the NY State Sheep and Wool Festival (aka Rhinebeck), where I had a fabulous time with my daughters. Wonderful woolinesses!
And apologies for that terrible picture - though the next one is even worse:
RIP my poor old camera. It had been stuttering along for a while and it looks like it's finally called it quits.
Argh. Now searching for a replacement...
My Goosey Temps quilt is now caught up through the end of September and I've started laying out triangles to get October rolling. (That's June, July, and August on the right.)
And I've been puttering away with my Sand Castles - trying to get caught up with the pinks and blues that I got behind on.
A lovely interruption to all this diligence was the Quilter's Guild show that took place last weekend. My sister-in-law called to see if I'd even heard it was happening (I hadn't) and if I had any plans to go see it (I didn't), so we met up an hour later and headed on up. (Life is short. Get in the car and go look at quilts whenever the opportunity is offered.)
I dutifully brought my camera, then dutifully neglected to take many pictures, despite the fact that the show was loaded with gorgeous work. Here's one of my very favorites, which was one of the first ones I saw going in, before camnesia set in.
Now you may be thinking, "yeah yeah, applique, how nice", but here's another picture that will give you an idea of the scale of this quilt.
The camera is about 6" from the quilt, and my fingers are hovering about 2" above the surface. Those little grapey dots? They're about 1/8" in diameter. And needle-turned. One at a time by the hundreds. I wouldn't have even thought it possible. I still don't even think it's possible and I saw it with my own eyes.
Another quilt I loved was this framed four-patch made with aboriginal fabrics. The picture doesn't do justice to all the bright happy colors.
And this one caught my eye, with even more four-patches. (I admit I'm a total sucker for anything four-patchy!)
I almost didn't get that picture, though. As I was backing up to get more of it into the shot, I kept watch in my peripheral vision for the quilts behind me, but wasn't thinking about the wooden bases that stuck out near the floor.
Ooops! As I floundered for balance, I had a sudden vision of causing a domino-style disaster of all those quilt racks...
Luckily, I'm not actually THAT clumsy...
Linking with SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday (even though it's Sunday - oops again!) and with Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! Come see all the colorful fun!
