Exciting news!

I have some very exciting news to share!  One of my quilts has been accepted to show at the Houston Internation Quilt Festival this October- it is in the exhibit "What's for Dinner?"!!!!

In this exhibit, the quilts must be the size of a placemat (15" x 24") and they must show "what's for dinner".  From the Quilts, Inc website,

"We’ll “set the table” for this Special Exhibit on the show floor with enlarged “place settings”, complete with a placemat/tablecloth, napkin, fork, knife, spoon, and a plate full of “what you are eating for dinner.” This could be your favorite dinner at home, in a restaurant, or what you have for Sunday dinner. We are excited about this theme and hope that it will show a variety of interpretations, fabric choices, and views into different cultures, rituals, and lifestyles. Think colorful, fun, outside the box, and visually appealing! "

This website has a good look at the exhibit last year and some examples of what people made.

I'm not going to show you what I made yet, you'll have to wait 5 weeks along with everyone else and then I will post lots of pictures!  I'm also excited because my sister is coming down from Connecticut to attend the quilt show with me again, I had so much fun attending with her last year!

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Fall Table Topper

I am very excited that it is almost fall.  In Texas, fall means that our high temperatures finally break and we are able to spend time outside without sweating to death.  Also, it means that the humidity will finally drop.  I miss the Northeast, where fall means falling leaves and sweaters.

A couple years ago, I bought this fun leaf fabric at the Quilt Festival with the intention of making something for my table, and now I have finally gotten around to it.  It is 18" square, I just sewed together the two pieces of fabric with a piece of batting the middle, then turned it right side out and did some quick straight line quilting.

 

Yes, I know that it isn't super exciting, so I added some pumpkins and pine cones to complete the feeling of "fall".

 

 

 

I have a giant dining room table so it looks pretty small when you zoom out!

 

 

 

Blue Bed Quilt- Finished!

The Blue Bed Quilt is another quilt that I have finished but I only recently managed to get pictures of it.  It was so annoying to quilt because of the bulk and size of the quilt.  I just did a lot of straight line quilting and kept it pretty widely spaced.  It is backed with a white cross-hatch fabric and bound with a fun blue stripe fabric.

Here it is in my bedroom- I love the way that it looks with the blue wall!

The quilt inspector approves!  I love the way that the stars look around the side of the bed...

Next up in this series, curtains for the bedroom - I have been searching high and low for the perfect fabric.  The windows are almost 10 ft high!  I also needed to find a 12+ foot curtain rod to put across the top (there are three large windows in a row), that was a search in itself! 

Plus Baby Quilt- Finished!

The "Plus Baby Quilt" was actually finished a while ago, it just took me until today to take a picture of it!  If you remember that far back, I sewed the quilt top and then I mailed it to my sister and she took care of the quilting.  We decided on straight line quilting, 1/4" from each of the seams in the quilt.  She used a variegated rainbow thread.  I think it looks great!

 

The backing of the quilt is the "hungry caterpillar" fabric with all the white dots on it (it is used for 4 plus signs on the front of quilt).

It's going off in the mail this week, hopefully our cousin will like it!