Quilt Show & a Bag

I went to a quilt show this afternoon.  Heritage Quilt Guild. I've been to this show many times over the years.  It's a smaller show, but always nice.

Here are some of the quilts.  They had lots of antique quilts this year.  Sorry, I didn't take photos of the cards attached to the quilts.

This next quilt is an antique, and the blocks represent each state.

I loved this cute little bag.  One of the vendors had a kit to make something similar to this bag (no, I didn't get it).

another antique quilt

great way to set sampler blocks

Of course, as a Harry Potter fan, I had to take a picture of this quilt.  One of these days, I'll finish both of my Project of Doom quilts.

Project of Doom

Linda and Terri, this butterfly quilt is for both of you.

antique quilt

antique quilt

This next quilt is painted.

what to do with all those HST's

Several ladies were working on this pattern, but they didn't like the weird cutting sizes in it (7/8's etc) so they re-drafted the pattern to easier to cut sizes. 

Julie, and your Log Cabin ladies, these are for you.

A lady from my Ottawa quilting group taught this class (paper piecing).  Just wait until you see the stunning quilt that Mary made for the Camp Tuckabatchee quilt show raffle (next week).

I love patriotic, elephants and teapots.

The applique on this one is stunning.

up close of the applique

I was pretty good in the vendor mall. I did buy some gifts for Christmas (not for me, for others ;)

Last night, I decided that I needed a small bag to hold the money from the raffle quilt sales.  I pulled a fat quarter out, then rummaged thru my leftover bits of binding, and made this bag.  It is the smallest size of my project bags (4 sizes in the pattern).  Until last night, I'd only made the large size. 

small project bag

I really should have stitched the binding on with my Janome & walking foot, but, I was watching Cannonball Run II, and didn't want to stop.  This was a lot of layers, with all the binding bits pieced together.  My Featherweight wasn't very happy with the binding part. 

I wore my new jacket, from the freebie table, today.  I got lots of great compliments on it.  Thanks again, Sandy!

Wisconsin Public TV Quilt Expo pt. 2

There were lots of great quilts at this expo.  The details were great. 

I loved all the flying geese in this one. 

This guy was just too cute!

This next one was part of a guild challenge. 

I love how they set off the star in the middle.

This one was 3D in the middle.

The circles on this one are done with special stitches from their sewing machine.

This quilt was showing how quilting got it's start.  I took an up close photo of it, showing a bolt of fabric, and a spool of thread.  The boat at the very bottom of the quilt is full of bolts of fabric.  Lots of great sewing details in this quilt.

up close, showing some of the sewing theme details

The bottom edge of this next quilt is quite unique.

I didn't buy much from the vendors.  I only bought one piece of fabric (that I've been looking for for 2 years now).  I did get a pattern and some pattern books.  The only thing I bought that I got a photo of was my newest t-shirt.

front of my new t-shirt

Saturday was the guild sew-in day.  One of our members taught a class on how to make a jelly roll rug. No, I didn't take the class.  I have way too many projects I'm working on that need to be finished. 

Laura teaching the class

Laura was doing a great job teaching the ladies.  They will finish at the next sew-in, in October. 

While most of the ladies were working on their rugs, I was busy putting together the sashing and blocks on the Sapphire Star quilt.

The walls in the gym where we have our sew-in's are carpeted.  They make great design walls.  I got all the sashing put together, and stitched the sashing and blocks together.

I still have the borders to go on this one.  This first one will be a wedding present.  I'll finish the other 2 of these as I get a chance.  I'm really liking how they look.  I sent a photo of the blocks and sashing on the design wall, to Kevin.  He was teaching a class.  He'll see how far I've gotten when he reads this blog post.  What a fun pattern!