Monday, June 24, 2013

International Quilt Festival, Rosemont, Ill

Here are the lovely ladies of PaperPieces.com

They took a picture of me that went out on Facebook!
The "ChiCOWgo" quilt exhibit was here. What a hoot!
Cowmen Miranda is by Sue Cresse, of Castaic, California

Dia de los Mooertos, Patricia Wood of Goliad, Texas

Miss MOO La La at the MOOlin Rouge by Sandy Fisher, Davis, California

Purple Cow, by Mary Lou Weidman, of Spoken Valley, Washington.
Mary Lou and Melanie Bautista McFarland, wrote the book "Out of the Box with easy blocks".  This is the cow that started the Cow
craze.

Red  White & MOO by Melanie McFarland, of Manhattan Beach , California

Cow Culator is by Connie Donaldson of Spokane Valley, Washington

The is "Lazy Afternoon" by Michelle Jackson of Albuquerque, New Mexico

3-D Sunflowers by Martha DeLeonardis of Katy, Texas
All  the petals on the flowers, and the leaves are all raised on the quilt.  It was very pretty.

A Walk Through the Flowers by Luann Bruce of Watertown, Conn.

The Button Box by Revecca Navarro of Sugarland, Texas
The accents, like the flowers on the ground, and the ones in the sky, their noses, are all buttons.


Here is Hula Hibiscus, by Lisa Calle of Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Colorstrips # 1, by Lynda Faires of Louisville, Colorado

The Quilt Show by Carole Gorder

Hollyhocks II, by Joanne Hoffman and Shirley Hobbs of Hill City S Dakota
The machine quilting is bseautiful.

ELated by Ted Storm of the Netherlands

Closeup of the HAND QUILTING.
This is a beautiful quilt.  I was amazed at the quilting.

Mini Magic by Mariya jWaters of Doncoster Melbourne, Victoria

She Dances by Dawn Piasta

Who Me?  by Ruth Powers of Carbondale, Kansas

Will you Play with Me by Mary Beth Clark of South Elgin, IL.

Mini Magic.  This is a very small quilt.  Look at the quilting on this one.  I find it amazing the quilting  that is being done on the show quilts.  They are beautiful.

I went to the festival on Thursday night.  They have a preview night from 5 to 9.  You can show the vendors and view the quilts.  It is so nice because there are no crowds.  The festival had been in Chicago for several years. About 3 years ago it was changed to Cincinnati, Ohio.  I think they like us, as this show is back in Chicago.   The dates for next year have already been set.
Yea!!!  So many of us have missed this show.  It was great to be there again.  It was fun meeting up with a lot of friends.

Have a great day, Mary

7 comments:

Susan In Texas said...

What a terrific show. Thanks for sharing. That Ted Storm can really quilt. Wow! I hadn't realized the show had ever moved from Chicago. So is it back in Chicago for the indefinite future? I hope so. I'll never get to it if it is in Cincinnati.

I'm so happy to have my scraps organized. I could almost not lift the basket of scraps when I started the project. I had to get my husband to carry it downstairs! I'm planning the first quilt with all half square triangles made out of lots of the 3" squares, of which I have SO many.

Take care,
Susan in Texas

Carol Swift said...

Those are some really beautiful quilts...looks like you had a great time!

tich said...

Thanks so much for showing these quilts. It was fascinating to see all the different styles. I especially loved the mini!

Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...

Great that the paper pieces ladies got to see your Tammy bag. I hope to see it soon. The quilts at the show were great.

Johanna Zweden said...

What a beautiful quilts
You had a great time
Love from Sweden Johanna

Unknown said...

I have to wait until September to see the Ted Storm quilt in the Netherlands in the show the Dutch Guild organizes. Can't wait!!
Rose-Anne

Marianne said...

Thanks for sharing. I never get to go to the shows. Love the cows !