We have arrived… the age of real, live quilt shows has returned! My guild, the Bayberry Quilters of Cape Cod, put on a mini show last weekend at the Hyannis Country Garden– a nursery. Now I must be getting very skeptical and cranky as I age, because when told it was in a “greenhouse,” I immediately assumed DIRTY and HOT, but sent my quilt in anyway to support the effort.

Let that be a lesson to me– it was LIGHT, breezy, and gorgeous…  and my piece was not needed to supplement the array of quilty eye candy inside. I have never been to Hyannis Country Garden and would have to admit to buying my annuals at Home Depot more often than not– but I will frequently be visiting this wonderful, huge nursery and store in the future. 

I went on Sunday, and the weather was just perfect– cool and sunny. I was immediately greeted by a gorgeous eagle, flapping his wings up and down in the breeze. After wandering through more aisles of plants than I can even remember, I arrived at the show-sixty quilts hanging in a beautiful windowed space– I’ve never seen a quilt show so brighly lit than when Mother Nature is in charge.

Best of all, I saw people that I hadn’t in about a year and a half– I have to admit, I was very distracted from the quilts with all of smiles and hugs I received. And then my phone ran out of battery– of course, so I nowhere near took the all of the photos I wanted to.

Without further comment, here is a fraction of what I saw… and there is something for everyone, with the talent on exhibit that day.