Autumn Reflections

Quilt above made by Bonnie Borer of Thompson, Ohio, and shown in the judged show (category: Art-Naturescapes) at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.


Fall is my favorite time of year - and it finally feels like fall, even down here on the Gulf. So hooray for that! (And hooray for my sewing room! I will have to post pictures, even if it is still a big mess!)

Past IQF ribbon winners: Windswept

Quilt above made by Nancy Dickey of Magnolia, TX. From IQF 2003. (The ribbon appears to be third place. I love this quilt, but I know from long experience that the judges don't use the same criteria I do.)


There's a list of finalists up on the IQA website. A lot of what you might call the usual suspects are there - i.e., those past ribbon winners I've been featuring here lately. But there's always some new faces, too.

Autumn Leaves II

Taking a one-picture break from IQF quilts - this is my little autumn leaves wallhanging that I finally finished a month or so ago. (And here is one where you can see the back, which I really like.) I'm sorry you can't get a good look at the edges in these pictures, because I really think they came out nice, too. I am really pleased with myself about the whole thing, actually. I have said most of this before but to get it all in one place: it's 36 of the little 3" paper-pieced autumn leaf blocks (the pattern is on the small-expressions website and it's called "maple leaf" there, I think) and I did the same concentric sort of arrangement that I did on the bigger quilt that I made out of these blocks. Then I used a chinese-coin border that I started making for the big quilt and abandoned - I cut it in half lengthwise so that I had two identical 2-1/2" strips, and I used those for the border. Then I finished it by turning it, using Melody Johnson's technique from this month's Quilter's Newsletter. I have turned quilts before, but her technique of cutting the back open and then fusing it closed again makes it so much faster. (It only really works on quilts intended to be hung, though.)


We're always focused on IQF here in the Houston area, but the new Chicago Quilt Expo was also good, by all accounts. My friend Karen has two sets of pictures up, and dquilts also has some over on Webshots.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!!

Out to Lunch

Out to Lunch
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Sandra Thompson. Shown at Lakeview Quilters Guild's Mayfest quilt show.

Owl's Light

Owl's Light
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I'm still in a very autumy mood. I am really looking forward to seeing actual fall foliage next week - or, uh, this week! - when we go up north. (In case I don't get around to posting again before I leave, I am out for a week. I might put some more pictures up before I go, though!) I will be back well before Halloween - and Quilt Festival! - in any case.

(Oops, somehow failed to give credit: quilt above made by Nancy Murty of New York; winner of an Honorable Mention in the category Art-People, Portraits, and Figures at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.)

Red Leaves

Red Leaves
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Kyung Joo Kim, South Korea; from IQF 2004.

I thought I would post something autumn-y, and I like this quilt a lot. It would never have occurred to me to put a center panel into a Katie Pasquini-style fractured landscape like that, but it definitely works.