Home form Houston Show!! LONG

Hello!! Well, I went to the Really Big
Quilt Show in Houston! Went on
Wednesday, came home yesterday.

Wednesday night: Show Preview. Vendors
and quilts. Enjoy catching up with
roommates, and running into a few old
friends. Diana was the Quilt Angel in
the Top Ribbons area!

Thursday: Bus Tour to Galveston Area. We
went to three LQS, and one scrap book
shop. Lunch was good. My two roommates
and I had Mexican Dinner at one of our
favorite restaurants.

Friday: two lectures, both oriented
toward design. Those helped me look at
the exhibits with a different point of
view. I spent the short time I had for
lunch looking for the RCTQ Table but
could not find it. That was a
disappointment, but I had to scoot to
the next lecture. I understand I missed
lots of Chocolate!! Boo!

That night, I enjoyed a fabulous RCTQ
get together at an Italian Restaurant,
Josephine's. (I wore my new hat!) There
were 16 of us, some who I knew already,
and some who were visiting Houston for
the first time, including Pati, Barbara,
and Jeanne. Pati brought chocolate. Yea!

On Saturday I was happy to have
breakfast with Sandy F and Judy, who
were staying at my hotel. Sandy and I
went to some vendors together, and we
both got free books at the Pfaff booth.
Later, I met up with my friends Sheryl,
and her DH, who live in another part of
Texas. We hadn't been together since
1999!! I taught Sheryl how to quilt way
back. Sheryl brought me a group of
Western Theme FQ, and I met her sister!
Mostly, it was wonderful to see them again.

Then I joined the RCTQ Bunch. I saw some
'old friends' (Ragmop, Diana, Kellie and
Kids, and more) and finally had a chance
to meet Butterfly!! Yea! We took lots
of photos. The visit was too short ...
it always is!! I didn't even get a
chance to give some farewell hugs. (Pout)

All in all, I saw many, many beautiful
quilts, and a few I didn't especially
like! All were of interest to me, as I
absorbed ideas for color, set, quilting
patterns and so on. Two of the quilts
wearing ribbons were made by friends!
Cool.

What did I buy? Some Indigo for an Idea
I have! G Some FQ of unique color or
design. Several wonderful Dots for
Terbear's Dotty Block Swap! A couple of
gadgets and gifts. The Piece De
Resistance? My Black Urban Cowgirl Hat
..... sparkling all over with Rhinestones!!

I had lots of fun, but I agree with
Dorothy: "There's no place like home."

All for now ... Pat in Virginia

Pat I enjoyed meeting you. Glad you are around to test out the chocolate to
make sure its safe to eat!

Hope to see you again next year.

Barbara in Houston


"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
...
Hello!! Well, I went to the Really Big Quilt Show in Houston! Went on
Wednesday, came home yesterday.

Wednesday night: Show Preview. Vendors and quilts. Enjoy catching up with
roommates, and running into a few old friends. Diana was the Quilt Angel
in the Top Ribbons area!

Thursday: Bus Tour to Galveston Area. We went to three LQS, and one scrap
book shop. Lunch was good. My two roommates and I had Mexican Dinner at
one of our favorite restaurants.

Friday: two lectures, both oriented toward design. Those helped me look at
the exhibits with a different point of view. I spent the short time I had
for lunch looking for the RCTQ Table but could not find it. That was a
disappointment, but I had to scoot to the next lecture. I understand I
missed lots of Chocolate!! Boo!

That night, I enjoyed a fabulous RCTQ get together at an Italian
Restaurant, Josephine's. (I wore my new hat!) There were 16 of us, some
who I knew already, and some who were visiting Houston for the first time,
including Pati, Barbara, and Jeanne. Pati brought chocolate. Yea!

On Saturday I was happy to have breakfast with Sandy F and Judy, who were
staying at my hotel. Sandy and I went to some vendors together, and we
both got free books at the Pfaff booth. Later, I met up with my friends
Sheryl, and her DH, who live in another part of Texas. We hadn't been
together since 1999!! I taught Sheryl how to quilt way back. Sheryl
brought me a group of Western Theme FQ, and I met her sister! Mostly, it
was wonderful to see them again.

