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Sorry but I gave out wrong information about the voting for AQS Fall Paducah.  Only the First Place winners in each category can be considered for the top prizes.  Please vote...they are stunning! I feel like the email we got to tell us that we placed was a little ambiguous, and now I am embarrassed to be mistaken.  It is the first year for this type of show... "Contentment" did win Second Place in the category "Wall Quilts: Applique."  I am doing cartwheels!!  A few years ago, I got an Honorable Mention, more recently a Third Place Ribbon, and now Second Place.  I am climbing the ladder! This will keep me shooting for improvement. In stitches,  Teresa  :o)

I am not sure WHAT I have won, but at least 1, 2, 3, or Honorable Mention in my category at the Fall Paducah AQS Quilt Show.   This show, as the newest AQS show, is doing things a little differently from their other shows.  Everyone can vote for the big winners, whether you attend the show or not.   There are 15 categories of quilts in this show, so that means there are 60 preliminary winning quilts for you to see and enjoy online! If you are interested in seeing this "winners quilt show," and perhaps getting in on the voting, go here after 6:00 PM Tuesday night, September 12.   There will be a lot of terrific eye candy! I think they are experimenting with making this show more of a people's show.  Three judges narrow down the field, then real quilters get to vote for the 7 top prizes. Off I trot to Paducah, KY some time this week...road trip!  It is 231 miles from my driveway.  We are in the path of a weakened Irma, so we will see how much rain we g...

Yes, I have been missing in action.  It has been an eventful summer in many ways. My daughter studied abroad at Oxford, near London England.  She managed to find time to see some sights including visiting the main studio where the Harry Potter movies were filmed. My little theatrical gal was dragging us to several "dinners and shows" all over the state. Then, there was a birthday celebration with homemade pizza and chocolate-dipped strawberries for these two nuts, who were born three days apart. It was an AMAZING blueberry harvest!  I froze 25 gallons, and that was after my sisters were here, picking like crazy!  Some of those berries were as big as GRAPES!   We had a lot of rain and they just seemed to plump overnight. My oldest brother was in a serious motorcycle accident, hitting a pick-up truck head on...surgery, and now a rehab hospital in southeast Alabama with multiple injuries.  It will be a long recovery for a 65 year old man.  I was hoping th...

The man seen lurking in my quilt cave was none other than Mr. Fabric Therapy installing blinds.  I was pretty excited...the sun really beats down on this end of the house in the late afternoons. I ordered blue because countertops and some fixtures are blue...and I just love blue. It has been way too long since my last post, but things have busy here.  Two long road trips, a quilt show in Ohio, blueberry season, MOWING season (zeesh!), wind damage, house guests...you name it, we've had it. I love blue, and these are blue (my favorite color) and TASTY! The bushes are loaded from all the rain we have had and I patiently pick off the first ripe ones...now they are ripening fast and furious and I am having a hard time keeping up.  My visiting sisters will fix that over the next two weekends. And then there is the mowing...on this 800-acre treasure forest, we have about 50-60 acres that are cleared and need to be mowed.   The clearings contain blueberry bushes, apple and p...

I was so struck by this tiny miniature,,,the precision and the winding colors in the star.  So much beauty in a teeny tiny package. On the last day of the show, they reveal the People's Choice for small and large quilts.  Pat Morrow's stunning wool village won the People's Choice for large quilts.  It is pictured in Part Two of these posts. Well, these 5 posts of pictures cover probably one third of the quilts in this show.  I did my best, but could not get them all.  This is such a nice destination quilt show every year.  Next year, Edyta Sitar will be one of the teachers for the week!  Make your plans now... In stitches, Teresa  :o)