Quilt-achusetts

Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs is hosting a Best of 2016 Linky Party where bloggers can share their five "best" posts.  I decided to join in the fun and share five of my favorite finishes of 2016! No. 1:  Graffiti Rings I s tarted this quilt in 2015 and 14 months later had finally finished my first double wedding ring quilt!  It was quite the accomplishment and on e done entirely for me.  This quilt isn't going in shows it's going in my family room and I love it. No. 2: Office Day Dreams This design came together so fast and I love how it turned out.  I don't work with prints all that often but I love Me + You batiks by Hoffman Fabrics. No. 3: Peaks + Horizons This quilt started as a design using binding tape but that was an epic fail so it ended as a vast negative space quilting experiment.  I'm glad the first design failed. No. 4: Mountain Scene This quilt brought together my old creative life as a landscape oil

I guess I do have a reason to make a post even though I haven't had time to sew.  I completely forgot about Quiltcon notifications!  I found out yesterday that I will have five, yep five, quilts hanging at Quiltcon East in Savannah, GA this coming February. Top Left: Modern Stepping Stones , Top Right: Mountain Scene , Bottom Left: Peaks + Horizons , Bottom Right: Office Day Dreams and Center: Michael Miller Challenge Mini It was a total shock to have that many quilts accepted.  I was thinking two maybe three but never imagined five.  It's is such an honor to have these quilts displayed in an international show featuring modern quilting.  I really appreciate all the opportunities the Modern Quilt Guild have given their members to showcase their work that would typically not have a chance.  Speaking of opportunities,  one of the quilts above will also be included in some extra Quiltcon fun but more on that later. In total I entered 8 of my own quilts so naturally t

When I was at Quiltcon, yes way back in February, I saw several transparency quilts and made a note to myself that I needed to make one of those, ( here's a link to the MQG's Quiltcon 2016 gallery ).  So, back in May I made one, yes May. Optics Quilt   It's not the typical transparency quilt because I wanted to stay true to my geometric bold designs. Optics There is a sneak peek of this quilt in on the Show Entries page but the reason I didn't share details about this quilt before is because I submitted it to the Quiltcon Magazine.  It wasn't accepted and in the end I was very pleased with that.  I had some pretty serious sewing/writing going on at that time and I wasn't looking forward to trying to write a pattern for this quilt.  I'm not even sure I could explain the block to myself let along write it down so others could understand it.  Look at how crazy that block is and there there 4 different blocks in 2 sets of mirror images! It