3 Rivers Quilt Show, Part 4, or all the small stuff

 "Rainbow Diamonds"
47" x 48.5"
S.M., Carnegie, PA

"Seasons"

                              16.5" x 45.5"
                             S.S., Mars, PA


This whole piece makes me think of Haiku poetry. I'm not sure why.










"I Love the Desert"
18.5" x 27.5"
A.C., Pgh, PA

"VFW Special"

41" x 41"
P.G., Bethel Park, PA










"Log Cabin Sunny Side Up"
42.5" x 42.5" 
V.B., Pgh, PA

"Scrappy Vines"
8" x 9.5".B.N., Canfield, OH


This one takes the tiny cake.

3 Rivers Quilt Show, part 3

These are quilts I'm pretty sure I saw the weekend before at the North Pittsburgh Quilt Guild Show in Ross Twp, but had forgotten my camera. I have some photos from that show on my mobile phone, but they're terrible. These are much nicer, as I had a better camera this time.

 "Sienna at Chataqua"
32" x 45" L.S., Glenshaw, PA

"Star Crossed"
54" x 44", K.J., Allison Park, PA

 "Scrap Pathway"
80" x 91", L.S., Glenshaw, PA
(Same maker of "Sienna", above)

circles...or squares?

 

3 Rivers Quilt Show, Part 2

Starting with the 100's which are classified as the THEME quilts; this year's is Irish Chain.  
                                                                                                                                                               

                              "Celtic Chain"
                                 32" x 40"
                             P.G., Pgh, PA

"Spring Irish Chain Quilt"
74" x 74"
M.H., Cambridge Springs, PA
(YAY, CMBRIDGE SPRINGS!!!!)

"Scrappy Irish Chain"

95" x 102"
K.A., Bethel Park, PA
Member, TRQG

"Rush to Spring"
82" x 82"
B.J.S, Pgh, PA
Member, TRQG

"Stamp Happy, Irish Scrappy"

100" x 100"

K.B., Aliquippa, PA 

"Watermllon Bliss"
97" x 113"
D.M., Coraopolis, PA

if D can enter a quilt at 113" when the entry form says no more than 100" max width, I should be able to enter the Ocean at 110". *peeved*.

Live and learn and there's always next year.

"Oriental Chain"
87" x 92"
D.M. (same maker as above), Coraopolis, PA

I don't know what this is, but I loved the Lily of the Valley detailing in the quilting and the applique in the corner.

*cannot confirm with out help*
#123, "Spring Irish Chain"
76.5" x 75.6"
M.R., Pgh, PA

This is tiny. I mean, tiny-tiny-tiny I couldn't get the whole thing in frame and put my thumb up as a reference and get the picture to come out clear. This whole thing was pieced, doesn't look like there was any "cheating".

"Doll Crib Quilt"
13" x 19.5"
A.D., Mt. Lebanon, PA

3 Rivers Quilt Show, Part 1

Going on this weekend is the Three Rivers Quilt Show! WOW! I knew people when I was growing up who would drive two hours to see this show, and now I know why. Incredible! This first installment are the quilts that I (whoops) didn't get information for, so I have no idea who crafted them, what the dimensions are... nothin'.I sincerely apologize for that oversight, but I didn't have a writing utensil with me to make notes in my program, and the camera card was full.

 There was Arabic [?] embroidered in the two hexagons on the bottom, but I don't know what it said. The piecework on this one blew me away, and I'm curious if this project stemmed from family ties or a photograph of something from a vacation. I should have read the placard next to it, and I didn't.

 
A lot of careful grain work went into this piece. A lovely pallet of neutrals paired with black.

"Trapunto-like" was the description of the quilting on this piece, which was remarkably dense in some places, no doublt aiding to the Trapunto effect. 

No, you're not wrong, these aren't pieces being judged in the show.  The two quilts were acting as table cloths at vendor stalls, and I liked the patterns. The chair, admittedly, made me groan, but being the DIY-er that I am, I decided that, with just the picture as reference, I could probably figure out how to rejuvenate a sad folding chair begging for new life without first spending $8 on a pattern. And if I ever get into an elementary classroom, this would be something fun to have around. 

mighty waves upon the ocean, or completion, part 2

it is finished. it's been finished for a while - Thanksgiving 2010, actually.

 

This monster ended up being 110" wide and 106" long, and fits very nicely on a California King... but this makes it too big for most quilt shows, alas. I don't have any pictures of it quilted, because I haven't had anywhere large enough to lay it out that I could get myself or someone else above to get it completely into the camera frame. The triangles finished out at 1.5". I lost track at 80 counting the different fabrics. It is backed with a solid toffee colored cotton, and bound with the same fabric as the sashing and the squares, which came from Blackbird Designs for Moda back in 2006 or 07. I found this perfect dark sea foam at Bev's Country Stitchin' in Cambridge Springs at their initial (and very tiny!) location. 

completion, part 1

in the spirit of showing off things that are actually finished, I dug up some very old pictures.

This is a lap sized blanket that I still have in my possession... in fact, I often forget it's there... I should enter it in a show...

This came from a book, the title of which is lost to me, but it was something about fast, stack-and-whack quilts, the tag "in-a-weekend" might have been in there, too. This was pattern #26 [?] and was definitely called "Irish Sticks and Stones". I wish I knew what the book was called, because there were some wonderful patterns in it. There was another pattern in it that was a variation of this one called Celtic in the City. I made it with design help from my friend Laura, who now lives in Michigan. Well, she was in Michigan last I knew.

The assembly of this quilt is painfully simple - one 9 patch squares plus one Rail Fence, with the Rail Fence alternating it's placement horizontally or vertically depending on the row, and it is sewn . I had just enough of the materials to make this quilt without having to purchase anything except for the back.