Road to California 2011

[View My TQS Profile KakeM]

You gotta love California restaurants on a Friday night....Famous Daves won't take reservations and 6pm is a busy busy time for them....but the manager assures me if we go at 5pm we will have no long time to wait.....having said that I will go over there earlier than 5pm and commandeer a table or 2 and be there waiting for the hungry quilters to join me. Does this sound like a good idea? It seems that no place in the vicinity does reservations unless you are over 20+ people. I know there will be tired, sore feet and the need to sit, have some food and unwind from all the excitement of the day at the show...Let me know at the meet and greet on Friday at 1pm if you are planning to have BBQ with the rest of us then when I go over I can have them set up just what we need.
Karen

[View My TQS Profile Margo]

Don't forget to find Keith and get some pictures for us!!

[View My TQS Profile KakeM]

Don't forget to find Keith and get some pictures for us!!

We will for sure Margo. Hope he has his latest quilt to show off! Wish you were coming!

[View My TQS Profile Spitfire]

Aw, Sharon, that's so sweet of you. We did have fun at that Seminar, didn't we? We'll be thinking of you in warm, sunny SoCal - Tina

[View My TQS Profile fabrikath]

I tried to change my profile picture (from the cute little black & white cocker spaniel) and ran into the same problem with the avatar generator. At any rate, Marcia (foxrunquilter) and I (fabrikath) will be at the show on Saturday and Sunday. Sorry to miss the dinner on Friday, and looking forward to meeting all who come to the meet and greets on those days. Ciao, Kathy Hendry

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Oops. There it is after all. Sorry about the shadows. I'm the one in the blue vest. Kath

[View My TQS Profile Keith]

Mom said 'yes' to the BBQ!!! She's so much easier than Eddie - he would have put up a fight. =) And I did make it to the barber on Saturday. I packed Curvilinear Energy to work on in the hotel with Mom - but you know I'm too bashful to take it out of the room...

Aaugh!! It might be 73... I've already packed sweaters!

And I'm taking the train again. So much more relaxing than driving. The station is a few miles from my house and right down the street from the Ontario Convention Center. How fun is that?

[View My TQS Profile fabrikath]

Keith-bring at least one of those sweaters-it can be awfully cold sometimes inside the conv. ctr. Have a good trip. There's something about the train that's magic!

[View My TQS Profile DaraF]

Well I'm bummed. I was supposed to get to go to RTC today but this morning the hubby got up and went to work like there was nothing planned. I'm pretty angry right now that he didn't even give it any thought. But I have already decided how I am going to deal with this situation. He's going to find out all the things that I'm going to forget to give any thought to over the next few months... =-(

[View My TQS Profile Rorimer]

I am a little bummed too. I was there all day on Thursday, met my sister there and completely forgot about meeting at Superior Threads' booth! We spent most of the time talking, we hadn't seen each other for awhile and so I didn't see many quilts. She spent three days there. My daughter wanted to go today (Sunday) so I figured I could see the quilts then. DD still came for a visit but she had changed her mind about going to Road. I couldn't very well go off to a quilt show when DD was here for a visit. Darn! Oh well, there's always next year! What I did see was beautiful. I hope others will post some photos because I really didn't see the big winners.

I was able to get John Flynn to sign the quilt he made for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative challenge in November, 2010. My bid was the winner for his "Heart of the Storm". Flynn was the Featured Artist at Road to California this year. I've spoken with him many times at Road before but this year, holding his quilt and getting him to sign it for me, I was starstruck! You'd think I was a teenager again, seeing the Beatles! There's my age, right out there!

JoAnne in southern California

By the way, take a look at the quilts for sale at www.alzquilts.org You can also see the quilts that will be auctioned the first ten days of February. I won't tell you the one I hope to get!

[View My TQS Profile eileenkny]

Can anyone tell me who won Best of Show at the R2C show? I got an email from somebody who said they won but they didn't sign it! When I go to the website, the info isn't current. I'd just like to know so I can really congratulate the winner.

[View My TQS Profile Keith]

Hi Eileen! I think it was a nature picture quilt - very beautiful and well done - except it wasn't a real picture - it was natural looking but the maker's fantasy nature scape - a boulder with a hole in it - sort of a rock bridge. I don't know the name of the piece or the maker(s). This probably isn't much help... especially if I'm wrong...

If I'm right, a picture of it is in Karen's (KakeM's) Smilebox in her blog about Road2CA. Karen said "Recognize these?" Is the maker a TQS member?

[View My TQS Profile KakeM]

I think you are right Keith, but I don't remember the name of the quilter. I will look around and se if I can find it. I don't think she was a TQS member though.

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Road to California 2011

Winner of $3,000.00 for Best of Show Quilt
Sponsored by Hoffman California Fabrics

Entered by Kathy McNeil (Tulalip, WA)
Made by Kathy McNeil
Quilted by Kathy McNeil

You can see it on her website: http://www.kathymcneilquilts.com/ Beautiful!

A friend loaned me the Road to CA dvd she bought, the winners are all shown on it. I don't know why they haven't updated their site.

JoAnne
Southern California

[View My TQS Profile KakeM]

Thanks JoAnne...I couldn't find the info either....glad your friend had the DVD. Easy to see why it won...it is a wonderful quilt.