QUILTS FROM THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY QUILTERS SHOW

 I'm sorry it has taken so long to post some quilts from the quilt show last month.  Just not organized enough to get it done.  I volunteered as one of the "white glove" ladies and after 2 1/2 hours of walking around, up and down the rows, I was really tired.  I'm not adding the information about each one - it's too hard to get them right.

This Dear Jane quilt was right next to mine, which you probably have seen a long time ago.  It not, you can type "Dear Jane" in the upper left corner and it will come up.  I was talk                 ing with the lady who made it and she made 2 of them because when she gave this one to one of her sons, her second son said he would like one too, so she made another one.  I give her a lot of credit for making 2 of the Dear Jane quilt.  Not that it's impossible, but I just don't think I could make another one.

This hanky/states quilt was really pretty!

I'm working on this house quilt now.  My houses are all blue and I'm getting ready to do the branches.

One day recently the temperature got up to 99 degrees and it might do that again.    I'm so grateful for air conditioning.  

QUILT SHOW NEXT WEEK, JUNE 20 & 21

The Willamette Valley Quilters will present their quilts at the quilt show on June 20 and 21.  I will be there on June 20 in the afternoon (if anyone wants to meet up with me).  I will have 3 of my best quilts in the show!  The Willamette Valley Quilters meets in Dayton, Oregon on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 10:00 AM.  We have special speakers at most of our meetings and recently we had an amazing trunk show by Lynn Czaban, who shared her portrait quilts.  Here are a few of them.

 

Her work is amazing!  She spends lots of time making each one and has won numerous awards from various quilt shows!  

Speaking of quilt shows, this is the information about the show mentioned above:

If you do come, please let me know so I can meet you (if we don't already know each other).

Donation Quilts

 I finished some more baby quilts for donation lately and have taken them to my guild so they can be taken care of.  Probably most of the baby quilts we make go to "The Family Place" which helps new parents.

I didn't buy any of the fabric, except for the green fabric that I used for the backing on the pink quilt.  All the fabric was either given to me by a friend, or from the guild.  They passed around a box and said to take some 5" squares, so the is what I used for the pink quilt.

Back of the previous quilt.

This one was just a piece of fabric, batting & backing to take home and put together & finish

I got the green fabric at my favorite thrift shop and it was quite a deal!  There was about 4 yards, so I still have some available to us on another baby quilt.  

I also donated a large twin size quilt that I made with a almost million 2 1/2" squares.  This picture doesn't show the whole quilt because I didn't have a chance to hang it up anywhere.

I will have 3 quilts hanging in the quilt show in June - Quilts in Bloom - in McMinnville on June 20 & 21.  I changed my volunteer work from Saturday morning to Friday Afternoon because there is something else that I want to go to on Saturday.  

Hope you are enjoying good weather where you are and thanks for visiting.       

A QUILT SHOW BY A GUILD IN SALEM, OR

 Last Friday (already a week ago?) I went to a quilt show held by a large guild and was not disappointed at all.  There were so many wonderful quilts that I can't possibly show you all the ones that were amazing, but here are most of the ones I liked best.

This is the one I would have voted as my favorite (if I hadn't forgotten to put the vote in the box).

These next 2 quilts were displayed as quilts that were in prior shows.

This blue & green one is made up of scraps.  She was sewing colored scraps together and then decided to put them together like this.  A great idea!  I think I might start sewing scraps together in colors and see what happens.

This cat quilt is adorable!

This is a table runner and if you look closely you can see the quilting depicts smoke coming out of the chiminys.

 

This star quilt is amazing and I love it, but I wouldn't want to make it.

Don't you just love going to quilt shows?  The beauty is so uplifting and just makes one want to keep quilting, doesn't it?  I think I need to slow down my quilting for a while so I can work on my family history, which I have been trying to do but I keep having things to sew.

