Chicago Quilt Show report

We left Traverse City on Wednesday and had a very uneventful bus ride down to Chicago. We arrived in the early evening but the show really didn't open until Thursday evening. I really don't know why we went down on Wednesday but that was just the schedule. SO Kathy and I decided to take the train downtown on Thursday and check out the city. It took about an hour to do the whole trip downtown but it was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the day shopping and walking around. Kathy hadn't been downtown Chicago in many years so we just walked up Michigan Ave. to the Watertower Place. Kathy wanted to visit the American Doll store. We walked around there and had lunch. The flowers were out in full bloom and the weather was perfect. I took Kathy into Neiman Marcus just to look around. We didn't buy anything but it was fun to look around.

The flowers were beautiful.

We were back at the hotel by 5 to go to the evening preview. The vendors were open and selling things. As you can see I managed to find a few things at Crate and Barrel downtown and at the quilt show.

The quilts were spectacular. This was a charity quilt, not even part of the competition.

I liked the simplicity of this pattern so I bought it.

Our lunchtime speaker makes these very colorful quilts. The colors are really more vibrant in person but I thought this one looked very nice.

We also took a class about how to make rugs on a loom with scraps. We constructed our own looms and learned how to weave them.

We had a wonderful time. It was inspirational to walk around and look at all the quilts, talk to the vendors and see 'possibilities'. I felt that there are many avenues to take my hobby of working with fabric and different types of projects.