Hampton Quilt Festival
Posted By drsao on February 26, 2010
Thursday was the first day of the Hampton Quilt Festival and WOWEE was it a good one….it still is and will be for a few more days, as a matter of fact!!!! I am going to toss up some pictures quickly this morning so you can SEE FOR YOURSELF! Catherine (her husband John – our chauffeur to the bus) and sao started our day in the parking lot of Target on Hull enjoying McDonald’s breakfast and watching the sunrise…..now if that isn’t a great way to start the day, I don’t know what is!
Catherine started me out laughing first thing Thursday morning. She made the most BEAUTIFUL BAG (stay tuned for the class to learn how to make it coming to Quilting Adventures soon) – and then she chose her jewelry to match her new bag – and FINALLY she chose her outfit to go with the jewelry and bag. What a role model…..I am lucky if I get my clothes on RIGHT SIDE OUT!!! 🙂 Her bags are in the first pictures…..the little brown bag woven with fibers and ribbons is the one that she wore!!
All kidding aside, it really was a wonderful day – we went up on the bus with the Hospitality Quilters from the Richmond Quilt Guild. What a great way to go – no worries about parking and we were delivered right to the door. Good job organizing the bus trip Carolyn! Thanks to Susan at Quilter’s Corner for the gift certificates for DOOR PRIZES – well, let’s say BUS PRIZES for our ride home!!!!
I had to giggle a bit because at the show, a quilter from PA recognized CATHERINE from my blog and came over to say HI…..now that was a great surprise. :): That was fun!!! What a small world it is! Catherine was a great TOUR GUIDE for the QuiltFest – since she has been there many times she knew all of the best booths to look at…..and oh my, did we do some wonderful looking. I was introduced to the WORLD OF FABULOUS BUTTONS and had fun choosing some wonderful ones to take home!
I don’t have time to caption my pictures this morning – but, I had two wall quilts on display in the CHALLENGE QUILT section – COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG and HOSPITALITY QUILTERS (look for Catherines quilt too – you will recognize them because we took pictures of us STANDING beside them….LOL!)
We celebrated Catherine’s birthday in Hampton (she will be celebrating again March 1) and Carolyn H. is having a birthday soon – she won a bus prize for her birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Catherine and Carolyn!!!!
I hope you ENJOY the day through pictures!!!!
I will never forget the wonderful journey of yesterday – friends and fab finds around EVERY corner. Made new friends, adored sharing lunch with Gail, seeing Fran and realizing she and a friend are taking my Sunday class at QA on their way home, spotting Esterita Austin and her out of this world award winning quilts, Margaret and Kay, Nancy, her daughter and Sara and Steve, Ellen and Margaret and just on and on and on!!!!!!!! I’m still flyin’ and CANNOT wait to design a bracelet made from the tutu dear vintage metal buttons dearheart Shirley bought me for my B-day and the simply uber cool redwork pattern Margaret bought me – but here’s the kicker – it’s vintage Halloween worked orange on black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More to tell when I post my silliness, what fun, what fun, what fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!