Quilt Show - Word Heavy!

Yesterday was the long-anticipated quilt show with my local quilt guild - the Memorial Quilters of Forest Lake, MN.  This guild has been around a long time and has many members.  They have their biannual show down to a science, and it was such a joy to attend and participate!

As my followers know, I ended up with 3 quilts in the show.  The first was in the category of "Bed Quilts" and is one I have featured on the blog before.  This is the quilt I made my son and my first bed quilt.  We were encouraged to have props, so I had my little blue Minnesota quilt on display as a prop since the 2 are tied together in my quilting journey.

The next one I entered is the bed quilt I made for my daughter.  I have given glimpses of it through the months, so this is the big reveal of the whole thing.  :)  

As I was working on it, the colors were so wild and the amount of different prints so large, that I had doubts about how it was going to turn out.  It was such a pleasure to get it finished and see that it was lovely in its own way.

Edited to add a picture of me with my quilt!  

The last one I entered was thrown together too fast, so is kind of askew.  But for something I made up out of my own vision and almost entirely freehand, I am pretty happy with it.  I am pretty unsure of myself in a lot of areas of my life, and this new creative thing is no different.  I had a wonderful fabric seller review my blog recently after I volunteered to do a project or giveaway for them, and they told me I had talent.  Truly, that amazed me.  But when I look at this little piece, I can see that it is there - I just need to bring it out.

It was also wonderful to help at the show.  I handed out ballots for Viewer's Choice voting for a couple of hours, and worked in the consignment shop for a couple of hours.  The talent shown everywhere I turned was a treat for the eyes.

And after the show was taken down, we all gathered and found out who won the viewer's choice awards in 5 different categories.  I will have to share the link to our website when they post pictures of the quilts.  Then they drew names for 5 baskets full of FQ's.  I almost forgot to buy some raffle tickets for that - but bought 4 for $2.00 at the end.  And guess what?  My name was one of those drawn!  And the one I liked the best was still available!

96 FQ's!!!!  

And I can see myself using all but about 10 of them (they just aren't my style)!  I am so in shock.  I sat and watched Magnum PI last night, untied the ribbons, looked at the selvages to see if I recognized any names, folded them up and put them in piles by color or theme.  With some that aren't my style, I have a start on being part of the next 'Fugly' Giveaway/Swap.  

Tomorrow I will post the pictures of my favorite quilts of the show.

Blessed Sewing,

Karen



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