QUILT SHOW LOVLIES

Thought you might enjoy a little bit of the Southern Comforters quilt show...
I loved the way the colors play across this quilt. Is it set on point? Love how the blocks go into the border. And the quilting? Just lovely.
The 3-D illusion is outstanding on this quilt. It's all about the color/fabric choices. And it won a well deserved ribbon!

This next quilt is called - Safari - just look at those cubes. They look like they're floating. I've shown quilts before that were made from the same pattern but used different fabrics ... here's another example of what a difference the fabric makes.

This was my favorite. The pattern came from the book One Block Wonder, Encore. My husband actually called me over to see this quilt ... fabulous! I really need this book.

And ... last but not least ... another one of my quilts - Cat Tales (designed by Helene Knott). I love this quilt. The little kitty faces are just so sweet, and those little mice make me smile. This quilt won a BLUE ribbon!! I've never won a blue ribbon before ... YAY for me!!

HURRAY FOR A QUILT SHOW

This past weekend was my guild's (Southern Comforters of Bowie) quilt show. Who hasn't been to a quilt show? Who hasn't wandered around soaking up all that fabric goodness. Who hasn't run home and started a new project after being inspired by just being there? Who hasn't ever helped with SET-UP?

Here's the gym when we arrived. Outside that door at the far end - a U-Haul truck filled with PVC poles and connectors and tubs of muslin drapes and rubber mallets and miscellaneous STUFF. The folks gathered there are energized quilters and a few tolerant (and wonderful) quilter husbands.

After a couple of hours of fun ... uh ... well ... yay ... FUN, not to mention a little confusion - which way do the "feet" go? a 10' pole really won't fit in an 8' space? does the drape go on BEFORE the pole is in place? did you really just drop that mallet on my head?
But in the end ... SO worth it!

Here's one of my quilts ... I BELEIVE, a Pat Sloan design. Check out the left side border ... see that red ribbon. Yes my friends, that quilt won a red ribbon. YAY for me!

After all that hard work on Friday night setting up, here's how Cute Husband spent HIS well-deserved day off on Saturday.

Late Sunday afternoon, was "take down." Just read this post backwards and you'll get a feel for how that looks. The difference is - the quilters are no longer energized and the quilter husbands are a little less tolerant and whole lot more wonderful.

Then there was beer.