Too Much Fun in a Nutshell

The NSQBQ girls,

Linda, Sheila, Lesley, and myself,

gave a quilt show at

the 10th Annual Fibre Arts Festival 

in Amherst, NS

this past weekend.

Our venue was the town hall lobby, 

so space was at a premium,

but we made the best of it!

A special thank you to the Town Hall personnel

for tolerating us on such short notice.

We didn't make it easy!

Can you just imagine the four of us buzzing around

trying to set this up right under their noses?

It was quite the flurry of activity.

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In the meantime,

I've been doing some secret sewing,

and now I can show and tell!

Linda has a very significant birthday coming up,

so I invited some friends and her modern quilt guild

to, as Lesley so aptly phrased it,

"give her a birthday hug by making a block"

for a special birthday signature quilt.

The other Karen, from Sugarfree Quilts, drove down to Amherst

to see our show, and, as prearranged, 

lured Linda away for a little while.

I pinned her quilt over another quilt, 

so it would be the first thing she saw when she came back in.

Upon reentering Town Hall,

she spotted this quilt right away and said,

"What's that quilt?  Where's my wedding quilt?"

"Oh," said Sheila, "we sold that and put this one up in it's place."

Half believing her, Linda approached the quilt with trepidation,

and started looking it all over

.

and then the light dawned

at which point I lost it,

started to cry,

rushed in for a hug,

and missed any more photo opportunities.

Linda did email a photo of the wonderful back,

the paper pieced panel contributed by Karen Chase.

I added the right hand column

which consisted of the label and a special block signed by Karen

before I brought it up to size.

That was our weekend in a nut shell!

I'm sure when you visit the other NSQBQ members,

you'll learn more about it.

I know we all agree 

that too much fun equals exhaustion!

Hope you had a wonderful, funderful weekend, too,

and are looking forward to a great week!

XO,

karen