Las Vegas

Spent the weekend in Vegas. So many people in one town! Nice weather, lots of walking, good food and company, ahhhhh some down time. And a little Michael Jackson.

    Crepes in The Paris

   The view of the pool out our window

    The Venetian

  Autumn in the Bellagio

   Shopping.......

   Just "clowning around"

  Ahhhh one of our favorite spots for dining.

   

   The Venetian shoppes.

Great getaway. 

Seeing Starz

Making some wonky stars to put into a charity quilt for QuiltCon. These are what I have so far.....

        This one was paperpieced.

          Not my fav technique, 

            but I like the star.

      And today these were born

   And a couple of 9 1/2 " ones

Another Flimsy Finish

I have been working on this quilt a long time. And so now finally the top is done!

This is a shot of the blocks all assembled

Then the two borders were added.

Tumalo Trails is finally a flimsy!

From Bonnie Hunters book / Scraps & Shirttails II

http://quiltville.com/

And I love it!

Even made some words to put on the back.

Now on to piecing the back.....

Quilt Show

 This weekend Westside Quilt Guild held a  very successful quilt show.

          COLOR POWER

    Our banner above the Tuality    

              Health Ed building

We had some beautiful quilts...

And a great space to display them 

    

   I love this one of Patty's

      I had a few of mine there too!

     Quilts Quilts and more Quilts

    We are a talented prolific group

  This was Paula's display of antique sewing machines.

      This one was wooden!

Love the decals on this beauty!

       Our Vendors were great!

       Of course I took the

        opportunity to shop!

    Oh look another one of mine!

  Love this one made by Barbara

And then we had some special    

       Featured Quilters. 

   One of our own. Joyce Gieszler

   And Elizabeth 

(oh Fransson) Hartman. 

But our volunteers were the most special. Love this group!

   Always a smile on our faces

   Love our craft!

  And a chair for our beautiful Roni whose presence is and will always be sorely missed .

A most Successful show!

A Gammill Retreat

Earlier this week I attended a Gammill retreat over by the airport. I got in at the last minute as I just happened to find out about it through one of the forums that I follow. What a great learning experience for me. I was in the handguided class. Only about 12 of us in there. We each got a machine to practice on! The Statler group was so much bigger. I think about 100 in that group. Great to network with some of  the Gammill users in this Northwest area. Andrew the dealer out of Wenatchee is such a wealth of information. Great teachers. Great organizers. A great retreat! I didn't take many pictures as I was too busy learning.....