Then I joined the RCTQ Bunch. I saw some 'old friends' (Ragmop, Diana,
Kellie and Kids, and more) and finally had a chance to meet Butterfly!!
Yea! We took lots of photos. The visit was too short ... it always is!! I
didn't even get a chance to give some farewell hugs. (Pout)

All in all, I saw many, many beautiful quilts, and a few I didn't
especially like! All were of interest to me, as I absorbed ideas for
color, set, quilting patterns and so on. Two of the quilts wearing ribbons
were made by friends! Cool.

What did I buy? Some Indigo for an Idea I have! G Some FQ of unique
color or design. Several wonderful Dots for Terbear's Dotty Block Swap! A
couple of gadgets and gifts. The Piece De Resistance? My Black Urban
Cowgirl Hat .... sparkling all over with Rhinestones!!

I had lots of fun, but I agree with Dorothy: "There's no place like home."

All for now ... Pat in Virginia

Howdy!

mmmm: lebkuchen

It was wonderful to see you, Pat, even for such a short time.

Searching my bags today I realized I bought almost nothing,
some needles and Bohin thimbles. S-i-l picked out the real
treasure, those batiks she fell in love with. G
But just going to SEE everything & everyone was a blast.
Of course, Old Town Spring was on the route home
http://www.oldtownspringtx.com/
We stopped for lunch and a little shopping (had to spend my
Quilt Show Trip allotment).
And then up the road in Corsicana (on Hwy.45) is the
Collins Street Bakery, home of the world famous fruit cake.
http://www.collinstreet.com/
They have lots of goodies, including chocolate brownies,
apple cinnamon fruit cake and jalapeño cheese rolls.
Oh, yeah, got to empty the wallet,
and get ready for the holidays, too. VBG
It was a fun trip to & from Houston.

Do we get pics of the Cowgirl in the Black Hat?

Welcome home!

Ragmop/Sandy --w/ a rather large, fluffy jackalope from O.T.Spring


On 11/6/06 9:10 AM, in article , "Pat in
Virginia" wrote:

Hello!! Well, I went to the Really Big
Quilt Show in Houston! Went on
Wednesday, came home yesterday.

Wednesday night: Show Preview. Vendors
and quilts. Enjoy catching up with
roommates, and running into a few old
friends. Diana was the Quilt Angel in
the Top Ribbons area!

Thursday: Bus Tour to Galveston Area. We
went to three LQS, and one scrap book
shop. Lunch was good. My two roommates
and I had Mexican Dinner at one of our
favorite restaurants.

Friday: two lectures, both oriented
toward design. Those helped me look at
the exhibits with a different point of
view. I spent the short time I had for
lunch looking for the RCTQ Table but
could not find it. That was a
disappointment, but I had to scoot to
the next lecture. I understand I missed
lots of Chocolate!! Boo!

That night, I enjoyed a fabulous RCTQ
get together at an Italian Restaurant,
Josephine's. (I wore my new hat!) There
were 16 of us, some who I knew already,
and some who were visiting Houston for
the first time, including Pati, Barbara,
and Jeanne. Pati brought chocolate. Yea!

On Saturday I was happy to have
breakfast with Sandy F and Judy, who
were staying at my hotel. Sandy and I
went to some vendors together, and we
both got free books at the Pfaff booth.
Later, I met up with my friends Sheryl,
and her DH, who live in another part of
Texas. We hadn't been together since
1999!! I taught Sheryl how to quilt way
back. Sheryl brought me a group of
Western Theme FQ, and I met her sister!
Mostly, it was wonderful to see them again.

Then I joined the RCTQ Bunch. I saw some
'old friends' (Ragmop, Diana, Kellie and
Kids, and more) and finally had a chance
to meet Butterfly!! Yea! We took lots
of photos. The visit was too short ...
it always is!! I didn't even get a
chance to give some farewell hugs. (Pout)

All in all, I saw many, many beautiful
quilts, and a few I didn't especially
like! All were of interest to me, as I
absorbed ideas for color, set, quilting
patterns and so on. Two of the quilts
wearing ribbons were made by friends!
Cool.

