Quilt Show... Falling Off a Log

Teresa Belyea is Sandy's assistant in our local quilting group. She is a prolific quilter and usually does quilts in very bold and vibrant colors. Color-wise one would never know this was her work, but scope and precision-wise, it's her all over. And her creative playfulness in naming the quilt is also evident. Well, whatever else she had in mind when naming it, though, surely it was not the usual pre-phrase, "As Easy as..."!

The tonal-induced design is more evident in the photo than in viewing the actual quilt, so my friends and I just had to step back and look at this one again (and again). 

Don't you love the four patches in the border???

Quilt Show Third Day... a Quilt With Real Heritage

Katherine Weathers' quilt entitled "Daddy Was a Bee Keeper" is packed with heritage. Little wonder it would garner some recognition at the Heritage Quilters' Fanfare! 

Based on the design of a quilt made by her great grandmother some time before 1891, Mrs. Weathers changed up some of the math making the sawtooth squares measure one inch, rather than the original quilt's 3/4 inch and adjusting the setting triangles accordingly. She stuck to the green and white, though, and ended up with a really charming reproduction.

The quilt label tells all, and shows both the original quilter and the inspirational quilt...or vice versa, perhaps.

Quilt Show . Glacier Star

Glacier Star by Linda Snellgrove
I think this quilt won "Viewers Choice" award. Linda is a member of our quilting circle, so aren't we proud of her work?

 There was another quilt by the same name and style, but smaller. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of it. 

Linda had the quilting done by Deanna Plotts, who used a track machine for the beautiful quilting. 

Quilt Show!

Heritage Quilters held a show at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. One of my favorites on display ...not my quilt...just my taste, was this one by Jackie Hicks called "Red Doors and Double Chocolate". Isn't it delicious?!?

I  like the play of the stars and squares and even houses in this design. Her varied blocks used as a border are one of the places your eyes can spend a little travel time. 

This was my first quilt show, and I may just be spoiled, because how can it get much better than this?

A few more quilts will be posted here later. Right now, though, let's just wander in and out of the red doors to a double portion of chocolate. Shall we?

Still Monkeying With It

Not really even sure when I started monkeying with these blocks. The pattern, though, was seen on page 86 in Fons & Porter's Love Of Quilting magazine ... May/June 2010 issue. The polka dot fabric was a Wal-Mart purchase made on one of our overnights in Bristol, TN on the way to see grandchild #1...or perhaps even grandchildren, by then. My intention was to make a single block just to try out the method, but I got a little carried away and then began having the concept of using a rainbow of colors for the points of the star. At last count I have eight blocks. If I go with the layout below, I could stop at this with the following star point colors : red, orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, turquoise, dark blue, and purple.

Each block uses:
one  3.5 " center sqaure    (A)  [monkey center]
four light 2" x 3.5" rectangles  (B) [*]
four light 2" squares  (C)  [corners]
eight dark 2" squares  (D) [star points]

* The stitch and flip method is used to make the points on the rectangle pieces. 

 Anyway... wanted to record this block here, as I tend to loose track of the origins of the projects in holding patterns. These poor monkeys were lost for a few months because of a dash to stash the stash house 
decluttering episode last year.

Hope your monkeys are keeping you in stitches...or vice versa.

Notes on first run of block...from a sewing sleepover, in which the block is identified as either "Ohio Star" or "Variable Star".

Just had an idea for a center square...make one more Ohio Star and use eight colors for the points! 

Making Tracks for Tot's Train Quilt

The train quilt needed to be quilted. The borders were bright yellow (mostly), with a few squares of blue. Suddenly, the squares took on the semblance of tunnels in my mind, and all that was needed was a track to run through them. Free motion to the rescue! All aboard! Looks like we'll be running on time, after all!

Patriotic Mosaic Lap Quilt ... Continued

"WITH THE LIGHT FROM ABOVE"
quilt completed and ready for presentation.

Top left shows the finished quilt in black and white. Some people seem better able to see the flag and dove if viewed in B&W. The actual quilt colors appear in bottom right section of grid. The two other sections show the label attached on the bottom right corner of the quilt's back.

If you look closely you can see the quilting used. Free motion stars were worked on the blue and white patches. Waved lines were used on the red and white stripes, and various free motion feathering was used on the dove's wings and tail. Quilt back is anti-pill fleece.