More Great Quilts

More great snippets of quilts from the shows at International Quilt Festival in Houston:

love the stitching on this!

In the Modern Quilt Guild Show-- can't find the label of who made it!!! :(

Lots of circles on quilts

by Barbara McKie

by Allison Aller

by Mary Williams

by Nancy Sterett Martin and Karen Sistek

close-ups of the feathers and quilting, so effective!

The Houston Convention Center

This morning I started to look through some of my photos of Quilt Market in Houston last week, and wanted to share a small overview,

this is a view of the Convention Center from the park across the street

The park (Discovery Green) is an unthinkably huge! improvement over the gravel parking lot that used to ocupy the space

it's a nice place to walk through now

this is a view of the vendor's booth area taken from an escalotor, it goes on for 22 long aisles

 We spent lots of time in the Westminster Fabrics booth.  Each designer had a little area featuring some quilts, smaller items and a mannequin showing the fabric in the upcoming lines:

 And in a ring around the Westminster booth were smaller booths where the designers had their own presentation.
For example, this is David Butler, aka Parson Gray:

close-up just because

Tula Pink's booth, I liked the VWcushions

a view of the moda booth--lots of ordering fabric going on

 And in the other end of the convention center were the quilt shows.  What would be a post without a good quilt to end with?

by Janet Fogg

by Janet Fogg

Don't forget

This afternoon at two pm at the shop is the first get together for whoever is interested in forming a Modern Quilt Guild here in Saskatoon.
We got home from Houston safe and sound on Friday night, laden down with all our treasures. We even had the very serious customs agent trying to hide a smile by the time she got to the fourth one of us.
Yesterday I was kept very busy unpacking and sorting and catching up on some paperwork(there is still a very tall stack). I also did some hand stitching on a couple of projects. We saw so many inspiring and stimulating things, I know my list of projects that I want to do has just become a lot longer!

Block 5, Maze

And today, we have Block 5 of our Black, White and Bright Sampler.  You can see them all so far if you click on the Pages tab at the top..

Block 5, Maze

So long to the quilt show

Today was the final day that we spent at the convention center looking at quilts and shopping. Last night they gave the awards as well.
Adding photos from my iPad, I can't really place them in order so they are all jumbled up but here are a few more shots from today.