What did I buy? Some Indigo for an Idea
I have! G Some FQ of unique color or
design. Several wonderful Dots for
Terbear's Dotty Block Swap! A couple of
gadgets and gifts. The Piece De
Resistance? My Black Urban Cowgirl Hat
.... sparkling all over with Rhinestones!!


I had lots of fun, but I agree with
Dorothy: "There's no place like home."

All for now ... Pat in Virginia

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy !!!!!!!!!

How dare you!?!?!?!? How could you stop at the Collins Street Bakery
and not call to ask if any of the rest of us needed anything on your
way home ?!?!?!?! My husband will be devastated!

Oh well, I guess it IS about time to get online and order his annual
Collins specialty!

It was SOOO wonderful to meet you and I hope to make it to Dallas in
March to spend some time with you there!

Hugs,
Tina

Howdy!

Let's work on getting my younger son to MOVE into his own place
and I'll repaint and fix-up the bedroom before March.
You're the first face I recognized when we looked for the RCTQ
table: instant friends!
Yes, it's time y'all came to the Dallas show.
The first BIG RCTQ meet-up was there, several years ago;
pic he http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/4775/
Saturday lunch saw 26 of us there, w/ our Ellen's daughter
taking pics of all of us, switching cameras kind of like Nona
did this weekend; we all stay in one spot while the different
camera click and flash. g

The fruit cake and apple-cinnamon-pecan cake will stay in
the tins until sometime in Dec.. The brownies, tho', aren't
going to see Wednesday. And the jalapeño cheese rolls are
destined for dinner tonight (salmon needs a little oomph!).
Collin S.B. is opening a newer, bigger store near/off I45
this year, but the old bakery will stay open (across the
street from H.E.B.).
Btw, I thought about y'all when we stopped there.
Really, I did. We did NOT stop at the Russell-Stover
chocolate outlet in that same neighborhood; no way, not this time.
But we know where it is! G

All y'all: when you get a chance to get together with other
quilters, please do! Never yet heard of a bad meet-up.
There are no strangers in the quilting world. ;-)

Ragmop/Sandy--noting that we all carry this Quilter's High
for a while...
Where's Butterfly?!!?


On 11/6/06 11:48 AM, in article
, "Tina"
wrote:

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy !!!!!!!!!

How dare you!?!?!?!? How could you stop at the Collins Street Bakery
and not call to ask if any of the rest of us needed anything on your
way home ?!?!?!?! My husband will be devastated!

Oh well, I guess it IS about time to get online and order his annual
Collins specialty!

It was SOOO wonderful to meet you and I hope to make it to Dallas in
March to spend some time with you there!

Hugs,
Tina

Where was the group on Saturday?

Sandi and her mom, Butterfly and her son, my husband and I all looked
for the banner for almost an hour.

I did get a picture of us together, but would have loved to meet up with
the rest of you.

Tricia
http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii

Pat in Virginia wrote:
Hello!! Well, I went to the Really Big Quilt Show in Houston! Went on
Wednesday, came home yesterday.

Wednesday night: Show Preview. Vendors and quilts. Enjoy catching up
with roommates, and running into a few old friends. Diana was the Quilt
Angel in the Top Ribbons area!

Thursday: Bus Tour to Galveston Area. We went to three LQS, and one
scrap book shop. Lunch was good. My two roommates and I had Mexican
Dinner at one of our favorite restaurants.

Friday: two lectures, both oriented toward design. Those helped me look
at the exhibits with a different point of view. I spent the short time I
had for lunch looking for the RCTQ Table but could not find it. That was
a disappointment, but I had to scoot to the next lecture. I understand I
missed lots of Chocolate!! Boo!

That night, I enjoyed a fabulous RCTQ get together at an Italian
Restaurant, Josephine's. (I wore my new hat!) There were 16 of us, some
who I knew already, and some who were visiting Houston for the first
time, including Pati, Barbara, and Jeanne. Pati brought chocolate. Yea!

On Saturday I was happy to have breakfast with Sandy F and Judy, who
were staying at my hotel. Sandy and I went to some vendors together, and
we both got free books at the Pfaff booth. Later, I met up with my
friends Sheryl, and her DH, who live in another part of Texas. We hadn't
been together since 1999!! I taught Sheryl how to quilt way back. Sheryl
brought me a group of Western Theme FQ, and I met her sister! Mostly, it
was wonderful to see them again.

