The Tent, the Warehouse and Downtown (and giveaway!)

Eleanor Burns has a show every year. This year she was landing from outer space.





Always the gracious lady to sign her books.

Now if you have ever been to Paducah, you know about the QIAD Tent. Thousands of yards of first quality fabric on sale for $5 a yard. The color of the day will earn you 50c off.

And this year (perhaps because of the weather) they opened their Warehouse for yet even more bolts of fabric.

Long lines, but it was well worth the wait.

The permanent Downtown Store also invited us to look for some amazing fabric from $3 to $5 a yard.

So what's a quilter to do?? Yep, you got it, add some fabric to the stash!!

I did a lot better this year then the first time I went to Paduach ;-)

And because you have come along with me on this Paducah adventure, I want to share a little giveaway with you. Here is what I'd love to give to you. The Lattice Work quilt pattern and your choice of two yards of either blue or

brown and pink fabric.

No hoops to jump through. Just leave a comment on this post and tell me which color way you would like. Winner will be announced on Tuesday.

I've got just a little more to share tomorrow :-D

Happy Quilting!

Inspiration

One of the best aspects of traveling to a National Quilt show is seeing the new and exciting things coming up in the Quilting world. These are vendor quilt samples. Click on the pictures to enlarge.



Visiting the vendor booths is like having a quilt show within the Quilt show.

And YES it was very crowded.....

....especially since almost all of the vendors were packed into the Circuit City and Office Max buildings.

More of Paducah tomorrow.........

Happy Quilting :-)

Traditional

This years Quilt show in Paducah was amazing. As I mention in yesterday's post, many of the quilts were more Traditional. I love Traditional quilts and have always admired the work that goes into them. As we are not allowed to post the winning quilts on our blogs, I found the AQS website where you can go and see the winning quilts for yourself. American Quilters Society website

These pictures are just a little of the quilting to give you an up close look.



Many of the quilts are still being quilted on domestic sewing machines.

More tomorrow :-)

Happy Quilting!

What is it??

Is it a bird? A plane?? A Mushroom?????

No it's the Pavillion at Paducah!!

This is where the winning quilts were displayed for the Quilt show this year. Due to the threat of flooding, the Quilt show was moved to different locations around town. The building where the quilt show is normally held is on the wrong side of the flood wall. And because of the threat of flooding, many of the quilts and vendors were moved to the Kentucky Mall location.

I have to say that this was an amazing Quilt show. The Quilts were absolutely beautiful. Many of them were more of a traditional flavor, which is what I like best. Everyone was so happy that the Quilt show was not cancelled. With quilters traveling many many miles ( and some from foreign countries) it would have been very sad to miss this annual mecca hosted in Quilt City USA. It seems that everyone made the best of the situation. We all shopped, and looked at beautiful quilts. We ate at the local restaurants, not to mention Kirchoff's Bakery! Although I cannot post the winning quilts, there are a few pictures I'd like to share over the next few days. So stay tuned.

Happy Quilting !!!

Pins, pins, pins

The very first time I ever went to a National Quilt show I saw a smallish quilt made up to hold Commemorative pins.

I thought it was such a cool idea to have a quilt to display pins from various Quilt shows.


I never got around to making a small quilt for this purpose, mostly because I did not have many pins.

But after we moved last year, I found several pins that were attached to the name badge holders from various Quilt shows.

One of my quilting buddies gave me these cute little quilt sayings which I thought would make a great little quilt.

And so here they are. On display. The start of my collection :-)

I don't know if I will ever fill it up, but at least they have a nice place to light!

Happy Quilting!

I get by with a little help..................

Late last year, a friend from church asked if I might consider finishing a quilt that her grandmother had started. Her grandmother was making this quilt for my friend's Mom, when she suddenly passed away. I told her I would take a look.

The quilt is all hand pieced and hand quilted. Well I knew that I would not be able to finish this quilt for her, because I mostly do machine piecing and quilting.

However, I asked one of my quilting buddies if she would be interested. She is already a fabulous hand quilter, and would do an excellent job. Diane took the quilt to finish, under the stipulation that she would not be able to work on it until after the first of the year.

Well my fellow quilters, Diane did an outstanding job on this beautiful quilt.

She took the remaining fabric and finished the edges, and also finished hand quilting the whole quilt.

The quilt was presented to my friend's Mom and she cried and cried. I happened to see her at church one day, and she told me that her Mom (the grandmother) knew that she loved blue and white.

Isn't it beautiful!

Thanks Diane, for taking the time to finish this quilt and bringing a little happiness to a very sweet lady.

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