Saskatoon Quilt Show 2019

Last weekend I went on a bit of a road trip!  I picked up Lori in Selkirk then made our way to Dauphin that evening and had a great visit with friends there.  Then off to Saskatoon the next day where we meet up with friends from Flin Flon and we all enjoyed the Saskatoon Quilters Guild Quilt Show. 

Mami's Country Quilts was there and they have a lovely sample of our Alternate Routes quilt on display.

Fabriculous from Swan River/Gimli was there as well and had a great sample of our Quarter Sections quilt on display.  Wendy, the shop owner, has my sample of her pattern "Falling in Love' and I'm really glad she is still enjoying it for her displays. She also had a beautiful sample of a quilt from the book Quilts from Iceland that I just love!  

I didn't take too many photos of the quilts in the show but this next two caught my eye!  The first one is a Steampunk quilt  ( sorry I didn't take a closer picture of the cards on these quilt so if you know who's these quilts were made by please let me know in the comments.)

Love the colours and quilting on this Kaleidoscope quilt.

And I'm sure your not surprised this next one caught my eye!

So I think I did a good job supporting the vendors.  I feel in love with this collection called Winter Shimmer by Jennifer Sampou when I saw it in Keystone Modern Creative booth! So it came home with me!

Then I picked up some waxed canvas, rivets and leather straps from Fabriculous, and her pattern to make the tote too!  I picked up a collection of bold prints for a variety of shops but haven't decided which ones to use with the canvas.

 A month ago I stopped in at a wonderful quilt shop in Beausejour, MB called Needle Crafts + Studio and picked up a bit of fabric and the North Stars pattern by Elizabeth Hartman. I got about half the fabrics I needed at that time and then collected a few more at the show. Here is what I added to my collection for this quilt from the show.

I was smart and glued swatches of the fabrics I had already bought into the pattern book before leaving for the show and then when I got home glued in what I bought at the show. Still need 6 more fabrics!  I changed the colouring of the owl block to purple from the rose pink but the rest I keep close to the pattern.

When I was at Needle Craft + Studio I also couldn't resist this lovely bundle and some yardage of the Figo's Desert Wilderness line.

 

And these two pieces came home with me too because they are so pretty.  Did you notice that I didn't buy one piece of batik!  Now I should have plenty to sew for my Tuesday quilting group and a local retreat I'll be attending next weekend.  I was out of projects to work on!

Simply Retro - Vintage Quilt

Peggy made this fun quilt for her granddaughter.  The pattern is called Vintage from the book Simply Retro by Camille Rosekelley.  Peggy used a Moda line called Lil' Red which is a the Little Red Riding Hood themed collection.

I used Hearts in Bloom for the pantograph, white So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting.

I took this quilt to the Exhibition Hall in Emo as they just painted the railings red.  Unfortunately I went at the wrong time of day as most of the railing was in shadow but I did manage to get a few pictures that turned out.

Home Quarter - Highway 10 Designs Pattern #14

Lori and I are happy to announce the release our latest pattern for Highway 10 Designs, introducing Home Quarter.  It is a Fat Quarter Friendly pattern and is now available in our Etsy Shop in Paper and PDF versions.  We had been asked if we could design another pattern similar to Quarter Sections but make the blocks bigger so that is what we did.  This pattern also works great with directional prints as all the blocks are oriented in the same direction.

I made this first sample using Moda's Sunday Supper collection as I love the colours and variety of prints in this line.   I had this fat quarter bundle sitting my my stash for a few years and not sure what to do with it.  So glad I bought it on impulse as it worked great for this project.  I quilted it with the Plush pantograph, used a light teal So Fine thread and used Quilters Dream Blend batting.

My second sample is made with Lewis and Irene's Winter Garden collection.

I quilted leaves in the outer border and used the Poplar pantograph in the center.  Quilted it with 2 So Fine thread colours, burgundy and grey, and used Quilters Dream Blend batting.

 Our third sample Lori made using a mix of light to dark grey batiks from her stash. Check out her blog post here.

I hope our three samples demonstrate how this pattern works well with any fabric line or fat quarters in your stash!

Home Quarter includes instructions for 6 different sizes from Lap to King and is available in our Etsy shop in Paper and PDF downloadable forms.

String Bean Quilt

Here is another one of Shelly's fabulous colour themed quilts using her stash.   I have quilted her red quilt here, her orange one here and yellow one here!   The pattern is called String Beans and is from the book Simply Colour - Green by V&Co.   Shelly asked for it to be stippled as that is her favorite quilting design.  I SID all the seam in the green log cabin pieces and that makes for a nice contrast with the stippling.

I used white So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting.

Third Round Robin - Fourth Round

Its been a while since I shared photos from our Round Robin project as we had to put a delay on our activity as Bronwyn fell and broke her wrist in July.  I'm happy to report that her wrist is almost healed and she has been given the green light to use a rotary cutter again!    

So my last post about our Round Robin was back in May here, and I shared that our next Round was going to be Curved blocks so here they are.  Mine is the one above and I used the Quick Curve Ruler to make the Chic Sisters block. I used a scrappy background of low volume beige and alternated the focus fabric in the blades.

The next is Bronwyn's block.  She did a Concentric Circle design.

 

 Lori did a fractured circle and used our focus fabric in the spaces.

Desley did a twist on the Card Trick block and added the circles to the centers of the squares.

Our last round is due November 1 and the theme is Flowers.

Cracked Pepper Quilt

This is Vicki's Cracked Pepper quilt and the pattern is by Madison Cottage Design.  Vicki made her quilt larger than the pattern size by adding two rows of squares to the top and bottom of the quilt. I like how she added the one 'dash of pepper' to the top and bottom rows. 

Since the quilt has a modern feel I used Modernish for the pantograph design, off white So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting.

We had a lovely misty morning here and the spider webs on my deck were covered in dew.

This last photo has convinced me to get a glass ball to use for Glass Ball photography.  Love the inverted image the drops of water create and that is the fun of taking pictures with a clear glass ball.