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I love it when G, Enzo and I are on the road and we stumble across quilting in places that have nothing to do with quilting...it is like I am always 6 degrees away from a quilt!! And so it was when we decided to camp out at the Long Beach Washington Kite Festival.
 

What an extraordinary event, and one I would recommend as a bucket list item. The first day my cheeks hurt because I could not stop smiling. Some of the kites were so huge they took five teammates to launch! The events include kite ballet, kite dancing to music, and kite fighting, to name a few. One of the highlights was lighted night kite flying! It seemed there were quilt blocks everywhere...



As we walked down the boardwalk through the various vendors, I stumbled upon a quilt guild selling raffle tickets for their fundraiser. The Peninsula Quilt Guild is 85 members strong and meets at the Peninsula Church Center in Seaview, Washington. Twenty of the members worked on "Beach Garden" which I have to say is absolutely beautiful and reminds me of beach glass. As an added perk for the guild, a new quilter moved to town and after joining the guild offered to quilt the raffle quilt.

Toni Healey is the quilter, and just so you quilters out there who are saying, "...Oh, I could never do that...," she quilted this on a sewing machine! She marks her motifs with the blue pen that disappears and her machine has a larger throat than the standard machine. I do not know the brand. Her quilting really enhances the quilt and you can be sure that I bought a raffle ticket!! I do have to wait till March 16-18, 2019 for the 24th Annual Quilt Show. "Quilting at the Beach" is held at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, WA. But, if you put this on your calendar, you can get a ticket before the drawing!!!

I hope you enjoy the close up of Toni's wonderful quilting. Stay tuned for more adventures of Anna & G On The Road here, and on the Quilt Roadie and Woolie Blog!

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