Good times, great friends

Yesterday started out a little crazy, and it just kept getting crazier.  

I got to work with great colleagues, then got to go out and play with great friends. 

 I have given away six charm square packs cut from my stash since May, and last night I was given fabric to more than make up for that!  

Jona, Heather, Monica, Tammy

Terri, Mo, Violet, Tracie, and I

had a wonderful time at dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory before the PMQG meeting.

Terri, Mo, Violet, and Tracie

Jona, Heather, and Terri

Monica and Tammy

Good food, quilting and fabric talk, and lots and lots of laughing!

And I got to go home with these lovelies:

Summer in the City,

1974,

City Girl, 

and these gorgeous red and white (Saffron Craig) hexies -- all from Terri!

They are too precious to even take out of the little bag yet.

We then carpooled to the PMQG July meeting, All About Hexagons.

You can read all about the meeting and the giveaway I won here.
And if that gets you excited to make some hexagons of your own, you could start by stopping by Britt's blog.  She's having a hexie giveaway to celebrate her 100th post!  

At the meeting, Violet fed my Amy Butler addiction with these.

After the meeting, Violet drove me back to OSF to pick up my car.  Remember last month when Violet and I talked on the sidewalk after the meeting until just before 11:00?  Well this time we talked in the abandoned OSF parking lot until just before midnight. 

Oops!  I left a quilt and my many fabric treasures in the trunk of Violet's car!  

So, off I went to Violet's house this morning to pick up my things and ogle her stash.  We have very similar taste in fabric, and I was almost speechless in my awe of all her beautiful bolts and stacks of fabric!  Almost.  We still managed to talk a while longer, but I'm not saying how long.

Oh, and she gave me even more fabric!

Be sure and watch for Violet's very own fabric line coming in early 2011 from Michael Miller!  

I can't wait!!!

With wishes, true and kind for good times with great friends -- Joan

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