Quilters on the Road, Quilters at Home, Quilters Everywhere

Here is a very interesting article about the Vacilando Quilting Company which operates out of an airstream trailer.  Laura Preston and her husband travel the United States in their Airstream, both working out of it and somewhere along the way, Laura decided to learn to quilt.  The article tells about how the American landscapes influence her designs and how she manages to run a business and make quilts out of a 200 square foot home.  Makes me want to become a nomad.

Lily's Quilts is a company out of the UK.  She has a good deal of quilty news and information on her site and blog.  She has some very interesting and differently named patterns on her tutorials. The ET Phone Home quilt block is nice and the chubby and fat Dresdens and the Big Little George.  Actually, I liked them all.

Christa Quilts has posted a lot of pictures from the Las Vegas quilt show. She also has a group of tutorials to take a look at.

Let's hope it continues to warm up more.  I saw some green grass in my yard!

Still Winter and Still Quilting

The Rivers Edge Antique and Quilt Loft in Hayward, WI looks like a very fine place to chose from about 4,000 bolts of a variety of fabrics. They have a f ree wool BOM which you can download from their online catalog. You can order online here or plan a road trip but either way it looks like a fun shop.

Bonjour Quilts features a wonderful blog and pattern shop. The When You Wish baby quilt is on my to do list for sure.  They are also doing a Farmer's Wife 1930's series of blocks that look quite sweet. The patterns in her shop are also very interesting, I really liked the Go West and The Plus Side patterns.

Wooden Spoon Quilts is also participating in the Farmer's Wife  blocks.  It appears they are all using Marti Mitchell templates for this.  She has some nice tutorials too, love the Summer Cabin Quilt block and the Raspberry Kiss block.

Charm About You is a busy blog with photos of great quilts and projects and quilt a longs.  Here are her tutorials which feature a lot of techniques and tips.

Here are some more quilt show photos.

Quilts and Quilters

Despite the rain and fog last night, we had a good turn out at our meeting and a great time.  Kay gave us a look at some new blocks.  I'm sure Laurie will get some photos up for us soon.

I visited Jo's Country Junction for a cute jelly roll quilt called Ins and Outs and it looks like a good way to use some of those jelly rolls you might have forgot about. H ere is also a location on their site for many other quilts. Love the little fella who has to pose with the quilts.  Please notice that she also has tutorials for table runners, accessories and quilt designs too.  They also have books for sale and a link to that.

Here are some more quilts from our 2016 quilt show.

More quilt pics

Here are some pictures of our quilt show 2016.  A nice place to visit is Canton Village Quilt Works which I try to check into frequently.  Lots of pretty quilt ideas here.

Some of Our Lovely Quilts

I have slowly been uploading pictures to make a slideshow of our beautiful quilt show in October but its taking me  a long time so I decided to put some photos out on the blog.  It should keep our winter spirits up looking at our quilts!  These are just chose random, I put my clicker out and thats the one for the day so I hope you enjoy this.

Happy Fourth to You and Directions for the Hanging Sleeve

I hope everyone is having a great 4th and staying cool.  Quite the heat wave we're having but the gardens are loving it especially with the rain last night.

I have posted directions for making the hanging sleeve for our quilts for the show on the Quilt Show Page.  If you have any questions, I can bring a sleeve in for a demonstration to our July meeting.

Have a safe Holiday.
Diana

Ribbons for Panama City Quilter

  When I am not enjoying the company of the Pine Needle Quilters, I belong to Saint Andew Bay Quilters' Guild here in Panama City, FL.  Each February the guild has a members only juried quilt show at St. Andrew's Episcopal church, where we also meet monthly.  The quilts entered must have been completed in the past 2 years.  It is a small show due to the limits of space.  This year 95 quilts were hung and they filled all the area. 

 

As all of you know, it is a group effort to put on a show.  Quilts were entered in the following categories:

    

 (1) Bed Size Quilts (a) made by one person, (b) made by two persons

 (2) Group Quilt  (Any quilt which 3 or more people worked on the construction or finishing.)

 (3) Wall Size Quilt (a) small wall quilt no larger than 160" total made by one person, (b) small wall quilt made by 2 persons, (c) large wall quilt larger than 160" made by one  person,  (d) large wall quilt made by 2 persons

 (4) Art/Innovative...must be entrant's own design or original interpretation and cannot exist in a commercial pattern

 (5) Miniature...by one person, measure less than 24" per side, must be a small version of a full sized quilt or wall hanging

 (6) Other...quilts not using 3 layers such as Grandmother's Flower Garden, Cathedral Window, Crazy Quilt. Whole Cloth quilts also fall into this category.

 

We took our quilts to be entered to the church on Tuesday.  A group received them and saw that they matched the registration form for each quilt that was due in January.  Wednesday the judge spent the day studying each quilt with 12 of us assisting.  On Thursday yet another group hung the show and it was open to the public Friday and Saturday.

At 4 PM on Saturday a group took the show down and returned the quilts to the rightful owner.

 

We are fortunate to have the space available to us most of the week.  Other years much has been done in members' homes.

 

If you ever have an opportunity to enter a juried show, it is interesting.  The judge is looking at each quilt and making comments while a scribe writes down everything she says.  When the show is over you get the sheet of comments she made about your quilt.  Better yet, if you ever get an opportunity to work with the judge, do it.  It is unbelievable that a dozen women can spend a day without talking, except for lunch time and then you cannot discuss the quilts!  You do learn so much in the listening to her make her comments.

 

This year I was able to enter 3 quilts.  Two of them were in the Pine Needle Quilters show in the fall.  I'm delighted to say I received 3 ribbons; a third on one quilt and an honorable mention and Judge's Choice on another.

 Submitted by Lois in Florida

Congratulations to Lois for her win and for sharing her quilts.