Quilt Show Time

The following are just some of the quilts that I saw this past weekend. I hope you like the show as much as I did. Just click on any of the photos to enlarge them and make them easier to view.

Something a little different.

 A nice way to feature fabrics you like.

Batiks and purple.

This was a nice change. I did like this quilt.

I like this in the blue and white.

A cute quilt. I am always amazed at what people come up with when making a round robin.

This is a nice setting for a sampler quilt.

Another blue and white quilt but with a lot of little squares this time.

I have this pattern but I have not yet made it.

Sorry this is blurred but I wanted to show you the edge of the quilt. There were two like this where the fluffy backing (minky?) was brought over to the front of the quilt.

Here's three in a row. All the same pattern from The Quilt Patch in Moose Jaw.

A really nice way to use up some old ties.

Just some of the fun ties that were used.

Something a little different.

I do like this little quilt.

 Strange name for a quilt.

And I leave you today with a smaller version of Henrietta Whiskers.

I shall return with the rest of the show. I hope you enjoyed it so far.

Something new

I have been knitting. I am on a mission.

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This is the first sock. Totally doable by me since it is knitted flat and then sewn up. I have an idea but I will let you in on it later. Here's the pattern. It's from Red Heart yarns. I am knitting more of them. The needles are new and are only 10 inches long. Since I knew I was going to make these, I splurged and bought new 5mm needles. My other, regular 5mm needles are currently being used on a new project.

I went to the Halton Hills Quilters' Guild quilt show on Saturday. It was at a great location. Beautiful grounds and lovely fall colours on the way. Anyway, I was totally surprised because you see, this fat quarter of batik was tucked in my program. It wasn't a door prize (that would have been a dot inside the program.) I think a lot, if not all, of the programs had one one of these. Or, maybe only the first 20 (I fit into this category), 50 or 100 visitors got one each day, I just don't know. I never thought to ask. 

This usually(if anything), is what you get once you pay your admission. It's sometimes called quilter's  candy - a 6 inch square. They were all in a basket and you could choose the colour you wanted. I didn't want a floral and this was neutral. Want to see what I bought?

There were a lot of vendors and two of them were selling fat quarters for $2.00.

Buy 3 and get one free? Not bad, so these 4 were only $6.00. Do you see a theme here? Turquoise maybe? I do have a lot of turquoise fabrics but since I was hoping for variety, and my project will be for a single bed, I need lots.

And now, more new stuff. I was so lucky to win some fat quarters on Amy's blog.

The UPS guy just dropped this box off and when I opened it, this is what I found. I was expecting an envelope with a few fat quarters BUT...

I won the whole collection of Mix It Up Neutrals and Mix It Up Brights.

Pop on over to Connecting Threads here to view the new line-up of fabrics. They really have great service and wonderful fabrics at affordable prices. I have ordered from them in the past so that's how I know. Thank you to both Amy and Connecting Threads. My stash now has an infusion of new fabrics to play with.

So, that's what is new around here. I will be back shortly to show you the quilts at the show.

Celebrating Hand Quilting

Dolores, Toronto, Ontario

There is a blog hop going on right now over at Celebrate Hand Quilting and I thought I would take part showing my latest hand quilted quilt. It's the Christmas Star aka The Big Red Star.

This was the beginning. I know that some of you have already seen these photos but I am repeating them just for this post.

The corner treatment.

A couple of turns taken from both ends of the frame.

Quilting the big red star part.

Progress.

All quilted and off the frame.

Bound, with a label and hanging sleeve.

I am linking up with the blog hop so go on over to view more hand quilting.