Sauder Village 2011 Quilt Show - Part 2

This is my friend Margit's second quilt at the show.  We were all hoping for a second ribbon for her on this one...it was certainly worthy!  It was custom quilted by Marilyn Lange of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

This was the Best of Show Bed Quilt, "My Fractured Waterfall," by Kathryn Gostola, machine quilted by Eva Birch.  It also won best machine quilting.

This was one of the winners of the quilt challenge.  Every year the quilt shop at the Village issues a challenge with specific fabric and rules.  One of the required elements this year was flying geese units.

Cyber friend Ann Champion entered three quilts and won three ribbons!  I got to meet her briefly on Sunday afternoon when we were picking up our quilts.  This is her first place winner in the Wall Quilts: Appliqued-Hand Quilted category.  It is called "A Country Journal."  Fabulous, and you know how I love chickens...

Her second quilt is called "Princess Feathers" and it won a third place ribbon in the Bed Quilts: Appliqued-Hand Quilted category.  It is AMAZING!

I loved this wolfe!

 

Pictures don't do justice to this snowy barn scene.

I have always liked this candy pattern.  Mmmmm...candy....

This is Ann Champion's second place ribbon winner in the Bed Quilts: Pieced-Hand Quilted category called "Flowering Snowball."

This was a real eye catcher!

 

The machine quilting is interesting...cactus and sombrero...

Do you see a theme developing here?  I have always loved these curvy, spikey quilts...

This is "2000 Pieces" and it won the ribbon for Best Color Usage by Sarah Basinger.  Each fabric is used only once!

This one grabbed my attention (my daughter and her love of Harry Potter and fantasy fiction has worn off on me...). 

I have my Dad's ties, along with others, and I am always looking for a good idea of a way to use them in quilts.  This version was very pleasing.

 

MANY, MANY more pictures to come...

In stitches,
Teresa  :o)

Sauder Village 2011 Quilt Show - Part 1

I am shocked and humbled that "All Around the Town" (pattern by Sue Garmon) took Best of Show Wall Hanging.  Here it is, hanging on point, at the show.  I will get some better pictures tomorrow when the show is not so crowded...I want to get one that is oriented "right side up" so that it looks square again, also some close ups.  Some of you know what I went through to get it square, LOL!!

My "Wickedly Liberated" took a second place ribbon in the Bed Quilts: Large Pieced-Machine Quilted category.  It was custom machine quilted by Marilyn Lange of Ypsilanti, Michigan, a friend in my stitch group.  Again, hard to photograph on a busy day...I will do better tomorrow, I hope.  It is about 93 inches square, so it is hard to photograph when you can not back up enough!  (And definitely hard to photograph in my little house).  It took two pictures at the show to be able to read the borders!

 

This free-pieced adventure was the result of a liberated lady block swap in my Friday morning Sit and Stitch group.  My friend Mary J made witches, so I knew I had to come up with a quilt that incorporated my daughter's love of "Wicked" and "The Wizard of Oz."  I came up with some free-pieced doggies, a few trees, a witch hat, and a house fallen on a witch to round out the theme.  Then I tried Tonya's free-pieced letters in the border (Lazy Gal Quilting).

 

My friend, Cheryl G (no blog) took two first place ribbons.  The first one was for "Labor of Love/Double Wedding Ring" in the Bed Quilts: Pieced-Hand Quilted category.  She made this for her daughter as a wedding gift.

Her second win was in the Bed Quilts: Small Pieced-Hand Quilted category.  It is called "Solace," and it was custom machine quilted, again, by Marilyn Lange.

Mary J (no blog) took three ribbons!  Two were Honorable Mentions in the Bed Quilts: Mixed Technique-Machine Quilted category.  This is "It's a Dog's Life," which incorporates redworked pooches with pieced diamonds and a paw print border.  Ola R (no blog) drew additional doggie patterns to make this quilt bigger and bark to life.  It was quilted by Rhonda Loy of  Dexter, Michigan in an allover doggie pattern.

 Here are a few of the lovable pups - Mary is an excellent stitcher.

 

And the border...

The second HM ribbon in the same category went to "Mulligan Stew" (the Hobo quilt).  It was machine quilted by Rhonda Loy of Dexter, Michigan.

Here is the back, where she used a train to display some additional information about the life of hobo's.

This is Mary's third quilt, which took a second prize ribbon in the Bed Quilts: Appliqued-Machine Quilted category.  It is called "Tidings," a design by Nancy Halvorsen.  It is custom machine quilted by Marilyn Lange of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

A couple of the blocks...she does really nice raw edge applique with machine blanket stitch...

My friend Margit McPhee took a second place ribbon in the Bed Quilts: Small Pieced-Machine Quilted category with "Buggy Barn Baskets."  This was custom machine quilted by Marilyn Lange as well.

I have so many more pictures to share with you!  Stay tuned for LOTS more eye candy in my next few posts.

In stitches,

Teresa  :o)

Concerns justified...

In my last post, I was being all neurotic about having 7 prize worthy quilts from my friends as overnight guests (spend-the-night guests of my two quilts...) in my livingroom, awaiting a 90 mile journey to the Sauder Village quilt show in Archbold, Ohio (click on "2011 quilt show winners" to at least see pictures of the first place quilt in every category - that will hold you until I post pictures I take on Friday evening).

