Strap on Your Quilting Liver - It's Festival Time!

We've been very busy at work getting ready for this year's Lowell Quilt Festival.  The FedEx and UPS trucks have been making two stops a day to deliver the juried quilts, and believe me - there are some spectacular quilts to be seen.  It is a tremendous project,  undertaken by a core group of volunteers from the New England Quilt Museum Auxiliary, museum staff, and supportive spouses!  I include them because they won't see much of us for the next several days - events all day and in to the evening will occupy a lot of time and energy.  The auction on Friday night is my favorite part (click on this link) because of the wonderful variety of quilts and quilt tops available.  Bonus -  we have the opportunity to bid on quilt blocks (some very old) to create something of your own.  I have my eye on a couple of quilts - but there is one lot of antique quilt blocks that I might just have to tackle a few people to outbid and get them for myself!  There is no discount or special treatment of museum staff - we bid like the rest of the folks - so I will square my shoulders and go easy on the pre-auction champagne and chocolates so I keep my wits about me and bid responsibly.  The  auction proceeds benefit the New England Quilt Museum, so it is a win-win evening.   Wish me luck!