Walla Walla Guild Visit

I had an amazing time in Walla Walla with Mary, who coordinated the details!

I arrived early enough for a little fun before the meeting. 

This is how google described one of our stops: 

Powered By Fabric is a private quilting and fabric arts studio in Walla Walla, Washington, owned and operated by local fiber artist Eddie Walker. Located on the southwest corner of 5th and Rose (101 N. 5th St), it serves as a community hub for workshops, sew-ins, and quilting classes. 

Eddie makes quilts in the style I love. Like this strippy quilt!

I love how she uses her space to bring the quilting community together!

 

Next up Stash quilt shop. Mary's favorite! 

It is jammed pack with lovely fabric!

It is located in a historic old building. Look at the reproduction ceiling! Gorgeous!

Look at those darling machines at WW Sew and Vac!

Here is the guild raffle quilt that I will be winning later this year!!! LOL 

It is a very active and busy guild with lots of members! YAY! I love that!

Jean F came from quite a distance and brought some amazing show and tell which included 2024 Humble Quilts quiltalong Homestead!

I love this! Too bad I didn't have someone hold that up for me. I'm a fan of the small red and white stripe print and the center panel. 

Another follower Tina came to the guild meeting and brought her 2 friends. It was lovely to see them! I thought I had a photo but we much have used her camera. 

I met the owner of Highland Quilts in Athena, Oregon at the guild and she asked about purchasing some of my patterns for her shop. Here is my view of the cute town in the middle of farming country! Her shop was jammed packed and was busy for a weekday morning! That is awesome! I cannot believe I didn't take any photos of the shop!

It was such a fun trip!

If your guild is looking for a trunk show or classes please consider me! I'm scheduling into 2027 and will travel or Zoom!

I'm having a great week and hope you are too!

Inspiration Road Trip

When going to a quilt show in Lancaster County PA expect to see a lot of lovely farms!

And fun quilt shops in lovely off the beaten places! This was Zincks,

The quilt shops had plenty of red, white and blue patriotic decor and fabric- ready for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 

This year I got to see my host from the Lebanon guild- Maenad. 3 years ago she picked me up from the airport and drove me all over the countryside quilt shops! 

Kerry recognized me and said hi! I love that!! I made a trip through Ohio in 2019 visiting several quilt guilds and did trunk shows. She was at a guild in Hermitage, PA. (I believe its on the OH-PA border)  I'd love to do that again Ohio/PA!

Saw a sign that said something like "Quilt Barn" ahead- screech, went the brakes!

The Amish man was super friendly and let me take photos of the shop. Above is their quilt stash they use to make the quilts they will sell,

Here are all the tops waiting to be quilted. They employ about 100 quilters throughout the area to quilt for them. 

This was out front of the business. The sign we saw was tiny attached to a post.

My hosts, Bruce and Cheryl, (Not shown above!)  this year have pigs that they got recently for the grandson boys to raise for 4H. 

Another quilt shop in the countryside. 

The coffee experience has improved by leaps and bounds in Lancaster Co. Saw this at a coffee shop. No, I didn't bring any home.

Beautiful buildings. 

WE stopped at another Amish owned business following a roadside stand. She had a fun antique and primitive shop. When I was going back to the car I saw their buggy in the garage. 

 

This was a vintage beauty in the shop. The color in the photo above is more accurate.

It was fairly heavy and had a unusual backing. I think it was a blanket. 

Such an amazing time!! The quilt show was incredible!

I was flying standby from Philadelphia- San Francisco- Oregon. ICE was assisting in PHL- no wait, which was really nice and I was the LAST person on the plane (I rec'd the LAST seat) from SFO to home! Life is good!

Time to unpack! Will be sharing quilts from the show later this week. 

Retreat Week Recap

Three of us were able to start our retreat last week!

Christy's Chilowi (Quiltville mystery) was first up on her to-do list.

Carrie left her machine foot pedal so she was working on some visible/boho patchwork for her granddaughter.

I wanted to get my machine applique completed on the Bible Quilt so I got to that right away. 

Carrie resurrected her Lone Cabin quilt top! Love this so much!  We picked up her foot pedal on Saturday. 

Here is a link to my finished quilt HERE. I have a the book in my Etsy shop HERE if you are interested. 

I heard about a stash sale so we made it there early Saturday. 

A stop at the quilt shop was next! Here is The Quilt Basket in Bend. Not overly friendly. 

Anvil Sewing in Bend. A lot of machines- friendly staff.

More to come!

And just in case we need a reminder. 

 

Monday Muse

Here are 2 "sardines" I picked up in Portugal. You saw a lot of this pattern on towels, fabric and tchotch's  but these were a bit different. Made from linen and in a small boutique store that offered classes. When we stopped in people were painting tiles! These were heavy like a well made pin cushion and I loved how they were decorated. 

Speaking of sardines.....

There are entire stores dedicated to sardines!

The dates for fun, not the date they were canned! lol 

We did bring some home and generally I'm not a sardine girl.

Last week the Stitchin' Post in Sisters had their yearly pajama sale with 20% off and if you were in PJ's you could get an extra discount.  It was a great time to catch up with my friend Christy. 

Here are a few shots from the shop. One wall is dedicated to quilt exhibits.

We changed out of our PJ's had a lovely cuppa joe and then went to a holiday bazaar. Not quite thinking Christmas yet, but bought my sis a little vintage photo. 

UPDATE: I'm finally feeling better! Pretty sure it was covid I had. Today I'm planning on going back to the gym. I've been working out at home (easy and chill) but between vacation to Portugal and illness it has been a month! 

My Summit Stitches is basted and hope to get quilting this week. 

Also working on the Bible Quilt that Juliann donated to Faith Seeds cause. 

Speaking of Faith Seeds the trip to Guatemala is back on for the first week of February! 

My saved photos are overflowing so I have made slide shows and added them to YouTube. I've only got a few new ones for now, but plan on adding a lot more. Basically they will be travel, missions, quilts, hiking. Feel free to take a look HERE.  If you want to be notified of a new video uploaded you can subscribe. They are novice videos, but I'm trying! 

Also, I've added new items to my Etsy store and have put some completed quilts on sale. Check it out HERE if you'd like. 

Thank you for reading Humble Quilts!!

Let's all have a wonderful week!