Thanks to Andy and Roslyn, I had a wonderful visit yesterday at the Bellevue Pacific Fabrics & Crafts.
Children's Crafting
I loved the children’s crafting section. Everything you could possibly want for crafting with your kids is available, including Painting by Numbers, Foil Painting, Needlepoint, Purse Kits (there are also great purse handles to craft for adult purses), Crochet and Knit Kits, Coloring Kits, Beading Kits and much more.
I also really enjoyed digging through the oriental fabrics and seeing the massive array of buttons, beads and yarns available. If you ever want to see the full spectrum of colors available in crafting, I highly recommend that you check out these sections at your local Pacific Fabrics & Crafts store.
Quilt Show
Kudos to all of YOU for entering your wonderful quilts in the show. They are all beautiful and so obviously sewn with patience, care, life wisdom and heart.
The categories for the quilts are:
- Appliqué (I think my fav)
- Traditional Pieced
- Traditional Mixed
- Contemporary
- From Pacific Fabric Class
- Seasonal
- Employee
- Best of Show
The themes ranged from Home & Garden to Elvis to the Mariner’s, and more. The sizes ranged from small (think 15x20”) to large (think 83x98”).
“I’m sorry,” I had to tell Rosyn. “I can’t possibly pick a favorite.”
Well, she handed me a ballot anyway (ha) and it took me forever and a day to decide my vote in each category. I am including some pictures of my favorites with this post.
If you haven’t visited and voted yet, please do so. I may visit the shows at more locations. And listen—how about you enter next year so that I can see your quilt too?
Julie
Thank you for your nice comments on my Mariner's T-shirt quilt. Your readers might like to know that they could *win* this quilt!
It is one of two auction quilts to benefit Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Jamie Moyer "Catch A Cure For Cancer." They are my way of 'paying it forward' for the care I received for my cancer treatments in 2006.
Posted by: Quiltster | May 31, 2008 at 06:37 PM