Festival Quilts

Yesterday I told you about the Fall Festival at the John C. Campbell Folk School, all except the quilts. There were  more quilts on display this year than in past years, or I just don't remember all of them.  I didn't get photos of all of them because there were just too many people wandering around the room where they were on display.  The one to the right is made out of flannel and homespun, it reminded me of an Amish Quilt, very nice.

The one above, (which I think the photo is sideways, but I can't get it to rotate) is a sampler quilt (as you can tell).  It caught my eye because it has red, and my two favorite block patterns, the log cabin and a star. 

Love this one, made by Sammie Simpson.

Liked this one just because of the name, Joe Pye Weed. 

I would love to take either a quilt class or a dyeing class at the Folk School, but it is too expensive for me now, plus most of the classes are a week long and I just can't take off from work to  play for a week!!

Fall Festivals

I love Fall Festival time of year!  There is a festival almost every weekend or craft show almost every weekend.  Last week was the annual Fall Festival at the John C. Campbell Folk School, it is a wonderful festival.  This year the weather was absolutely beautiful, which lead to extremely large crowds.  We arrived shortly after 10:00, the festival opened at 10:00 and parking was already at a premium.  This is one of my favorite festivals, it supports the folk school and is in a beautiful setting.  Most of the vendors are people who have either taken classes a the school or are instructors.  The arts and crafts are definitely worth the money.  The only thing I make a point of buying every year is yarn.  I love alpaca yarn and at the festival I get to meet the alpaca's and pet them.  This year I found a gorgeous purple yarn that I plan on using for a scarf. 

Every year I look forward to petting the alpaca's and buying some of their yarn.

Not sure who this guy was maybe "The Fall Fairy".

Of course there were pigs.

Fall Festival

 Saturday was the Fall Festival at the John C. Campbell Folk School. We have been for the last several years and it is one of the better festivals around, I think. The arts and crafts are wonderful, there is music, dancing along with great food and buggy rides.



You can't get any fresher than this.



One of the quilts on display.

Blue grass music.



I met the lama that I bought yarn from.