More from the Quilt Walk Festival

I loved the neon sign at the motel!

Dice and Splice Flag class.

A flag quilt that was finished in class!

Playing with the Jazzy blocks.

Another students blocks.

A lovely antique quilt in the show.

The quilt story.

Fun vintage crazy blocks.

Vintage applique quilt.

This must have been in a trunk, the colors are still bright!

Close-up of the fine handquilting.

Quilt pattern stamped into the path at the park.

Quilt Walk Statue.

Story of one of the quilt walkers.

I had a wonderful time at the Quilt Walk Festival!  It was nice to spend time with my friend Sandy.  Since she has moved to Arizona, we haven't been able to get together very often.  My classes went well.  I was totally floored when a quilt as you go class that requires a zig-zag machine has half the students bringing featherweights!  I was able to alter the pattern for them so that they all were able to have a successful project.  The Jazzy class was fun!  Not many students, but we had a good time and they got a lot accomplished.

I somehow only took photos of the vintage quilts in the show. That happens.  There were a lot of nice quilts. 

On Saturday morning we stopped at the Quilt Walk Park.  It was well done.  It had been dedicated last year.  The path had quilt patterns stamped into it, there was a bench to honor each member of the Quilt Walkers. And carved into the bench was the life story of that man.  All in all a fun trip!

The Quilt Walk Festival

A new lamp!

Beautiful plastic flowers outside our room!

Cool collection at the liquor store!

Another view.

I just love these guys!

 

Beautiful glassware.

The last four years my friend Sandy and I have been meeting up in Panguitch, Utah for the annual Quilt Walk Festival.  It is always a lot of fun!  Since we are both teaching quilt classes, the Festival puts us up in a local motel.  Several of the motels donate rooms to the Festival for this purpose.  Amazingly enough, we got the exact same room in the same motel as last year.  Last year there was this poor little broken lamp.  I have a photo on my home computer, so I can't access it right now. So that explains the lamp photo. But although this is a small older motel, it is very clean. I would take clean over fancy any day! After we checked in at the festival and got our goody-bag and name tags, we stopped the liquor store for a bottle of wine.  Living in rural Utah, you learn which of the small towns have a good selection in their state run liquor stores.  Our town's store is pretty sad, so it is a treat to go to the one in Panguitch.  I asked the woman behind the counter if it was ok to take photos of the wonderful collection on top of the shelves and she said sure. I love the Baileys cups!  The faces are too cute!  I will try to get some photos of the quilt show this afternoon and post again tomorrow.

When to take out the camera.

Yummy salad!

Two kinds of brownies (you can't see the second one under the foil, but it was good!

Nice spread!

Sausage filled mushrooms!  This gal is required to bring them to all potlucks!

                                   

Another "spread" view

The triangles  in a pile to be swapped.

Lovely Iris's

Weird looking chicken!

Our sweet little quilt guild in Ephraim, Sanpete Stitchin' Sisters, had their closing social last week.  They are the ones that put on the quilt show over Memorial weekend.  They take the summer off and then start up again in September.  I arrived a few minutes late, right in the middle of show and tell. Do you think that I can pull out my camera at that time?  No, only when the food comes out!  After dinner, I realized that I didn't take any photos of quilts, so took some of the Iris garden (only one shot turned out) and then one of this weird looking chicken.  I can't really figure out what happened to her behind.  Maybe I don't really want to know the answer to that one!

Pinned, kicking and screaming

My latest bowl.

I have resisted the Pinterest addiction.  My friend had sent me several invites over the last few months.  I figured that I didn't need one more mindless thing to suck my time away. Because seeing how many projects that I am never going to knit were on my Ravelry queue, I knew that it would be overflowing and out of control in no time. So last week I had listed a couple of patterns on Craftsy, and said friend pinned them.  Then reported to me how they were being re-pinned all over the place.  And still I resisted. On Craftsy, I could see the pins on the patterns.  Quite cool actually to see the numbers go up.  Then the pins didn't show up for several days.  I was worried.  Was it because I wasn't on Pinterest?  Did everyone unpin my patterns?  What could be up with that?  So I made friend walk me through setting up a Pinterest account. Why did I have so much trouble?  Was it because I am blonde? Over 50? Stupid? Clueless? All of the above?  Or maybe because I had resisted so long?  I don't know. It did take me way longer than it should have to figure it out. And I am not going to get sucked into pinning everything/one and their dog.  Really, I won't.  So far, so good.  24 hours and I only have pinned my stuff and said friend's stuff.

Check out my latest bowl/basket in my Etsy shop!  I went over to a friend's yard and rephotographed a lot of my bowls. I think that they show much better now!

A new pattern in my Craftsy store!

Paradise Punch

I added a new pattern to my Craftsy pattern store. It is one of my favorite quilts, Paradise Punch.  It is a free form Drunkard's Path block.  No worries curves, they are not intended to match up.  I used a variety of batiks.  I have had students in my classes use various color schemes and themes.  30's repros, polka dots, blues and purples.  Or just totally scrapbag, it all works!  

Hanging a Quilt Show

Setting up stands.

A good start.

A lot of quilts came in.

It is starting to come together

A lot of long quilts that need to be pinned up off the floor.

We only had one stand tip over, luckily no one got beaned in the head.

Now the show can start!

Down the center.

The other side of the center stands.

The south side.

My Dancing Rings.

Our little town has a festival each year over Memorial weekend.  The Scandinavian Heritage Festival.  This area was settled by Emigrants from Scandinavian countries.  There are booths, an authentic dinner at the college, 5K race, parade, home tour, bread baking contest and of course, a Turkey BBQ lunch.  In conjunction with the Festival, the local guild puts on a quilt show.  I have been helping my friend the last couple of years with hanging the show.  We had an excellent turn out of quilts this year.  I always bring extra quilts for "filler" and we didn't need to use them.  I believe the number of entries is about 65.   It is not a judged show, but we have a viewer's choice award. The show is held at the upstairs of the Ephraim Co-op. The Co-op just won an award for Best Home-based Champion of the year by the US Small Business Association.  Not only did they win the award for Utah, but also for Region VIII which covers 6 states! A full article about this organization and another about the award is featured in this week's Sanpete Messenger.

Sew Day

Marcia finished her Twister quilt!

She did some lovely free motion quilting in the pinwheels!

Also in the border!

She can't decide whether to add more quilting to the Owl and Tree quilt.

Beautiful Orchid on Marcia's counter!

Marcia's delicious chicken salad for lunch!

We were able to get all the blocks sewn for the baby quilt.

Another productive sew day!  Marcia's house this week.  She had her twister quilt hanging on the railing to dry.  It turned out really cute!  The 3 of us worked together on the baby quilt.  Marcia and Sherre were on the sewing machines and I was pressing and cutting.  We were able to get all the blocks sewn.  There are just two seams left to have the top finished.  The bobbin was acting up, so we decided that meant it was time to stop.