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Quilt Show
Jun. 11th, 2011 05:32 pmWent to the Winters Outdoor Quilt Show with my mom today. She quilts. I do not, but I like looking at quilts, and browsing fabric in quilt shops. Someday I will probably amass enough fat quarters that I buy because they are cute to force me to make something with them. Got 2 today, a bee print and purple batik palm trees. If I ever see the one print that looks like masses of tangled multicolored cables I'm buying a bunch of it, but today was not that day.
Today was the first day of a Fireman's Muster here in Suisun, so we walked down to the plaza and watched the parade of antique firetrucks and pumps and whatnot - pretty cool. And the band that led the parade was pretty awesome - bagpipes and drums, all kilted up, but young (high school or college aged, I'd guess) which I didn't expect for some reason. I like antique machinery and vehicles of all kinds, really, and the pumps and firetrucks were pretty dang cool. I'll try to get over to see some of the competition tomorrow, assuming they didn't finish today.
WInters is about 25 miles away, and we got there maybe half an hour after the show opened and found parking not far from one end of the exhibits. That was a lot of quilts, I tell you what, many of them really pretty and most of them astounding me with how much work they seem like they would take to make. With a break for lunch at Steady Eddies and a bit of time browsing in the quilt shop that sponsored the show, we didn't finish seeing them all until maybe an hour before the show was scheduled to end. So many quilts!
Also, the descriptive notes pinned to them were often worth reading, things like "started in when I met my husband in 2003 and he asked for a quilt, finished after we got married in 2006", or "I signed up for a class in this technique and bought all the fabric, then couldn't attend and tried to figure it out on my own. Take the class!".
Tired now.
Today was the first day of a Fireman's Muster here in Suisun, so we walked down to the plaza and watched the parade of antique firetrucks and pumps and whatnot - pretty cool. And the band that led the parade was pretty awesome - bagpipes and drums, all kilted up, but young (high school or college aged, I'd guess) which I didn't expect for some reason. I like antique machinery and vehicles of all kinds, really, and the pumps and firetrucks were pretty dang cool. I'll try to get over to see some of the competition tomorrow, assuming they didn't finish today.
WInters is about 25 miles away, and we got there maybe half an hour after the show opened and found parking not far from one end of the exhibits. That was a lot of quilts, I tell you what, many of them really pretty and most of them astounding me with how much work they seem like they would take to make. With a break for lunch at Steady Eddies and a bit of time browsing in the quilt shop that sponsored the show, we didn't finish seeing them all until maybe an hour before the show was scheduled to end. So many quilts!
Also, the descriptive notes pinned to them were often worth reading, things like "started in when I met my husband in 2003 and he asked for a quilt, finished after we got married in 2006", or "I signed up for a class in this technique and bought all the fabric, then couldn't attend and tried to figure it out on my own. Take the class!".
Tired now.