{"id":6176,"date":"2010-08-03T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:02:51","slug":"gaqf-visit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/gaqf-visit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GAQF Visit Part#2"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was hard to get to the Great American Quilt Factory. It is in Denver, but pretty far away from downtown. Unlike my last trip<\/a>, I didn’t have a car or a navigator. Thus, I didn’t think I would make it out there on this trip.<\/p>\n

On a whim, I asked a librarian who used to live in Denver about transportation. He and his wife had driven to Denver. We mapped out a plan for getting there on public transportation and I was set to go, but not convinced that I could make it out and back in time for my flight. Later that day I received an email from my librarian friend’s wife and she wanted to go to GAQF! Score! Wednesday, before I left, we drove out there and had a blast.<\/p>\n

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GAQF Visit #2 Fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above are the dots I bought! I can’t really say fabrics, because they are almost all dots! The food fabrics are for my mom<\/a>‘s quilt. The black and white large dots are for a bag and everything else is on spec. The dots in the upper left hand corner are really nice Ellen Medlock<\/a> dots. I didn’t think I had ever heard of her before, but when I looked at her site I think that Kathy from Finishing Lines<\/a> mentioned Medlock’s bag patterns to me.<\/p>\n

I saw two books that spurred my imagination and my recent scary Christmas mania. One was Christmas with Possibilities<\/a>. I liked some of the motifs. One was especially appealing: a star with a spiral inside. The other book was called More Joy to the World<\/a>, which had a really nice Noel pillow pattern. I didn’t buy either as they were mostly pattern books and I would rather get them out of the library or used. Sadly, they are not available at the library and used the books are about $13. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

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GAQF: Patterns and Notions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Flesh colored Aurifil had been on my mind since TFQ mentioned it to me after she used it for one of her projects. I also found that I needed some white thread. I saw them at the shop, so I picked them up.<\/p>\n

The Lazy Girl pattern was an impulse buy. It might make a good gift for my Grama. Being really poor at reading patterns, I didn’t look at the materials list. I always assume that, since I mostly make quilts, I have everything on hand. That isn’t the case with this pattern. I need a bottom and some fusible batting. When I saw that it scared me because of the Amy Butler experience<\/a> from last November. I put the additional supplies on the list to buy.<\/p>\n

One of the best parts was that Beth (yes, another Beth in my life!), who does embroidery and is interested in quilting, but hasn’t taken a class or ever made a quilt, left with three patterns! One was for a flannel quilt using a panel. The two others were for Christmas decorations. One was for wool ornaments and one was for an arty wool Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

New Beth and I plan to get together so I can look at 60 year old quilt that has some damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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