Vendor's Choice and a first place in the "Other" category Wreath of Life hanging in Karen's booth

The quilt show is over and two of my quilts did really well.

The Sunset quilt got People’s Choice the second day and second in the pieced category.

The Ichthy Bog Coat got a Vendor’s Choice ribbon and a first in the “Other” category.

Even better, LouAnn’s grape quilt got People’s Choice the very first day!  That rocks!  And Karen‘s been asked to teach the Square Dance (block used as the border on the bog coat) at two different location!  That really rocks!

LouAnn’s Wreath of Life quilt hung in Karen’s booth and many asked for the pattern.  We all agree the quilt would have been pretty without the pieced background, but the large Dance block in pastels behind the appliqué really added to the depth and richness of the quilt.

Sunset at the farm Nested stars Confetti Stars aka "The Wood Quilt" insert

My three quilts are almost home.  They hung at the Pe Ell Quilt Show over the July 4th weekend but they still have two more stops to make before I get to sleep under them.

In two weeks they hang again at the RDQG Quilt Show, then a month later they hang at the SWW Fair.

Confetti Stars got best comfort sized quilt at the Pe Ell show.  That’s nice!

LouAnn and I went to the Guild’s Sew Daze yesterday and I got the binding on my sunset quilt.  LouAnn’s taken it home with her to stitch down the binding.  The quilt is beyond beautiful.  The quilting is gorgeous, the colors are gorgeous.  I’m going to enjoy sleeping under it.

I’ll get a new picture of it at the next meeting.

All quilted

I got my sunset quilt back from Karen yesterday.  It’s all quilted and ready to bind.  I’ll try and get to that this week.

I’m going to enjoy having this quilt on my bed.  It seems so apropos, crawling into bed under a sunset.

I finished the sunset quilt last night.  I’ll get a picture of it when it’s quilted and post it.  It’s beautiful.

Black is attached!

I’ll get this sewn on and get the borders added.  I’ll decide if I’m doing anything more once that’s done.

Orange batik background fabric, dark green outside border, dark red inside border and gold flange

I pulled the sunset quilt off the design wall and have packaged it away with the black wedges, border and backing fabrics.  I’m short 4-6 more black fabrics needed to fill in the black section.  I’ll have to get by Sisters and pick up the little bits of fabric  needed for the last wedges and centers.  Until then, I’ve put this project away to work on another quilt I’ve had in the works for a while.  I’ll pick it up again in a couple weeks when I’ve collected the last of the fabric I need.

One section left to build

I got the purple stripe added to the quilt.  I love the dark purple against the dark green.  Lovely.

I picked up the material for the borders and backing.  I got a lovely shades of orange and green batik for the back and a great dark green for the border.  I wanted a fabric with all colors but Fabric Depot didn’t have anything that would work.  The colors were either too bright or too muted or not the right shades or in splotches too big in scale.

I also picked up a gold and a deep red.  The gold will be a flange around the center of the quilt, with the red acting as a 5/8″ stopper between the gold flange and the green border.

Dark green pinned on

The dark green is on.  It looks beautiful.  I’ve got the dark purple blocks constructed and (mostly) sewn together.  Maybe I’ll get that done today.

Dark green blocks are now ready to add.

I finally got the light green section done and the blocks for the dark green section assembled.  I’ll get them sewed together and joined to the body of the quilt top next.  The dark purple and black sections are still left to do, but I’ve less than a 100 blocks left to sew to be done!

I moved the quilt top up to the ceiling so I could work on the bottom and now the clothes line is visible near the top.

The bottom two rows are the last of the orange blocks

Now that the planting and planning for the new plant wall is winding down I’m getting back to working on my sunset quilt.

When I pull the top off the design wall to sew the rows of orange blocks on I’m going to resew a portion of the sun.

If you click the image to enlarge it you can see there’s a bit too much slack in the lower right quadrant which causes the sun to lose its roundness.  That may seem like a nit-picky thing, but that part of the sun doesn’t appear to be behind gauzy clouds.  It’s a small detail, but it’s going to drive me nuts if I don’t do something about it.

Having a picture helps me see which blocks need to be swapped or rotated.  See the second row from the bottom?  The farthest left block and the 3rd from the left have the same material at the top.  I need to rotate one of those to break up any impression of a pattern.

So I’m putting together the blocks for my sunset quilt, sewing them into strips.  As I work I elate.  This section is SO pretty!  I get a sections done and I say “Oh!  This one’s the prettiest yet!”.  <sigh>  I’m addicted to color.

I’m working on a new quilt.  You can follow the progress on the Sunset Quilt page (right menu).