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Showing posts with label NQOF. Show all posts

Monday, April 28, 2014

My Time in Paducah at the AQS Quilt Show


Judy and Lauren accompanied me to Quilt City, USA

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There were so very many wonderful blue ribbon quilts and not enough blue ribbons to go around. I think every quilt at the show was a winner!


Judy especially liked the light tan background quilts with feathered stars.
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Lauren enjoyed the brighter quilts with bold colors.
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I was glad to meet Joy, whom I learned to know in Mississippi. Her home was wiped out during Hurricane Kitrina and she and her husband relocated in Paducah.
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I took a picture of this quilt for my farming husband, Paul.
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Amazing kaleidoscopes!
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We found it interesting to see the exhibit of The Tentmakers of Cairo and watch this Egyptian man do hand applique.
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I especially liked this “Tuning Fork” quilt by Heather Pregger.
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We studied this quilt  by Susan Carlson a long time.
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I also enjoyed an evening class with Karen K. Stone called “Windsor Gardens.” You can see my work in progress HERE.
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The next evening I had a class with Stacy Michell making two “Hawaiian” quilts. This also was a fun class.
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And the book signing of New Quilts from an Old Favorite – Carolina Lily at the National Quilt Museum was wonderful.
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I got to meet the other artists in the book and visit with lots of other friends and people that came to the exhibit.

Linking to:
Esther's Wip's On Wednesday
Lee's WIPs
Really Random

I Quilt @ Pretty Bobbins
Lily's Quilts

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

“Only a Lily” – New Quilt From an Old Favorite


This year the traditional block that our quilt was to represent was the “Carolina Lily.”

I was stunned when I received a call recently that my quilt “Only a Lily” had won 1st place. And then I got all giddy and had to call some family and friends and share my good news.

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When my sister, Emily, started making some quilts using Gloria Loughman’s technique from her book “Radiant Landscapes,” I loved the effect.
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So, I bought a book too and studied it and decided to make a ‘lily’ quilt to practice for my entry. 
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I was pleased with how “Lily” turned out and decided to use the technique for my entry.
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So, I found a piece of fabric that I thought would work good for the background …
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… and I cut red and green squares of 2 other pieces of fabric. I traced off a motif of the traditional Carolina Lily pattern onto the squares … 
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… and cut them out.
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When Emily saw my little bits of scraps left over she decided to make another small art quilt using them in the sky of her “Setting Sage” quilt.
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I thought it marvelous and decided to change my background to the same yellow that she had chosen. But alas, it didn’t have the same effect that hers did.
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So I went back to my original choice of background fabric and I loved what I saw.
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Here, I have added a black border with slight curves.
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Then I cut out ‘lily’ parts and laid them on the background. Deciding which lily I liked best was a hard choice.
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When all the fusing was finished I was ready to quilt.
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And after the quilting was finished the quilt wanted to wobble, ripple, and pucker up.
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But that didn’t cause me too much worry as it all flattened out when I blocked it with lots of water.
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And then I added the piping and binding and blocked it again.

Only a Lily
56 1/2” X 56 1/2”
“I am only … a  [humble] lily of the valleys [that grows in deep and difficult places]. … Like the lily among thorns, so are you …” –Song of Solomon 2:1, 2 (Amplified)

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Detail
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Don’t forget to enter my fabric giveaway HERE.

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Creations by Nina-Marie

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