Machine Quilting Expo

I attended the 1st Machine Quilting Expo on the West coast in Portland on Oct 12-13. The Quilt show started on Thursday with several vendors. I attended 3 classes with Kim Brunner. She has won the award for Best Machine Quilting Teacher 2 times in 2009 and 2011. She was a great teacher and learned alot about rulers. I have several pictures of the show. There were alot of fanastic quilts.

Sew Oregon Shop Hop/Taste of Home Cooking School/ Machine Quilting Expo

This has been a very fun week which started last Friday Oct 7. I started the Sew Oregon Shop Hop which runs thru Oct 22. I did the central district of a total of 16 quilt stores. The Grand Prize is a Quilting criuse to Alaska in August 2012. The quilt stores were in Salem, Eugene, Corvallis area and the coast with Newport, Waldport and Florence. Each shop had a quilt block from the fabric called Autumn Splendor by P&B textiles. I haven't done a Shop Hop in awhile but it is alot of time and driving. They have district prizes and drawing at several quilt stores. I worked the weekend and then off the week from Oct 10-16. I went to the Taste of Home Cooking School in Wilsonville on Monday night. It was alot of fun with great recipes and door prizes(I didn't win anything.)
Wednesday and Thursday, I went to the Machine Quilting Expo at the Convention Center in Portland. This was the 1st MQX on the West Coast. I took 3 classes with Kim Brunner. I had 2 classes on Wed from 8-10 Rulers/templates and 11-1 What I know now about quilting. I went to Bridgeport shopping at Crate and Barrel and Sur La Table. I had late lunch at Fuddruckers and then stayed overnight at the Super 8 in Wilsonville. I had to get up early on Wed to get to the class at 8:00 and didn't wat to have to do that on Thursday. Thursday class was from 11-1 which was about quilting panos and free motion. I went to the Quilt show/vendors at 10 and 1 and then headed home at 2:00. I did get several rulers that I can use on my short arm machine. I will post some pictures of the Quilt Show. I really enjoyed the classes with Kim and the Quilt show/vendors. Next is Houston on Nov 1. Happy Quilting

Northwest Quilting Expo

I have some pictures of the Northwest Quilt Expo in Portland. I picked up my quilt yesterday. I had some interesting comments by the judges. I enjoyed the show and was glad I entered a quilt. The guild meeting with Nancy Chong was very interesting. She makes beautiful Hawaiian quilts. She gave a history about Hawaiian quilts. I have 2 quilts ready to quilt and started another quilt this week.
I'm going to the Machine Quilting Expo in Portland on Oct 12 and 13.

Northwest Quilting Expo

I went to the Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland yesterday. I entered my Old Hawaii quilt in the show. I didn't win anything but it was great to have a quilt in it. I had a fellow quilter take a picture of me by it. There were alot of beautiful quilts and great vendors. I was at the show for 2 hours. I will post some pictures of it and my latest quilt project.
This week is our guild meeting with Nancy Lee Chong. It should be an interesting program about Hawaiian Quilting

Maddie and Sassy

Here are a few pictures of Maddie taking herself around the house with her leash. Sassy loves to get into my fresh picked green beans. She will take them out and then push them on to the floor to play green bean hockey.

Coneflower

I finished my quilt of the coneflower on Sunday. I really like it. It was fun to do the thread play. This is a pattern in Melinda Bula book called Cutting Garden Quilts. I have the zinnia that I made in her class to do the thread play. I will work on this project alittle at a time. I will start on some new projects. I took my quilt to the Pine Needle quilt shop in Lake Oswego on Saturday. The Northwest Quilt Expo is a month away. Here are some pictures of my Coneflower.

Northwest Quilting Expo

I have been working on my coneflower doing the thread play on it for the last several weeks. I'm almost done with the flowers so I can quilt the background. It looks great but is time consuming. I need to start another project but want to finish the quilt and bind it.
I decided not to enter a quilt in the state fair this year. I decided to enter my Old Hawaii quilt in the 11th Annual Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland on Sept 22-24. The judges in the past have been at our guild quilt show. There are 2 new judges this year. I enter in the small quilt category to be judged. I sent a picture of my quilt and got my acceptance letter on Saturday. There are about 450-500 quilts at the show so this will be the biggest show I have entered a quilt. There is prize money in each category(1st-$500,2nd-$250 and 3rd-$150. I'm very excited to have a quilt in the show. I have to take the quilt up to Portland by August 31( 2 quilt shops will take them). The Pine Needle in Lake Oswego is the one I will go to this Saturday. It is a great shop and will go to the farmers market there too.