Paducah Quilt Show 2010

I went to the Paducah Quilt Show once back in 2004 – 6 years ago!  Wow how time flies.  I enjoyed seeing the quilts and shopping the vendors – looking at the quilt museum which I have seen about 3 times over the years.  Mike finishes his contract job in the middle of March and I thought he might be ready for a road trip come April 22 – don’t you all think so!  He immediately agreed and got on line and found a campground only 14 miles from Paducah that had openings and I am going to the Paducah Quilt Show 2010!!!!

Now I don’t know if all of you are familiar with the show?  It is put on by the American Quilters Society of which I am a member for the last couple of years.  You do not of course need to be a member to go to the show but if you are you get a discount on admission (not a lot but with your membership you get six magazines a year and access to the sales on their books which can really amount to a bit).  The quilts are fabulous to see.  So many to look at and the vendors! I won’t even go there – I have no idea how many — OK I take that back I just now went to the web page to see if they have the vendors listed and they do – if I counted right it is around 200!!  Do you have any idea how long it takes to walk through all those vendors   I will be drooling.  (you do not know how many of us quilters who have no local quilt shops enjoy shows with vendors until you have been there – finally we get to see all of these items we go on line to see – but now we can actually see and feel the items!)

We are staying 3 nights and I will be wandering through the quilts on the Wednesday(23rd) and Thursday (24th) of the show I believe.  I told Mike that he can drop me off if I want to go back the second day to look some more, there is actually quite a few things in the area he can spend time seeing as he likes to take so many photographs he will be able to keep busy.  Believe it or not he really likes to look through the quilts too.  I think he likes to see the dumbstruck look on my face as I see some of the really fantastic creations some people come up with.  Or maybe he likes to come with me to control my spending?  LOL  I actually keep that under control pretty well myself.

Of course right there in the same town is the National Quilt Museum. I love that place.  It is another place to spend hours at drooling over the quilts. Normally by this time of year it is very hard to get a reservation as all of the motels in the town get booked up in advance.  Six years ago when I went with my daughter we planned only a month in advance – kind of a spur of the moment thing and I was lucky to find a motel 50 miles from the show.  This time though we have the motorhome – I was kind of surprised that the campground had spots available but I guess it is more women going with other women driving and/or flying in and staying in motels than women piling in a motorhome and taking off   I’m so glad Mike was able to find something so close – that 50 mile drive the last time was a bit much considering it is a 6 hour drive from home too!

Just wanted to share my news – anyone else going?