In case you didn't know where I was all weekend, I was attending and working the Ann Arbor Quilt show. I had entered 2 quilts in the show. All members were allowed to enter 2 quilts in the show. It was a fun weekend. I have uploaded all my photos and will begin sharing them with you now.
I loved this scrappy star and immediately thought of my friend, Robin and her love of HST. I might actually have to make this one someday.
Now I am not a huge Sun bonnet Sue fan but this quilt was spectacular! The needle turn applique was excellent and the piecing and hand quilting were awesome too.
I just liked this one.
I thought this was really neat too. I have a close up of it later. Can you see the cats in the fabric?
This quilt was so cute. All about the 12 days of Christmas! All 12 were cross stitched, I only took a couple of photos. I would love to know where the pattern for the cross stitch came from as I would consider doing it, that's how much I liked it!
Isn't this swan so cute with her bathing cap on? I actually ran into the woman with these squares before she had made it into a quilt. We were both at the quilt shop and she was choosing fabric to make the quilt with.
I just adore Buggy Barn patterns and this one was called Wild Goose Chase. I love it!
I took these to show Amy at the Calico Cat. Aren't these cats great? I like how they have people all over them. Like Guliver's Travels, kind of.
Every person that entered a quilt was required to work 2 hours at the show. So on Sunday I was wearing my white glove and walking around and I ran into the woman that made this quilt. It is entitled, Georgia (her granddaughter) and was from a photo taken while on Beaver Island (where Gwen Marston lives, BTW). She was very nice and offered to show me how to do this if I was interested. Uh, duuhhh, of course!
This quilt won the Viewer's choice award. It was pretty cool. By Sue Holdiway-Hayes (I hope I spelled that right!, sorry Sue if I didn't)
The rocks were fascinating.
Here is an up close of the cats I was talking about. They look like they were appliqued on but in reality they are part of the fabric!
I liked this one for it's use of that fabric for the wake. Too cool! Check out the nautical flag fabric used in the border!
This is all I have for now. I have more photos and will post more later. I was pretty good and did not buy too much. I will take some photos of what I bought and post those later too. I bought the panel of Pumpkins Gone Wild and a charm pack to use around the panel, 2 fat quarters, a binding ruler to cut bias binding and some red scaly fabric for a project DD1 and I are thinking about doing. I will tell you about that later too! She won't draw what I want until I finish Prismata. Prismata is a water dragon she drew, I enlarged and chose fabric for but have not made into a quilt...YET. She doesn't think I will do it but it is on the short list. She will draw the next one when I finish it. She drew a series of pond dragons, oh, but wait, I'll show it to you later...
I did manage to get 2 more of the blocks finished for Karen and Cory's quilt. I also got some laundry done and went to the grocery store. DH is overnight tonight so I am planning on getting more of the KC blocks done tonight. I am so ready to be done with that quilt but so nowhere close to actually being finished, *sigh*.
These BB trees were great too. I'm so in love with BB patterns!
We own 2 Jeeps. One is a Wrangler which is what this quilt is. I liked it and have thought of how to incorporate a Jeep into a quilt. I think I would be more subtle but I thought this was neat too.
They had antique quilts in a special exhibit and I really liked this one. You can see how teeny tiny those HST's are.
And, NO I didn't actually touch the quilt, just close!
I thought this one was neat as half the trees were upside down.
I love Halloween and a vendor had this quilt done as a BOM. I especially liked the owl and the pussycat, but was officially too cheap to pay $60 for the patterns. *SIGH* I will just admire it from afar!
Now it's time to show what I purchased. I bought this panel, Pumpkins Gone Wild. Isn't it great??
Here is the rest. (Wasn't I good??) Red FQ for the red and white quilt, that next one is just a really odd print and I thought I *needed* it. A ruler for cutting bias binding, really slick!! A charm pack of PGW to use around the panel and that red scaly print. I will tell you about that later.
I have my box-o-scraps packaged up to send to Julia in our scrap swap. I hope she likes what I am sending!!
