My Quilts for Show

 These are the quilts I entered recently in a local quilt show:

I designed, pieced and quilted all the quilts.

This first one took me 4 months from design through the last stitch.  It goes on the guest bed.  It uses the Country Crown block which I modified in several places to create areas for hand guided free motion quilting.

That was my first ever scallop border on a quilt. I'd done them on window treatments but never a quilt. I admit it is a single fold binding. I just couldn't get a double fold to lay right.  I added a tiny microwelt to the edge as well.

This was entered in the modern category. The colors are a lot bolder in the photo than in real life. I used the Twisted Log cabin and foundation pieced it.  I stitched in the ditch to quilt with monofilament thread.  Not my favorite thing.

The quilt below is a block pattern I designed.  I used sashing design from EQ8 software.

That last photo got distorted somehow but you get the idea.

Quiltcon 2026

Quiltcon - the modern quilt show - is this weekend in Raleigh, NC.  My husband and I attended on the first day.  Here are a few photos of the meticulously made, imaginative and inspiring quilts we saw:

A close up of a favorite showing the beautiful quilting.

Hundreds of hexagons were handsewn by the quilter while she was out of power and water after Hurricane Helene.

This was 'open to interpretation.'  My husband said it looked like a heart.

This was probably the most my style of what I saw.

"I Scream" was my husband's favorite. It had beautiful quilting to make the swirls of the ice cream.

Another closeup of fantastic quilting in addition to the interesting design and piecing.

There were hundreds of quilts so I can only share a few.  This was the first national quilt show I have attended. Two years ago in Raleigh, they had over 25,000 attendees for the 4 day show!  I don't know how many people were there Thursday but it was very busy especially the vendor area. You could hardly walk.  I go to see quilts, not to shop, which is a good thing.

I'm glad we went. I'm not sure I would drive that far again unless we had some other activity in Raleigh we especially wanted to do.  Modern quilts are interesting and I always think I want to do more in this area but currently it isn't as much my focus.  Perhaps though I will be inspired by what I saw this week.

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