Eternal Ring

Eternal Ring, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Noriko Nozawa; from the exhibit "Culture of my Country" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Retro florals

unknown floral, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

This fabric was in my mom's box of florals, and it doesn't look like the stuff she normally buys at all. But I snagged it. I really love it, although I'm never really sure what to do with things like this. I think when I have a sewing room again, I'm going to have to do some experimenting and figure out what to do with things like this and all those big Kaffe Fassett prints I've been buying.

Oh, and for a completely different type of fabric: I won an auction for a set of these taupe fabrics on eBay. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with 50 assorted taupes, either, but I'm sure I'll think of something!

Spunky Street

Spunky Street, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above is from the exhibit "The Collaborative Quilting of Pagosa Springs" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival. (That fancy name means it was made by 5th graders and their teacher.)

This is a great quilt. The houses are so... surreal.

Beautiful in its Time

Beautiful in its Time (detail), originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Ann Horton; from the exhibit "In Full Bloom III" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Here's one I had forgotten about that I really like. There's a picture of the full quilt here. I'm not entirely sure about how this one was made - it looks like it might be a combination of machine embroidery and more traditional methods. What do you think?

Added: I looked at the big picture and now I'm not so sure about the machine embroidery. I think maybe it's more traditional applique and less machine embroidery than I originally thought - although the plant names at the bottom of the blocks may well be machine embroidered. Everything else appears to be appliqued, pretty much.

Fish Chowder

Fish Chowder, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Gregory Leighton and Wanda Stivison of Ohio; entered in the category Two Person at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

People liked the fish quilt the other day, and I remembered that there was another one - this one is not so obviously fish, but they're there!

Note: there's also a detail picture - here.

Kindergarten quilt

Laci's kindergarten quilt, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

My aunt's three grandchildren all got a "kindergarten quilt" - I guess to take to school for naps, would be the idea, right? (You can tell I don't have kids, can't you?) Anyway, this is a really cute (and easy) idea for a kids' quilt - although actually my aunt said she got the idea from one of my mom's quilts, which has an entirely different color scheme.

Fish Scraps

Quilt above made by Rahna Walker Summerlin; from the exhibit "Do You EQ?" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Oriental 9-patch

Oriental 9-patch, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

My aunt made this top out of some Asian fabrics she'd been collecting. It's out of this book: 9-Patch Pizzazz: Fast, Fun & Finished in a Day - which is a great book if you have a large print that you don't know what to do with. You come up with a very simple but nice-looking quilt.

Eagle medallion

Eagle medallion quilt, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

More sawtooth stars, this time with an applique center. I forget where this pattern came from - maybe another Fons & Porter pattern?

Quilt above made by Billie Standley.

Update: It's nice that there are people around who remember things better than I do! Jerianne remembered that this quilt was in our guild quilt show in 2004, and the pattern information was still up on the website. It is called "Ever Vigilant" by Barbara Baume, and it was in Quilter's Newsletter in July 2002. (Come to think of it, that is the year that my mother was registration chairman, so her information should all be correct!)


(Wanna look at our 2004 quilt show? There's a cool little index with thumbnails, and the names of the quilts and so forth are here.)

Poetry

Poetry on design wall, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

My mom bought several of those packets of pre-cut 5" squares that Moda puts out, and two of them were April Cornell's Poetry line from last year. I didn't quite know what to do with them, so at retreat I started sewing them into half-square triangles. I tried to maximize the contrast, although of course some still have more contrast than others - still, from what I slapped up on the design wall, it seems promising.

I also found the big floral on clearance at Virginia Quilter (in the 54" width, too) and ordered a yard. I figured that's enough to put a nice-sized border on this with room to spare. I think there's 80 of these triangles, and I trimmed them to 4-1/4", so this is not going to be all that big.

"Fabulous Florals"

Plumples, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

So remember when we were looking at this quilt of my mom's and trying to figure out what the pattern was? Well, apparently this is the pattern - I found it in her stuff. They also have a (Tripod) website - here.

Happy Mother's Day (a little late)!!

Mom - Linda's wreath, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Another one of Mom's heart quilts.

Vintage sawtooth star

A quilt I inherited, maker unknown, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

After my grandmother died, my aunt asked me if I wanted a couple of old quilts, and I said, "Sure." I think nobody else wanted this because it's not very pretty close up - it's too loud. But doesn't it look great from a distance?

Why I will (probably) never go to Paducah

You can't post pictures of the quilts.

I have expressed my views on this subject before so I won't go through all that again. Anyway, the link above is to KarenD's entry about her trip, and here's the pictures she did post. You can see the winners on AQS's own site, and I was especially pleased to see that the Galveston quilt guild's lovely group quilt won a ribbon in the Group Quilts category. (Actually I have to admit that I don't currently belong to this guild; I have belonged in the past and I keep intending to join again but so far I haven't gotten around to doing it! I am a terrible procrastinator.)

I really am most jealous of the fact that Karen got to go to Hancock's of Paducah and root around in the back room for bargains. That is something I might truly do something drastic in order to get to do.

Oh, and perhaps I should point out that you can buy a book of pictures of the AQS quilts.