I Found a Quilt Show!

 Earlier this month, I saw, online, that there was going to be a quilt show at an elementary school in a town only about 15 miles away.  It was being put on by a quilt guild in the county south/southwest of the one I live in.  (Not the same quilt guild as the shows I went to in 2023 and 2025).

Being as DH was going to be out of town that day, I figured --other than horse and chicken chores--my time was my own, and I was going to spend some of it at the quilt show.

It was not nearly as large as the two quilt shows I'd been to at my county fairgrounds (here and here), but it was still a nice show with lots of lovely quilts to look at.  They even had a section that was heirloom quilts ranging in age from about 70 years to over 100 years old!  I wish I had though to take pictures of those, but I didn't.  I was just in awe that they had survived for so many years, and was looking at the fabrics they had been made of.

I did take some pictures of the new quilts, and I will share those with you.

This pattern is called Board and Batten, and is all squares and half-square triangles. It can be bought online. Frugal me, I took a few up close pictures of it (that I'm not going to post) because I can more than likely figure out the size of pieces used and replicate it that way (rather than buying a pattern), only using different colors.

The calm colors of this sampler quilt look so inviting.  Who wouldn't want to cozy up in a bed covered by a quilt like this?

This one also caught my eye.  I like the diagonal flow, as well as the toned-down and ombre rainbow color aspect.

This one is also a variation of using rainbow type colors.  It is all rectangles made out of triangles if that makes any sense to you.

The maker of this quilt has amazing talent!  She took a photo (of her husband), then using that photo, designed a quilt, found all the fabrics in colors like the photo, cut and pieced them together and, after 10 months, had made this!  It was fascinating to examine all the little pieces she used.  Talk about fabric art!

This is another that caught my eye.  While the colors aren't 'my' colors, I like the concept.  The quilting was also very interesting.  

This quilt was made using an Eric Carle fabric line.  My grandkids (and kids) would love it!

I took a picture of this quilt because the blocks are Crossed Canoes (although the quilter called them something else).  I have templates for Crossed Canoes, I used them to make a baby quilt a few years ago. This is a different setting than what I made, so I took a photo for inspiration of possibly using those templates in this way in the future.

A little snippet of a quilt that did a variation of the braid pattern.  I kind of liked it, which is why I took this close up picture; to remind myself of trying a braid horizontally (and with a neutral on one side) rather than vertically and with colored pieces on both sides.  Done like this, it brings to mind books tilted on a shelf, or maybe fallen dominoes.

This quilt was a combination of rows of piecing and rows of embroidery.  And while I myself don't really go for row quilts (the assembly style of this), I really loved the embroidery on it.

I did not take a picture of this quilt in its entirity, as when you backed up far enough to get it all in the camera frame the quilting did not show up.  But this is a whole cloth quilt, where you take one color of fabric and use that for the entire quilt (rather than piecing multiple fabrics together) and then you quilt it to make the designs and texture.  So elaborate up close.  It was a big quilt, probably queen bed sized.

This log cabin quilt was made of so many tiny strips.  Hundreds, maybe even thousands.  

This quilt was all applique and embroidery.  I can only imagine the hours put into it.  And the patience.  I think I'd probably try doing all those tiny little strips of the previous log cabin quilt rather than spending just as many hours on applique and embroidery like the maker of this quilt did.