In June, 2024, we attended the 3rd annual Upper County quilt show in Cambridge, Idaho which has a population of only 335, located in Washington County (population 11k). For a location with this population – there sure were a lot of wonderful quilts to look at. I got a picture of a few before finding out both camera batteries quickly went dead. This quilt show is open for an entire week at the local school so there is plenty of…
May 17th and 18th of 2024 found us in Yakima, Washington enjoying the Quilts in the City show put on by the Yakima Valley Quilters’ Guild. There was an entire convention hall filled with quilts and another filled with vendors. They labeled all the aisles as street names, like you were in a city of quilts! There were a lot of imaginative roads to be found. I am always partial to Halloween, so here was my favorite Halloween quilt –…
The last weekend of September in Boise, Idaho finds us at the Boise Basin Quilters 2023 show. There were so many quilts to look at in the exhibition hall as well as a whole hall of vendors and demonstrations. A lot to see and do to fill your day. This was the 40th annual quilt show and the theme was the “Ruby Jubilee” – so they had a special category of competition for red and white only quilts. There were…
Our first adventure takes us to Cambridge Idaho and the 2nd Annual Upper County Quilt show. This is the first time we have been to this quilt show – the theme for the show was “One Room School House”. Since we had never been here before we were excited to see the variety of quilts displayed. There were quite a few quilts to be admired (almost 100), a student division, plus a challenge block wall with quilt blocks focusing on…