Another quilt show and a Funday-Sunday!

 What a busy week I've had! Two quilt shows, four quilt shops and a Funday-Sunday to cap it all off. On the way home from Pigeon Forge we stopped at Mountain Creek quilt shop in Maryville, TN. It is a great shop with all the latest fabrics. I didn't need anything, and only bought a wallhanging kit of a bear on a birch tree, and a couple of fat quarters.

On Friday we traveled to Marietta, GA for the East Cobb quilt show. It was worth there trip. Lots of quilts in a well organized venue. The vendors are in a balcony that overlooks the show floor. We did the tour of the vendors, then dove right in and took in the hundreds of quilts. Put your seatbelt on, there are loads of quilts to see...

I took a photo in each direction so you could see how big the show is. 

Across there room, you can see some of the vendor booths. They encircle the entire balcony.

People down below are enjoying the quilts up close.

It's a perfect venue.

This is the Best of Show quilt. It is pretty and has some fabulous quilting, but it is not my pick.

Some of the quilting

More of the quilting.

These next quilts are my personal favorites, and they have three things in common...precise workmanship, interesting use of color and imaginative fabric placement within the pattern. I hope you agree.

Yikes! I don't think I would stick with it long enough to finish!

This quilt is awesome! Many of the 9 patches in the centers are fussy cut!

Here's one with happy dogs. I could look at this quilt for hours, marveling at the plethora of fabrics.

Our friend Kathy made this Ocean Waves quilt.

I love this! Made from a huge assortment of African fabrics.

I'm. sucker for birds in quilts, and these are spectacular. 

All Australian Aboriginal fabrics.

This one is hand pieced and hand quilted with big stitch. The color combinations are wonderful.

Wow! Thousands of tiny strips to make the moon and night sky.

This looks so Egyptian!

A simple pattern elevated by the interesting color combinations and the arcs of big stitch.

African fabric again.

The maker sewed this quilt for a teacher. Each letter is made from a fabric that represents it. What a clever idea! I bet the kids loved it.

A nice portrait of Obama

The original quilt was called Whiz-Bang and was made by an Aussie lady. This quilter did a good job making her own interpretation of that quilt.

This is so fun! Remembering the pandemic and all those pesky Zoom meetings. 

In the borders she quilted the outlines of the 'Zoomers".

What a brilliant use of yo-yos. Pink Ones on white and black fabric, and black and white ones on pink. Pluss, the quilting is all yo-yo shaped motifs. A grand use of pebbles in the quilting.

Here is the entire quilt. Every once in a while she snuck in a turquoise yo-yo or a white yo-yo. And that scalloped edge is terrific!

This was a challenge quilt where they had to pick three cards from the game Clue and interpret them in the quilt. This quilter chose her cards and made a winner!

The wrench...

Agatha's books

This is another of my favorites. I am so impressed with the imaginative use of an otherwise boring fabric panel.

Steam punk crow! I'm loving the embellishments on this one. The zipper tail is perfect!

All sorts of found objects and the gears in the quilting complete the picture.

Okay...I just thought it was fun.

I need to make this! Lord knows, I have enough Black and white fabrics to do it. The colors are no problem, either. I love this pattern.

What looked simple from a distance was intricate up close.

Buttons are one of my go-to embellishments. They are used well in this quilt.

More birds...with beads for eyes.

This colorful entry warms my heart. What could be better than gobs of half square triangles and bright appliquéd flowers?!

There were hundreds of quilts; a good number were English paper pieced and hand quilted. Anyone who had a quilt in this show should be proud of themselves for the excellence of work they did. I bought some 5 inch square packets of French fabrics to make a quilt where I can use my table cloth I got in Provence on the back. We don't have a big table anymore and it is languishing in the linen cabinet. It will be a nice memory quilt for me.

On the way home, we stopped at Pickens Mercantile quilt shop and Cabin Fever quilt shop. I had been to Fabrics Galore earlier to get the fabrics for the tee shirt quilt, so that made four shops in one week!

The tee shirt quilt is finished and ready to go home along with three of the four repairs from the same customer.  I put backing on a small homespun patchwork quilt and put on new binding, leaving just the double wedding ring quilt to repair. This lot was a big job and I am glad to be nearing the finish line.

Ta-Da! It turned out great!

I used my favorite tee shirt quilt panto, rounded squares. 

For the back, a blue Fossil Fern print.

Today was Funday-Sunday and I had some fun after binding the small homespun quilt. Remember the Jacob's ladder quilt I started at the retreat? I finally got a chance to work on it and made 15 of the 63 blocks. They take some time to do because of all the trimming and pressing, but it was relaxing and I enjoyed making them. I put them up on the design wall, and now I can't wait to make more. I love them!! So far so good. We'll see how it goes in the next week or so. I may be able to get a lot more sewn.

                                         

After trimming all 135 block components... Just think, only 432 more components to make, trim and assemble! ha ha

Mr Wazoo observed that some of the yellows don't match. Duh! That's the point!! It is a scrap quilt. Nothing matches. There will be no fabrics used twice. 126 different fabrics, all from my stash. Yowza!