Vermont Adventures Day 4a

Sunday, June 25 - having explored Burlington, we decided to head out to a suburb to visit the Vermont State Quilt Festival.  WOW!  This was held at the Essex Junction Expo Center (Fair Grounds).  It was a huge exhibit!

Here are my favorites:

This "Women Rulers" quilt also had more on the back (which I regretfully neglected to photograph).
It very clearly makes a statement and is so impressive!

The detail and hand work of this quilt is amazing and inspiring.  Embroidery, overlays... it is all just incredible and so well done!  The woman who made this said it took her 6 years and got her through a lot of tough things in her life including divorce and illness.

In this next one, I love the detail and the accuracy.   The quilter created a map of Vermont showing counties and highways and attractions.  It is very detailed and well done!

Click here to see more of my photos of the Quilt Show

In addition to the many quilts that had been entered, there was an exhibit of historic quilts, and each room in the exhibit hall was lined with vendors selling material, kits, machines, supplies - just about everything you can imagine that is quilt related or that an aspiring quilter might want! I can't wait to get started on the geranium project kit I bought.  It comes with all the materials I need except a needle!

This day was a transition day.  Once we returned to the hotel from the Quilt Fest, we checked out and headed for the second phase of our trip in Stowe.  See the next entry for part b of this day.

:)Amy