Getting Ready for Quiltfest!

So far, every year that I have lived in Florida I have missed the cutoff to submit quilts to the quilt show. This year, I actually managed to complete the paperwork on time! So I will have three quilts at Quiltfest 2018.

The first is a mini artisan appliqué quilt that I just finished. I made this after watching “Finding Dory”. I just love Hank the octopus in that animation film.

The second quilt will be the first quilt that I quilted by myself on the long arm machine. It is a kit that I purchased from The Hen House at one of the Dallas quilt shows many years ago.

The third quilt is my mom’s copy of Sue Daurio’s Lorisquarepants quilt. This is the first time that I digitized the quilt patterns for the long arm machine. I love this quilt!

Quiltfest is at the Jacksonville Convention Center: 

September 20 -22, 2018

Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center

1000 Water Street

Jacksonville, Florida

Thursday, Friday and Saturday

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Feathers!

This is mom’s version of Sue Daurio’s Lori Squarepants quilt... this is the first time I have designed the digitized patterns.  This is the last mom quilt in the “to do” pile!

Finishing things

Okay, already falling behind on the blog posting....

Have a couple of smaller size quilts from mom that I have finished since my last post. The first one she didn't even remember sending... I expect she got one of those fancy rulers and this turned in to a side project. I put three kinds of templates that I had on this and I love how it turned out.

This is the second one- I put a pantograph on this one. I seem to need to get my head straightened out about how to do pantos. I seem to want to line up the panto with the quilt blocks; what I need to do is just make a pan to that covers the ENTIRE Surface of the quilt. I lined up this one and I don't think it goes far enough over the edges.

Do you think my mom likes bright colored quilts?