I love the quilt shows, I take pictures every time I go to one ,I worked the quilt show this year here in Lake Havasu, helping put up and taking down the quilts, my husband came down to see the show and take more pictures, while he was wandering around he went to the Odegaards booth from Flagstaff, fell in love with the mechinesms of the new 830 bernina and ended up buying one from Charlie , I am learning to use the embroidery part ,having fun making bow tie purses and shopping bags, The latest Fons and Porter magazine has a very simple bag in it , using up some scraps, and making Lady Hawk vests, I love the Horny Toad one , I have it almost finished from scraps too :thumbup: