Quilt Show

This past weekend was the DVQ quilt show. My very first show was a lot of fun. I worked at the registration booth handing out the ballots for people to vote on their favorite quilts. I got to know two people form the guild who I hadn't ever met before. It was really neat because going to the show helped me realize how many people I've met going to quilt club. I even got to talk with a a lady who is friends with one of my friends and who goes to the same quilt group as my aunt which was really fun.

I had a lot of fun joking around with the different ladies in the group. They had hourly door prizes and I talked with the ladies who were doing the drawing. I told them to make sure they drew my name and that I would lick the piece of paper with my name on it. That way they could just feel for the wet one and know it was mine. I didn't actually do this, but my name was drawn. I won a a kit worth $76 dollars! I was not quite as impressive as I thought because the center part is actually just a pattern printed onto the fabric instead of piecing, but it's still neat. I put the top together. I think I will see if anyone would be willing to do the top quilting so it can be donated to community quilts. The quilting pattern was actually printed onto the fabric too. I'm not sure if this is done for the long arm person to follow if if it's intended for hand quilting...can any quilters answer this for me? Sewing this project, I learn A) what a mitered corner is and B) how to do them. The corners on the outside boarder of the fabric meat at 45 degree angles which allows the gold boarders to form the rectangle around the middle of the quilt. If I didn't do mitered corners, the gold lines would extend to the edges of the quilt because they angles would be 90 degree.

I also made Andy a new blanket. He has a bird blanket that has existed since he was a little boy. His mom made the first one. He eventually wore through the fabrics, so she had to make him another. She used part of the first one as stuffing for the second. Now he's worn through the second one. It was leaving bits of stuffing all around the bedroom which became enough motivation for me to make the third version of the blanket. The first photo is the second blanket. The first version was destroyed long before I met Andy. The second photo is the blanket I made. I top quilted straight lines on his old blanket and used the whole thing for the batting on the new blanket. So I basically just made a new coat for his blanket. He came with me to the fabric store to pick out the fabric. I think it looks pretty neat. He's a typicall guy and isn't very sentimental about things, so it was nice to be able to embrace one of the few things he's really emotionally attached to.

There were no guesses for name that tune, and I don't have any more videos. I'll wait one more post before I give away the answer.