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Thank you everyone who sent such lovely comments! I do read them and get a real kick out of it. I'm not sure of the blog way to respond to such lovely comments, but I'm truly over the moon when you like my work.

I ended up leaving the FOQ a little early as I was completely exhausted. Insomnia and Quilt Shows combined with hard hotel beds is not a good combination. After 3 more hours at the show on yesterday, I went back to my room, had a snooze and drove home in driving rain. The trip was mostly all on the motorway but still I only averaged just under 60mph for the journey (we would never have known things like this a few years ago without cars having their on board computers)
Thank you to Donna in NH who took these photos of Nostalgia for me at the World Quilt Show in New Hampshire. It's good to see it didn't arrive creased. A big thank you to Christine Porter who coordinated the UK entries and looked after our quilts so well.
And Donna sent me this photo of my very first American ribbon! You notice how I said first, like I imagine there will ever be another one (grin)?

Heide Stoll Weber very kindly allowed me to have our photo taken in front of 'When Heide met Sally' but the photo was cruel to both of us, so you'll never see it (grin) but it's very nice to have it for my memory album. Do look at the gallery of her work, there's a little button at the bottom of the homepage for the site to be in English.

I added to my thread stash at the FOQ but determined not to as I was, I still managed to add to my fabric stash. And more about that tomorrow.....

More on the FOQ 2007

This is Peace #3 which go the Amateur and the 3rd place in category awards.

My winnings were quickly spent on Heide Stoll Weber's stand.

Phillippa Naylor had the most stunning quilt of the show in my eyes. It's number 259 named 'Star Sign' if you use your viewer's vote do it on this quilt as it was only awarded a judges choice. It will go on to do well in the rest of the world, but for it not to gain more recognition here in her own country is unbeleivable. If I see her here I shall ask her permission to put a photo up for you to see.