MORE CUTE QUILTS FINISHED! AND THE NQA 2011 SHOW

Well I have been a busy beaver dreamer. My friend Karen and I spent the day in Columbus at the NQA Quilt show, and WOW is all I can say. Here are some pictures of quilts and the quilting that I have been dreaming about. I know that some of the pictures of blurry, sorry about that, what do you want from a camera phone! The Baltimore Album quilt below has close ups of the quilting which is just stunning!

This quilt below was the Grand Prize winner. I wish that there were a more clear picture, but there were so many people around it, it was hard to get any space to take a picture. This quilt is completely appliqued, needle turn style! It took her one year to make and she did all of the quilting on her domestic machine. It was kind of a sad story though because she worked on this project while her husband was getting chemo treatment. Christmas was his favorite holiday and she was making it for him. He has since passed away.

 In addition we were told that the quilt was submitted to be Judged as a Master Quilt, and it passed! I wish that I would have gotten the quilters name as she is now a Master Quilter!

This quilt was a wholecloth and is based on the I Spy pictures from the Highlights magazine. Karen went completely gaga for this quilt as it brought back a lot of memories. It is hard to believe that this is all done in thread and finding the pictures within it was amazing!

This quilt below was an applique pattern that I had seen at Bunny Hill Designs. You can find the original pattern here. The quilter added a really cool pieced star in the middle and the quilting was incredible. I think I saw at the NQA booth that you could get a DVD of all the judged quilts in case you want to see more!

This is a customer quilt that I finished this evening. It is so cute, has flannel on the back and some little girl is going to be very happy! Enjoy! Rachel