My friends and I love quiltshows, we take off in different directions to see favorite things first and then meet at agreed on place and time for lunch......I always head for Superior Threads first ...they have great special show prices and my BERNINA loves Superior Thread. I love their booth because it is like a candy store to a kid....every kind of thread and every color and right there at my fingertips. Their sewing machine needles are great, best ever. My friends are usually a couple of minutes behind me because they stop first to see the booth of the Long arm machine they have...they all have different ones.....they all use Superior Thread, needles, tension gauges (?)(they love them), special tape, etc.. We have a great lunch a couple of hours later and compare notes on what we have seen, i usually have a double nickel project and a laser cut project by then because they are fun to do without having to think the whole thing through, and they travel great. The next morning there are classes, lunch, classes. Then that night lectures and intertaining......then light breakfast, one more circuit through the show, and the drive home with everyone talking at once........now that I am retired...cannot really spend like this anymore but the memories are with me everytime I sew I use an item that came from one show or another and i am smiling.
The memories of all the quilts.....rows and rows....fill my bucket list.....guess this kind of happy is called bliss.