Oh, thank you so much, ladies, and I'm so glad I got to meet some of you at the show. It was incredibly exciting to white-glove by my quilt and get to meet and talk to folks from all over the world, literally every continent. I just got home about 2 hours ago and haven't even unpacked yet. I deliberately left my credit cards and debit cards at home, and the only thing I bought was 5 spools of 100 wt. silk thread, 1,000 yd. per spool, to try for machine quilting and applique. Who knew you could hold $81 in your hand? :shock:
I'd like to challenge a lot of you to try entering next year. They got a bit less than 700 entries for the show this year, and chose 375 quilts to hang at the show, so if you do the math, you would have had better than a 50-50 chance of having your quilt in the show. If you're intimidated at the thought of being turned down, you needn't be--nothing bad will happen to you. You don't even have to tell anybody that you sent in an entry, so nobody will know if you don't get juried in. But do take a chance, ladies, it's just so exciting to be able to have your quilt seen and admired by thousands of other quilt lovers. There are ladies in my quilt guild that do beautiful work, and I've let them know that I intend to keep after them to enter--they are beginning to weaken, LOL.
Pat in Rockport, TX, tired but happy.
Way to go. 