Well, the show opened yesterday and runs through this Sunday, May 1.  As I perused the list of ribbon winners on Facebook and the Sauder Village web site, I saw that 8 of the 9 quilts I took received ribbons, including 2 first place ribbons (woo hoo Cheryl for both of them!), 3 second place ribbons (yippee Mary J, Margit...and me!), 2 honorable mention ribbons (yahoo to Mary J for both of them!), and a Best of Show, Wall Hanging (shock and awe...mine!!).

I feel justified in my neurosis...LOL.

I go to the show on Friday, then will post lots of lovely eye candy...yum!  There is a short video of highlights on the Sauder Village Facebook page, if you are interested, to tie you over until then.

In stitches,
Teresa  :o)

In case of fire...

Have you ever had to be responsible for your quilting friends' best quilts?  Since Easter is so late this year, the holiday overlaps with dropping off quilt entries for for the Sauder Village Quilt Show that opens this next week.  Some of my participating friends went out of town to spend Easter somewhere else and I took responsibility of taking seven of their beloved quilts to the show along with two of mine.

Gulp...

What if there is a fire at my house?  What if Weasley gets cat hair on them?  What if someone breaks into my house?  What if I oversleep and start the 90-mile trip too late to get there by noon?  What if I forget one or two?  What if I am in a car accident or run out of gas and miss the 2.5 hour drop off window?

Yes...I'm neurotic.  Should I get a limited time fancy textile rider on the homeowners insurance?  Should I tell my family that in case of fire, grab the cat and the bundle of show quilts, which are right by the front door in a rocking chair, stacked in such a way to keep old Mr. Weasley off of them?

I'm pathetic really, but these are REALLY SPECIAL quilts, one a hand quilted double wedding quilt made for a beloved daughter.  Yikes - no wonder I slept a little fitfully last night!

Here they are, all ready for the car journey (I just love my huge IKEA bags!).

OOPS!  I guess I should make room for other passengers and put these in the back of the car...

The quilts are now all checked in and I am graciously allowed a couple of pictures of the huge Founder's Hall where the show will be hung before Monday, when the judging will take place before the show opens on Tuesday morning.  The committee members are carefully sorting and staging all the entries.  They have tall, rolling scaffolding units and super tall ladders for getting up to the hanging cables.  Once hung this is the neatest, best hung show I've ever been to (that includes the annual Houston International Quilt Festival).  I would have loved to see the recent red and whilte NY show...I LOVED how those pictures looked!

My pictures don't do this huge place justice.  It's hard to see in these pictures, but there is a sturdy system of stainless steel cables criss-crossing the arena in a grid.  That is where all the big bed quilts will be hung.  Then all the walls are fitted with panels where wall hangings can be pinned.  The stage is usually reserved to display master quilts and the quilts exhibited by the featured teacher of the week.  More panels are set up in the lobby to feature the yearly challenge quilts and baby quilts.  There is a quilt stretched on a frame below in the lower right.  I enjoy being invited to place a few stitches in every year!  There are also tables set up for various demos.

Then I just had to stumble over to the Threads of Tradition quilt shop that is located in the village.  I mean, I was already here, right?  I must do my part to help the Ohio economy, right?  (I need to stop in before 100's of women start shopping on Tuesday, right??  LOL)

Here are my friends' claim tickets for picking up quilts after the show and free show passes.  There is a great security system worked out for this show.  Absolutely no one can pick up a quilt without presenting these claim tickets.

Now I just have to keep them safe until I see Margit, Mary and Cheryl on Friday when our sit and stitch group goes to the show.

Oh crap!  What if there is a fire at my house?  What if someone breaks in?  What happens if Mr. Weasley makes mischief with them?

Sigh...

Happy Easter to everyone!

In stitches,
Teresa  :o)

Life after tutorials...

Bound, labeled, de-fuzzed, de-threaded, de-cat haired and ready to be taken for entry to the 35th Annual Sauder Village Quilt Show in Archbold, Ohio (northwest Ohio, west of Toledo) on Saturday morning.  The show runs next Tuesday, April 26 through Sunday, May 1.  Is anyone out there planning to go?!?  It is a fabulous show and definitely worth the drive from anywhere.  And did I mention, there is a great quilt store at Sauder Village??  Here is a link for more info.

I will take some good pictures at the show...of mine and the other 430 quilts that will be on display (where someone else will deal with the hanging of the quilts so that pictures are possible!).

So, with two finishes this week, I am finally allowing myself to dream about a new project or two.  Here's what I've been reading lately:

A little light reading...ha-ha-ha!  I want to do an album quilt, so I am reading everything I can get my hands on about Baltimore Album quilts.  I'm still suffering from withdrawal since finishing the Civil War Bride quilt.  I'm also thinking about Stars and Sprigs.  Hmmmm...

I went on a road trip recently to visit a couple of shops I've never seen before.  I'm usually not too tempted by bag patterns and supplies, but I fell "in love" with these:

These are the most beautiful, hand made leather hand bag handles.  I have a couple of sort of made up bags in mind for these!  I found them at The Hen House in Charlotte, Michigan.  Here's a link to their web site.  They have great primitive, wool, and reproduction fabrics and kits. 

I also went to a great quilt store in a funeral home...is that cool, or WHAT?!?    The Marshall House in Marshall, Michigan...great color wall, reproduction fabrics, awesome book room.

All this to distract me from my chocolate bunnies...back to work on those on Saturday!

In stitches,
Teresa  :o)