More Quilt Show Pics

More pictures from this past weekend’s guild quilt show.

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Quilt Show Photos – 1

Our local quilt guild, the Meherrin Piecemakers, had it’s annual quilt show this past weekend.  It’s always held at Village View, an historic house which is beautifully furnished and restored. It was great fun to look at all the quilts and to sit upstairs with the breeze blowing through between the two second story porches [...]

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Chili Pepper Hot Pads

Here are the hot pads I made for the quilt show sale table.
The base fabric with chili peppers was purchased in Taos.  The log cabin fabrics are from my stash of hand-dyed fabrics.  Color run dying works great for log cabins.
Yesterday I posted a tutorial on how to make Log Cabin hot pads.

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Log Cabin Hot Pad

I wanted to whip up some quick hot pads for our local quilt show sale that starts tomorrow, so I pulled out some Christmas fabric to make a prototype before using the hand-dyed fabric I set aside for this project.
I wanted to make a hot pad similar to one that a friend made for me [...]

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Jelly Roll Baby Quilt

I have finally finished the first of the two “Jelly Roll” baby quilts I’ve been working on.  Not being very practiced at machine quilting, I kept putting it off.  But the deadline for at least one finished baby quilt was looming, so I took a deep breath and sat down at my machine on Saturday [...]

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Dashing

Quick, before I have to run off to a church meeting:
Here’s a picture of another New Mexico project I started.  This is the one that was for airport and airplane knitting.  And for the end of the day when I’m wiped out and need something mindless to work on.
It’s Grace Anna Robbins’ Double Bias Scarf [...]

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Sweater Swatching

I started a few new knitting projects while on vacation in Taos last month.  I usually don’t like to work on more than one project at a time, but I needed something challenging, as well as something easy for airplane/airport knitting.  And, I of course, had to do some sampling at some of the great [...]

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