Boy does time fly!

It is hard to believe that my last post was the end of April. When I started this blog I had every intention of writing every week. Well, with the flood, quilt market, a visit to our moms in Atlanta and life the month of May just flew by. Sorry this post is so long but...

We did have a great time in Portland at Quilt Market and the weather was really nice. There are a lot of "free spirits" up there. Many people we saw had tattoos, piercings and pink or purple hair. They weren't all young either. It was neat and the city has a great public transportation system. One evening our group was on the lite rail with Sandy Gervais and her family and we were enjoying visiting so much that we missed our stop. That was funny and we all had a good laugh. When we split to go to our separate hotels we all said if we weren't at the convention center in the morning to come looking for us. The city of Portland is very into conserving water and energy and also into recycling. Even the toilets in the convention center had two ways to flush, up for liquid waste and down for solid waste. That is a neat way to put it, huh? There was lots of delicious seafood too.

One of our favorite booths at Quilt Market is the Artgirlz booth. Those girls are such fun! Below are photos of us together in their booth. There is also a photo of the quilt we are making in our Freaky Friday class this week. It uses their felted wool balls, flowers and squares with the charm in the middle.

Krissy had a beautiful quilt debut at Quilt Market, the Hibiscus. We have a red and a yellow version at the shop.

The Judy Day sew-in at the shop is going really well. One Sunday a month we sew on our Judy Niemeyer quilts from 9-5. Several of the group have finished one of their quilts. Since these quilts are like potato chips, you can't make just one, many of us have more than one going at a time.

Our applique group is meeting in the shop on the second Friday of every month EXCEPT for this month of course!!! I forgot and put the garage sale on that Friday so our applique group will meet on the third Friday in June. This is the quilt they are working on. The project they are all working on is from a book called Affairs of the Heart. This is not a class but they all help each other with tips and techniques so if you are interested come check it out on the the second Friday of each month except for June of course which will be the third Friday.