The Missouri
TOGA (
Treadle On Gathering &
Academy) was this past weekend. It was a 3 day event. I only got to attend one day (Saturday) this time. I didn't think I was going to get to attend at all until I found out that I didn't have to work last Friday. Hubby offered to go with me, to help drive, so that he could go hiking and camping in the Ozarks while I attend the TOGA. Woohoo! (More info on last year's TOGA is
here).
The first day of the TOGA, the attendee's had a Quilt & Antique Shop Hop. They visited 3 different quilt shops in the area, and a couple of antique shops. The quilt shops knew that they were coming, and presented everyone with goodie bags when they arrived. One shop even had a demo for the attendee's. How nice!
Friday and Saturday are the days when everyone sets up vintage sewing machines. There are demo's, a sewing machine hospital, raffle quilt, raffle table, food, games and show-n-tell during these two days.
On Saturday, we had show-n-tell early. I took my
String Star quilt and my
Crazy Quilt to show off (sorry, I couldn't take pictures of my quilts). I did get photos of the other show-n-tell items.
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| her first quilt |
On Friday there was a demo on how to make chicken pin cushions. Both of these girls had made several chicken pin cushions before the TOGA was done.
There were three demo's on Saturday. Gina taught the
Scrappy Mountain Majesties block.
Another lady taught how to make coasters (I didn't get photos since I was at a quilt shop during that time), and I taught several different ways to make
Flying Geese.
There were two rounds of Left-Right-Center played. On Friday, they played for fat quarters, and on Saturday we played for 2 1/2" strips.
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| getting ready to play Left-Right-Center |
The great thing about TOGA's, besides the lovely vintage sewing machines, is everyone helps everyone else. We had people helping each other with sewing projects and also with repairing sewing machines.
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| you can just see the raffle quilt on the left edge of the photo |
I didn't get a photo of the raffle quilt (sorry, a bit of it is in a photo above) but I did get a photo of the raffle tables. By raffle time, there were many more items added to the tables.
I only took a few photos of vintage machines this time.
There were at least 43 people who attended the TOGA (not sure if everyone signed in or not).
We are already preparing for next year's Missouri TOGA. I can't wait!
