Sorry, I don’t have much to say in the roundup today.  I did put up some pictures of the NQA show in the previous posting.  I hope you enjoy them!

I had a fabulous time at the NQA show in Columbus, Ohio.  As usual there were tons of awesome vendors and plenty of terrific quilts to see.  

What did I spend my money on?  

1) A piping kit from Susan Cleveland

2) A darling little quilt pattern to paper piece (ok, I shudder a little at that…I didn’t have a good experience the first and only time I paper-pieced) a miniature Amish quilt

3) Batiks in green, blue, and purple as well as plain old black fabric to make the Amish quilt

4) The ‘Guide to Judged Quilt Shows‘ put out by NQA (Krypto already chewed out several pages and part of the cover)

5) Some YLI thread for piecing the sunburst blocks.  I worked on it on the bus on the way to Columbus and ran out of thread.  I like this thread a lot better…somehow it feels smoother but also threads on the needle much easier.

I took a break from the frugal quilting series because I wanted to release something.  We’ve been super busy trying to get our house ready to put up for sale.  I know – it’s not a great time to sell but our circumstances don’t care about the timing!  The Husband makes a (surprise) guest appearance.  

I mentioned 4 books in this episode:

• The Civil War Love Letter Quilt by Rosemary Youngs
• The Quilter’s Catalog – a comprehensive resource guide by Meg Cox
• Material Obsession – Modern quilts with traditional roots by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke
• American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Amelia Peck

I finished a Round Robin round – applique!  I do have a picture of it but of course I haven’t downloaded it from the camera which is AWOL somewhere in the bowels of or house.  (update: found the camera!)

Me & the latest addition to someone else's robin

I’ll be at the NQA show June 19th.  Stop me and say hello if you go!

As mentioned in the show, I have one goal for the podcast: twenty fifteen minute episodes in 2009.  Can I do it?  We’ll see!  1 down, 19 to go.

My personal quilting goals – I have four goals for the year.  Complete a guild crayon challenge quilt, complete a guild round robin (top only), complete 6 blocks from my hand pieced project – the Sunburst blocks from the Christmas in July project of the August 2007 Quilter’s Newsletter, and complete the Moulin Rouge quilt from the book Quick Colorful Quilts for The Boy.

I am a member of NQA and I spent some time talking about the benefits of membership & the SHOW!!  I can’t wait for the show, June 18-20, 2009.  I will be attending at least one day this year.  I hope to see you there