On Saturday, I am headed to Seattle with a bus load of quilters from our guild to attend the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest.
The Quilt show is in new venue: The Washington State Convention & Trade Center which is located in downtown Seattle. The main entrance is at 7th and Pike Streets.
Are any other quilters in blogland planning on attending this show?
I hope to see you there!
On Saturday, I attended one of the best quilt shows that I have been to in a long time. This show was local–at Tradex in Abbotsford and was sponsored by the Abbotsford Quilters’ Guild.
One of the demos that I attended was on the Disappearing Nine Patch. Many of the quilters on the Internet have been talking about this pattern recently. As FABs we have been discussing this one as well–especially when considering patterns that make up quickly when we are thinking of making donation quilts.
The gal doing the demonstration referred us to two web sites for further information. The first link is of interest if you are using scraps or charm packs to make this pattern: http://snippetsofaquilter.blogspot.com/2007/10/charm-square-quilt.html. The second link of interest that she gave us is useful if you are using strips of fabric rather than squares. This one makes up quite quickly. http://www.myquiltblog.com/nancyrose/4624
These women are at one of the vendor booths. They are all crowded around a table of fabric pieces. You picked out what fabric you wanted – some pieces were 1/2 m and some were closer to a fat quarter in size. Your chosen fabric pieces were then weighed and you paid for your fabric by the pound. One woman commented that it was like going through someone else’s stash. It was great fun!
The quilting on this Stack’N Whack fan quilt was fabulous!
This little quilt would make a cute little table topper. I know of another FAB that likes to make table toppers as much as I do! This one would make up quickly and would showcase a great print.
This quilt is a BQ quilt. I can’t see one of these without thinking of the FABs as this style of quilt makes up quickly and showcases kid friendly prints so well making it a great choice for a donation quilt.
This quilt was a simple pattern made from squares. The success of this quilt was really in the fabrics that were chosen!
This was a Kaffe Fassett inspired quilt. I thought some of my green fabric collection paired up with my growing floral collection could be used to make myself one of these.
I was surprised when I came around the corner and saw this quilt. I quilted this one for one of my customers. I had no idea she was entering it in a show. She even gave me credit on the tag labelling her quilt!
These are pictures of one of the quilts that were made and donated to the Canadian Comfort and Remembrance Project. This project has been endorsed by the Department of National Defense. This is an opportunity to show encouragement, support and care to the seriously wounded and to next-of-kin who have lost soldiers in Canadian forces in overseas missions. Read more about this project here: http://www.picketfencefabrics.com/PFF_CCRP.htm
There was a wonderful display of antique quilts and antique sewing machines as well. Don’t these quilts look wonderful displayed against this beautifully restored pickup truck?
I loved the cabinet that housed this machine.
A wonderful display of toy sewing machines.
This woman was drawing a crowd. Imagine being able to sew by machine anywhere without power!
This is a picture of the fabric for our quilt guild’s 2008 Quilt Show Challenge. The name of our show (to be held in September 2008) is: “Quilts From the Heart”.
The “rules” of the challenge are simple.
1. Purchase your kit for $2.00. (The low cost of the challenge fabric is thanks to the Liquidation World fabric sale!) The fabric is a strip 8″ wide by WOF. Basically, the organizer bought what fabric was left on the bolt and divided the piece by 24 (total number of kits). You don’t need to use all of the fabric, but we are to use enough that it is clearly visible (a 1″ square would not suffice).
2. Your quilt must include at least one heart motif.
3. The outside perimeter of your work should be no smaller than 72″ and no bigger than 168″.
4. Your work must have a hanging sleeve.
5. You must include a label on the back of the quilt, and then cover the label with a piece of fabric to ensure anonymity.
6. Quilts are to be submitted at the September meeting in an unmarked bag.
7. Winners will be determined at the quilt show by Viewer’s Choice.
8. Have fun!
This sounds like my kind of challenge–especially, rule #8!
These are pictures from the second quilt show that I attended in October. I was able to attend with my quilting friend, Colette. Colette was the friend that got me started quilting. Because she no longer lives close by, we don’t get the same opportunities to spend time together that we used to.
As we entered the show, this was the quilter that greeted us!
Colette forgot her camera so I took pictures of this quilt for her. This is a string quilt with applique. The applique was raw edge.
There was a challenge sponsored by the guild where you were to make a quilt with a “leaf” theme.
My favorite quilt in the challenge category was this bear paw quilt with appliqued leaves in the corners. The machine quilting was beautiful!
There were a number of round robin quilts at this show.
Spending an afternoon at a quilt show with a friend is the best!
I am so behind in posting. I realized yesterday that there are pictures still on my camera from two quilt shows that I attended in October.
These pictures are from a small local quilt show in Harrison Mills. Each year there is a small dedicated group of women who live in the community who put together a quilt show inviting all local quilters to display their quilts. The proceeds from admission to the show support a local initiative each year. This year’s proceeds went towards a bursary that will benefit a deserving high school student in their graduation year.
This was a particularly special day for me as my DH agreed to attend the show with me! Yes, my DH attended a quilt show! Of course, because this quilt show is local it is attended by many of the people who live nearby so he was sure to know someone there so there wasn’t much danger in attending. I promised that when I blogged about this show, I would also mention that my DH paid my admission! Consider me living up to my promise.
The first two quilts were wonderful stitcheries that made me smile. The first one could be me and the second could represent any of the local families in the area.
The hall is quite small and located out in the country amidst dairy farms and corn fields. The women on the committee have reflected the countryside in their hanging of the quilts by hanging the quilts from clothes lines with clothes pegs.
We were given an opportunity to vote on our favorite quilt and this was my DH’s favorite. This is a miniature Stack’N Whack.
I enjoyed the next two quilts–probably because they feel antique to me. They were both made from scraps using very old patterns–the spider web and pinwheel.
It was a beautiful day and on the way home we stopped by a very small cafe for lunch. This is one of those places where you help yourself to the coffee and refills and the person taking your order is also the one who goes into the kitchen to prepare it. We had always intended to stop and try this place out but never seemed to be going by when they were open. This was the day to try it out and we were not disappointed.