I have been planting a lot of flowers around my house.  Last year I tried growing flowers from seed and I have given up on that.  So this year I'm buying plants already blooming.  My first ever poppy is blooming!  My walking friend and I had loved some poppies that we walked past a couple years ago.  We took some seeds and planted them.  This year one of her seeds sprouted!  But I haven't seen any poppies come up from the seeds I planted.  Ugh.  This is 2 views of the one I purchased.  There is another bud coming soon.  

Thanks for visiting!  

HISTORIC PANELS

Since my favorite fabrics are reproductions of 1800s fabrics, I love historic panels, of which I only have two.  My first one was found at a quilt shop in a barn on a hill in Oregon and this was years before we moved here.  We were visiting our son and family and my granddaughter and I went fabric shopping at this quilt shop that was not too far from where my son & family lived. 

My granddaughter was looking through the fat quarters and found this one - Old Glory.  I turned it into a pillow case and it is the middle pillow on our bed, but is not actually slept on.  I love this panel. 

 I can't say that I looked really hard for more, but not long ago I came across one in Boersma's Quilt Shop, which is very close to my home.  It was in the basement and I had never seen it in the shop before, so I decided to buy it.  This is the "Grant and the Generals of the Army of the Potomac."

I have it for sale in my Etsy Shop and now I am making a couple of ways that it can be displayed.  I did make a pillow out of it which is in the picture below.  I am working on a wall hanging suggestion.

In the mean time, I purchased a book by Kim Diehl and Jo Morton, "Simple Friendships."  This is a great book and I have been using it and hope to make other projects too.

I also purchased a book by Betsy Chutchian, "Hope's Journey."  I love everything that Betsy does because I took her class in Texas over 10 years ago and it was "Jo's Little Women Club."  The patterns were small quilts made with by Jo Morton and using her fabrics and I think it was 10 classes, once a month.  It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot!  Betsy is a great teacher and she has done a lot since I was in her class as she now designs fabric and is very famous!!

Thanks for reading my blog and for the many comments I have received  recently.  I am keeping busy in the sewing room lately!  Right now, I have 2 items that need basting and hope to get to them next week.

Happy quilting!

Spring Flowers and Baby Quilts

The weather has been beautiful this week and yesterday I went to my DS's home and was amazed at all the tulips that were in his yard.  I went there after the Willamette Valley Quilters meeting in Dayton to return his quilt to him after showing it in Show and Tell.  

One of my guild friends wanted to show a quilt right after me because when she first saw my quilt (the airplane quilt) she really liked the method of making the letters (from the book "Word Play Quilts" which isn't available any more unless you might be able to get it from Ebay).  Here is my quilt which I have shown before, a few years ago.  I actually made 2 of this quilt because I have 2 sons who are pilots.  One of them was in the Air Force when I made it, and the other son (who has the house with tulips) is a pilot with Horizon Airlines (Alaska Airlines).  If you look close you can see the eagles that are hand embroidered.  There are 10 in each quilt which means I embroidered 20 of them.  Then the "call" letters surrounding are pieced, which was quite a job, but the directions in the book were great!  

About a week ago a neighbor who also sells things at craft shows asked if we (me & my neighbor that I sell with) would like some fabric.  Of course, we took it and I used some of it to make a few baby quilts for donation.  I will take the rest of the fabrics to my Gone to Pieces guild here in McMinnville.  There was a lot of flannel, which I rarely use, but I used it for backing in the baby quilts. 

Basted but not quilted yet.

Just the top.

ne day while browsing posts, I saw one by Kathleen Tracy and she was having a "quilt along."  I have 2 of her doll quilt books and have made several of the doll quilts in them and I am a sucker for a reproduction doll quilt.  Her web site is Country Lane Quilts.  Here is the doll quilt I made.  I especially love the little churn dash blocks.

BTW, the Willamette Valley Quilters will be holding a quilt show on June 20 and 21 at the Yamhill County Fair ground, in McMinnville, Oregon, 10 to 5 on Friday, 10 to 4 on Saturday with $10 entry.  I will be entering 2 quilts and will be working in the boutique on Saturday morning.  

Thanks for visiting!