This is my last photo from Columbus. I took these at the North Market before I left town. I wanted to buy some but had no way to get them home.

Those raspberry reds against the turquoise blue make me very happy….

I'm at the airport, waiting on a plane to go home. I did go back to the North Market this morning for more hot sauce. I got their web address. You can find CaJohns at www.cajohns.com . It looks like they make all of the hot sauces that they sell.

I took a photo of this lovely lady yesterday. The green of her shirt with the blues in her bag caught my eye and she was nice enough to smile for the camera. I'm sorry to say that I forgot her name – but she saw this post and got in touch! Patricia Dignan is from NZ but has lived in Cincinnati since 1963. When we ran into each other she was with her daughter (who was also lovely, but not dressed in this great shade of green).

I played with photo in an app called Colorsplash. It puts a photo into greyscale and then you 'paint' with your finger to bring back the color. This is way too much fun!

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I had a 2 hour lunch break between classes and went to the North Market. This building is full of stalls full of tasty things. I got the best ice cream from Jeni’s (http://jenisicecreams.com/). Apparently Oprah loves their ice cream too.

I found a stall full of hot sauces. MY husband and sons LOVE hot sauce.

I got got several bottles for stocking stuffers. I’m not saying what I bought as I don’t want to spoil any surprises. I resisted this one but I may have to go back for it tomorrow.

Lethal ingestion!? It’s sort of hard to resist.

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I’m at the NQA show and there are lovely quilts vendors with great fabric and notions. I’m enjoying visiting with friends, old and new.

I thought I’d share this photo. Not a quilt, just eye candy. The clouds out of the window of the plane made me smile. I think it’s the texture as much as the colors.
I’ve been inspired to make a quilt about how the ground looks from the air, maybe there’s a cloud quilt in my future.

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Many of you asked for brown fabric that would work for backgrounds in the 12-block Whimsical Quilt Garden quilt. We listened, Linda found the fabric and we have it on our site. Click here for info on the kit. Please be aware that this is for the brown backgrounds only! The sashing and applique fabric is not part of this kit.

I made this brown quilt and I can tell you that the browns in the photo of the quilt are a lot darker than they are in the real world. The kit fabric is much closer to what I used.

We also have fat quarters and yardage of these browns AND some new black and white fabric. Click here to see that fabric.

We'll send out a newsletter with this info later, so you are hearing this news first. I'm leaving for Columbus, OH, on Wednesday for the NQA show. I hope to see some of you there!

If you receive our eNewsletter you know this already, but if you didn't hear the news we are excited to share with you a special chance to watch Becky on “The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims”.

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