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The first day of the show is in the books and we had a great time! There weren't huge crowds but we had lots of people stop by and still had some time to wander around a bit ourselves. I even got to catch up with an old friend (I used to live in Virginia Beach) for a little while. We hadn't seen each other in years! I even got to see about a third of the quilts. AQS puts on a nice event and the quilt competition is FIERCE! Here are just a few of the ones that I liked. I don't have the energy to narrate them so I just set then in a gallery so you can scroll through them. I'll have more tomorrow. Mom, Anne and I are in Virginia Beach and ready for the quilt show to open tomorrow. We got here about 11:00 yesterday morning and had the booth set up by 3:00. I was really pleased with how quickly it all came together. I am also grateful for their help. I can't imagine doing a show like this along although I did see several people setting up booths by themselves. Here are the photos you have been waiting for!  I'm very lucky with my booth location. It's very close to the AQS book sales booth and one row off the main row.  Mom set up all of the Crystal fabrics and I think the wall looks great!  This is the gradient wall. The shelves contain Shades Packs, Stash packs, Gradients and yards. It's so colorful!  We are thrilled with the flower wall! It came out exactly as I wanted. These shelves have the Color Wheel and Black fabrics along with some ice dyed quilt back.
We are looking forward to the first day! By the time this posts at 10:30 our time, we should be already unpacking all of this at the convention center. I love our Subarus, they hold a lot of stuff!   Ahhh because I got everything packed for the show on Saturday and I actually had some sewing time!  When I get home from the show the first thing I'm going to do is deep clean all of my work spaces. Things have gotten completely out of hand. I could have started doing that cleaning Saturday but I wanted to sew something.....anything. My Maine fabrics have been stacked on the cutting table all month and that seemed a good place to start. The fabrics were already grouped and I didn't have to think very much. I've always intended to make placemats with these fabrics and I settled on my very easy Fat Quarter Placemat pattern. I bought 12 fat quarters but only needed 6 for this set of placemats. Just to keep myself from trying to come up with another project, I used the other 6 fat quarters for the backs.  I'm not finished but 4 of 6 are pieced and quilted and I love how they look. This pattern is perfect for scrappy big prints. It was very therapeutic to hear the sound of the sewing machine for a few hours and I'll get back to them when I return from the show. Today we pack the cars and get ready to depart about 7 tomorrow morning!  If you are coming to the Virginia Beach AQS show this week please stop by booth 1730 to see us. Tell us a joke and get a free mini roll of fabric.
I will post photos from the show. I'm not sure if I'll post every day but I will take lots of booth photos to share and hope to get photos of some of my favorite quilts in the exhibit. |
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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