Just recently I was selected to be the "featured quilter" at my local quilt show here in the foothills in Auburn, CA. I belong to the Foothill Quilters Guild and it was quite an honor to be chosen. It was a fantastic weekend and I felt I had to come back down to earth after all the praise and love for my quilts. I did get visitors to sign my signature so blocks so hopefully soon I will make that quilt as a true memento of the occasion.
Handkerchiefs Vintage and New
Handkerchief quilts are my theme this week. A customer sent me many old hankies to make into a couple of quilts for her. Coincidentally I ordered some hankies from E Bay but these are knock-offs 'Made in China'. I am making a handkerchief quilt of my own to show at the Foothill Guilds Quilt show in March and have not enough "real" vintage ones so am using these new ones. I have been amazed at the difference between the two! The quality of the cotton in the real ones, the colours are so rich and patterns so varied.
Here the two unfinished quilt tops are I hanging on my washing line. Can you tell which is the the vintage one?
The vintage quilt is more vibrant and the patterns more varied and this one I made straight so I didn't cut up any of the hankies. The new vintage hankie quilt I made en-pointe for a different look.
End of 2014
2014 is over and it has been my most productive year ever. I made about 65 t shirt quilts, 14 memory quilts of varying kinds for 1 customer, 7 neck tie quilts, 2 handkerchief quilts, 5 wall hangings, 4 art quilts for me and 6 other smaller items. I had 3 art quilts juried into shows and 1 quilt is still on show in Oregon and Washington.
This was the first quilt I finished in 2014
Already I have about 20 quilts in the works for 2015 and I have been selected by my guild to be there "Featured Quilter" at the Foothill Quilt Guilds show at the Auburn Fairgrounds on March 28th and 29th. I am currently working on about 4 new wall hangings to exhibit there as well as a selection of my older art quilts. I am very excited about this.
This was the last quilt I finished in 2014.