Rhonda Bracey: At Random

The last QuiltVenture (QV) tour I went on was in 2018, to the Pacific NW, British Columbia, Alberta and finishing in Houston at the International Quilt Festival. A tour went to Japan in January 2020 for the Japanese Festival of Quilts, but I’d already decided not to go on that one as I was due to have a 6-week trip in April/May. Many on the Japan tour got quite sick and I suspect it was with COVID. Then COVID came and the world of travel changed for a very long time.

But now we’re back, this time with a new 3-week trip to the UK, specifically London (5 days) and Scotland (the remainder). The focus is on textiles, but this time we won’t be finishing on a big exhibition like Houston. And I’m OK with that.

The next few posts will be my thoughts about each day of our tour (I’m starting writing this a week or so in, and basing these posts on my Facebook posts at the time). I’ll only share a few photos — I’ve already taken hundreds, but I’ll pick out some of the highlights.