Redwork

I haven't gotten the picture of my mom's bluework quilt from the show online yet, but here's the redwork one which was also entered:



Redwork done by Billie Standley and Gloria Marquis; pieced and quilted by Billie Standley from an Alex Anderson kit.

My mom and her friend Gloria went on a bus trip to New England in 2003, and during the trip they did all this embroidery. I was with her when she bought this kit; it may have been in Brenham earlier that year. This has an extremely light batting in it - we were thinking it might be Thermore.

Moonglow

Carol Taylor wins yet another ribbon - first prize in the category Embellished Quilts in the judged show at the 2007 Houston International Quilt Festival.

I think Embellished is another new category, isn't it? I love embellished quilts and I have been known to say the more embellished the better, although I don't really think that's always true. Sometimes less is more. But sometimes more is more, and there are a lot of highly-embellished quilts that I really love. This one is fairly restrained compared to some of those. (This one, say - or this one, for a really extreme example!)