Ahhh....the desert sunshine...

My Original Whimsy Lane Pattern

 We made it to Yuma.

It's been awhile since we've done a guild show....

and I forgot how much fun they are.

Example....

The Guild Chairman Evelyn Mosley...

brought us an organic orange and tangerine

from the tree in her yard...

And then this darling 12 year old girl came up to me

and wanted to show me her first quilt

that she had made completely herself

adapted from my Whimsy Lane pattern...

When we have been off the road for a few months

it is always interesting....

the first set up of the year!

But somehow we managed to get the booth put together...

 

My Demo Table

My French Apron Pattern

The other side of my demo table...

And now for the beautiful quilts hanging in the show....

An incredible Cathedral Window Quilt

A quilt made from my Pinkilicious Pattern

This was the most awesome 'Signature' Quilt I have ever seen!

Signatures from all the piano students, friends and family for the recipient.

And 3 times a day
there was an Antique Bed Turning in the back room.


An Antique Bed Turning
incorporates a bed laden with quilts...
and as each one of them is held up, the story is told about the quilt...

Very unusual to find a 6 pointed Star

They are then folded over at the end of the bed...
to reveal the next quilt...

This quilt above had something I had never heard of before.
A Moustache Band!
They were used at the top of the quilt,
to protect the quilt from a man's moustache!

And at the end while the Guitar Man was breaking down,
my ex-husband's aunt, Claudia
picked me up to take me to dinner at 
a fabulous place called Julianna's

This wonderful lady made me a handmade Grandmother's Flower Garden...
King Size...
hand pieced, hand quilted....
when I married her nephew.


I am sad to say I was 18...
and used it until it was in threads...
and then lost it in a move!


This was long before I was a quilter myself.
Oh...the follies of youth.


The other person in the pic is my nephew's wife Denita.

Julianna's was so amazing...
I had to take Guitar Man back there
to have a meal with him.


I had him pose with this  metal mariachi band.


If you look close below...
there were these amazing and noisy birds....
serenading us while we ate too.

Make sure to head over to Quilt Story

for 

Fabric Tuesday

And now it is off to Phoenix!