This way to the quilt festival! ----->
Anyone recognize a certain Granny Square quilt in the middle of the main barn? :-D
So pretty to see all of the quilts hanging:
What's that quilt over there on the far right????:
Why, it's my Flying Geese quilt!...hung the wrong way. :-/ It looks like the tag was pinned with only one pin and it moved...guess the quilt pointed the direction out of the corral we were standing in.
Ha, Emory saw the above picture and said, "Go, Mommy!" :-P
My quilt had the privilege of hanging next to one of Rachel Griffith's quilts called "Impromptu." She is a super dee duper quilting star at PS I Quilt. Seriously, when I saw her quilt I was so happy to be by her...errr her quilt! Rachel, very smartly, attached cards to some of her quilts that named the pattern and told where you could buy her pattern---www.psiquilt.com---duh! Some ladies who were viewing her quilt were confused so I politely yelled/said, "That's Rachel! She's famous! She's awesome! She has a sweet blog!" They didn't respond to me...
And this was all before....I got to meet Rachel Griffith!!! Mom and I were just sitting on a bench when she came by to take a picture of a piece that someone had made using her pattern. I asked her if it was her quilt...she said it was her pattern...I asked her if she was Rachel...she said yes. That's exactly how it went down. :-P
We had a longer opportunity to chat after the show waiting for our quilts to be taken down. I'm really glad she doesn't think I'm a weirdo fan. But really...I trust fellow quilters (they're my only Facebook friends whom I've never met in person)...what's not to trust about me? :-P
More quilts on the barns:
Hi, Mom! This part was perfect for her...she loves the color blue!
A pixelated Husky dog. The squares were seriously small...had to have started out as an inch square!:
Peekaboo!
Two out of three of my quilts hung the wrong way! :-( I can only imagine that someone looked at this and insisted that my face be up and down as if I were standing (like my kids think!)...another one might have said, no, no...look at the tendrils of her hair...look at the softness of her face (ha)...she is lying down. They settled it by sticking a tack in one corner. :-P These quilts were all hung at 5:30 a.m. that morning by non-quilters (who didn't recognize the hanging sleeve that was sewn on the back), so I don't really blame them.
Still pretty awesome to see it hanging there.
But, see...it doesn't quite work standing up:
These were the other portrait quilts...guess they thought mine didn't belong with them...
Ahhhhhh...I feel at peace looking at this next pic:
The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind?
Even the backs of quilts are pretty:
Hello, little elk! They certainly stayed far away:
You might not be able to see it well, but the girl in the picture below has her hand on her head like she's just about had it with the quilt show:
Here are some of my favorites. I went back and stalked Rachel's blog after I found out she entered 16 quilts to the show! As you will see, several of them caught my eye before I really confirmed that they were hers.
A giant star of some sorts needs to be in my quilty future:
The batiks in this one are so pretty. Love the curves and the surprise of the missing quarter of the circle.
Wonky stars! Love them.
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| Pretty sure this one is Rachel Griffith's! |
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| Smitten by Rachel Griffith |
This one was super cool. I wish it had been hung lower to really get a good look at it, but it was still captivating hanging so high. Large hexies rule.
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| Reverie by Rachel Griffith |
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| Flip Slide by Rachel Griffith |
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| Savvy and Pinwheel Sample both by Rachel Griffith |
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| Escapade by Rachel Griffith |
Someone had a lot of fun quilting this one!:
I'm so going to do a butterfly block, soon! This quilt looked like it was made with vintage fabric. Or maybe it was made 40 years ago with new fabric? I couldn't tell. Although, there were still pen markings on it. I'm sure I would have known had I spent the two dollars on a festival book!
I love, love, loved this one. Not only are the colors gorgeous, I was just so intrigued by the combination of half square triangles (you know I love them...me and HSTs are tight!), and two rectangles in a square. The white pieces gives it a bit of a houndstooth feel (arg...I want to make a houndstooth quilt, too!), but different. I like it.
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| Facade by Rachel Griffith |
Ooooooo...I loved this one, too! My mother-in-law made us a wedding ring quilt when we got married, and it is similarly colored to this one---blue and cream. But, look at all of the extra stuff on this! Can I call them spikes?
Such pretty colors in this one...and so many tiny pieces!
This was another fave. Log cabins and a window. Love the gray with the teal and the crispness of it all.
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| Rachel's |
And, I didn't see this one...I mean *really* see it until we were waiting for the volunteers to take the quilts down. We said that a lot as we walked around the farm, "Ohhhh, I didn't see that one before!" There were just so many everywhere, your eyes were constantly being drawn here and there and to the $1 parfaits they were carrying around trying to sell...
Some quilts up close:
Woo! I'm tired. That's a lot of pictures to go through.
We camped with the Cub Scouts on Friday/Saturday, did the quilt show Saturday, and today I took Emory to see the musical Peter Pan. He also got to go to the fabric store with Mommy! So, yeah...I'm tired. A very good tired, though. :-)
I leave you with some antlers:
And some elk:
And some fabric I picked up while on the farm:
