Quilt Show

 We have a small quilt guild with fewer than 50 members, but our quilt show this year is BIG!  Probably the best quilt show we’ve had since I’ve been a member. The theme was Spellbound, and a lot of Halloween projects were shown along with everything else imaginable.  The committee can be very proud of what they accomplished with all of their hard work planning. And members can be proud of the quality of the quilt in the show.  So much talent on display. 

There was a good crowd all day, and I heard such good comments from people. There were too many beautiful things to photograph and post at once but I will show a few highlights.

One of the Past President’s quilts. This quilt actually represents 2 years, as this gal was president 2 years in a row.  We made the house blocks for her after the first year and told her to “hold onto them” because the blocks for the second year "might" blend nicely.  She received the trees to go with the houses, and she did such a lovely creative job of designing a layout. 

One of our members has won ‘Viewer’s Choice” several times, and that award has been well deserved each time because she is SO talented.  Two of her quilts caught my eye immediately this year.

One because of the amazing use of color, and the other because of the spectacular quilting.  

And our Featured Quilter had so many beautiful things I don’t know where to start.  But this darling small quilt had 3-D dresses on each doll.  She mentioned that she has a real love of paper dolls, and this quilt sure represents that love.   She also said her first loves are embroidery and applique, and her quilts very definitely reflect some major skills in those areas. 

And how about 24 FEET of Bargello beauty?  One of our members challenged herself to accomplish this amazing quilt.  She assembled the top between April of this year and June.  Incredible!  Then found a young man who agreed to quilt it on his long arm.  Gorgeous!!!

I’ll share a few more pictures this week.