Then I joined the RCTQ Bunch. I saw some 'old friends' (Ragmop, Diana,
Kellie and Kids, and more) and finally had a chance to meet Butterfly!!
Yea! We took lots of photos. The visit was too short ... it always is!!
I didn't even get a chance to give some farewell hugs. (Pout)

All in all, I saw many, many beautiful quilts, and a few I didn't
especially like! All were of interest to me, as I absorbed ideas for
color, set, quilting patterns and so on. Two of the quilts wearing
ribbons were made by friends! Cool.

What did I buy? Some Indigo for an Idea I have! G Some FQ of unique
color or design. Several wonderful Dots for Terbear's Dotty Block Swap!
A couple of gadgets and gifts. The Piece De Resistance? My Black Urban
Cowgirl Hat .... sparkling all over with Rhinestones!!

I had lots of fun, but I agree with Dorothy: "There's no place like home."

All for now ... Pat in Virginia

Jealous, jealous, jealous. The trip to Pittsburgh was about as we
expected -- wonderful to see the dd but no engagement announcement and dd
seems unhappy (although she denies it).

I'm glad you all had such a great time.

Elizabeth in Spring, Texas
"Sandy Ellison" wrote in message
...
Howdy!

mmmm: lebkuchen

It was wonderful to see you, Pat, even for such a short time.

Searching my bags today I realized I bought almost nothing,
some needles and Bohin thimbles. S-i-l picked out the real
treasure, those batiks she fell in love with. G
But just going to SEE everything & everyone was a blast.
Of course, Old Town Spring was on the route home
http://www.oldtownspringtx.com/
We stopped for lunch and a little shopping (had to spend my
Quilt Show Trip allotment).
And then up the road in Corsicana (on Hwy.45) is the
Collins Street Bakery, home of the world famous fruit cake.
http://www.collinstreet.com/
They have lots of goodies, including chocolate brownies,
apple cinnamon fruit cake and jalapeño cheese rolls.
Oh, yeah, got to empty the wallet,
and get ready for the holidays, too. VBG
It was a fun trip to & from Houston.

Do we get pics of the Cowgirl in the Black Hat?

Welcome home!

Ragmop/Sandy --w/ a rather large, fluffy jackalope from O.T.Spring


On 11/6/06 9:10 AM, in article , "Pat
in
Virginia" wrote:

Hello!! Well, I went to the Really Big
Quilt Show in Houston! Went on
Wednesday, came home yesterday.

Wednesday night: Show Preview. Vendors
and quilts. Enjoy catching up with
roommates, and running into a few old
friends. Diana was the Quilt Angel in
the Top Ribbons area!

Thursday: Bus Tour to Galveston Area. We
went to three LQS, and one scrap book
shop. Lunch was good. My two roommates
and I had Mexican Dinner at one of our
favorite restaurants.

Friday: two lectures, both oriented
toward design. Those helped me look at
the exhibits with a different point of
view. I spent the short time I had for
lunch looking for the RCTQ Table but
could not find it. That was a
disappointment, but I had to scoot to
the next lecture. I understand I missed
lots of Chocolate!! Boo!

That night, I enjoyed a fabulous RCTQ
get together at an Italian Restaurant,
Josephine's. (I wore my new hat!) There
were 16 of us, some who I knew already,
and some who were visiting Houston for
the first time, including Pati, Barbara,
and Jeanne. Pati brought chocolate. Yea!

On Saturday I was happy to have
breakfast with Sandy F and Judy, who
were staying at my hotel. Sandy and I
went to some vendors together, and we
both got free books at the Pfaff booth.
Later, I met up with my friends Sheryl,
and her DH, who live in another part of
Texas. We hadn't been together since
1999!! I taught Sheryl how to quilt way
back. Sheryl brought me a group of
Western Theme FQ, and I met her sister!
Mostly, it was wonderful to see them again.

