home!!!!

I'M HOME!!!
I could have kissed the ground when I got off the plane today... It took forever getting into the city with the traffic restrictions, but I made it! Strangely, we are one block away from all the power outages. One side of the street is dark and Dunkin donuts is packed with people across the street... go figure!  They are hoping power will be back on tonight for many of these blocks...We will see.
And I am HAPPY that the marathon will go on! The event brings money to the city, and a fabulous Encouraging vibe to the whole place, just what we need right now! OK, I guess the mayor changed his mind..LOL.. This city knows how to bounce back...

GOODIES!!!
Here is what fit in my luggage. LOL! (I had to ship a suitcase home that was full of stuff including my giveaway goodies! so hopefully FED EX can get here... We've only had one MAIL delivery this week...(guess the wind rain snow and sleet does not include Hurricanes!)  Above is all vintage fabric except for the hand dyed pieces lower right hand corner from Wendy Richardson, oh and the far right bottom..that's new... I scored on the vintage fabrics...  Those small bundles, were 50 cents! Whoop Whoop!

This is sure fun! Yes! a big bundle of repro's...I'm a sucker for these colors... the whole thing looks like candy!

AAQI quilts!  Every year I make some and Buy some. This year, I can Happily say, that I saw so many NAMES on the quilts that I recognized! If I could have bought them all, I would have. Michele L, Miki W, Yumi T, Brenda S, etc etc etc...  So, above is a piece I randomly bought, because I love Edward Gorey! And Below, Is Brenda's!

New to festival this year, Pokey Bolton (pop over to her blog for more pics of festival and market) added a postcard drive for $$$ for animal shelters I believe int eh Houston area. I randomly, spotted this one, flipped it over, and saw it was by Kathy York, who is in our GROUP quilt! so I had to buy that!
Speaking of our group quilt... Below is Frances, she is the one who started the idea in motion for this quilt. She's good at shipping people into creative shape! You may recall OLD posts of me, Hoodie, and Michele up at her place in Vermont...(old posts here) we had so much fun putting this together.

Tuesday night I went to the AWARDS event. That, was fun! Above is best in Show,

America, Let It Shine
by SHERRY REYNOLDS
of LARAMIE, WYOMING

 and the one below (my absolute favorite) was the other big FOUNDERS AWARD winner...

ElaTED
by TED STORM
of 'S-GRAVENZANDE, THE NETHERLANDS

 Hot Africa
by JANNEKE DE VRIES-BODZINGA
of KOLLUMERZWAAG, FRIESLAND, THE NETHERLANDS

 And my Friend, Leslie with her BLUE ribbon for the Digital category!

First Place

Amsterdam Alley: The Shortcut Between
by LESLIE TUCKER JENISON
of SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 

I also had this quilt, "J Rock Star" in the MODERN exhibit, along with our NYC MOD GROUP quilt "Cutting Edge Conglomerate"

 ** That is my Simplicity dress I had made!! Looks good?

And lastly, "Color Quartet" in the IN FULL BLOOM exhibit. This was a group quilt I was a part of last year. (Rayna Gillman, myself, Tonye Belinda Phillips, and Shelly Sutton.) So happy to see it hanging, and in the Show catalog!

OK. 

I'm about to drop off to sleep.

I'm exhausted!

Welcome home to me!

Will do another post later, on all the gorgeous quilts that caught my eye.

** ALSO, As I had to SHIP back the PRIZE for the

Glorious Autumn Block Party & Giveaway

I will post the winner on NOV. 7th.  Fed ex says they should be able to deliver on the 6th... Everything is running a bit slow here right  now...  Thanks!

So you cans till pop over to that post and enter the giveaway!