My wonderful day filled w/beauty
09-30-2011, 02:49 PM
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This AM my grt grand dgtr picked me up & took me to the Chisholm Trail Quilt Guild quilt show in Round Rock, TX. What a wonderful day spent admiring so many beautiful quilts (& having lunch) w/a special lady.
It had been years since I've been to a quilt show & saw so much creative talent. Like I had suspected probably at least 75% of them were machine quilted, & I got to see my 1st long arm quilter. Hopefully in the future they will have enough of both hand & machine quilted to have 2 categories for judging purposes. I feel it is hard to be able to fairly judge a machine vs hand quilted items.
Regardless, the time for me was filled w/beauty & I came away wishing I could be more creative.
Only took a few pics as got pretty crowed early. Here are some of them. Besides the ribbons, each winner received a very cute, creative quilted 'hot pad' (attached to each ribbon)
Thanks for checking them out -
It had been years since I've been to a quilt show & saw so much creative talent. Like I had suspected probably at least 75% of them were machine quilted, & I got to see my 1st long arm quilter. Hopefully in the future they will have enough of both hand & machine quilted to have 2 categories for judging purposes. I feel it is hard to be able to fairly judge a machine vs hand quilted items.
Regardless, the time for me was filled w/beauty & I came away wishing I could be more creative.
Only took a few pics as got pretty crowed early. Here are some of them. Besides the ribbons, each winner received a very cute, creative quilted 'hot pad' (attached to each ribbon)
Thanks for checking them out -
1-Stack/Whack from Bluebonnet Flower fabric
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2-Close up of Bluebonnet
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3-TX great Longhorn & part of Roadrunner (vendor booth)
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Austins' motto is "Keep Austin Weird" - this pretty well depicts Austin
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09-30-2011, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by frauhahn
The bluebonnet fabric quilt is gorgeous!
Good luck in finding it. It really was pretty.
09-30-2011, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Xstitshmom
Can someone point in the direction of a pattern like the bluebonnet stack and whack?????
09-30-2011, 03:34 PM
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Thanks for sharing the beautiful quilt from the show. It sounds like you had a wonderful day. Hand quilting is so beautiful, but I'm afraid that it is a dying art! There seem to be fewer and fewer entires of hand quilting. In this fast paced world we are living in now so few people take up that skill. Very sad! Perhaps like the indangered species act...we should have an "endangered hand quilting act"!
09-30-2011, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by A1penny
Thanks for sharing the beautiful quilt from the show. It sounds like you had a wonderful day. Hand quilting is so beautiful, but I'm afraid that it is a dying art! There seem to be fewer and fewer entires of hand quilting. In this fast paced world we are living in now so few people take up that skill. Very sad! Perhaps like the indangered species act...we should have an "endangered hand quilting act"!
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