Three Quilts from a Little Quilt Show

I attended a small, local quilt show last weekend.  Only a few quilts caught my attention enough to look more closely and take photos.

Scrappy Oak Leaf and Acorns

Dear Mary Jane

This was time I've seen a Dear Jane quilt in person.  Those tiny blocks are so adorable but I would never have the patience to hand stitch them.  Imagine, all that work by hand, and the quilter had this machine quilted!

Leaves of Change

I was speaking with one of the organizers of the show and commented how I thought the show was getting smaller each year.  She said the most quilts they'd ever had entered was around 100 and this year they had 75 entered.  Maybe it seemed small because I was taken with fewer quilts than in earlier years, or perhaps there were more small quilts than larger ones.  I hope the quilts I didn't photograph didn't feel rejected.  ;-)  I know someone will love them a lot.

--Nancy.
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Quilts from a Local Quilt Show

These are quilts from the Columbus Metropolitan Quilters show in early April, 2016.  The venue was cramped with aisles only about 3 feet wide.  It was a little hard to get good photos.  Sometimes I had to go to the next aisle and nestle my camera between quilts to take photos.  These are a very few of the quilts that were on display.

On some of the quilts you may have noticed a little flower or rosette on the side.  It was a clothespin with a flower attached.  We were told to use the clothespin to lift the quilt if we wanted to see the back.  Nifty!

I hope you have a great day!

--Nancy.
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Quilts at a Local Quilt Show

A little nearby town, Grove City, had a quilt show a few weeks ago.

This first quilt was large and I couldn't get far enough away to see all of it in the camera's viewfinder.

This quilt show was held in a large room in a local church.  In previous years the quilts filled the room.  This year there were about half as many quilts as in previous years.

And yet the aisles between the rows of quilts were so close that it was hard to get any but the smallest quilts in the view of a camera lens.  Hence, the less-than-great photos.

You can click on any photo to enlarge it.  (I'm not using Lightbox.)

When I see a group of quilts I'm always taken by the patterns, the colors, the fabrics.  I forget to look at details.  I usually don't notice individual aspects of quilts like fabric choices, quilting details, or borders.

This year was a little different for me.  Because I'd just come from the store with the quilts hanging on the fence and realized what I forgot to look at, I took notice at this show.

From a distance, I saw flowers.  Up close, I saw the strips of fabric that created the flowers.

This quilt was interesting because it seemed very two-sided.  The quilting threads didn't show much on the front...

... but on the back, they were bright echoes of the pattern on the front.

When I looked at the quilting this time, I noticed that the hand quilting seemed to meld into the fabric and become part of it, even when the quilting lines were evident.  The machine quilting seemed to lay on top of the quilt, almost like a separate aspect of the quilt.

I didn't fall in love with any of the quilts but there were several that I thought were special.

Take care,
Nancy.

P.S.  If you're interested, there's a link-up to share your quilty inspiration posts here.  It's open until Thursday evening.  Participate if you can!
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