houston int'l quilt show finds

i actually didn't get too much this year. i was a good girl. :) i think my hubby got more stuff and he definitely played with EVERY longarm machine he walked next to. yes, they are fantastic and i love to play too. i didn't today. i'd really want one more than i already do if i had.




these are most of my purchases today. not shown are the three handquilting stencils, a pencil extender and a set of awesome socks for one of my nephew's christmas present. i love the mismatched knit socks. i want some for myself.

below is one of my favorite things from today's show and one of my hubby's purchases....



hand-marbled silk. isn't it luxurious? the little blue rectangle on the bottom left is a scrap piece and not part of the big splotchy one. he bought me two yards of the big splotchy marbled silk because i was drooling over it. it literally was the first booth we went to while waiting on my MIL. all the ladies there were jealous of my hubby for the purchase. it's a belated birthday present replacment and i get to make something beautiful to wear with it.

now this little guy is one of my absolute favorite quilts from the show today. bad me though...i can't remember the name of the quilt or the quilter!! i am SOOOO sorry i did not write it all down. this guy was supposedly up for auction at the IQA section, but we could not find the silent auction form for him. i wanted to bid on it. he was actually a pretty good sized small quilt too. maybe 18" x 24" or a bit bigger.

my dogs are tired and it's good to sit down again. i did manage to finish this show faster than last year by about an hour. i didn't stop at as many booths and peruse, but i walked the whole thing.

blogger's quilt festival

welcome to the fall edition of the blogger's quilt festival sponsored by park city girl!!

this is my first time to participate in the quilt festival, or any quilt festival for that matter, in any way other than as an attendee. how exciting!! so, i'm bringing you my latest fully-finished quilt and my second ever paper-piecing project.

front view

this mini quilt was made for a swap through flickr's swap til you drop aka STUD group. september marked the first anniversary of STUD's formation and first swap, so many of us chose to do an anniversary themed quilt. we were able to interpret that any way we chose.

i chose to represent several of the traditional and modern 1st anniversary gifts: paper, peridot and gold.

detail of fabrics and quilting

i used a peridot green fabric, accented with "gold" triangles and binding. the main fabric is paper print! it's a travel journal - you can pick out the eiffel tower, the great wall of china and the leaning tower of pisa. how cool is that fabric? if only the store sold it in bolt form instead of a couple rare fat quarters (i bought all of them...). plus, i paper pieced this mini quilt, so there was even more paper for that first anniversary.

well fellow bloggers, i hope you enjoyed seeing my little quilt. i had wanted to show you my wonky log cabin from john's quilt-along, but i had a couple setbacks so it's not sandwiched yet. tomorrow...