Three quilts on the deck

Goin' to a quilt show, goin' to a quilt show...

Ten years ago I NEVER would have dared to even THINK I could make these quilts! You've seen them all before - I just like looking at them! I don't have a clothes line, but they needed to smell fresh before Nebraska State Quilt Convention. They are not in competition, but I was asked to display 3 of mine.

Kaleidoscope #1 (left) was made following a class I took at Nebraska State Quilt Convention in 2006 (?), taught by M'liss Rae Hawley. If you've been to this blog, you KNOW how much fun I've had with that idea. I quilted it on my DSM.

The second, "Light" is based on Strips that Sizzle, taught by Margaret Miller and greatly encouraged by Wanda Hanson, of Exuberant Color, who continues to amaze us in Blogland with her use of color. Quilted with Innies and Outies on my DSM. You can't see from here, but even my binding perfectly matches with the color changes of the border. Yep - if there were 3 diagonally sewn border strips, there were 3 perfectly matching bindings. (I must have been on a caffeine high!)

The third is a Log Cabin variation. I've been asked to teach this technique at Guild. I have LOVED this scrappy quilt from it's beginning to the wrap-around border made of inch squares. That border idea came from Quiltville.com. Sometimes the simplest idea, a scrappy bargello block, works up into an amazing technique. It was machine quilted by Judy Woodworth, a Guild member with incredible long-arm quilting skills. I added tiny blue beads on each corner, to represent underseas bubbles.
When you have a quilt professionally quilted by an artist, you have a ready-made bunch of samples to try out yourself!
I'll be attending the Convention for only one day. The Convention is in North Platte, Nebraska, about 3 hours from my house, and a friend and I must leave at 6:00 am.