Then I joined the RCTQ Bunch. I saw some
'old friends' (Ragmop, Diana, Kellie and
Kids, and more) and finally had a chance
to meet Butterfly!! Yea! We took lots
of photos. The visit was too short ...
it always is!! I didn't even get a
chance to give some farewell hugs. (Pout)

All in all, I saw many, many beautiful
quilts, and a few I didn't especially
like! All were of interest to me, as I
absorbed ideas for color, set, quilting
patterns and so on. Two of the quilts
wearing ribbons were made by friends!
Cool.

What did I buy? Some Indigo for an Idea
I have! G Some FQ of unique color or
design. Several wonderful Dots for
Terbear's Dotty Block Swap! A couple of
gadgets and gifts. The Piece De
Resistance? My Black Urban Cowgirl Hat
.... sparkling all over with Rhinestones!!


I had lots of fun, but I agree with
Dorothy: "There's no place like home."

All for now ... Pat in Virginia

Sandy Ellison wrote:

All y'all: when you get a chance to get together with other
quilters, please do! Never yet heard of a bad meet-up.
There are no strangers in the quilting world. ;-)

Hmmm....obviously there are some exceptions to every rule....and that's
all I'm going ot say on that note.

Larisa, aka official **** stirrer since Karlee left

Sounds like a wonderful time, Pat! Maybe next year for me--no, definitely
next year for me!!

--
Donna in NE La.
"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
...
Hello!! Well, I went to the Really Big Quilt Show in Houston! Went on
Wednesday, came home yesterday.

Wednesday night: Show Preview. Vendors and quilts. Enjoy catching up with
roommates, and running into a few old friends. Diana was the Quilt Angel
in the Top Ribbons area!

Thursday: Bus Tour to Galveston Area. We went to three LQS, and one scrap
book shop. Lunch was good. My two roommates and I had Mexican Dinner at
one of our favorite restaurants.

Friday: two lectures, both oriented toward design. Those helped me look at
the exhibits with a different point of view. I spent the short time I had
for lunch looking for the RCTQ Table but could not find it. That was a
disappointment, but I had to scoot to the next lecture. I understand I
missed lots of Chocolate!! Boo!

That night, I enjoyed a fabulous RCTQ get together at an Italian
Restaurant, Josephine's. (I wore my new hat!) There were 16 of us, some
who I knew already, and some who were visiting Houston for the first time,
including Pati, Barbara, and Jeanne. Pati brought chocolate. Yea!

On Saturday I was happy to have breakfast with Sandy F and Judy, who were
staying at my hotel. Sandy and I went to some vendors together, and we
both got free books at the Pfaff booth. Later, I met up with my friends
Sheryl, and her DH, who live in another part of Texas. We hadn't been
together since 1999!! I taught Sheryl how to quilt way back. Sheryl
brought me a group of Western Theme FQ, and I met her sister! Mostly, it
was wonderful to see them again.

Then I joined the RCTQ Bunch. I saw some 'old friends' (Ragmop, Diana,
Kellie and Kids, and more) and finally had a chance to meet Butterfly!!
Yea! We took lots of photos. The visit was too short ... it always is!! I
didn't even get a chance to give some farewell hugs. (Pout)

All in all, I saw many, many beautiful quilts, and a few I didn't
especially like! All were of interest to me, as I absorbed ideas for
color, set, quilting patterns and so on. Two of the quilts wearing ribbons
were made by friends! Cool.

What did I buy? Some Indigo for an Idea I have! G Some FQ of unique
color or design. Several wonderful Dots for Terbear's Dotty Block Swap! A
couple of gadgets and gifts. The Piece De Resistance? My Black Urban
Cowgirl Hat .... sparkling all over with Rhinestones!!

I had lots of fun, but I agree with Dorothy: "There's no place like home."

All for now ... Pat in Virginia

Certainly are exceptions!!!!!!!
Gen

"off kilter quilter" wrote in message
...
Sandy Ellison wrote:

All y'all: when you get a chance to get together with other
quilters, please do! Never yet heard of a bad meet-up.
There are no strangers in the quilting world. ;-)

Hmmm....obviously there are some exceptions to every rule....and that's
all I'm going ot say on that note.

Larisa, aka official **** stirrer since Karlee left