Quilts on Parade!

Thank you Herring Run Quilters for such a warm welcome last weekend.  Your show and tell was amazing!

The Northern Star Quilt Guild Show awarded my Alice Payne Quilt with a Blue Ribbon.

Hot Flash received an Honorable Mention.

Brownstone Quilters Guild  won a Blue Ribbon in the group category.

Thank you to all the quilters who shared their work at this show!  If generous quilters didn't take the time to enter, we wouldn't have a quilt show to attend.

Here is my Best in Show.  It was my favorite quilt of the day and just a wonderful wonderful quilt!

What majestic whales.

The details make it very special.

Here are a few more that I really liked.

Here is how I prep my quilts for shows:
I drape my big board with a clean bed sheet.  I also place one on the carpet under the board.

Then I set about checking the whole quilt for threads.  I use a lint roller over the entire surface, front and back.

Regardless of how carefully I store my quilts, they always pick up lint.  Try this - you'll be amazed!

I'd also like to wish my Applique' Medallion quilt project a Happy One Year Anniversary.  I should be finished by now, but I've had a very busy year.  I'm working on the 2nd clamshell border.

I'm off tomorrow for a girly getaway.  I plan to journal my little trip on IG.
Hope you have a great week.
xo

p.s. for those who have been reading FWB over the years, you'll notice I didn't report on the Derby.  Looking For Lee upset my betting boxes and overall I thought the race was Meh.

BSQ 2015 Quilt Show Roundup

Last week I spent four days in New Jersey with the Brownstone Quilt Guild working on the quilt show.  Here is a re-cap:

My Jubilee Quilt won a Blue Ribbon for Bed Quilt and also a Quilt Show Chairman's ribbon.  I was so honored I look like a lunatic !!

Nancy and I tied for 3rd place ribbons in the wall quilt pieced category and they are both houses - perfect!

I forgot to get a photo of Hot Flash, but it was awarded an Honorable Mention.

Before all the fun of the show, I was the Judging Chair and responsible for hiring and making arrangements for the judges and organizing the quilts at take in and on judging day.

Pauline and I have done this for the past 4 shows but it is a challenge each time!

Here is an "action shot" of the judging.

100 quilts were judged between 9:30a and 6:00p.  It was a long, hard day.  Thank you to all who came to help.  It couldn't have been done without you!

The show looked the best it every has!  We used black curtains and wow - what a difference they make.

Here are my buddies - the Co-Chairs:  Pauline and Nancy and the wonderful raffle quilt that they also coordinated.

Here are some and by no means all the quilts I liked.  I just ran out of time taking photos.

Quilt shows are put on by volunteers like our Vendor Queen, Norma and our Ribbon Queen, Peg.

Dana's Booth, Material Pleasures, looked amazing! I was obsessed with the nine patch, of course.  I heard she sold the cheddar and blue - yum

Here is what I purchased at her booth:  A luscious piece of Toile'

and a vintage fabric and Hanky

I picked up these fabrics~

I added to my low volume and script fabric collections, bought another pair of Karen K Buckley's scissors and those pricey but wonderful needles.

I must be obsessed with my new fabric mist, I took its photo twice.

It was wonderful to see and chat so many friends from my recent visits to Garden State Quilters and Pieced Together Quilters as well as Block Swappers.

Well - That's all folks!