Some of us were asked to contact the downtown merchants to display our quilts in their windows. Lucky me, my SIL works at the coffee shop downtown and so we hung up some of the quilts the other day. Today, I was downtown with hubby and my new compact camera (I am having so much fun with it!!!!) and checked to see how they looked.
It is difficult to photograph through a window but here they are.
On the left is my hawaiian shirt quilt that I made for hubby a few Christmases ago. It is paper pieced (a pattern I found at Paper Panache) and the collars actually stick out. I love it. He affectionately calls it his 'towel'. The quilt on the right belongs to my friend, deathly-afraid-of-spiders, blogless, just returned from Florida, Deb.
Another view of the 'towel'.
Inside the coffee shop, we also hung a few more... this one usually hangs in my girls' room. It won a third place ribbon at our last quilt show.
This is a pattern by Karen Eckmeier, using coffee fabrics, that I made for my SIL, the 'barista'.
This is one of my favorites! It was a round robin that our small Sunday friendship worked on. I created the cabins and trees in the center and then 4 other women added to this quilt (and I quilted it). It usually hangs in our bedroom, above our bed, and it looks strangely bare there right now. It looks great on this painted wall!
We bopped down to the wine store to check to see if they had hung my Cheers quilt.
Another blurry, through-the-window shot. Back at home, I am pinning a scrap quilt....
How fun! Sure brightens up the town!
ReplyDeleteVery fun! Those are some great quilts that you should be very proud of.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the colors you use in your quilts - you are indeed a girl after my own heart! And the new wonky house - oh my be still my heart! I am thinking I need to make a wonky house quilt too. I love the houses you have made!
ReplyDeletewow lots of quilts around town!! how kewl is that!
ReplyDeletei especially love the round robin quilt. i have always been afraid to do one of these for fear of what it would turn out like, but this is gorgeous! do you the names of the people that did what parts? i like the border of log cabins and the border of trees!! these were some creative women!!
Check you and all your beautiful quilts out! Those lucky kids to sleep under homemade quilts their whole lives. I am having a blast with all your mini quilt shows. I can't believe you hand quilted all those little spider webs. No wonder it took you so long.
ReplyDeleteWhat cracks me up though is that when you need a break from making quilts, you make more quilts!!! I could stare at those wonky blocks for days though so I'm not complaining. Hope all is well. Love Stacy