Vintage Trailer Quilt

Vintage Trailer Quilt

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Windfall

I took a class on April 20 with Karla Alexander at Greenbaum's. She has a line of patterns and rulers. There were about 15 quilters doing different patterns with her rulers. I had the ruler to do her pattern called Windfall. I had done several blocks before I got to class so I could ask for help if I needed it. I had learned how to sew curves from my class with Hilde Morin last summer called Curves. I made my quilt smaller by a row. I was able to finish the quilt this month. The quilt design is called Flamingo Sunset by Anne Bright designs. I finished the binding at Detroit Lake last week and was able to take pictures of it. Here are a few pictures of the quilt.

Shortcake

This is a pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew called "Shortcake". I found the pattern at Winter Retreat in Newport with Greenbaum's. I had jelly rolls which was perfect. I did buy the white fabric at the retreat. I didn't finish the quilt until March/April and quilted it in May. The quilt pattern is called Denali by Anne Bright designs. I love her E2E designs. I took this quilt to Detroit Lake last week. I remember that each campsite had a rail fence and thought this would be perfect to take pictures of it. I was lucky that Monday was a perfect day to do my photo shoot. Here are some pictures of the quilt.

Friday, May 24, 2013

International Quilt Market Spring 2013 Portland

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International Quilt Market Spring 2013 Portland

A week ago today, I went to the International Quilt Market in Portland with my friends Paige and Cindy. Cindy and I meet at MQX West last Oct. She is from Utah and has family in Keizer. It was great to see her and go to Quilt market with Paige and me. We went over to EE Schnecks before the market to get my new Accuquilt fabric cutter. I'm excited to have the 2 fabric cutters(Baby) and several dies. We arrived to market at 9:15 and left for home at 3:30. It is amazing all the fabric, pattern, books notions etc in the quilting world. I was able to talk to Accuquilt about my new fabric cutter and Pfaff about my quilt machine. I love all the new fabric lines at the different companies like Moda, Timeless Treasure, Blank and Riley Blake to name a few of them. Riley Blake has a new line out in June called Priscilla. There were quilts on display too. I really enjoyed this Quilt Market because it was exciting to see what makes up this huge business of Quilting. Here are a few pictures of Quilt Market 2013.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Quilt Market 2013

The Spring Quilt Market is in Portland from May 17-19. I'm going to tomorrow with my friends Paige and Cindy from Utah. There are 2 Quilt Markets not open to the public in the Spring which is in different cities each year and Fall in Houston. The last time Spring Market was in Portland was May 2008. Paige and I went which was a great experience to see the "Quilting World". There are exhibitors showing fabric, books, patterns, notions, sewing/quilting machine etc. This will be a different Market for me because I have my own quilting business. It will be exciting to see what is new in the quilting world. It will be fun to go with my friends, Paige and Cindy. I will post pictures of the Spring Quilt Market in the next few days.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Mid Valley Quilt Show

Here are my quilts in the show.

Mid Valley Quilt Guild Show

Mid Valley Quilt Guild Show

Mid Valley Quilt Show

Last month(April 25-27) was our biannual Quilt Show at the Polk County Fair grounds. The weather was fabulous with sunny and temp in the upper 70's. We had over 200 quilts and a lot of vendors. I had entered 2 art quilts(juried) and 1 wall hanging in the show. I worked on Thurs and Fri on hospitality from 9-12. It looked like a great turn out both days I worked. I'm going to the monthly board meeting tonight so will find out early about the Quilt Show. I was asked to be the secretary for the guild from July 2013-July 20014. The elections are this month. I will post a few of the Mid Valley Quilt Show pictures.