Quilt Show Vancouver WA

Last Saturday we headed into unknown territory (in our new city) to see a quilt show. Here are a few of the excellent quilts that were shown.

I love the above minimalist quilt.

And this one is minimalist, too... and how brave to make circles. They were perfectly round, it's the quilting that distorts some of them.

 

I liked this Santa and Reindeer just because it's so comical.  Did you know that only female reindeer have horns at Christmas time? Does tell you how they are able to fly.

The quilting on this one is very evocative of wave swells. Just had to have a picture of that.

And since I want to make a NY Beauty some day...

Isn't this one gorgeous? But I don't remember the Pearl being a drop earring.

They ran out of ribbons, so they made up some copies and pinned those on for when the ribbons came in.

 

 I also want to make a landscape at some point...sew many quilts, so little time.

Sorry this one is out of focus - I liked the idea of a watercolor landscape.

 

This one is a combo of specific fabrics with Broderie Purse and applique. Loved it.

 

That's the sample I've got for you. It was an amazingly big show, lots of quilts and lots of vendors. I had a great time. Hope you enjoy this little segment.

 

Tomorrow we are off to see the Tulip Festival - somewhere North. I'll report back.

 

Hugs,

 

 

 

 

 

Not many new ones

Here are all - so far.

The one on the bottom is unfinished.  Guess I'd better get with things. I haven't been doing much of anything lately.

 

Happy Weekend Friends,

Hugs,

 

 

Week 14 - Elder Wand

This week we had a choice of three different wands to put on the book case. I chose the Elder Wand.  It was Harry's for a bit of time.
I made the picture larger this time so you could see the fabric I used for the wand. Doesn't it make the wand look old?

So that's all for today. Off to work on something else... who know what.

Happy Weekend to you all.

Hugs,

I made a Monster...

 Introducing the Monster Book of Monsters for the POD 13...

He's tricky to match up the fur, so in some places he has a cowlick.... You know monsters don't brush or comb, and if you notice they don't brush their teeth either. I love his fierce eyes. He's going to be guarding the sewing room for a while. That'll keep the mice away.

Have a wonderful week.

 

Hugs,

New bloomers

You know that old phrase "Bloom where you are planted"?  Well, finally after about 20 years this orchid from Hawaii did.
In the old days you could bring home plants (that were okayed by the government) from Hawaii. On our first trip there I bought 2 orchids. One died... here's the other one -

 One picture this way, and

one that way... same plant, 3 blooms. And April is the purple month, so it's quite timely.  I'm very happy to finally see what it looks like.  No Ashleigh, this isn't like the one I gave you. Yours will blossom with little blue flowers.

At least there is something going on in the sewing room.

Hugs,

Purple butterflies

You know I'm making these paper pieced butterflies as a part of the Rainbow Scrap challenge. Use the button on the right to go see what everyone else is making in purple on Saturday. (You may have to choose "Home" once you get to her blog.)

I even used scraps of white on white this time. Lots of little pieces hanging around. I like the two toned ones best.

See you at soscrappy on Saturday.

Hugs.

 

Purple for April

Our esteemed leader, Angela of soscrappy has announced the new color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (see the button on the right) is purple... So I did my homework to figure out what colors to use.  Here are my results from the Crayola box of 64.

I hope you can read the names of the colors... my hand is really shaky, so the names were written by my hubby.  You notice the colors of the wrappers on the crayons reflect which family of colors each crayon belongs to. I just noticed that last night. I noticed it mostly because two of the colors I think of as purples have red labels. Red Violet, well Dah, I guess that could be considered a red... but it's so purple in my mind. Then Lavender... well that is just a purple color, but it too has a red wrapper. (Somebody at the factory messed up?)

I love the one called Purple Mountains Majesty. I colored it on both top wings in the picture below.

 (The patterns above are the ones I'm using for my butterflies. It's a 2005 MH Designs pattern. I don't remember where I got it - sorry.)

 On the crayon wrapper this one above is Violet (Purple). I guess that is the definitive purple... very pretty.

Purple has more colors than the other crayon families.

I've pulled some scraps, but haven't started the sewing yet.  Maybe this afternoon.

So now we are all on the same page, purple wise.... anything goes!

Hugs,