A quilt guild meeting, and other mysteries

This Saturday, I went to my first meeting with the New England Modern Quilt Guild. It was at Peggy Anne’s quilt shop in Concord, New Hampshire, and it was lovely to meet a bunch of like-minded modern fabric freaks.

I have to say, it was also a funny change of pace for me. Much unlike the other quilt guild I belong to, I was not the youngest person in the room by a margin of at least 20 years.  In fact, I was somewhere in the middle. Refreshing!

Anyways, after getting some business out of the way, we ooh-ed and ahh-ed our way through Peggy Anne’s shop.  And made some delightful discoveries.

These, for instance:

Oh, hello there, out-of-print Heather Ross!  The fat quarter shelves had some orange wildflowers and orange-and-blue stripes, and she had more than a BOLT of the stripes in a darker orange/red colorway.  Three fat quarters and a yard and a half of the other stripe later, I left.

An hour later, I got home and realized I left my (much beloved and rather pricey) camera at the shop.  Which was closing for the day.  And not open on Sundays.  So today, with kids in tow, we drove all the way back up to Concord.

I’m apparently training the kids well, because we went inside and they asked if they could get some fabric. HA!  Peggy Anne was a doll and let them each pick their own fat quarter, no charge!  Isn’t she sweet?  And, OK, the fabrics they chose were kind of ugly, but whatever.

And then, I remembered that she said something on Saturday about quilt kits being 20% off.  Well, I’m not really a big fan of quilt kits. I’d much rather pick my own fabrics, obviously, and I seldom use patterns.  Plus, I think they tend to have some weird, ugly things mixed in with the good stuff.  And yet, I left the shop today with not one, but TWO quilt kits.

Yes, some weird novelty prints in there, and ugly blenders.  But what’s that I see in the back…?

Oh, would you look at that!  Some MORE out-of-print Heather Ross, this time some pink wildflowers, pink and yellow dots, and ANOTHER colorway of the stripes!

And what do I spy in that second bag?  DOGS!  Blue dogs!  There was another bag with the dogs on orange, but I restrained myself.

Anyways, I don’t look at it as spending money on quilt kits I don’t need.  I look at it as getting more than 4 1/2 yards of out-of-print Heather Ross (nearly 2 yards each of the dogs and the dots) for under $50.  Try scoring that on eBay.

And, as you can see, I got my camera back.