POTTSTOWN PA

Hey, everyone,  here we are in Pottstown PA.  We had a couple days of R&R before we had to go to work and set up for the show in Oaks.  Did a little shopping and eating at the Outlet Mall and these power towers belching steam against the beautiful blue autumn sky loomed on the horizon everywhere we looked within 10 miles of Pottstown.

We encountered an interesting parking formation in downtown Pottstown, never seen anywhere before.  The main street was 2-way and had horizontal parking on one side and angle parking on the other side, but everyone backed into the angle slot.  Each side has a bicycle lane also.

The town has a big German influence, in fact my German relatives lived in this area in the late 1700's.
My great-great grandparents on my Dad's side are buried in the grave yard at the Reading Lutheran Church, just North of here.  Berks and Schuykill counties are mentioned over and over again in our genealogy papers.  Seitzinger is one of the main names and I see in the Pottstown phonebook there is one Seitzinger listed, I should call the number!

The quilt show is going well and we're half way through.  On Monday we head for home after an absence of two weeks. It'll be nice to sleep in my own bed again.

HEY, WE'VE GOT NEW WHEELS!!!!

We have a new vehicle to pull our trailer to the shows we attend.  We used to pull this trailer with Julie's Jeep Cherokee that had a tow package welded to the frame of the vehicle.  After we returned from the AQS Show in Knoxville TN we detected that our trailer was riding low.  Not realizing the real problem we attended the Asheville Show shortly after and when we returned home realized that there was just 1 bolt still holding the tow bar to our frame, three bolts had pulled entirely through the frame.  We are extremely lucky that we didn't lose trailer and all on that last trip.  It could have been so disastrous.  The good Lord was surely watching over us. 

So this trip from Wilmington to Cincinnati and now to Oaks PA has been quite comfortable riding in a four door truck with all the comforts of a car.  We have another day to enjoy the Bourough of Pottstown PA and the surrounding area before we set up for the Oaks PA show on Wednesday.  The show starts Thursday and runs through Sunday. 

Back to the Cincinnati show, it was so great to meet one of the participants of our Punch of the Month. Nice to match a face to the name.  The show was very well attended, so well, we ran out of some of our items.    More patterns, kits, etc. are being shipped as we speak so we can have a full booth for your shopping pleasure.  Here are two more items we will have for sale this weekend:

This is the front and back of the newest sweatshirt, 'Basket of Flowers', for which we will have kits available.

And this is the latest of the Little Stitchies candle mats called, 'Quilt Block'.  They just flew off the shelf at our latest show!

More later,

September 11

 
                                      

What a perfect image for today, September 11.

This quilt was on display at the Quilting, Sewing and Crafts Show this past weekend.  It is a coordinated effort of the employees of Aunt Ruth's Quilt Shop in Sharonville OH.  The shop is offering classes to learn to make this quilt over the next few weeks and after that the pattern will be available for sale.  If you're interested in the pattern call the shop at 513 733-0006 and please tell them you saw it on our blog!

We'll talk later as we traverse the U.S., next stop Oaks PA for the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XVII

starting September 16 thru the 19th.

Cincinnati Setup

We arrived in Cincinnati around 10:30am on Wed. morning and had until 8pm to get this booth in shape!  This is the 'before', the part of the quilt show you never get to see.  Think we can do magic with all this stuff and transform it into an attractive Auntie Ju's Quilt Shoppe?

The 'after' took some doing and lots of time, but we did it! 

Attendance today was good, hoping for the same tomorrow, lots of good vendors here in Cincinnati.

Here is just one item we are debuting at this show........

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First you punchneedle the bird pattern, then you sew wool or muslin on the back and stuff the bird,  sew a button on for his eye, mount him on this old Singer oil can, stick some old rusty pins or needles in his head for his tuft and you've got a really unique pincushion.  We have several old oil cans available for those who purchase this pattern  I didn't realize there are so many people who collect pincushions.

The Pumpkin Farm 

You've seen these guys before but we now have samples made so you can see them in person!  What a bunch of bumpkins!

Well, it's time for bed so we can be bright and bushy tailed tomorrow morning, later..........

Cincinnati Here We Come!

Well, we've arrived in Grayson KY for the nite after our day long drive across the mountains.  Tomorrow, a three hour drive will deliver us to the Sharonville Convention Center, Sharonville OH for the Quilting, Sewing and Crafts Expo.  Tomorrow is set-up day, the show starts Thurs. and ends on Sat.  The renowned Mark Lipinski (former editor of Quilter's Home Magazine) was to be one of the teachers, but had to withdraw because he has been put on an organ transplant list (kidney).  He recently disclosed his struggle with Polycystic Kidney Disease.  His replacement is the very talented Colleen Granger, of Sew Little Time Quilting.  We wish him the very best.

We'll have more to tell you tomorrow, nite, nite for now!