Lacrosse State Champions!

I mentioned a couple days ago that I'd like to share more about our recent trip to Colorado. My husband, Bill does consulting work for a company, Colorado Histoprep, in Ft. Collins. He hardly ever has on site work but this trip to Colorado was to work with other experts on a new product-lung valves. 

Bill is the fellow in back, third from the right.

In addition to Bill’s work we decided it would be a good time to visit our family in Denver. It was the perfect time! It was our oldest grandson Conor’s 15th birthday. Also, our granddaughter Quinn plays varsity lacrosse at Cherry Creek High School. We arrived in Denver just in time to get decked out in the school colors-blue, red and white- and go to the game which would determine whether Quinn’s team would qualify for the state tournament. They won the game! Bill and I decided we HAD to stay for the championship game. 

Intermittent showers didn’t dampen our spirits as we watched Quinn and her team mates decisively win the Cherry Creek High School State Lacrosse Championship!

I enjoyed presenting at the Ft. Collins Fig Leaf Quilt/Furniture shop. It thrilled me that long time friends came to support me. My childhood Iowa farm neighbor came, another neighbor from Minnesota graduate school days made the effort to come, a friend from Billings, Montana just happened to be in town, and QIC Colorado customers came. I had fun and think everyone else did too.

I did visit two other quilt stores in the area. One called Laughing Ladies Quilting was in nearby Berthold. Amazingly I could hear women having fun and laughing when I entered. The shop has an eclectic selection of styles of quilts and fabrics. It was interesting to me as I always wonder why other shops choose what they do. The owner of the shop, Lori was willing to share her buying philosophy and I learned more about what makes each quilt shop unique. Lori started her business two years ago.  I shared my books and she plans to offer classes from my Quilting in the Country book. 

At my daughter Anne’s insistence we visited another shop which just celebrated its two year anniversary. It is located in Greenwood Village, CO and is just a short distance from Anne’s home. It is completely stocked with Kaffe Fassett, Amy Butler, a wide array of Westminster Fabrics and other fabrics of that type. Anne, Quinn, and I chose some fabrics to recover footstools. If I were opening a quilt shop at this time I would like it to be just like Snappy Quilts. Well, maybe not exactly like the strip mall location-I love living next door to my shop and our environment is so special!

Quilting in the Country