We just returned from a great trip to Connecticut. I was lucky to work with the Connecticut Piecemaker Quilt Guild for the first part of my trip. My guild contact, Linda, was wonderful and even made made me homemade soup! She and all the guild members were so nice. To find out more about this guild visit their website http://ctpiecemakers.org
The meeting was very well attended.
While I was hard at work teaching a workshop on Tuesday the ladies from the guild told Joe he should visit the PEZ Factory/Museum. So, here are some of the photos Joe took. He said the colors and the thousands of Pez heads was phenomenal.
They ship tens of thousands of PEZ candies every day from their U.S. Headquarters in Orange, CT.
The visitor center has thousands of PEZ dispensers and notes you are not famous until you have your own PEZ Head.
From there we drove to Simsbury, Connecticut and I worked with the Farmington Valley Quilters. I thought this was the second time I worked with this guild and then I came to find out it was actually the third time I worked with this guild. Time flies. The last time I worked with them was eight years ago. And I was happy to be back. It is such a beautiful area and has some really nice quilters. To find out more about this guild visit their site at http://www.fvqi.org
Here are some of the ladies hard at work during the workshop on Thursday.
While I was teaching Joe went on another journey. He went to the local quilt shop, Sew Inspired. http://www.sewinspiredquilts.com
I do not believe he went without me…… He met Sandy who with her partner Bev have been at the Simsbury location for eight years.
According to Joe they have an awesome fabric collection, fantastic studio and class room.
If you are near Hartford CT a trip to Sew Inspired in Simsbury is a must.
And of course you’ll need to stop by the oldest tree in Connecticut, called the Pinchot Sycamore named for Gilford Pinchot, a resident of Simsbury, an early conservationist who later became the governor of Pennsylvania. The tree is over 104 feet tall and its is more than 28 feet round!! A trip with Joe is always a history lesson and a journey down the road less traveled.
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While at the Outer Banks I read Lisa Gardner’s new book, “Touch and Go”. Good book. Justin and Libby Denbe have the perfect life living in a fabulous home in Boston. Justin has his own company and is a contractor for very large, million dollar, jobs. Libby is a stay at home mom and creates jewelry. The family is kidnapped and taken to a vacant prison that Justin built in New Hampshire. The local police and FBI cannot figure it out based on their normal investigative process because the kidnappers left all of their jewelry, phones, etc. on the kitchen counter and there is no ransom demand. But as the investigation mounts there is lots to find out about. Kept my interest all the way through.