Thistle Quilt Guild Show

Hello out there in blogland , are you ready to pull up a seat and enjoy just a small sampling of the Thistle Quilt Show that took place on Saturday ? I promise to keep this short and sweet and hopefully I won't disappoint.
 First off the highlight of the day for me was meeting up with fellow bloggers Lesley , Linda and Karen and also Linda's daughter joined us as we viewed the quilts . It was so wonderful to meet up again with Lesley and Linda and to have the opportunity to meet Karen for the first time , we had such a great time together.

Here we are all posed for the camera which was kindly operated by Linda's daughter . From the left is Lesley, Karen , Linda and me :-)

 I have to share the great tote bag Linda made for the occasion and she managed to fill it too , she purchased a few things from the vendors and then lucky Linda won a door prize , congrats Linda ! Linda had a few people ask about her tote and even had her photo taken a few times  , it was a real big hit :-)

This little display are quilts that resulted from  the nine patch exchange that I also took part in with the girls I quilt with on Tuesdays along with two others , such fun and just look at the great quilts we produced!!

Here are Lesley and Karen admiring some of the  quilts .

Two pretty quilts, the one on the left was made by my friend Diane , can't remember who made the one on the right but it could also have been Diane , both beautiful!

Along the stage we had a wonderful array of sampler quilts , so many colors and varieties of blocks , loved this display .

Part of our Christmas display , this one is for you Annette, do you see the little table toppers you designed ?

I love this quilt , a simple but very effective pattern !

A gorgeous Christmas quilt made by Joyce , loved the machine quilting on this one too  .

Still in the Christmas section , I think the little Santa wall hanging is adorable but that machine probably has my drool all over it , wow it was incredible , the stencils were in perfect condition  and a hand crank no less , I am impressed !!

Finally here is the view from the stage , just one direction , should have taken one from the other direction too but you get the idea just how much was on display. Our guild has around 72 members but not all members contributed to the show , we have to work on that , we want to see something from everyone next year :-)
Thanks for coming along , I hope you enjoyed the  show , there was so much more but I  , well I have to be honest here , I was too busy talking and visiting with my blogging friends that I didn't take all that many photos . To see a few more photos you could hop on over to visit with Linda , she has posted quite a few .
Enjoy your day and thanks again to my blogging friends for taking the time to travel to see our show , it was very much appreciated !!
hugs Sheila