Fun With Barb: bsq

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

2017 BSQ Quilt Show - Part 2

Hello~
I'm back to share quilts from the Brownstown Guild Challenge: Home Sweet Home. The challenge was to create the home of a famous person or a famous home.

Here were some of my favorites~

Here are some others. They were all so creative and wonderful! A great challenge theme.

And here are the 5 quilts that entered into 4 categories. I competed against myself in the pieced/machine quilted category. The judges were very very generous!
Alice Payne

Snowflower and Secret Fan

Just Keep Swimming

All Cooped Up

Sumptuous Stars

At the end of October my Alice Payne quilt competed as a CT Fair finalist at a banquet. I won First Place Applique/Hand Quilted. It was a thrill and honor.

yikes, that is enough bragging already!

I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. I have much to be Thankful which includes my friends who read FWB. Thank you for your friendship, support and encouragement.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Digg This

by: Barb

Yesterday Jo Diggs was our guest at the Brownstone Quilters Guild. She was a delight! If you have a chance to see her, do.

First she shared with us a number of antique quilts. She has a particular interest in Baptist fan quilting (which I l-ove).

This Robbing Peter to Pay Paul had straight across heavy quilting. Very modern in my mind for a quilt this old. Mary did this horizontal quilting on a contemporary quilt, and it was fabulous!

Beautiful old star quilts with heavy quilting - the border was Welsh in style and wonderful.

This is a piece Jo did for an Oxymoron challenge. This is "Industrial Park". She used duct tape, and all sorts of misc. materials. My favorite part was that she brought her wheel barrow and hand truck into the kitchen and used them to paint the track marks. Is she too fun, or what?

Jo is known for her Landscape quilts. And here they are in no particular order:

Member Show and Tell:

Susan's quilt, which will be part of our quilt shows' exhibit of quilts reproduced from the NJ Heritage Project Quilt Book.

Susan's Halloween Braid

Kim's wonderful 30s' Scotty Quilt

Elizabeth's incredible Irish Quilt. Sorry, don't know the name of the pattern, but it's all straight line piecing. She did beautifully Irish stylized lettering of their family name O'Sullivan at the bottom. Sorry it's blurry - hard to hit a moving target.