Quilt Show ... Oh Look ... PIE!!!

There's one thing I learned about quilt shows many years ago.   I'm an old fashioned traditional quilt maker.  Modern is not my cup of tea, although I think it's beautiful.  To put it in simple terms, none of these are COWBOY fare.  

Striking, yes, but I reject out of hand anything that requires circles.  This year there was a lot of appliqué on the quilts.  It's interesting to see the trends and for some reason this year was much more modern.

This is fabulous paper piecing.  I did one and really enjoyed it, but it must have been the easiest one made.  Since then I purchased three more and cannot for the life of me figure out how to make them.  They remain on the shelves.  Yes I've tried to find a teacher, but so far, no luck.

Quilt shows always have lots of vendors ready to sell you their wares, thus the need for cash.  For some weird reason, nothing struck my fancy this time around.  

Just to show you that all quilts are not created equal, we thought this one was aptly named ... Flower Nightmare.  You just have to have the right house to put it in.  It was beautifully done, but again, not cowboy-ish.

This was part of a fascinating exhibit of small quilt projects, all pertaining to Princess Diana.  If you like quilts, check out Ray's Blog.  I'm sure he will post more pictures of the quilts.

My favorite was this beauty ... still no cowboy ... but fabulous anyway.  

I did pick up this panel of images to make into a quilt at some point.  And so we made a beeline to the Marketplace for more kokopeli fabric.   I'm proud to say Ray and Cindy spent WAY more than I did for once!  It's a race you know!

Then we wandered over to the popcorn place ... caramel, my all time favorite.  How can you possibly walk by that smell??  I was actually looking for a small heavy metal step stool for Cooper so he can get up on the chair in the rig, but found nothing.

SQUIRREL!!  I made a trip to Walmart for bottled water in the afternoon.  It's probably the biggest store I've been in.  It didn't take long to get completely distracted by these yummy little 50 cent pies.  Okay, water and pies.  

At some point I got a note on my phone that one of my tires was low on air.  Ray got out his handy dandy mini air compressor and we aired them up.  Now if I can only figure out how I lost 20 gallons of water between Tucson and here.  I know it was full because water came out the overflow.  I have been very careful with usage and now only have about 25 gallons left out of 62.  How does that happen??  There's that learning curve again.

My plan for today was to rest up for the trip to Quartzsite tomorrow, but I keep hearing this whisper ..... you need a mini air compressor (it's always better to be prepared) ...... and go to the quilt store, go to the quilt store!!!!!