Challenge Quilts

The theme of Salt Creek Quilters challenge quilts this year was Childhood Rhymes.  They needed to created a quilt that depicted a childhood rhyme and incorporate a piece of the challenge fabric.  Here are a few pictures.  Most were difficult to decipher.   

This one got best use of challenge fabric.  They used it on the broom.

 

 This was was so pretty.  And you could actually hang it somewhere in your house and no one would know it was a challenge quilt.

 They used the challenge fabric for the tree leaves.  The words are fussy-cut.  Time consuming!

 The maker of this quilt embroidered the words to her rhyme around the quilt.  I like the little stars she added instead of the traditional blocks. 

 The quilt below one won a ribbon for Most Creative use of Diamond.  Where the heck is the diamond or diamond shape?  I can't find it!

 This one looks like someone I know! 

 Can you guess this rhyme?  She sells sea shells...  The maker used a panel and it looked cute.

Pride of the Prairie Quilt Show - Illinois

These are some of the quilts at the Pride of the Prairie Quilt Show.  No particular order.  Enjoy!

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POPQ Quilt Show

I have to post some quilt show photos from my guild, Pride of the Prairie.

These were taken before the ribbons.  I won a ribbon on my Spring Fling quilt and several others I quilted.  So exciting!  Some really good scrap quilt too.  Take a look:

 Great for 30's scraps.

 Holly, 10 years old, made the quit above!  She calls it Zebralicious.  Holly chose the fabrics and did all the the piecing.  Mom, Denise Clayton, did the quilting.  And it is the same mom who won Viewer's Choice.  See this post:  http://simplydivinequilts.blogspot.com/2012/03/ribbon-winner.html   She's in my bee and we are so proud of Mom and daughter!

 

 Great for 30's scraps.

There are so many, I'm going to put them in a slide show.  Much simpler! 

Jen's Flower Garden

Jennifer Beatty pieced this flower quilt.  It's not complicated and it sure was fun to quilt!   

A swag design along the outer border.

Hot Pink thread was used in the black and green borders. 

  

This large quilt (103 x 103) hung in our quilt show and really looked great! 

Ribbon Winner

This won Viewer's Choice at the Pride of the Prairie Quilt Show.  Pieced and hand quilted by Denise Clayton.  It took her six years to finish all the needle-turn applique and a year to hand quilt it.  It is very impressive.  Outstanding job! 

 Her quilting stitches are tiny! 

The flowing quilt won Best Of Show.  It is also needle-turn applique, pieced by Jo Sheppard and machine quilted.  The judge liked small applique...

More beautiful quilts to follow!

Pride of the Prairie Quilt Show - Illinois

If any of you are in the Illinois area, you are officially invited to attend the Pride of the Prairie Quilt Show!  I am a member of this guild and we host a quilt show every two years.  We will have about 300 quilt on display, as well as a vendor mall, raffle baskets, a bake sale plus a huge selection of quilt magazines & books for sale.  This year we are adding "Strip Search".  It's a fabric sale that consits of strips, square and yardage.  

Show Dates: March 10 and 11, 2012
Hours:  Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM  and  Sunday* 11 AM to 4 PM.  (*Daylight Savings Time Begins) 


Location:  Richland Grade School, 1919 Caton Farm Road, Crest Hill, Illinois. 
Just 1/4 mile west of Caton Farm & Weber Road.

Here is the website for the guild.   http://www.prideofprairie.org 

I'll be there both days.  Hope to see you there too!

Midnight Stars

Here's a quilt pieced by Nancy R.  It is all paper-pieced.  She didn't want anything to distract from the stars, so we chose matching thread in the blue sashing and border areas. 

Some close ups of the blocks

 I quilted stars in the outer border