Unexpected quilt show trip

Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't able to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat quarters, I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30 pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT

Betty, thanks for letting us tag along on your adventure! The pictures are
wonderful, and I don't envy the judges one little bit. There were a lot of
intriguing quilts at the show, and I'd be hard pressed to pick my favorite.

--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Clooniff" wrote in message
...
Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what
the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day
before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad
foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and
made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but
that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people
had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the
classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't able
to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat quarters,
I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30
pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT

"Louise" wrote in message
news:Se0Jc.85073$Oq2.32262@attbi_s52...
Betty, thanks for letting us tag along on your adventure! The pictures are
wonderful, and I don't envy the judges one little bit. There were a lot of
intriguing quilts at the show, and I'd be hard pressed to pick my
favorite.



An interesting thing about VQF is that the quilts are not judged against
each other, but rather against a set of standards. So there could be
several firsts in a class, or even none at all!

Betty in CT

WOW.... saved to look at when I have lots of time. Thanks.

--
Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948
"Clooniff" wrote in message
...
Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what
the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day
before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad
foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and
made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but
that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people
had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the
classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't able
to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat quarters,
I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30
pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT

Now *that* is a fascinating idea. I've never heard of it before.
..
In article , Clooniff
writes
An interesting thing about VQF is that the quilts are not judged against
each other, but rather against a set of standards. So there could be
several firsts in a class, or even none at all!

Betty in CT



--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Clooniff wrote:

Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't able to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat quarters, I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30 pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT



Oh, I like it! Sounds like you had a fun time!

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Tagging on to Louise's post here... I have to agree. Wonderful quilts and a
terrific way to spend a gray and rainy morning. Thanks, Betty, for the
wonderful excuse from housework!

Dee in LeRoy, NY

"Louise" wrote in message
news:Se0Jc.85073$Oq2.32262@attbi_s52...
Betty, thanks for letting us tag along on your adventure! The pictures are
wonderful, and I don't envy the judges one little bit. There were a lot of
intriguing quilts at the show, and I'd be hard pressed to pick my
favorite.

--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Clooniff" wrote in message
...
Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what
the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day
before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad
foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and
made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but
that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see
what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people
had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara
Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won
a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then
they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the
classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't
able
to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to
getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat
quarters,
I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30
pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT

In article ,
"Clooniff" wrote:

Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't able to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat quarters, I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30 pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT


That sounds like such fun, Betty! Thanks for posting the photos.
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

Sometimes not planning is more fun. I have been to the Vermont Quilt
Festival twice in the last twenty years. Quilts were wonderful.
Scenery was wonderful. People were wonderful.

One thing I especially liked was finding regional vendors I don't see
at other shows.

The problem was the weather! The second visit was sooooo hot. They say
Vermont only has two weeks of hot weather a year and no matter when
they plan the Festival it falls in that two week period. They actually
moved the date to try and avoid the hot weather but the weather just
moved with them.

Susan

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:22:19 -0400, "Clooniff"
wrote:

Saturday morning a friend from our guild called me to ask if I knew what the
hours were at Vermont Quilt Festival. She had planned to go the day before
with another friend but hadn't felt well and now her friend had a bad foot.
We chatted for a few minutes and suddenly decided -- at 10:30-- that we
would both go. Now. Right away. Her husband got on the computer and made
a motel reservation for us in Barre, we threw stuff in our bags and she
picked me up at 1 o'clock. We didn't get to Barre until after 5, but that's
because we spent a VERY long lunch at the Cracker Barrel on I-91 in
Massachusetts. We checked in and then went over to Northfield to see what
was on for the evening. First there was a "fashion show" of hats people had
made during the day. Highly entertaining, especially with Barbara Barber
(of RI) as the emcee. Then there was a huge door prize drawing. I won a
set of fat quarters of Baum reproduction Civil War fabrics. And then they
had "Show and Tell" starting with the things that were made at the classes.

The next day Donna and I went to the show. I went sort of crazy with my
camera since my friend Cay who usually comes up there with me wasn't able to
come this year. So there are 100 pictures of the contest quilts up on
Webshots in the Vermont Quilt Festival folder (I'll get around to getting
the identifying captions on them over the next few days):

http://community.webshots.com/user/clooniff

And, naturally, since you can't make a quilt out of just six fat quarters, I
had to visit all the vendors and have S.E.X.!

We found a wonderful restaurant on the way back home, got in about 10:30 pm.
All in all, a great, spur-of-the-moment way to spend the weekend!

Betty in CT

Actually, this year was pretty pleasant--I don't think it got above the
upper 70s the day we were there. And there was a nice breeze.

Betty in CT