Quilt Show pictures (lots of lovely eye candy)

I got to go to a local quilt show on Saturday.  There were so many wonderful quilts to see there.  I took a few pictures (yes, only a few of the quilts shown), and I still may have to split this post to fit all the pictures in. 

reproduction of a Civil War era quilt

LOVED this quilt!

 

I just loved the fabrics in this quilt

Remember the Ghastlies?  They made it into a quilt show

being from Texas, I just had to take pictures of this quilt. Yeehaw!

I love Dresden plate quilts

my youngest collects nutcrackers

What a great Santa!

loved the embroidery on this

loved the quilting in the borders of this quilt

isn't the quilting wonderful in this quilt? 

detailed picture of the embroidery

just love those Dresden plate quilts

Abraham Lincoln.  Sorry my pic doesn't do it justice

had to show the Puffin quilt.  We celebrated our 20th Anniversary in Maine

Oh my goodness!  I have more quilts to show.  I'll have to show the challenge quilts in another post.  

 

NewFO's for February, blogs & Davy Jones

Barbara, over at Cat Patches is continuing her 2012 NewFO Challenge.  Here is what I've done for the month of February.

Quilts of Valor top

 I started this Quilts of Valor top last fall, but, work got in the way, and I couldn't attend the monthly sew-in for a while.  Life got in the way, and I didn't get a chance to finish this top.  I pulled it back out and finished it earlier this month.  Yipee!  Hopefully it is being quilted already.

Kari's quilt

 I made this for a lady that I work with for her birthday (February) this is the quickest finish I've done in a long time (start to binding done).  I didn't get a picture of it finished before I gave it to her.  I bound it in the same blue in the small border.

Valentine block, finished

Technically, I started these blocks in January, but, I added the hearts to the blocks in February.  Does it still count?  

 

Secret project

Secret project

 

I started this 'secret project' in February.  Barbara said we had to 'start' a project, not finish a project.  I have a few more months to get this done.

OK, now for the non-quilt related NewFO's.  I finally converted 2 of my vintage sewing machines to hand cranks this month.  

1910 New Home A turned into a hand crank

1921 Singer 66 turned into a hand crank

I've been meaning to turn these into hand cranks for a really long time.  The New Home is one of the first machines I blogged about.  He needed special parts to convert him.  Singers are easier, but, I needed a base for her, first.  I got the base last month.

Now, about blogging and blogs.  I'm sure you've all heard about blogger changing how we view the blogs we follow with Google Friend Connect.  Well, I've never trusted computers, so, just in case, I copied the links to all of blogs that I follow.  As I was copying the links, I found several blogs that haven't posted in many, many months, some, almost a year.  I knew one that had shut down, but, I didn't realize just how many have stopped blogging all together.  

Lastly, did you hear the news about Davy Jones?  The lead singer of The Monkeys died earlier today at age 66.  I loved The Monkeys (Davy, Peter, Michael and Mickey).  I watched them on TV, and I have at least one album of theirs (vinyl, requires a turntable) and I also have some CD's, too.  They were such a fun group.  I even remember Davy being on The Brady Bunch in one episode.

I hope that the rest of your week is WONDERFUL!!!!