Thanks to our delightful members, QDO was a huge success!

Yes! Yes! A good time was had by all at our Quilter's Day Out event. Thanks to so many people involved, guild members, church youth groups, and people who, in general, enjoy quilting. We had good weather, which always helps any activity and we had door prizes-galore-4 sewing machines, generously donated by participating shops. Evelyn, our 80 something member, won a machine, just in time, she's worn out her old one and is looking forward to many more years of sewing.

The most important thing about the day was the fabulous women that helped put things on. I don't think I enjoy doing anything, quite as much, unless I'm involved with helping put it together-I hope not to my guild's chagrin....to much...smile. But in the end they supported my workaholic indulgences and helped with all I volunteered to do. Of course, no one in our guild has to do anything they don't want to do, so no arm twisting going on in our guild, but, we have many like minded and the jobs, that seemed huge, were easily done. We had several logistic issues-like how are we going to get over 500 people into a 20 by 40 room, then go down a narrow hallway. We solved this problem with arrows on the floor directing them all around the mini quilt show-and our quilters that came all followed the arrows, as long as they stayed glued to the floor-with that many feet walking over them, they were scooted around and it caused a little confusion, but, quilters are a pretty sharp bunch and they figured it out.

Once the over 500 ballots were counted for the Think Green Quilt challenge, we awarded ribbons and a tote bag filled with fabric.

Dot and Carol did so much to make this quilt challenge happen and I can't thank them enough for their hard work and planning abilities that made this part of the day go so smoothly. This quilt challenge was something new for QDO and I think it was a nice addition because it allowed the general public an opportunity to participate in judging a show and they seriously took their time studying the 23 quilts in the competition. It also made them feel part of the day-doing something to contribute-maybe I'm not so odd after all and people, in the end, do like to help out, if only in a small way...what fun..great day...smile.