Sisters Quilt Show 2024: Twists on Tradition and some Inspiration

 

I like to look at quilts like this, and try to decide which square is the block that's being repeated.

A beautiful applique quilt with some felt pieces, laces and trims.

A glimpse of a tumbling blocks quilt, all hand pieced and hand quilted. The interesting thing here was that the little blocks made a different pattern in shadow and in sunshine!

A beautifully done sampler.

 

 This pastel quilt also looks different in shadow and sun.

 

This quilt was a show-stopper for me!

10,210 pieces, Read all about it!

I would actually like to make this. It would be exciting to see it come together.

I admire the diamond star and medallion quilts. I will probably never attempt one.

Beautifully done in traditional prints.

A traditional block but done BIG! 

I wish I had a better photo of this one, it deserves a lot of attention! Traditional blocks are overlaid with applique reminiscent of the block's names. 

I think this is a variation of the Drunkard's Path quilt block, at least it uses the pieces. Here it looks like a tropical flower or a pinwheel.

And now for some quilts that I took pictures of just for the inspiration:

 

This is simply half-square triangles. How hard could it be?

 

A case where the camera changed the quilt for me. In person, I hardly saw those gray squares, I only saw the "movement" of the red & white paths. When looking through the phone camera, the gray squares suddenly became prominent!

 

  Hexagon flower border... a good idea for an update of Grandmother's Flower Garden.

 

This should have been in my "brights" post, but I put it here with the other hexagon quilt as ideas for hexagons. I have been doing English paper piecing for a year or so, but only sewing a few hexagons every other week! 

 

Baskets with log-cabin-like fillings, and a delicate border. A very striking quilt for contrast and color.

Here's an idea for your old linens.

Each book here has a selvage for a title. No doubt the name of each fabric used. 

 

This quilt is not my type, but it gave me an idea for another way to use crazy quilt blocks: Impressionism.

This isn't quite a crazy quilt but it is a way to use up scraps, is this called crumb squares? I suppose if you are a dedicated quilter you have scraps with straight edges, whereas we dressmakers always end up with odd shapes better used in the previous style. I like these colors together.

One more post to come: scenes from around the town.

Sisters Quilt Show 2024: "Art" quilts

 

There was a whole row displaying the jaw-dropping quilts made by Judy and Angelia Peterson, but this one in particular interested me. The amazing things that can be done with fabric and thread!

 

Bird of Paradise

 

It was rather crowded in this display so I wasn't able to get in to see all the rest, but this quilter also had her own display section. 

 

Another amazing display of fabric art, and quilting art. 

 

We had had to brake for quails crossing the road driving out that morning, so this one amused me.

 

A close-up.

Quilted in fireworks!

Another amazing painting, in fabric and thread.

I didn't step in close to see the name this one was given, but I'm sure it was a good one! I see creatures in the air, the land, the water represented. So much detail!

Next Up: Traditional & Inspiring quilts

Sisters Quilt Show 2024: The Blues

 Blue-based quilts will always catch my eye: Blue-and-white, blue-and-yellow, and all the blue-greens. They are so popular they merited whole sections of their own in the town.

The middle quilt has a swan with its reflection.

You can do all kinds of designs with the log cabin block.

Best of the blue combinations in this sampler!

I love the depth the different blues give this half-square triangle quilt. It probably had a name but I didn't get to read all the description tags.

Gorgeous! It almost sparkles.

I recently noticed that blue and aqua are popular colors for the wedding ring pattern. In blues it reminds me of ripples in water.

The wall of the Stitchin' Post quilt shop is a display of quilts made by their employees.

This one caught my eye in particular after I went home and started looking through the photos. The largest star was interesting to me; I don't know the name of the block. It is three layers of stars stacked, and since we were in Sisters near the Three Sisters mountains, I think it should be called the "Three Sisters Star!" I have drawn out the block and have plans for it...

I love the very top quilt: fat bluebirds with a couple of cardinals sitting with them for contrast. The red "color pop" theme is in the house quilt next to it; there is one house with a red door. 

Now what should I post next... maybe some really amazing Art quilts!

Sisters Quilt Show 2024: Bright Quilts

Helloooooo

I know I haven't written in a while, but I do still consider myself a blogger and not one who "quit blogging." It seems that the year is only 6 months long now and I have had to drop off a lot of things just to survive the rush! Right now I'm on a "vacation" of sorts so I finally have some time to post. 

I was back at the Sisters Quilt Show soaking up all the beautiful works of art earlier this month! It was very, very hot this year. I felt a little rushed to get through before my party and I succumbed to heat stroke (and we were some of the early birds). I wish I had lingered at every display and soaked up the quilting... I do apologize for some of the photos being sub-par and for not stepping forward to get more details! 

Because there are about 70 pictures I want to share, I'm going to divide them into short posts. 

Post #1 the Brights! I seemed to notice the quilts with white backgrounds and rainbow colors that really "popped." Maybe one of these will be on my want-to-do list (and probably stay on the list for the next ten or twenty years...).

 

I wasn't familiar with all the quilt designer's names, but LORI HOLT sure did jump out as one I know. I love her style! This quilt had embroidered details and lettering.

 

This must have been fun to lay out to get the butterfly shape!

 

A traditional Irish chain, but I liked the color scheme and the way the dark squares stand out.

 

A "Sampler," all colored blocks in a white sashing.

 

Lots of contrast in this one!

Sorry I don't have a full-on photo for this one. I wasn't so interested in the colors or pattern of this one, what I was interested in was the not-so-white background:

 

The use of different prints and pieces for the background was very clever!

 

This Nine-Patch Bear-Paw variation would look good in many color schemes, but this one was especially was eye-catching!

I found this one easier to look at through the camera. In person it was quite a visual puzzle, in the little camera screen it shows up as a Sawtooth Star. 

 

Maybe this example helps you see it better!

 

I don't know the name of this block, but it makes a pretty garden of bright, scrappy flowers. 

 

Beautiful ribbons, made up of squares and half-square triangles. How hard could it be? 

 

This isn't my "style" but it did amuse me! A lot of the same shapes make up different animals. 

 

This is a paper-pieced quilt. I wish I had a closeup of this one, it must have been a lot of work! I love the little rows of different colored houses.

I hope you enjoyed this colorful sampling of the quilt show. Next post: blue quilts!