Win a Baby Lock Melody!!

It's that time of year for Amy's Creative Side's Blogger’s Quilt Festival :: Fall 2013

October 25 – 31 – Linky’s Open & Nominate for Viewer’s Choice
November 1 – 7 – Vote for favorites in each of the categories
November 8 – Winners announced

Select your category & join the fun!

• Favorite baby quilt
• Favorite throw quilt
• Favorite scrappy quilt
• Favorite group/bee quilt
• Favorite two color quilt
• Favorite ROYGBIV (color wheel) quilt
• Favorite applique quilt
• Favorite hand quilted quilt
• Favorite home machine quilted quilt
• Favorite professionally quilted quilt
• Favorite quilt photographer
• Favorite art quilt
• Favorite doll/mini quilt
• Favorite wall hanging

Baby Lock is providing a great giveaway for the viewers, a Melody machine.  I would love to have a new sewing machine. I have dreamed of having a machine with a cut feature not to mention the knee lift.  Thanks Baby Lock!

2013 AQS Quilt Week

My daughter and I went to our very first Quilt Festival.  Got off work on Friday night and drove to Des Moines, IA, only a short 3 hour drive away from our home.  We had a blast singing on the way up in the car, my radio isn't working so we just made our own music.  Good thing my daughter knows the lyrics to almost every song I threw at her. Stayed downtown at the Marriott, only a few blocks from the Iowa Events Center. 

Took tons of pictures!  Click to view over 200 photos uploaded to my Flickr album.  Sorry they aren't the best quality, only have the camera on my phone.  Each picture should have a snapshot before or after it of the card displaying the name of the quilt and who quilted it.

Enjoy!

Quilt Week Bound!!

So excited that at the last minute I have decided to make the trip to Des Moines, IA for AQS Quilt Week!!!!  I will drive up Friday after work, with my daughter, and go to the show on Saturday.

I was originally thinking of taking a Free Motion Quilting class Saturday but since my daughter is going to be able to go with me I will pass on the class.  With over 1600 Quilts on display there should be plenty to do!

I have never been to a Quilt Show so pretty excited to be finally be going.  I live in Kansas City, MO so from what I have heard the drive to Des Moines, IA is a pretty easy drive and only around 3.5 hours.

My daughter is 16 and a Junior in High School.  She is taking a Fashion/Sewing class this year and we were at JoAnn getting fabric and notions for her next project and I walked by this fabric and couldn't pass it up.  I see a fun quilt beading project in the future for this.