Still working on my Judie R. quilt

I've been working on my entry for the Judie Rothermel quilt contest for quite a while now. The most stressful part is over and now I'm quilting it. With it having to be finished by July 31st, this is now the home stretch. There's still a name to give it (besides the name I call it now.. can't use THAT ;).

 

Yesterday I took a 1/2 day break from it and made the doll quilt below. It's really small, not much larger than a placemat but I needed to work with different colors for a bit. These were scraps from a project I was doing a few months ago. I cut triangles using my Tri-Rec tool (which I LOVE). Reminds me of sailboats on the water....

 

Here's a little peak at my Judie quilt. As you can tell, I'm right in the middle of quilting, and actually deciding on the quilt design as I go along. With any luck it'll be ready for binding by the end of tomorrow.

Working on a hexagons and a competition quilt

I've been very busy working on my Judie Rothermel 25th anniversary competition quilt. I'm putting together the final two blocks that make up the quilt center and then I'll be ready to start borders. It needs to be completely done (quilted and bound) by the end of July. I can't show a picture of it but here's a picture of what else I've been doing....

Daughter Jenn wants to make a hexi quilt using 1" papers. Whenever I have a little spare time, or when I'm tired of machine sewing, I work on some of these. She wants a large variety of fabrics but mostly muted or dull. My scraps from the civil war quilts work well. She's going to set them like this... with a white or cream between each "flower". It's going to a pretty one!

More shipshewana quilts

Here's a few more quilts from the Shipshewana show.

 And these were in the car museum... quilts done using Penny Haren patterns and books. These gave me great ideas for the settings of my farmer's wife blocks.

Shipshewana Quilt Show

Today Al and I took a one day run down to Shipshewana... about 4-1/2 hours south of us. It was the final day of the quilt show and shop hop. I didn't do the hop since I had Al with me and we had so many places to go (car show to keep him happy) including a few quilt shops, and many antique shops.

I took pictures of quite a few quilts and am going to post some today, some tomorrow. Most have a close-up with them so that you can see the beautiful quilting and details. Enjoy!

And some more Petoskey Michigan Quilt Show

Here's some more pictures from the Little Traverse Bay Quilt Guild show in Petoskey Michigan... last weekend. I still haven't figured out how to get the close-ups off my camera's memory... haven't found a cord to transfer them to the computer... maybe when I get to Traverse City this weekend, I'll find one. In the meantime... enjoy!

 This one above is a friend's quilt... she used Kaffe fabrics and calls it her "porch" quilt... very soft and pretty!

 This booth was set up as a memorial to a quilter that passed away this past year.  A few of the quilters in our guild finished up some of her UFOs.

Check out the dollhouse quilt! It was adorable... and I love the apple core quilt. That's on my "someday" list.

Petoskey Quilt Show.. more pictures

Here are a few more pictures from the Little Traverse Bay Quilt Guild Show in Petoskey. I did a really dumb thing on Saturday. I went around to take some close-ups of some of my favorite quilts. Didn't realize that the memory card was not in my camera... SO...I don't have a way to transfer them to my blog.

 

Al said he would go to Radio Shack or Best Buy and see if he could find a USB cord that would fit my camera so that I could transfer them. When he finds the cord, I'll upload the close-ups... the quilting and detail to many of these is amazing!

These pictures below were on my camera's card... taken Friday... so those are the ones I'm posting. Lots of beautiful quilts at the show!

More to come...... tomorrow or later today.