Third Time's the Charm

I finally got to shop at Suzanne's Quilt Shop in Moultrie, Georgia on Tuesday past.  The first two times things just did not work out.  The first was a timing issue having arrived for close of business, my second attempt I decided I'd stay in a nearby hotel and visit in the morning.  Well, just about every farmer in a radius of 500 miles was in Moultrie for the whole week for a big Agricultural Expo so that meant there was not a hotel room to be found anywhere.  At this point, what started out to be a casual trip to a quilt shop I'd never seen, segued into a bit of an obsession for me.  Lots of pictures to share…

I love this! I have the pattern just haven't made it yet.

So many Asian fabrics, the flip-side of the shelves are filled with them also.

A whole section of Batiks.

My favorite quilt on display, simple red, white, and blue but it's wonderful! I want to go on a picnic looking at it!  Here's a closeup...

A huge section of Civil War Reproduction fabrics.

I forgot to take a picture of my purchases, I'll post that tomorrow.

Today, I made a drawstring bag using Jeni's tutorial on In Color Order.  I'd made the size featured in the tutorial but decided I'd enlarge it which is what I did.  It turned out about 13 by 8 by 4 inches. A perfect size for neatly wrapping my niece's Christmas presents.

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Schnibblers

I'm not home but I thought I'd share a quilt I saw at a show (and let you know I'm thinking of you),  I think it was called Give a Hand.  Here's a close up,

I do not know who made it but they are quite creative and also have a great sense of humor, don't you agree?   If you are looking for my Joy Luck Schnibbles, scroll on down.  And be sure to check out the rest of the quilts at the Schnibbles Parade over at Sinta's and Sherri's blogs.
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Celebrate Trees

Although I don't subscribe to the "carbon neutral mentality", I happened upon this worthwhile enterprise and thought I'd share if anyone would care to join in.

Here's the deal, if you have a blog and sign up the,

              "...Make it Green” and “Arbor Day Foundation” are planting a tree in Plumas National Forest. With your support, we are helping reforest Plumas National Forest with as much trees as possible. In the spring of 2010, Douglas-fir, red and white firs, and incense cedars will be planted alongside ponderosa pine and sugar pine trees. These new trees will help prevent soot and soil runoff into Plumas’ precious water supplies..."

The Plumas National Forest is located in Northern California and thousands of acres burned in 2007.  Seems like quite a beneficial project, more info can be found here.

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And just to keep things quilt-y here are some pictures of quilts I forgot to share after attending a quilt show in the fall, first up Pickle Dish and closeups, don't you love all those polka dots?

And this one had the most wonderful applique,

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Wednesday, Already?

My LQS had an After Market Moda Preview on Saturday complete with two Moda reps on hand for show-and-tell, and woo hoo there are some really nice new fabrics coming out in the next few months!

There were close to 100 quilters on hand and after the show were treated to a free lunch. The husband of the shop's owner is a chef so the food was delicious! I had no idea when I signed up that a lunch was included, talk about being pleasantly surprised.

This is Verna by a new designer, Kate Spain. Really soft and pretty.

This egg fabric part of Cherish by Deb Strain was very popular. The reps had brought quilts that had been displayed at Quilt Market featuring the new fabrics. The Cherish quilt used this egg fabric as an inner border one egg width wide giving the appearance of scallops. Hope that makes sense.

This was my favorite, Eden by Lila Tueller. It is so pretty in person.

Attitude Girls by Mary Engelbreit, love it! This is only a glimpse of what was shown. It was really neat to see and touch all the new fabric. One of the reps had met and been to many of the designers' homes so we were treated to descriptions of their studios and design process, such as the fact that Sandy Gervais paints her designs. And her studio is a vacated Carnegie Library built in around the turn of the 20th century.

There were giveaways, a few harvest-colored fat eighths, and a Moda decal for my car!

And I won some fabric from the Happy Campers line!

And we all received a free pattern. All in all, a fun day was had by all!
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Part Two

Here's some more photos from the Marietta quilt show I attended. This is the Best of Show quilt, Metropolitan Garden by Jane Gorder. It's a reproduction of a Baltimore Album quilt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was so beautiful to see,so much work and so beautifully executed.





I was really charmed by these guys having a fondness for nutcrackers as I do.




This quilt used a lot of Kaffe Fassett fabrics, another love of mine. I've a large collection of them but never made anything with them. I need to change that. He has a new book (yay!) coming out soon, by the way.


Love the aqua fabric in this double wedding ring quilt called Blue Moon.


The stitching on this quilt was incredible!

and the back was finished with loads of beads and positively glittered. Just stunning!


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Georgia Celebrates Quilts

Back in sunny Florida after spending the weekend in Marietta Georgia at the East Cobb Quilters' Guild Quilt Show. The quilts were beautiful and I took plenty of pictures.


This quilt was in a vendor's booth. It was much more eye-popping in person, all different batiks, pattern from the StrataVarious Quilts book.




There were a few One Block Wonder quilts mostly done up using very dark fabrics, I liked this one best.

This is Hyacinth Garden. One of my two favorites. Again, much brighter and prettier in person.














More pictures next time including Best of Show, thanks for dropping by.