Day 60 of 2024

I went to a quilt show today and this was one of my favorites on display. 

Below is the maker information and the quilt description. 

What a fun mystery quilt this must have been to make.

 

Day 61 of 2023

I attended the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show today 

and was impressed with lots of the quilts this year. 

I am always especially interested

 in seeing the quilting designs that have been used, 

and I thought this one was exceptionally good. 

Below is the card that was attached to the quilt

 for quilt and maker information.

 

Day 291 of 2022

Here are a few more things I got in my $5 bag

 at the quilt show a couple weeks ago. 

I'd like to start on a couple of these things right away, 

but I've declared October Take Back the House and Yard month 

so I'm trying really hard not to get too distracted. 

 

Day 283 of 2022

On Saturday, I was at the quilt show later in the day near the end of the show. 

At one point an announcement was made: 

Fill a small bag for $5 or a large bag for $10 from the guild shop. 

Well, I am a superb bag stuffer and brought home so many goodies for $5. 

This sandwich-sized zip bag full of tiny tumblers, all cut and ready to go, 

was just one of the treasures.

(picture taken Monday, 10-10-2022)

 

Day 281 of 2022

Thank you all for being patient with me

 and to those who reached out to see if everything was ok. 

It didn't occur to me until today 

that I could have commented on the last post to explain. 

Future me might remember this if I ever have trouble again. 

My computer had been giving me trouble for a while 

and I intended to warn you ahead of time that if I went silent for a while, 

that was most likely the cause. 

Of course, I was not quick enough with that message 

and my computer stopped performing the functions I needed in order to post. 

So here we are with a new computer loaded with all my old stuff 

and me trying to learn all the new things

 that have come about in computer land in the last eleven years.

This day I went to a quilt show put on by our local quilt guild. 

Besides all the beautiful, new quilts on display, 

one of my very favorite things is to see the old quilts

 on display in various places.

 This one caught my eye in a vendor booth. 

I asked permission to take this photo, 

which the vendor graciously granted. 

We had a good conversation about this. 

In case you don't know, it is never okay

 to take pictures of or in someone's booth. 

Sometimes the vendor will grant permission

 to take a picture of a quilt on display

 if the pattern was purchased. 

Otherwise, you are taking advantage

 of all their hard work without compensation. 

(picture taken Saturday, 10-8-2022)

 

Day 67 of 2020

It's not every day that I get to go to a quilt store, go to a quilt show

 and hang out with these cuties. 

Cuties, left to right:  GB#2, Fireball, GB#4

Day 326 of 2019

When in Houston earlier this month, 

we had a discussion about Seven Sisters blocks and quilts. 

I mentioned that I had seen and taken a picture of a fabulous Seven Sisters quilt

 in Paducah many years ago.  

I had begun my own version of it and would send evidence when I found it.  

Well, here is the photo and my one almost finished block. 

According to the information I wrote on the back of the photo, 

it was taken in 1998. 

 It was one of the first, if not the very first, 

years I made the trip to attend the quilt show. 

All the merchants downtown had decorated their store windows with quilts.  

This quilt top was in the window of a shoe store and I was quite taken by it.  

We went inside to get a better look and to ask if it was okay to take a picture.  

They said yes and even offered to get the top down so we could really look at it, 

which they did. 

This block was to be the beginnings of my own quilt in the pattern

 and a nice take-along hand project.  

It turns out I do not enjoy the EPP (English paper piecing) process 

so it remains unfinished.  

Maybe I will find that last piece and finish it 

so I can put it with my other orphan blocks 

and eventually find a home for it.

Day 308 of 2019

I could not resist getting this beautiful trim last week at quilt festival. 

I am thinking it may be useful in some capacity for the wedding next year. 

I'm thinking little flower girls. 

And I'm sure if it doesn't fit into the wedding plan, 

the little girls would love something made from it anyway.

Day 307 of 2019

I have been wanting to get a yarn bowl for quite some time

 but have hesitated to buy one I couldn't feel the smoothness 

and weight of in person. 

I saw this one in Houston and did just that. 

It came home with me.

Day 306 of 2019

Today was my last day in Houston. 

I'll leave you with this detail of a quilt by Cinzia White.

Day 305 of 2019

I saw too many beautiful quilts today to be able to pick just one for this post. 

So instead, here is my friend Raewyn. 

She is standing in front of the obvious choice for dinner 

when we found out there was a Shake Shack in town.  

We don't have Shake Shack in my hometown 

and it was Raewyn's first experience with it. 

It was the perfect choice. 

We each had a burger and a chocolate shake. 

Obviously.

Day 304 of 2019

Blue is beautiful at Houston.

Day 285 of 2019

I took a day expressly for me. 

It was wonderful.

Day 111 of 2018

There's nothing wrong with a little time by the river. 

Day 97 of 2017

There were so many quilts I loved at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago today

that I had a hard time picking one for picture of the day, 

so I chose this quilt called Classmates by Noriko Kido of Japan 

since it is made with a block known here as Patchwork of the Crosses 

that I have been considering making. 

Below are a few close-ups.

Day 213 of 2016

M and I headed to an outdoor quilt show in the park today. 

I love the quilting on this one.

Day 175 of 2016

Shipshewana. 

All the antique quilts in this exhibit are draped over cars that color coordinate.

Day 64 of 2016

I attended a nearby quilt show today. 

This is one of my favorite quilted border treatments. 

It was made by Margaret Solomon Gunn.

Day 111/365

My friend Julie and I are in Paducah, Kentucky for AQS Quilt Week. 

This is one of the few places we stopped today.

There are wonderful exhibits inside right now including one with antique 9-patch quilts.

I may have to try to reproduce a couple of them.