Showing posts with label quilt show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilt show. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Festival of Quilts pictures #2

Let's start this off with a bang, I think this was my favourite quilt:
Absolutely stunning!

And my second favourite:
The photo doesn't do it justice at all!

I also love-love-loved this one. Under the sea scenes have a tendancy to be all bright turquises and oranges, which is my favourite colour mix, but what I loved about this one was it's muted and realistic colours, and that totally doesn't lend itself to photographing well:

Speaking of orange and turquoise, this one is simple in its design, but my favourite colour mix, and some lovely quilting:


And then a few more that just caught my eye:
...and a close-up of the quilting on that one:
Lellephaaaaaaaaaaaaant!!!:

My mum's favourite (with her next to it!):

And one that's given her inspiration for a stash of white and blacks that she's had for a while:

And the best bit, my haul!

So here we have:
A2 cutting mat £12.95
3.5x12 ruler £11.95
Glue £4.50
Masking tape £1.75
Red and white guttermann thread (about) £5
2 pieces of template plastic £1.30 per sheet
Bundle of 4 FQs for £6 (more beautiful in real life!)
Curved safety pins £3.95
4m peach with yellow spots, £8!!!
2m pale blue, £3!!!
Heart hangers, 5" wide were £2.75 each, 7" wide was £3.60
FQ pale blue with toys, £1!!!
Pack of scraps (quite substantial ones, mind) £4.50!!!
Measuring guage £3.95

I could have bought so much more, I think I was quite a good girl really! The big pieces of fabric are to make more dresses for Dress a girl around the world, and the baby fabric is the first of several FQs to make more bags for Beads of Courage.

A closer look at the scraps:
...and at the FQ bundle:
 
I see these being made into little clutch purses or cosmetic bags.

So there we have it, over for another year :( I enjoyed it so much though, I am thinking of going to another, smaller one, like Harrogate or Chilford/Duxford.

Festival of Quilts pictures #1

I was too tired to post last night when we got back, so here they are: my photos from the Festival of Quilts! We had such an amazing day (we always do!). We arrived just before 10 and left just before 5 (we were the last on the bus, oops!) so we squeezed every bit of quilty goodness out of the day that we could.

So without further ado, here are my photies, I'm going to upload them in two seperate posts as there are loaaaaaads, but do be sure to come back and check out the second batch as I will show you what I bought!
...and a close up of the quilting on this one:

...and a close up of the detail:
Look at the quilting and embellishments on this:
My home county!:

I have tried to edit these a bit to tidy them up, but the photos just don't do them justice. If you haven't been this year, you should really go next year!

Check out the rest here!

Friday, 17 August 2012

I'm going to the quilt show tomorrow!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek! The Festival of Quilts started yesterday! Who's been? Who's going? What should I look out for? I will take loads of pictures for you, and maybe even bring back a little something to give away!