.  Well, they'll figure it out before the next show, I'm sure.

Cathy S. gave us a new pattern that should work great for a charity quilt Saturday sew in project.  I think I'm going to see what fabrics I've got and try it out.  Looks easy enough and we haven't done anything as a group for a couple of years at least - we're way overdue.

Well, guess that's it for the weekend.  I'll get the borders on the baby quilt tomorrow AFTER I finish doing the yellow frames around the boy bovines - five more to do.Then, I'll try and decide what I want to use for sashing and borders.

Hope you had a great weekend!

TTYL