Sorry I have been slow in posting the past week. Lots of "stuff" to do for the local guild caught up with me. We are going to have not one but two workshops this March with Laura Wasolowki. This may be the first time in Guild history we have had so much interest in a workshop that we added a day so more members could have a chance to get a seat! Needless to say the taking reservations and payments for the first class was a bit wild and hectic...then adding another day (which ment some folks on day one now wanted to change days) made me brush off old worksheet skills...
We also had a roadtrip yesterday up to the One Stop Shop Hop in Lancster, South Carolina. Got to say planning things with this quilt guild is like herding cats. I hope everyone had a good time...I know my carload did! There was a button vendor there that had some beautiful and unusual things. And a girl can never have too many buttons! They were like little pieces of art....
Of course if there was a scotty dog button it went directly into my basket....
After the One stop we drove over to Mary Jo's in Gastonia. One of the quilters in my car was new to the area and it was her first MJ trip. Shannon was awed only for a few moments then went right to work hauling bolts of fabric over to the cutting table! It helps she had a specific project in mind...the rest of us MJ veterns wandered aimlessly buying a bit of this and a bit of that...I got some solids that are about 1/3 yard for less than a dollor each from a scrap bin and scored almost a yard of Kaffe for $3 on a remnant table. Since I only needed one thing (8 yards of backing fabric) most of my time was spent rummaging any box that looked like it may have some fun sale items in it. So how is it I still had a really large bag of fabric when I left the store?! Oh, well....
If you are ever in the Gastonia area visiting Mary Jo's you shouldalso add Charlie Rector's Long Creek Mills Thread shop at 108 South Webb St. It is about 10 minutes from M.J. and is to thread what her shop is to fabric. Just standing at the door and taking in all the rows and rows of thread in all the wonderful colors is worth the trip. But bringing home some of those colors is even better. It was only $2 for 3000 yards of cotton thread. So I am now stocked up in all the basics and then some!And for some more eye candy...this is a Piece of Cake quilt pattern two of the members of my guild are working on....
