EPP Addiction March, part 1

We got a good start before our English Paper Piecing Addiction club started on Monday with a visit to our booth from a very special designer.  Mickey Depre, author of Pieced Hexies and Pieced Hexies Deux stopped by during the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show for a fabric fix and a quick picture with Linda, who made the very colorful quilt from Mickey's first book.  That is one cheerful quilt!

 

EPP Addiction Club met on Monday at 10 am, and we started as always with Show and Tell.  Robin didn't bring any new EPP, but shared a beautiful digitally printed fabric she had purchased at the show.  It is so sold and silky!  We have some bright digital fabric coming, and now we can't wait!

Marlene finished this striking Star and Log Cabin quilt.  It was partly a block of the month, but like any good cook, she changed the recipe to make it uniquely hers!

Barb is working on her Sue Daley Quilt, It Takes Two, and she's down to the half circles in the border, which look like crowns!

Michele is our super achiever, and she made this beautifully fussy cut block...

plus a number of blocks from the Pieced Hexies Deux book by Mickey Depre.  Many of the blocks are pieced the same, but the component hexies are turned to make two completely different blocks.

Judy is just getting started, but she has chosen beautiful pastel prints for her flower hexies.

We had a guest, Julie Lambert, who's adding stars to a great fussy cut block.  She also brought some of her quilts, which are the subject for another blog post.

Sue McDaniel spotted an antique star quilt made from hexies, and she has a couple of the points made.  I love her arrangement of colors!

Indiana Heritage Quilt Show winners

We got out of the booth briefly and got to look at more quilts Thursday, so we took pictures of some of the winners.

Best of Show wall quilt was won by Sandra Peterson of Muncie.  Wow! Congratulations!

Kathy Wylie from Ontario won first place, appliqué wall quilts, plus a ribbon for exemplary machine quilting.  Amazing!

Gail Stepanek from Illinois won first place in pieced bed quilts and best of show in bed quilts.  Unbelievable!

Lahala Phelps from Washington state won a ribbon for exemplary hand quilting, which was very well deserved!

And then there are the fabulous miniature quilts!

We have one final quilt to share, this one from Birgit Schueller from Germany.  With what could be English paper piecing, appliqué, tiny Zentangle quilting, Swarovski crystals, yarn, sequins, and other surprises, no wonder this quilt took the blue ribbon for Mixed Techniques!

Indiana Heritage Quilt Show

We have an Artist in Residence!  Nysha Oren Nelson is the featured artist for IHQS 2014.  He works a lot with Zentangle style free motion quilting.  Come and talk to him and see his amazing art quilts!

Here are some of the quilts from the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show.  There are lots and lots of fabrics in the beautiful Log Cabin at left.  Made and quilted by, Judy Mick. it's a real stash buster!

Wendy Hodina's scrap quilt at right also uses lots of fabrics.  We love the warn tones and contrast between the darks and soft tans. Jane Pitt quilted Wendy's quilt.

Jane Pitt also pieced and quilted this terrific Log Cabin quilt.  I wonder if her stash looks smaller now!

Sue McDaniel  made the beautiful chain quilt above, and our quilter Marilyn quilted it.  Nice points in the stars, Sue!  They won honorable mention!

 This gorgeous quilt looks like it has the dreaded Y seams, but these are all half-square triangles!  Beautiful quilting in variegated threads and appliqué make this quilt a stunning work of art.  Pieced by Linda Lawrence and quilted by Harriet Carpanini.

Bloomington Set-Up

We headed to Bloomington early this morning to set up our booth for the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show. We got set up in record time, and the booth looks great, if we say so ourselves!

First we get the quilts up around the booth, brights on the left, reproductions on the right.

We have a mix of Sue Daley quilts and other beauties on the reproduction side.

Hey!  There's a Sue a Daley quilt on the bright side!

After the quilts are up on the wall, more quilts go on the tables, then we put the fixtures and fill them with fabric.  Books and patterns go out, and the grid walls are filled with small projects, patterns, books, and papers for English Paper Piecing.

Register and demo areas are on the front table, and Linda is all ready to show you how to do English paper piecing!

Bed Turning, part two

The second bed in the bed turning had a variety of quilts made by or owned by guild members.  Let's take a look:

The dramatic two color quilt above looks like circles.  

This one looks like a Carpenter's Star.  It has a nice contrast.

This quilt started as a mystery, so a few of the colors were changed along the way as more of the mystery was revealed.  The result is subtle and pleasing.

The next few quilts were all made in the 1930's and 40's.  They are all real treasures, and have the characteristic greens, yellows, and soft pinks of that era.

Bed Turning, part one

Have you ever been to a bed turning?  Edyta Sitar did a bed turning at our anniversary celebration last May (see other blog posts), and we've seen them at several guild shows--they're always a highlight for us.  At A Patchwork of America quilt show, there were TWO bed turnings, one with vintage quilts, and the other with current quilts.  The stories that go with the quilts are the best part of the bed turnings, and we don't have those stories for you here, but we do have pictures of some of the quilts.

During a bed turning, a group of quilts is stacked on a bed, and they're peeled away, one at a time, until the bed is bare.  Here are some of the quilts from the antique and traditional bed.

The quilt above has a piece of red fabric in it that was from the Civil War era.

Hexagons are always a popular choice for traditional quilts, above and below.

Simple graphic shapes are always effective in a quilt.

This fan is a popular 1930's design.

It's a little hard to tell, but this is a yo-yo quilt.  The backdrop on stage was black, but the quilt was meant to be placed atop a white bedspread or coverlet.

This beautiful quilt was one of a pair that the owner acquired at different times.

This might have been English paper pieced.  We carry jewel shapes that would work.

A Patchwork of America, Clarendon Hills, IL

Wow!  We're here in Clarendon Hills, IL at A Patchwork of America quilt show presented by the Salt Creek Quilt Guild.  This is our first time, and it's a terrific show!  There are two rooms of vendors, a wonderful quilt show, bed turnings, raffle baskets, silent auction, demonstrations, and more.  Here are pictures from our booth at the show:

Our happy corner, above, features bright quilts and fun clothing for little girls and their American Girl dolls.  The other side of the booth, below, features two quilts on the wall designed by Sue Daley, plus a Jo Morton quilt at right, and our very popular Sho Fly, O My by Pat Riley.

Below, Linda is helping some of our customers find the paper pieces for their next project.  Our books at the front include selections from Japanese, Australian, French, German, and American authors.  The quilt on the table is Basket Lattice, one of our most popular quilts ever!

The quilt on the back wall below is called My Checkered Past, beautifully pieced and quilted by Marilyn.  She has also quilted almost all the other quilts in our booth, getting a lot attention at all our shows.  The quilt on the table is Eldon by Edyta Sitar, Teri's husbands favorite quilt!

Last but not least, we have the cutest baby boxer shorts display, with a whole suitcase full of tiny prints and mini princess fabrics.

The show continues Sunday from 10-5.  Don't let the snow keep you away...this is a show worth visiting!