Disappointed in the Lancaster AQS show
03-19-2012, 08:06 AM
#33
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I went to the AQS show and really loved it. I found it so inspirational, I couldn't wait to sew! I went to the AQS show last year, too, and the special exhibits last year were more to my liking than those this year, but there's always something to complain about if you're looking to do so, right? While the vendors didn't really offer any bargains at the show, I still spent more than I planned, because for me it is an opportunity to buy something I've been wanting that I can't get locally. So while it's there in front of me, I might as well get it instead of ordering it online later and having to pay for shipping. For me it was a great show! 
03-19-2012, 08:35 AM
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Okay I did go to Lancaster for the AQS show this past weekend! The AQS show was not at the Host Hotel! It was downtown at the Convention Center attached to the Marriott Hotel. I enjoyed the show this year. I loved the quilts! I shopped at the venders. My girlfriends shopped as well. The jewelry vendors where appropiate for the venue. I think AQS is trying to fill a void left by the previous show in Lancaster. Since they have approxamitely over 15,000 attendees, I doubt that it will be pulled anytime soon. I do wish they had better teachers this year. I love shopping for fabric in Lancaster and found almost everything I had on my must buy list. Is is Houston? No! Is it a local quilt show? NO! Is it a National Show yes! All the Vendors I spoke with stated they were having a great show. They were booking rooms at the hotel for 2013 and 2014. So I am thinking this is a winner in AQS management eyes! Yes I did enjoy the show. Quilts were wonderful. But they need more to enter their quilts in the shows for us to look at them. Glad I went! I will go back! Maybe not next year but who knows! Luann in CT
03-21-2012, 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Carie
Ladies, We went to the Mountainfest Quilt show in Pigeon Forge, Tenn this past wekend---beautiful, and more vendors than I've seen in a long time. Also lots of classes-couldn't be more pleased - and will indeed go again next year!
03-23-2012, 06:27 PM
#38
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Originally Posted by carrieg
Can you pinpoint what it was that made you feel letdown? Was it the type of quilts, the colors, patterns, vendors?
There will be an AQS show in Michigan in August(?) and I plan on going. Not sure what to expect.
There will be an AQS show in Michigan in August(?) and I plan on going. Not sure what to expect.
03-24-2012, 05:06 AM
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Sure I will gladly share the Virginia shop. It's called the Fabric Outlet and it's located near Cape Charles on Virginia's eastern shore on Lankford Highway (Highway# 13 I think - It's the main road through there anyway). Miss Henrietta is just moving into a 7000 sq ft old dance hall that she bought and she's not due to open for a week or two yet in the new place. It's 9 miles north of the old place which she shared with her son's business. The new place is just north of Appleseed Nurseries on the same side of the road. She's bought lots of new fabrics for her expanded space. I had to pull the plastic off of some of the bolts I was buying.
Be prepared to search some but most of us don't mind that if the prices are right and they are! This is no LQS. She's got everything from shirting to fleece to fake fur to upholstery and drapery fabrics. But she has lots of cottons just right for quilters. I bought stuff for my Project Linus tops as cheap as $3.60/yd. I also found some of her newer stock that I loved for $6.00/yd. But I found nothing cotton any more expensive than that.
I have a card from her son's store (R and T Nautical) that gives their phone number as 757 678 3920. He makes neat bird sculptures from PCV pipe. I'd call and check with her DS or DDIL before I made a special trip out there. Miss Henrietta is 82! She does take credit cards.
Be prepared to search some but most of us don't mind that if the prices are right and they are! This is no LQS. She's got everything from shirting to fleece to fake fur to upholstery and drapery fabrics. But she has lots of cottons just right for quilters. I bought stuff for my Project Linus tops as cheap as $3.60/yd. I also found some of her newer stock that I loved for $6.00/yd. But I found nothing cotton any more expensive than that.
I have a card from her son's store (R and T Nautical) that gives their phone number as 757 678 3920. He makes neat bird sculptures from PCV pipe. I'd call and check with her DS or DDIL before I made a special trip out there. Miss Henrietta is 82! She does take credit cards.
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