Asheville Quilt Show 2008

On Friday August 1st Ille, Judy, Joyce, Margaret & I headed to the NC Arboretum for the Asheville Quilt Show. We met Connie and Rachel there and had a fun day looking at quilts, seeing demonstrations and of course shopping! Quilt shows always inspire me but I don't always wind up doing more (unfortunately). Hopefully this year will be different!!

Here are some of the quilts that I took pics of that spoke to me:

My First Ribbon!!!

It was wonderful to receive my very 1st ribbon!!! I received 2nd place for Dallas' Purse while Margaret Hunt took 1st place with her 'Sea Dreams' purse. I'll have to wait for another month while it hangs in the Aiken Quilt Show before I can get a picture of it. Somehow I managed not to get a picture of them while they hung at the quilt show...can you believe it?!?!? Another wonderful moment was when I saw 'Lydia's Quilt' hanging for the first time ever. WWOW!!!

PHQ Quilt Show

The Waffle House Challenge. Some of our members meet at the Waffle House after our monthly guild meeting and decided to make mini quilts to celebrate the occasion. The District Manager of Waffle House chose Linda Jo Yehle's 'Sue Loves the Waffle House Too!' as the winner. All participants received a 50 year Commemorative Coffee Mug and Pins.

Rachael Thomas' 'Moon Over Waffle House', Connie Burleson's 'Meet Me at the Waffle House', Carolyn Breland's 'Waffle House Challenge', Melinda Hollis' 'Order Up', and Kay Lawrence's 'Good Friends, Good Coffee'.

Sonnie McDaniel's 'For the Love of Music' and Margaret Hunt's 'My Finished Applique'.


Susan Edmonson's Workshop resulted in these four wallhangings (plus several others that didn't make it to the show). Kay Lawrences' 'With Great Love', Rachael Thomas' 'Grow Old Along With Me', Marie Atkinson's 'Friends Are the Flowers', Kim Massey's (mine) 'Folk Art Hearts & Flowers'.
Carolyn Breland's 'Dresden Plates'.
Judy Lockhart's 'Tulip Collage', 'Just Bloom', 'Yaquina Head Lighthouse', 'Lighthouse Sunset';

Racheal Thomas' 'Paige Turner', 'The Pirate', 'A Merry Halloween';

Melinda Hollis' 'Small Emotions';

Margaret Hunt's 'Fall Leaves', Jack Russell's Having Fun'