Quilt Show Season

Time for a show!!
It's quilt show season around the Mid-Atlantic y'all!
I will be doing demos at our local guild show this weekend and would love to meet you! It's the Annapolis Quilts by the Bay show Saturday and Sunday.

Two other guilds had shows I attended so I wondered if you'd enjoy seeing a few quilts and hearing of my adventures? Here goes...

A fellow blogger Preeti Harris (sewpreetiquilts) and I met at the QU show in Virginia.

What a fun time full of laughter and shopping and quilt viewing we had!
As I said in the last post, blogging has brought me friends across the miles, and this time we live within an hour of each other. Preeti is full of life and fun, smart and sassy and just my kind of person!!

She is exceptional at looking at a geometric design and knowing almost instantly how they constructed it. The really interesting thing to me is that we both love quilting but gravitate to the opposite ends of the spectrum. The fact that we see different aspects of a quilt only enhanced both our experiences.
I'm looking forward to seeing her more often.

Antique pin cushion love!!!  (no I did not buy one this time... the Scotty dog is my latest love) I did manage to buy a bit of fabric and a few beads at this show.
I fell for this quilt

Dancing Umbrellas by Elizabeth Shugart

This challenge quilt called "I'm just saying" by Dianne H. Thomas interested me a lot. She noticed the shape of a guitar and the shape of a woman, ahem, one with a waist that is, were similar.
I love to see original work and feel it gives me new ways to look at the world. It's a glimpse into an artist's mind. Please note that art and good construction technique go together.

The last one I want to share is of course a hexi

Sundays Best  by Ann Heber

This was fresh and clean and a great use of hexies around the border and in the baskets.
Preeti and I spent all day at the show, shopping and looking and chatting and it made the show so much fun!

On to the Bayside Quilters show in Easton Maryland

Look what greeted us when we drove up!! There were fabric banners everywhere dancing in the breeze! How totally festive! Just like this group of women.
I was lucky enough to speak to this group of fun talented artistic quilters this year, as well as teach two classes. When I came to the show, it was so much fun to see them again and renew friendships.
Their display was awesome

and they had lots of original work on the challenge quilts displayed. Their challenge was to interpret a color they were given and this one is an example of orange...

Red Hot Jimmy  by Laura Boehl

I loved the scrappy crab and the newsprint background. ( Marylanders crack crabs onto newspapers)

Time by Jeanne Hechner

Check out the use of antique watches. And by Antique I mean ones I grew up with, ones my older sisters wore! I like the use of clock fabric behind them. There were lots of cool quilts at this show. I left with some scrap bags, of course, at a bargain of $ 2 each!  Bringing in other people's scraps increases variety ya know.
I had a fun day at this show, but oh the traffic coming and going! The Eastern Shore of Maryland is a lovely place but a popular place especially on summer weekends. Cole came from this area, way back 13 years ago. He stayed home for these shows but in solidarity and poodle love I share this last quilt...

Bosco and Bingo  by Jan Bohn

Jan was in one of my classes at her guild, and brought the real Bosco and Bingo in to meet me.
What a barrel of monkeys Poodles! All gorgeous and active and friendly and happy!
Poodle love. Quilt love. Hope you can come visit with me this weekend! Friends make for the best time!