Ruffling and Pride of Prairie Quilt Show

Saturday and Sunday was Pride of the Prairies quilt show.  I got to spend the day enjoying the lovely quilts and scheduling appraisals for our quilt appraisers.

One of the fun things, is seeing the finished quilts that I saw being worked on at our last retreat in Racine, Wisconsin.  The one above was one of them.  Christie received a first prize.  She did such a beautiful job on it.

How about this framed hexagon quilt.  These are the itty bitty one.  Amazing.

My friend Jo did this beautiful applique quilt.

All the hexagon's are Halloween fabric. It was so much fun to look at.

Another beautiful quilt.

Love this sampler style quilt.

This was a super autograph quilt.

This hexagon quilt was all from fruit and vegetables.  

Christine, made this house quilt. There was a challenge to make one three inch house a day for one year.
What an incredible quilt.  It won Viewer's Choice.

This hexagon purse was part of the silent auction!

This was the Judges Choice and a First Place ribbon.

Sandy's Jamestown Landing.
This is one of the quilts I am trying to get done.

It was a wonderful show and a great day.

How about all the lovelies so far in this Ruffle Hop.  Today's Wow Factor Winner was so much fun.  When was the last time you saw a chicken named Lilly wearing a ruffle scarf.
I am working hard on my ruffles.  I will be showing them on Friday.

March 13th

Seams To Be Sew

Tea Time Creations

Sew Peace to Peace

mila+cuatro

All Thingz Sewn

More Stars in Comanche

Stitchin' By The Lake


 

March 14^th

 

Thimblemouse and Spouse

Jane's Quilting

Bear Creek Quilting Company

Ipiece to Mary

The Quilting Queen Online

Miss Priss Quilts

Sew We Quilt

Don't forget to visit these lovely ladies and show them how much you love ruffles.
See you on Friday. 

Northwest Suburban Quilt Show, in Schaumburg

Check out all these mini quilts up for auction.

Holy Cow, even more!  This was a two day show.  They had to pull in a lot of money for these beauties.  I was impressed. There were so many lovely mini quilts, and of course the prices were great.

Here are a few of the wonderful quilts on display. I think this one is call "Our Town".  I love quilts like this, you have the chance to be portray aspects of your own town.  I have one in progress.  It is on my to do list to get finished..

This is a Bunny Hill design.  This one turned out so pretty.  All of the baskets, were free patterns a couple of years ago.

Don't you just love this one in blue.

So colorful!

A Bonnie Hunter design quilt.

Love the Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Sam with the houses.

This one, I just saw in the latest issue of American Quilter magazine.

Look at the quilting on this, it is beautiful.

Love basket quilts!

I have seen this made up before. It is so neat, this one is done with polka dots.

In the spirit of Halloween.

Another great show.  There were several vendors, and the guild had tables of fabric, magazines and books for sale.  It is always fun to look through the old books.  You never know what you might find.

Have a great sewing day.

Mary

Quilt show at Countryside, in Crystal Lake

A couple of weeks ago there was a small quilt show at  Countryside Nursery, in Crystal Lake, IL.  I think this is the 4th or 5th year they have done this.  The quilts are hung among the plants in the greenhouses. 

The quilts are all made by local quilters.

It is a small show, but so nice.

There is a nice mix of styles and techniques were on display.

There was a great blend of new,

and old.

This quilt was made for the local library.

I love this old design.

Great house quilt.

Love the quilting on this one.

There was even a small display of garden quilt, made by a local artisan.

It was a gorgeous day. Perfect for visiting a nursery and viewing quilts.
Have a gorgeous quilting day.

Mary

Part 2 International Quilt Festival

On Friday I went back to the quilt festival.  Had to make a second found to check on the quilts and see if  there was anything I "needed" from the vendors.
Lunch was at Carlucci's down the street. Check out this "salad"!

I had lasagna.  It was so good.  We had 8 for lunch today.  It was good to see everyone.  It  was the quilt bee  ladies I had lunch with today.

Here is Ms MacDonald Had a Farm, by Lynn Czaban and the Members of the  Hanging By a Thread group. This was so interesting.  Finding just the right pieces of fabric in your stash to use in the applique.

Then I got to meet up with my friends from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Myself, Sandy, Lois, Pat and Bonnie.  We are going to be up there in August for a week of sewing and fun with friends I love it when we can be together..

Berne House Quilt, from Berne Switzerland.  Quilt guild members each made a house block. They were then all sewn together to make this beautiful quilt.

I just had to show this quilt.  It is another small one names Lux Aurumque. It is made by Jacquie Harvey of the United Kingdom.

You need to see this as it is hand quilted.  It is wonderful.   I really could not get over the amazing quilting that is being done. 

One more Moo quilt.  "And the Cow says Boo" by Peggy Baldwin-Clayton by Galveston, Texas.

The quilt show continued through Saturday and Sunday.  You walk away in awe.  Between the show of quilts and the vendors you walk away excited to start a new adventure.

Saturday, I cleaned up my sewing space and did some embroidery.  I had picked up more paper pieces for making my hexagon flowers.  Bought some leaf shapes with the thought of another project.  It is not like I need any more projects.
The embroidery I did Saturday was three small kits I had, that needed to be worked on. Now to do the finishing of them.

Have a great day, Mary

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