Last Quilt Show of the year (at least near me)

Pieces of the Heart Quilt Guild in Morris presented their 'Night Before Christmas' quilt show this weekend.  What a fun show!  Instead of raffle baskets, they had raffle Christmas trees (along with a quilt with each one, and lots of other goodies, too).  The show ends in a few minutes, and they haven't called me (yet) to tell me if I won one of those Christmas Tree raffle's :(.

They had a great makers booth, selling lots of goodies.  Yes, I bought some things as gifts (can't show them, sorry).  They had 2 different booths selling fabric (one was just Christmas fabrics, one had all other fabrics and notions).  I didn't buy fabric from the booths, but I did find some nifty notions for $1-2 dollars each.  

Here are a few of the quilts shown:

This first quilt is a 'word find' quilt.  She used the mini alphabet pattern by Guicy Guice to make the blocks.  These blocks were about 4" square.

up close of one of the blocks, tiny strip piecing

You can find the block patterns for this quilt on Fandom in Stitches.  They just had a stitch along for the Gilmore Girls.

This quilt is made using all orphan blocks.  I have LOTS of orphan blocks, but I don't think mine would look this good.

I love sewing themed quilts.  Here are a few of them from the show.

This lady used her grandkids art to make this quilt.

This next quilt is 100 Women inspired from pop culture, literature, history and more.

up close of the embroidered women

I loved this 3D owl baby quilt.

This quilt is a different take on a temperature quilt, called 'Hey Alexa! What's the Temperature?'

The quilting on this next quilt really set everything off nicely!

up close of the quilting

I have LOTS of vintage hankies and gloves.  One day I'll make a quilt with them.  This lady used items from her family that meant something to her.

They had several table runners.  These caught my eye.  The last 2 were also made into pillows in another category. 

there were also pillows using these patterns

This guild makes lots of Quilts of Valor quilts.  

up close of the blocks

Some pumpkins for Fall!

After the quilt show, we went to Letty Mae's Tearoom for lunch, YUM!  I had the quiche and Pumpkin Pie soup, along with Gingerbread tea.

Our last stop was at The Fabric Center, the quilt shop in Morris, IL.  Always a nice shop, and the quilt show gave us 20% off coupons, so even better!  I did purchase some 'thimble' fabric.  I REALLY don't need more fabric (at least until I start another project, of course).

I was gone the whole month of October (Texas & Alaska), so I haven't gotten much sewing done lately (other than a quilt for my newest granddaughter, post will come soon on that).