And yet MORE Airing of the Quilt photos!

Are you ready for even MORE quilt photos. You're going to be so jealous that I got to see these beautiful quilts in person, and you have to make do with these rather poor camera phone photos - sorry.   :(

I loved the next quilt. AND it had a matching pillow case. Too cute!

More English paper piecing. I think it was also hand quilted. The following three quilts were made by the same wonderful quilter. She's a new member of our quilt guild, and I'm looking forward to getting to know her better and seeing more of her quilts.

Some of the patriotic quilts made by our Airing of the Quilts hostess. A beautiful home and beautiful quilts!

More beautiful quilts. Isn't this an unusual pattern?

Once again, I'm ending with needle work for those cross stitch fans.



I hope you're enjoying sharing these quilt photos with me because some of my favorites are still to come. I haven't even shown you Mom's yet! So come back again tomorrow and see what else I got to see.

'Til then,

Debbi

Airing of the Quilts, Cont'.

I hope you enjoyed the photos in my last post. I have more to share with you today. We have such talented quilters in our guild. Of course, some of the photos are of antique quilts that our members own and share with us. Enjoy -

I realized that I didn't show you any photos of the displays themselves in yesterday's post. Many more quilts came in after I took these photos. We had a wonderful showing. We also had a wonderful picnic under the shade tree.

This is not the fault of my camera phone. This quilt actually is constructed with lighter fabrics on the inside and darker fabrics on the outside. Isn't it clever?

 Not great photos of the following quilts. I'm afraid the sun rather washed out the colors. These are actually beautifully colored quilts.

Isn't this a creative quilt? I love modern, mixed styles.

This is one of my favorite quilts. I LOVE the bright colors. I could never tackle this myself, but I admire anyone who can.

I love butterflies. I buy some of most fabrics that I find with butterflies. I used this same butterfly in a pink colorway in Tessie's quilt (see my Meet the Quilt Cats page... or is it in the More Quilt Cat Photos page?).

English paper piecing. LOTS of it. Another thing I can't do.

Postage stamp quilt. WOW!

And a couple for those of you who prefer needlcraft...

I finally sewed a label onto my Tonga Batik quilt. It is now finished and ready to show at my guild meetings. I really love the way it turned out. I'll show another photo of it when I can get outside with some proper lighting and my good camera.

I'm also sewing on the bindings on my Black and Blue quilt and my Harvest Time quilt. I hope to get the bindings and labels done before our June QUILT meeting so that I can show them. I still have lots of UFOs to finish, but I'm making true progress. I'll try tomorrow to get my UFO page and monthly projects section updated. I'll also add photos of my finished projects to my Quilt Time page as soon as I get some good photos of them.

In the meantime, back to work tomorrow for another three and a half weeks, then out for the summer. More Airing of the Quilt photos to come...

'Til later,
Debbi

Airing of the Quilts

Finally. I'm getting caught up enough on things to start blogging regularly again. I hope you like lots of photos of quilts because I have a lot to share. This month our QUILT guild meeting was held on the lawn of a member's house. We brought some of our quilts and hung them on her fence to share with the world. Here are some of the photos.

These first photos are of some of my own quilts. This one is called Retro Asian. The blocks are Courthouse Two-Steps made in 70s retro fabrics. I set them in a burgundy Asian fabric with small flowers that match the color and feel of the retros. I bordered it with a more modern bright green and burgundy plaid. Don't ask my why. I think this is a fun quilt despite it's loud colors and disparate styles.

I have taken very few classes. This one was from Jeannie Poore and was called Grandma Addie's Star. Some of you may have seen this one before on my blog. This is one of the few scrappy quilts I've done. I love the bright blue color.

This next one is one of two sister quilts. I have finished this one but not its sis. The other one will have the same coordinating fabrics, but a blue focal fabric instead of red. I designed this quilt myself using the Lost Ships block. This was also my first attempt at mitered corners. No one told me about avoiding stripes on miters. I matched them up though! The third and fifth photos are the only ones that actually come close the the real colors.

Some random shots of the beautiful quilts that our talented members brought to show us.

Next Sunday Mom and I will be attending Miss Bonnie's 90th birthday party. Miss Bonnie made the following two quilts in the last couple of years. Mom and I donated a few fabrics for the black and white. Man, I hope I'm still sewing when I'm nearly 90!



Some more random shots.

And ending once again with some of Mom's lovely flowers.



I have a lot more pictures to share, but I don't want to tire you out with the first batch, so I'll post more later. 'Til then -

Debbi