Where does the time go? Quilt Market (Salt Lake City) is only a month away. Yikes! We need to put the finishing touches on the shop owners Block of the Month guide for Every Barn Tells a Story, not to mention pulling together a million other market details. The Quilt Trail Gathering in Manchester, Ohio (http://www.quiltgathering.com/) is when we'll be at market, so very sadly we won't be able to go. Why does stuff like that happen?!??!! Donna Sue Groves -- she is the best, you know - - will be featuring our book at the Gathering for us! Thank you Donna Sue

Every Barn Tells a Story was spotlighted at an open house sponsored by Meadow Lakes Assisted Living in Rochester, MN this weekend. Gosh, quilters came out of the woodwork, not to mention the barn lovers that attended. We had a wonderful time sharing the story of our book, the history of the Quilt Trail and showing off our 2 sampler quilts: Star Promenade and Barn Dance and the many other book projects. Thank you to everyone who came. And to those who bought our book, we hope you'll share photos of the projects that you make. We'd love to see them!

Every Barn Tells a Story stole the show at the Fayette County Quilt Show, West Union, Iowa this weekend. What a tremendous response it received from quilters, barn quilt lovers and quilt shop owners. Here we are with Shirley Fettkether, Maynard, Iowa, who has a Contrary Wife barn quilt on her barn - - and she's anything BUT contrary! Shirley shared a special story for the book about her barn which was turned into a basketball arena by her son whose high school team (from a class of 40 students) went to the state tournment one year. A Hoosiers-type story, but better.