A Day at the Dallas Show 2012

Last Friday five of us from our church quilting group made the trek to the Dallas Quilt Show, and had a wonderful time together.  For three of the ladies, this was their first quilt show ever!  I think they were almost overwhelmed by all the beautiful quilts and the many vendors!  Our leader did a fantastic job of driving, and the weather cooperated most of the way.

I did really well on spending/purchases, etc.  In cash, I spent $10.28 --- $2 for my share of the valet parking, and $8.28 for my meal on the way home.  Pretty good, don't you think?  (We had gotten our tickets early from a quilt shop.)  However, I'm not telling yet how much, nor what, went on my plastic!  I'll just tell you that it will have to be shipped to me later this week because we couldn't get it in the car!  Country Log Cabin Ruth was there and knows, and she wants to check it out someday when it arrives.  The only thing more I'll say right now is that I've never made a decision like that in less than an hour, but I did this time!  Hope I did the right thing!  (Do you ever have second thoughts???!!)   More later!

I took lots of pictures.  It seemed to me that much of the machine quilting was more detailed than I've ever seen, and the small amount of hand quilting I saw was beautiful.  There were lots of what I would call "art" quilts, some of which were spectacular, even though I personally prefer the more traditional quilts.   There were quite a number of animal quilts this year. Theri included many of the really nice quilts in her blog link, so I'll not repeat those.  Here's a few of the ones that caught my eyes:

Double click to read the description.  See how art and technology were combined!

 White blocks were hand quilted, blue was machine quilted.

 I could almost smell the cinnamon rolls and hot bread here!

 You know how I love Christmas!

 Definitely King of the Jungle!

 Has someone been in my backyard????

 Too cute!

 Such beautiful detailed work! (and my colors!)

 Look closely at the quilting!

Just look at how closely this one's hand quilted!

It was difficult to weed out other pictures, but I'm sure Ruth will have a lot to show too.  It was a great show, and almost like old home week for me.  I ran into my cousin I hadn't seen in over a year and her friend, also another friend from my home town, and of course, Ruth and her husband.  Quilters do go to this show from far and near!  My driver said Sunday she considered taking me back on Saturday, but it was raining!  ---I would have gone with her! *smile*

Got to get lots of things done around here this week, so I can play with my new toy next week!

Have a good week! 

---"Love"