Well, another week with almost no sewing! I spent most of my time (when it wasn't raining) puttering in the garden and cleaning. I also had a lot of other things going on like meeting with the Realtor selling my mother's house,a quilt guild meeting, a temporary crown installed, and I even worked a half day at Colorz for Quilts.
Amanda Jean Nyberg from
Crazy Mom Quilts was our guest speaker at this month's guild meeting. Sadly, I forgot to bring my camera, but you can visit her
blog to see some of her fun and colorful quilts. She has coauthored a great book,
Sunday Morning Quilts filled with scrappy, happy designs. She was an excellent speaker and lots of fun!
I wasn't sure if I would get to the Minnesota Quilt Show after having dental work on Thursday, but on Friday, my tooth was feeling great and I decided to make a quick run to the show in St. Cloud.
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I took lots of pictures, mostly of quilting designs that I won't share, but these were a few of my favorites. This one had tons of thread-work. |
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A close-up of the quilting--sorry it's a bit blurred. |
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This was amazing and life sized! |
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I had to take a photo of my friend Carolina's sea turtle! |
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This was so charming--three dimensional too. |
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I'm so sad that this was such a bad photo. Anyway, it's my very favorite quilt in the show. I've been looking at this quilt in my old books, thinking I should try to reproduce it some day and someone else beat me to it! |
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It was done with wool applique--love the spiderweb quilting too. |
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Another 3-D quilt--so cute. |
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Yes, the blue bonnets are made from zippers! |
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And so were the sunflowers--fun! |
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Can you tell from the size of the ribbon how amazingly tiny this one is? |
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The applique quilts are my favorites--I was really drawn to the colors in this one. |
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Oh my gosh--a mini Dear Jane--adorable!! |
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This was a beautiful version of the Civil War Bride quilt. |
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This entire aisle (both sides) was filled with red and white quilts made by two sisters. They were inspired by the red and white show in NYC a few years ago. |
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Just a few of the amazing red and white quilts. |
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I've shown Val's quilt before it was quilted--here it is in the show! |
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If you squint, you can probably figure out who this is! (pixilated Lincoln) |