Quilts & Camping

This past weekend was the annual Strawberry Festival in Stawberry/Pine, AZ and the annual Strawberry Patchers Quilt Show. It's a weekend that we always look forward to because it's a whole craft fair event with great food vendors and we get to see quilting friends that we don't see the rest of the year.

Overall, the show seemed to be a bit "off" this year, with lot's of edge-edge quilting and fewer custom quilting examples than usual. We go to shows like this because they provide inspiration and ideas so this was a bit underwhelming. Still, there's no such thing as a bad quilt show so it was worth going.

Here's some samples from the show. (I thought I had more, but it turns out that I've only got these two. I don't know how I managed that.)

Debbie Stanton's quilting really brings out the notion of a fish swimming in a streambed.

An interesting take on a log-cabin block.

After the quilt show we picked up a couple of grilled brats and a big bag of some great kettle-corn, then headed back up the rim for camping at Kehl Springs. This is a primitive camp on Forest Road 300 that is free (since it is primitive) and always seems to have a spot available (again, because it's primitive - we think.)

Kehl Spring seems to be more of a "seep" than a spring, but we are in the dry season right now.

It's a nice quiet place for lots of reading and relaxing.

Wild Columbines along the road.

I'm not sure what these are, but they'r pretty and plentiful.

This butterfly decided that Linda's hand lotion was pretty tasty.

We had to work pretty diligently to get it to leave her finger and fly away.

We took a hike up to the top of the ridge. It's a wonderful view of the Mogollon Rim.

We took the phone along to use the GPS so we could figure out just what we were seeing.

That's Payson, almost due south. We figure the straight line on the left must be the highway north of town.