Two Months Later

Oh my goodness, yes it has been two months since my last post to this blog. Well, you know what happened don't you! School started! I'm back to work and the kids are back to school and sewing has become a luxury that I get very very seldom. So there hasn't been much to post about in terms of sewing.

But.....this weekend was the Houston Quilt Festival and it would take a major catastrophe to keep me away from that! Auntie came to Mum's house on Thursday night and then I took off a day of work on Friday, picked Auntie up and away we went for a full day of quilts galore!!! We started on the end of the show where the display quilts are located. These are a few of the quilts that caught my eye. I didn't get any shots of the big award-winning quilts because the crowds around them never got small enough to get a good shot.



My opinion, this year, was that there were less quilts to ooh and aaah over but it was a much easier number to work with. We leisurely walked through the quilts in about 2 1/2 hours. This was just in time for lunch which we shared with quilting friends who met us at the food court. Pictured in the last pic of the slideshow above are me, Auntie, Sue/MI, Betty/VA, Cyd and Judy. We met them again at about 3:00 for a Starbucks pick-me-up and talked about how we planned or have already spent our money in the vendors section of the show.

I bought a Kaleidoscope that has feathers in it and moves with puffs of air from an atomizer. I also bought some necessities like rotary cutter blades. But my eyes were drawn back to nonquilting stuff when we got to the embellishments. I bought a pretty silver/amethyst ring and a heart-shaped necklace pendant from a new vendor. The shape is made of shell or something to look like shell and then etched with a floral design. I could have spent the entire day at the booth picking out Christmas presents! And last I bought a kit with beautiful green fabrics in it to do another quilt for Doug. He loved his first quilt but keeps asking for a larger one and in green. That is a hard color to find, so when I ran across this collection I didn't pass it up.

This quilt show always inspires me to get in my sewing room and get to work! So I'm going to leave you now and go work on a binding for a special quilt a special someone doesn't know about yet! ;-)