Mom's project of the week

the latest Santa block (not quite finished) - she worked on this one while she was back in the hospital last week!

Last week's project

toile quilt (the one I mentioned in my last entry)

Weekly report

I didn't get much quilting done this weekend. Heck, I haven't gotten much quilting done in the last month or so! But the reasons were pretty unavoidable so I guess I shouldn't feel bad. We are going to Ohio (for Thanksgiving with the in-laws) on Sunday but I'm still going to try to get some quilting done on Saturday, between bouts of packing madness. And I'll be back on Friday so hopefully I will manage some quilting Thanksgiving weekend, too.

Mom is back in form; unfortunately I forgot my camera so no picture of the quilt-of-the-week. It's nothing fancy, anyway, but it's very pretty. It's a pattern that shows off a toile she found.

I did get a few more blocks done on the string quilt. I ought to take it home and work on it more so I won't be trying to finish at the last minute. I also started sewing some blocks together in 4's (so into 12" blocks, basically) because of the way I'm matching up the colors. If you want to see what I'm talking about, look in last month's archives; I know I put up a picture of the first few sets.

(Off-topic) The reason I didn't get too much done was because of early Christmas shopping madness - we have a new Marshall's "Megastore" near us and we went to check it out. You would not believe the traffic. And it's already been open several weeks so it's not like it's the grand opening or anything!

Texas Traditional Treasures

Box of Chocolates, Jo Lynn O'Neil

This quilt and the following one were from an exhibit of Texas quilts. As I understand it, various guilds around the state were asked to submit entries. Jo Lynn's quilt (above) was one of my guild's entries.

Ring of Friendship - Glenda Teaff

A few quilts from the judged show

Bouganvillae - Barbara Swinea, North Carolina

Folkart Sundae - Sandi McMillan, Nebraska

Radical Joy

Caroline Madden and the Chiskale Quilters, California

This is a really beautiful crazy quilt, but it had problems around the border - it was velvet and it didn't lay flat at all. Is that a recurring problem with crazies? (I have made some blocks for a crazy quilt but I haven't finished anything, so I don't really know.)

Red Hats

Marilyn Fallert, St. Louis

I really sort of hate the whole "red hat lady" phenomenon (sorry, if you are one!) but this is cute.

Windshield Visions

When Steve Took Advantage of Gloria at the Starlight Drive In Theater in 1969 - Linda Reuss Bens

There was a whole group of quilts with this odd "windshield" shape - I don't know if you can really tell, but the top is smaller than the bottom, approximating the shape of a windshield. A lot of these quilts were terrific but this was my favorite. (And unfortunately, I came across this exhibit late in the day and I was running out of memory on the camera by that point, so I only got pictures of a couple of them.)

A Moda Challenge quilt

A Whole Load-a-Moda to Meet da Quota - Lynn Droege

Link to more pictures

My Webshots album with the rest of the quilt show pictures is here. They are mostly labelled now. I'm still planning to gradually put some more of them over here, but I'm sure I won't put all of them since there are nearly 200!

Symbol Quilt

By Chuck Nohara

This quilt is HUGE

Best of Show

Here's Hollis Chatelain showing the back of her quilt Precious Water, which won Best of Show.

Quilt festival blues

The only thing "blue" about the quilt festival is that I'm still tired from yesterday and I'm going back tomorrow. The good news is that Mom thinks she's going to feel like going, which is very good indeed. She just got out of the hospital (again) on Wednesday.

Anyway, the pictures are up in my Webshots albums - user name mel77c - mostly unlabelled, right now, and completely out of any order, but they're there. I'll put some of them up over here, but while you're waiting, here are a couple of Hoffman challenge quilts.

(During trip 1 to the Festival, I bought NO fabric, can you believe it? I did, however, buy Electric Quilt. And a big package of Thangles, and several of those scissors fobs from ByMolly.com, which I am utterly addicted to, for some reason. So I spent plenty of money.)

Hoffman Challenge

Hoffman Challenge quilt - On a Wing and a Prayer, Debby L Sharp

Hoffman Challenge quilt - Crazy About Butterflies, Patricia Rambo

No report to report

No Quilt of the Week from my mom this week: she has been in the hospital. She should be out and quilting in a couple of days. I'm tired and not feeling up to explaining the whole thing, but the gist is that we don't exactly know what's going on anyway. When I know more I'll post more. In the meantime, think good thoughts for her!

(I'm posting a Random Quilt Picture below. If I have time, I'll throw up a couple more this week.)

Random quilt picture

This is a picture from the Woodlands quilt show.