small stuff

 I’m part of a small guild, with about 55 members. Our show this past weekend ( exhibition, really ) has about 110-120 quilts featured each year, of every style and skill level. It is held at the museum in Ilwaco, and we don’t charge admission ( which helps the museum boost their visitor count ). We had [...]

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lots of busy, pt. 2

 So, our local quilt show. Mom and I went on Saturday afternoon, and things were humming along. It is held in the museum in Ilwaco, which is a really nice space. Well lit, clean, warm and dry. We had a little more than 100 quilts – a nice showing for our small guild of 60 [...]

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lots of busy

 I had a lot of fun hanging quilts in Seattle at the QA show last week. I took just a few pics; by the time we were finished hanging I was sort of pooped. Our little crew consisted of Mom, me, and my nephew and his girlfriend ( and  a tag-along woman that I don’t [...]

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a quick there and back

We are coming into quilt show season. My local guild’s show ‘Quilting at the Beach’ is next weekend, and the big show for my mom’s guild is the same. Our guild will be showing just over one hundred quilts; not a bad showing for our membership of maybe 60 women. The Quilter’s Anonymous show, on [...]

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whirlwind miles

the view out the windows has quit moving. In the past week I’ve seen around 1300 miles out of vehicle windows:Longview and back on Wednesday to pick up MomBus trip to Sisters, OR and back on SaturdayDrive to Snohomish SundayHome on Monday. I wouldn’t have missed any of it.  It was great to spend a [...]

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