Quilt Show

This afternoon I went to the Heritage Quilt Guilds Quilt Show.  They are celebrating 35 years.  I've always enjoyed this quilt show.

The Quilt Guilds Quilt

They had a challenge.  Evidently, everyone had to make a 2 color quilt, using cream and orange.  I didn't take pictures of who made each challenge quilt.

Also, on quite a few of the quilts, from the front door, to the back of the quilt show, had this attached. 

Tom can hang out on my quilts anytime

Now, on to some of the quilts.....

This next quilt was HUGE!  Her comments are touching.

This next quilt also had some touching comments.

This next quilt looks like stained glass.

And this quilt is for all of you cat lovers.

This quilt shows a great way to 'save' your childs baby clothes.

I did a double take when I saw this.  I just had to take pictures of it.

Gee, can you guess why I took pictures of the next 2 quilts????

I spent most of the day, before heading off to the quilt show, at my large quilt guilds sew-in.  I've been cutting out purses, and, today, I started sewing 2 of them together.  Each purse takes about 5 hours, just for the stitching.  Making 2 at a time is almost as easy as just making one (as long as the thread color is the same).  Here are some pictures I took while assembling the purses.  I still have lots left to do on each purse.  Hint, both of them are OU (University of Oklahoma) fabrics.  They are similar, but, slightly different.

one purse front (no pocket yet)

pocket for the purse

inside lining with pockets and trim

I'm not sure when these purses will get finished.  Next week is busy.  I have a sewing machine demo on Saturday and Sunday, at the Kendall County Historical Society's Lyon's Farm Fall Festival (say that 10 times).  So far, I've decided on at least 10 different machines to take. 

A Double Finish!

Two years ago, I started two family reunion quilts.  I made the squares before the reunion, and had everyone at the reunion sign 2 matching squares.  I made 2 matching quilts, one for the family reunion, to auction off, and one for me (I'm not going to bid on my own quilt, after I made it and donated the fabric, etc).

I got my inspiration from Dar at Dar's Patchwork Garden.
This is the quilt she showed on her blog.

I asked Dar if I could use her quilt as a starting point.

I liked the onpoint of her quilt, but, I chose to make mine more simple, since I didn't know how many blocks I'd wind up using.  I drafted 3 different sizes, depending on how many blocks I wound up using.

shows the 3 different sizes I could make

 I never really expected to use the larger sizes, since we haven't had that many people show up at the reunions in many years (most of the older generation is gone now).  

I finished both quilt tops in July.  I had them quilted at Quilting in the Valley, in LaSalle, IL.  

finished quilt tops

up close of some of the blocks

Last night, I finished stitching the binding down, and the label, on the 2nd quilt.  Woohoo!  These are done ahead of time (seldom happens with me).  I only took a picture of one of them, since they are both the same.

finished quilt

label and binding

This is the same binding fabric that I used for my son's wedding quilt. 

*Sorry for so many posts today, but, I finished several things at once, and needed separate posts for each of them.

Tonight is my little quilt guild, Wego Quiltin's Annual Tea.  I've been in this guild since the first meeting, back in 2003.  Our first meeting was the 'Annual Tea'.  There are 5-6 of us that have been members since the beginning. 

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