Wonderful Wednesday - QuiltCon Edition

WARNING!!!  PHOTO HEAVY POST!!!

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  Today, I'm here to tell you about my trip to QuiltCon last week.  It was a quick trip, but a really good one.  Lots of incredible quilts, a good number of friends, but NO SHOPPING (for me.)  My apologies to all of the wonderful vendors, but was not one thing that I needed to buy.

Read on to see a portion of what and who I saw that the show...

The show was in Raleigh at the convention center.  My bee mate (Knittingsuek) from my Monthly Evening Quilt Bee and I arrived later than the majority of attendees.  I'm not sure if it was the timing or the fact that we went on Friday this time, but our "favorite" parking deck was FULL!  :o((

Our arrival...

Let's start with a bird's eye view of the show floor...

Quilts on the left:

More quilts toward the center:

"Cafeteria", lecture space and vendor section toward the back and right of the photo below:

What to do first???

We decided to walk the show first and do the vendors after lunch.  Here are a few of the quilts that I found interesting:

A couple of quilts from the Windham Artisan Cotton 2026 Challenge:

Including one photographed for my friend Jean, remembering her Pear quilt phase:

I didn't get very far before running into Dee Dee from my Weekly Morning Quilt Group:

A few more quilt photos...

While the construction on this quilt was interesting...

You really had to step back and take a photo to recognize its brilliance:

Before finding one that reminded me of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge friends.  The Color of the Month for February is GREEN:

While Sue was visiting with Allison Glass...

I recognized Linda @ Flourishing Palms walking by.  I called her name and she turned to exclaim mine.  It's always a pleasure to chat back and forth online, but it was even more fun to meet Linda in person.  Photo op time:

The quilts are amazing, but let's eat!!!

We found a free chair in the "cafeteria" and Sue had her Rollator with a built-in seat.  It felt great to sit and relax for a bit.  During lunch I saw a couple friends from guild.  It was a pleasure to meet Carrie P's sister and oh-SEW-good to see Diane H!  No photos of them.

After lunch it was time for my Scrap Club Meetup...

Jeff and Teresa met yesterday and Beth will join them tomorrow, but here is picture proof that thanks to Kristen @ Scrap Fabric Love we have built a wonderful community:

Jeff had a gift for me.  One of his patterns, an amazing ATC, and a bundle of FQs for me to choose any that I liked.  I restrained myself and only took two:

Thanks SEW much, Jeff!

I also pulled 4FQs for an Ugly Fabric Swap for our QuiltCon Meetup Challenge, but they will wait to pull theirs when they meet Beth tomorrow:

We chatted for quite some time, but I still needed to see more of the quilts before it was time to head for home.  I got this far before remembering that I should check my phone.

Before beginning, I checked my phone for messages.  Britt had texted so I went to find her before she and Lynda Mac left the venue:

Another stroll through the quilts revealed this (maker tag not captured) GREEN quilt...

And this one with my RSC Quilter friends in mind:

Along with several others that I was particularly drawn to...

Then I was determined to see more of the quilts...

These are a few of the ones that drew me in for a closer look:

I particularly liked this group quilt which I later realized was one that Karen Brown of Just Get It Done Quilts participated in making:

Before I knew it, Sue was texting to see where I was.  We took in one more section of the quilt display before sayin goodbye to QuiltCon 2026.

It was a wonderful (and exhausting) day.  Thanks for dragging me along, Sue!

Until next time...

Go see a QUILT show!!!