Houston Quilt Market 2016, part three

Not all of the beautiful quilts are in the show part.  The vendors have wonderful samples up in their booths, 

Laura Heine

Andover Fabrics, Alison Glass

some minis...

primitive Gatherings, fro moda fabrics, a wool quilt,

more minis! at Laundry Basket, Edyta Sitar

and some other moda samples

gingiber

zen chic

lots of rainbow brights still going strong

Tula Pink

some really cute train cases

more Westminster fabrics, their solids,

Elizabeth Hartman's booth was adorable, and she won the prize for best single booth, unsurprisingly

she had made dozens of these really sweet fabric plants

Camelot fabrics:

Art Gallery Fabrics

Tim Holtz

the view of the show floor from above, 

in one direction

and the other direction

Houston Quilt Market 2016, part two

Carolyn Friedlander is a quilter and fabric designer and architect, and book author.  wow.

There was a small but very interesting display of her work,

sorry about the spotlights shining right on the quilts, 

as you can see, she really uses applique effectively.  She has been a proponent of "slow quilting", where you just enjoy the process, even if it includes a bunch of hand stitching, 

on the right side of the photo below are swarches of the fabrics she has designed for Rober Kaufman fabrics, 

on the left is a small reverse applique quilt superimposed over a swath of the same fabric used in the quilt, 

these are some colored drawings she did that are realized in fabric in the quilt below, 

the finished quilt is in the center, surrounded by the individual parts shown as they are during the process

this is another of her very well known quilts, 

a close-up of some of the quilting, 

Your Houston Correspondent Reports....

well I have been here in Houston for a few days now and have spent a little bit of time over at market.  For the past two daysI have Started both mornings by looking at show quilts. 

  I did take an amazing video which shows you the vast areas it shows cover and the startling emptiness of the Aisles. however I don't seem able to embed that in this post. You'll just have to take my word for it.

fortunately I have lots of photos of beautiful quilts to show.  descriptions of the quilt and who made it will be in an accompanying photograph of the information posted with the quilt. 

I first wanderedby some Japanese quilts, and was taken by the lovely quilting on some of the pieces, 

the hexagon piece above, had an interesting fill on the top and bottom edges, 

there was a great show by the Modern Quilt Guild, 

here are some closeups of some of them...

I really loved this one, and the more I looked at it, the more details stood out, 

the quilting, 

the quilting, 

and the quilting ! 

also, those black and white parts were pieced and very cool.

as you might have noticed, I am very focussed on the quilting part of quilts right now! 

 Having our longarm Lucey around has really opened up a world of possibilities to explore.

but here is something pretty cool, a life sized crocodile! 

In the next post I will report on the Carolyn Friedlander exhibit,

(by the way, I apologize if some of the photos are blurry) 

Mini Quilt Challenge!

yup, that's me there with the mini quilt! 

This October has been unexpectedly drab here in Saskatchewan, so I thought it would be fun to liven it up with a fun challenge! 

A Mini Quilt Challenge!

(Mini quilts are always so adorable.)

The Details:
Bring in a mini that you have made in the past 2 or 3 years to display until the end of November.   It will be eligible for a viewer’s choice award or you can designate it for “display only”.   
Voting will begin by the end of October, so the sooner you bring it in, the sooner it will start to garner votes!
The prizes!    🏆 

 Each entry will receive a fat quarter or a Periwinkle pattern .🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

 The Viewer’s choice winner will be able to pick out 25 fat quarters of their choice.🎖  

The first and second  runner ups will pick out 10 Fat quarters.  🎖🎖

Size: the mini should be smaller than 24 inches per side, so total perimeter not to exceed 96 inches.   

Ready Set Go! 🏇🚴🏇
                   

Quilt show this Sunday

The Saskatoon Modern Quilt Guild is having a quilt show this Sunday in Saskatoon, so if you are looking for something colorful and fun, why not go???

I know that the members have been working hard to complete many new projects to show,

For our part, we will be sponsoring the category of mini quilts again!   Minis have been quite popular for the past couple of years. I like to see them on instagram,   this is an example --- see how cute they can be? 

  I think they are fun to try out new techniques, or when you need some instant gratification of a finished project. 

Maybe I should turn some of my ufos into minis 😉,   

 Oh yes, I will have a quilt in the show too!  Remember my epic english paper piecing project from last year, the New Hexagon Millifiore Quilt?   It is indeed finished, and will be there.  I had to buy a longarm machine in order to quilt it!  (joke!😃),  well, sorta,...  

It was a lot of fun to quilt, to plan the quilting I ended up using vinyl placed over the blocks and a dry erase marker to try out patterns, 

truly, I had such a good time making this quilt, from start to finish...