Enjoy - Part 2

Sorry I didn't get a chance to upload these yesterday. Here's the rest of the quilts. Sit back, grab a tea or a coffee and ENJOY!!

I love nine-patch quilts. They are so versatile and yet so very simple.

Batiks in blue.

Judy and I studied this quilt. She was the one who noticed that it was done a block at a time. It used to be called apartment style quilting because you sew up the square, layer it, quilt it and once all the squares were done, you put it together with sashing strips. Now it's called 'quilt as you go.' It's a lot of work and my friend Marg made one like it years ago and said she would never do another one like it. Years ago (25+ years) some people used wide sashing with batting in it and where four of the blocks came together, there was a poof. The poof should have been quilted down but wasn't and maybe on a bed it looked good but hanging the quilt made the construction stand out and looked a bit faulty.

I went back to take a better shot of this. Using thin sashing strips helped to make this quilt look seamless.

I loved the pattern. It looked like a variation on Jacob's ladder.

Oh look. It's Patric's Teddies. I borrowed the quilt back from Patric in September when I was in BC. I still love this quilt and it was a lot of fun to make.

 I'm sorry I didn't manage to photograph the cards on these. As you can see from the heads, it was a busy section.

 Sorry, I didn't get a photo of the blurb for this one either.

Although you can't really tell, these flowers are 3D.

Since my battery kept dying, I thought I would show part of two blocks so you could see the 3D construction.

There are some quilts we would never do and this one is one that Judy said she would never make. Me? I would never make an English paper-pieced hexagon quilt.

This is a stunning quilt.

A bit of the detail that's in this quilt.

Made by a man and it was machine appliqued - using the hem stitch. It was hard to find those stitches.

Yes, it was for sale.

I love Hawaiian quilts and I love batiks and solids.

I liked this one up close more than in this overall shot. Maybe it was all the fabrics that I liked.

It's nice to find a pattern specifically for some fabrics in one's stash.

I do like the 3D effect that one can get with just fabrics.

Wow, quilted in the ditch. That's a lot of quilting.

Oh look, another one of my quilts.

Simple but effective. Just two blocks repeated.

It's always nice to see hand quilted quilts.

I really like this pattern and it's a great one to use up all those random squares one collected years ago from swaps and from visiting quilt shows (some quilt shows used to give attendees a 'quilter's candy'.)

Judy was impressed that these were made of wool.

Too bad the quilt was so high up. It would have been nice to see the details.

A two-colour quilt.

 Looks like she persevered and it paid off. Hand quilted too.

A very modern feel to this. A great way to show off those fabrics you are finding hard to cut into.

Well, that's it for now.

I hope you liked the show.

Enjoy!

This past weekend I attended the York Heritage Quilters Guild quilt show. The venue was Edwards Gardens in Toronto and it was, once again, a wonderful show. My friend Judy came with me and we were lucky enough not to be rushed, so we took our time and even got to walk through a second time to see if there was anything we missed because the first time through, it was crowded.

This was one of the first quilts you saw as you entered the main room.

Hand appliqued and hand quilted and only $600. Needless to say, it had a SOLD sign on it.

A delicate looking quilt because of the fabrics used.

I love the colours.

This was an interesting quilt so I took a photo of the block.

I wasn't the only one interested in this quilt because another attendee was taking a photo of the block at the same time.

 Love the colours of this quilt and it's simplicity.

Sorry for the blurry pic. I had to take my photos fairly quickly since there were so many people around. 

 I'll never make a hexagon quilt but this was so nice and interesting.

 The hexagons were cut specifically so that the flowers would show up. As you can see, it was beautifully hand quilted.

 Hunter's Star done in several colours.

Finished, and hanging. Ayla's Escape - by me.

The background fabrics are two subtle shades of off white. I really liked this because of all the solid colours.

Although it says that there is thread painting in this quilt, both Judy and I couldn't find any and we did look all over it.

I'll finish up with more photos tomorrow.
My camera battery died and for some reason the back-up battery was dead. I had made sure that it was charged but I guess the battery's life is non-existent.

Quilt show reminder

If you are in the Toronto area on November 14th and 15th, perhaps you would like to attend a quilt show.

Admission is $10.00 at the door.

It is always a great show with many vendors.

Here's a link to the previous show.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/republic_of_me/

Fabric

Once again, I tried hard not to buy any more fabric but I caved.

I bought this to use as binding on ...

this quilt that has been sitting ready for a while now. I was going to go with brown but it was hard to match the right shade of brown (I came close.) My husband is the one who chose the turquoise when I asked which one I should get to finish off the edge of the quilt.

I got this fabric to make something for my little grandson Luc but neither my daughter nor I could come up with anything until...

I figured I could pair it up with another fabric like this turquoise tone on tone and make two pillow cases. One can stay here and the other one can be used at Luc's house. I might even trim one in red.

Last week at our guild meeting, fat quarters were going for one dollar each and batiks were two dollars. I didn't need any but it was just such a bargain. I really like the purple batik with the little turquoise birds. There's a theme here it seems. Turquoise, my absolutely favourite colour.

I have to get back and finish sewing that binding on now. I've got about one quarter done.

Hallowe'en tails

Just a short post to show you all the cute dinosaurs with their tails.

Little Luc all ready for trick or treating...

with his tail intact.

And his little brother Patric wearing his tail too.

Now I'm off to do more sewing - a few more burp cloths and putting some binding on a big quilt.

It's sunny right now but cold. A good day to sew.