Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Rita, thanks for the review. Who says the quilt has to be finished this year? Lots of the big name winners in the US tour for quite a few years. Just sayin'

Thanks for the report on the Festival, Rita. It sounds wonderful, even if there weren't many vendors. That quilt behind you and Carol looks amazing!

Nancy

Thank for the report, Rita. Lovely photos. I'm looking forward to meeting you and all the other TQS members in Birmingham next year.

Rosemary, FoQB 2014, that's the plan. Maybe I will enter a quilt too - if I ever finish one again. I have spent today trying to put the applique pieces onto the BOM. The blasted bondaweb keeps causing the edges to fray, very frustrating. However, I am almost there now. Between this one and my reels quilt I have an awful lot of applique to stitch down.

Wendy, thank you for that kind offer and I might take you up on it sometime, but really I was referring to the thrill of discovering things while you shop at festival. I can survive until the K&S show here in November.

Thanks for the tale and pics it sounds wonderful but shame about the traders, if you want anything in particular I could find and post it to you.

Hello Pam, what did you do at the show

Hey Rita, if you are definitely doing FoQ in Birmingham, so am I - I have even been wondering abut putting Caught Red Handed in too One thing for certain - you will absolutely need an extra suitcase if you do come.

Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!

I had a good day at IQFOI yesterday. My friend Janet and I started off at 7am and arrived in Galway at 9.30am. Enough time to check in, get the armband, find out where our class was and have a nice cappuccino and croissant before class. I really enjoyed the class with Pam Holland. She is great- patient, smiley, and everything was explained clearly and thoroughly. I didn't get my project finished because I didn't want to struggle with the sewing machines provided - they were not that great for FMQ so I was happier to take my project home and do it on my Janome Horizon.


After the class I met up briefly with Pam Day and we had a little chat which was lovely. What a lovely lady - maybe we will get to spend more time together at FoQ Birmingham next year. We had so little time to see everything because we were only there for the day - as it was we only just got to see the 'Under the Sea' exhibit before closing time at 6pm.


I think TQS members Carol Moellers and Dana Lynch deserve a very big pat on the back for creating a much more professional looking group of exhibits. I got to see both ladies briefly. I didn't get a photo with Dana (my bad) but I did get one with Carol.
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Everything was better organized this year which was great to see. Sadly the vendors hall was small again with mostly the same Irish vendors. For those of us here in Ireland this is a little disappointing because we need to be able to see and buy things we can't get here normally. Not that it stopped me from buying things - just that I would have bought more if I knew that I couldn't get it here at another time.

I really enjoyed the exhibits but in particular there was an exhibit of award-winning quilts that we would normally only see on shows like TQS. For example, David Taylor, Sherry Reynolds, Claudia Pfiel, Ann Peterson and so many more. It was a beautiful collection and well worth the visit.

There seemed to be a lot less people there this year - probably because of the bad publicity last year so I don't know if there will be another one next year but if there is I will definitely be going because we don't normally get teachers of the caliber that I have experienced at IQFOI here in Ireland. I also think it's very good for us Irish to see what quilts look like from other parts of the world. And perhaps a different more compact venue would be a little less tiring but the setting of Galway University is very lovely.

idaho wrote:
I recognized the purple flower. It's a perenial and we get them in the nursery or green house here. So we don't consider it a weed. In another section of the country it might be considered a weed. I can't remember its name. Sorry.

I got a chance to take Pam Hollands class. She really ran the whole time from front to back of the classroom helping people. She was so down to earth and dedicated. Have fun!

Limbania, I have two different ones - my favourite colour is yellow too! I took these photos this morning but the sun was so bright that it was difficult to get any definition into them.

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If you google images for them you will get much better photos than mine. I love my yellow azaleas.

That's a gorgeous azalea Rita. Azaleas are my Mom's favorite flowering plants and yellow is her favorite color. I've never seen them in yellow before, wonder if she has. I'll show her the photo next week when she arrives. Would you please take a photo of the full bush? Enjoy your workshop and tell us all about it.

Gorgeous plants and flowers Marilyn!


So glad you're enjoying your vacation Karen. Sweet pretty baby!

Have fun with Pan Holland. I had a class with her at Houston and absolutely LOVED her! She's a sweet lady and a great teacher!

What beautiful azaleas! It'll be a little while before the wild flowers start blooming up here. But the weekend is supposed to be beautiful!

Nancy

Tell us about the quilt fairies Marilyn