Today was the 15th annual quilt show in our little town. It's held in a small church and the quilts are quite crowded together with very little room to step back and take a good picture.
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| Vintage Reproduction |
I'm not actually part of the local quilting guild, but they are very generous to open up the quilt show to other local quilters--an open invite actually. I used to be extremely nervous about entering my quilts into the show because my style is
so extremely different than theirs, but I loosened up a couple years ago when I realized that at least a few of the guild members seem to enjoy my quilts. There are a million times I've wished I could be a fly on the wall when they hang my quilts. What do they honestly think? hehe Better not to know sometimes! My mom has encouraged me the most, saying, it's always good to have something different to look at, compare with and maybe even shake things up a bit. lol
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| Vintage Reproduction |
The previous picture is actually taken at home--I wanted to show one pic with a closer view of the quilting. I'm really, really happy with the way this quilt turned out. The quilting on the last border about gave me a panic attack after I had gotten it washed and dried. But long story short? I went back and added in a couple hours extra quilting.
Now I'm happy. That thing about quilting evenly throughout the entire quilt? It does matter.
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| Vintage Reproduction |
I usually try to enter three or four quilts if I've managed to finish that many in the last year. My
Monkey Wrench is very dark quilt, but I thought is looked very nice regardless. Funny how much lighter it looks without the borders pictured!
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| Monkey Wrench |
I also entered my Antique Medallion quilt which looks happy and bright.....
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| Antique Medallion |
and then of course there is Sew Charming! I definitely wanted to put this fun little scrappy finish in the quilt show too! Had to borrow it back for a few days in order to do that of course!
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| Sew Charming |
Just a few other quilts caught my attention today. This one was very interesting to me. Love the ladies!
This 30's reproduction quilt looked so sweet and wonderful, especially with the light streaming through the window behind it.
I thought whoever made the star quilt below has an excellent eye for combining complimentary colors. It really had a lovely zing to it!
Then there was this hexie quilt that I just wanted to bundle up and take home. I had a horrible time getting a decent picture of it because it kept looking so washed out, but finally I got one close up that shows a little of the quilty goodness that I so admired...
I meant to take a picture of the explanation pinned to this scrappy 'historical' quilt below, but like always, I forgot. Taking pictures is definitely secondary to checking out the quilts, at least in my book! The story behind this quilt was something about a specific challenge to the quilters involved (possibly the first quilt guild in the town?). I think they got a dollar for every piece of fabric in their block and then the person who had the most pieces in 'her block', got to keep the quilt as well! Talk about incentive!
The block with the least pieces of fabric had 15 pieces I believe (it's the block in the far left corner of the prev. pic). Not too shabby, right?
Well, then you got to looking (they embroidered the number below their blocks) and wow! These ladies got very creative with such a little space!
I adored these blocks with the pieced baskets! They were absolutely fabulous! And the fan below was very sweet too in a blendy, blendy way.
But this lady below? Wowsers, she ended up with 300 pieces of fabric in her block! It was so fun to check this quilt out and see how inventive they all were. If you look closely, this block below has fans carefully pieced into the corners. Overall, This quilt was my absolute fave in the whole entire show! So much fun!
So yeah, very enjoyable day! My oldest daughter got first place in the 5k and almost all my kids played on one of the 3on3 teams of basketball. Crazy, busy hot Summer day. Right now everyone's trying to recover from the 100 degree heat and rest up for the fireworks later on....
