2013 AQS Lancaster Show

I was on a bus trip to the Lancaster show yesterday. I had a wonderful time with my friend Lesa. We hit traffic on the way up so we had less than 4 hours to do the show. We zipped around crowded aisles to see all the quilts and then hit the vendors. Regan and I met up for a few minutes before my bus left for Intercourse. She and her friends, Pat and Betty, are really doing it right. Ten days in Lancaster - plenty of time to see the show and enjoy the area shops and culture - if you are the energizer bunny! Just one day was enough for me. Wait till you hear how much fabric they've bought between the three of them. I told my husband about their adventures and said "consider yourself lucky". ; c ) Let's just say he converted the amount of fabric from yards to the length of a football field! I'm not sayin' how many! You go girls! Will the number go up?!?

We saw a lot of lovely and awe inspiring quilts. I can't show photos of quilts, it's against AQS rules, but I hope it is okay if I just share this blurry part of one quilt. It was made of Kaffe Fassett fabrics and 30 plus year old calicoes. I loved the combination. A great way to extend expensive fabrics from today with the old stash. Here are a couple more blurry photos. This area of the show was a bit dark.

I bought the end of the bolt, almost 4 yards, of this Judie Rothermel fabric at The Old Country Store. They also do online sales. I may use it as a wide sashing for these blocks. I started these blocks out of my precut strips with the thought of a quilt for my new grand niece, Abby. I've kind of changed my mind about that, thinking I'd rather use brighter fabrics and maybe a Jacobs Ladder block. I was influenced by the quilt I saw in the antique store I shared a couple of posts back.

I'm enjoying the hunt for fabric I can fussy cut for these hexagons. The three top fabrics are the same design from Barbara Brackman's Metropolitan Fair. I just love these little florals and I absolutely adore the green colorway.

These two fabrics were from Zook's. No designer and less than $6 a yard. I thought they would be great in scrap quilts.

It's always hard not to pick up at least one "just because" fabric. For some reason I always need reds.

And as you see I also hit the Paper Pieces booth at the show. They were very helpful.

It was a fun filled day. It felt good to crawl into bed last night. The weather predicted for tomorrow is cold and rainy. Sounds like a good day to stitch in celebration of National Quilting Day. Yes, to my non-quilting friends who read my blog, the quilting powers that be say it is so.

 ; c )   Happy National Quilting Day!