European Patchwork Vacation

Hello and Happy Friday! I'm having a blast seeing all the blocks coming together for Country Roads.
 In order to keep you from being too bored from seeing someone else vacation photos, (MINE)  I'll try and show you highlights from our travels and the quilt show on each post. (I'll try and keep it to 3 posts)

 My daughter, Rene and I, had traveled to NYC to see the Infinite Variety Quilt show. We knew by that trip we traveled well together. We had been talking about the European Patchwork for a couple of years and she finally said this was a good year for her to do it. Here we are getting ready to board the plane. (This was my first trip to France!)

We rented a great little apartment in the heart of the Latin Qtr. Rene was standing by the entrance in this photo. We loved it!

Directly around the corner from our apartment was this scene. 

 Our first meal. We loved people watching. What you can't see was the man in the sunglasses was smoking as well as wearing a scarf, sunglasses and drinking wine. It was so typically French I had to capture it on film.

 We took off to explore and the Notre Dame was just a few blocks away.

 As was the River Seine.

 The day was beautiful so we explored. The architecture was amazing!

 The Louvre was gorgeous.

 We got to the Eiffel Tower right about dark. WOW!

 Seriously amazing!

 The next day we made our way to D'Orsay Museum. 

The building itself it quite wonderful! It was the Orsay railway station built in 1900.

 Like the monuments in Washington DC the Arc de Triumph is much larger than the photos show.

 Had to get the french baguette to bring home.

 We met up with a friend of Cecile's who brought us to the textile district in Montmartre. It was  fun looking through the 5 stories of Marche Saint Pierre.

 At the foot of the beautiful Sacre Coeur. This was actually the day it rained the most the whole week in France. We didn't let it stop us.

 We met Cecile for lunch then we all went to Sajou haberdashery. (I love that word!) There was a little fabric, mostly dutch, and lots of thread, beautiful advertisements and stitcheries.  They make the most adorable little scissors here in France too, but they were a little beyond my budget. We kissed and hugged and bade them farewell,. What a wonderful day we had!

 It wasn't over! We had planned on doing a night time bicycle tour in Paris and what a blast we had!

Our last night in Paris ended with a Seine boat tour with wine with the beauty of Paris in the background.

Quilt Show:
One of my favorite exhibits at the Quilt show was Beauville's Legendary Fabrics. They had on display exclusive antique fabric that have never been shown to the public before.

They also had bags of fabric scraps, which I purchased!

Mary Koval and I had a chat about these and she said I MUST! So I did! lol

Thanks for coming along.............

If you want to see some more countryside where I ran click HERE