Pieceful Hearts Quilt Show Booth.

Here's our booth at the pieceful hearts quilt show. It is our first time to do a show. I'm excited and a little overwhelmed with all the work, it took to get ready. Maybe it is because I'm still a little tired from the Houston Quilt Market. I think the booth looks great though and am excited to see what the weekend brings.

Here's a different shot. We look like a real booth at a quilt show. Woot!

And, this is what the bad dogs did while we were away all day. I guess they were a little angry that they didn't get there noon walk!

Route 66

Jennifer's Aunts have written a new quilt book, "Get Your Stitch on Route 66: Quilts from the Mother Road" by Christina DeArmond, Eula Lang, and Kaye Spitzli. I haven't done any hand work in long time, probably 5 or 6 years anyway. But, this book made me want to pick it up again. I think part of my reasoning for not doing it is because my Mom did such beautiful work, and I want for mine to be as beautiful. This book is fun and I would like to make a quilt for my Father-in-law because he loves Route 66. I have one of the stitching blocks done and can hardly stand it that I have worked on a block since the plane ride home from Houston. *sigh*

Some Quilts from the Quilt show in Houston.

So, we really didn't make it much past the pictoral quilts......Here's a few of them.
Fire and Ice. In the Beginning. The great crate escape. Morning Has Broken. Autumn's Palette

Trees Up Lights On.

This quilt is from the "trees up lights on" class we had at the shop. Mary Bordeaux finished piecing her top, and I got it quilted yesterday. It is a fun quilt with some fun quilting,
Great job Mary, the quilt is wonderful!

Nothing like a quilt show for a little motivation.

This is a buck a block that Beth and I signed up for in 2007. We actually signed up for both versions. The batik and the floral one. We did finish getting the top pieced in early 2008. Beth got hers quilted a couple of months ago and I just got mine done this week, so that I could get it into the quilt show, which is the 16th and 17th of October. Nothing like coming in just under the wire.
Here's a close up of the suns. I love the suns they turned out wonderfully. I'm not sure I love the swirl echos in the sashing, but I really couldn't think of what else to do. I do love the lime green thread.Margaret wold be proud of me for quilting my name into the quilt.

New Look.

We got some new fabrics in, at the shop and so we did a little quilt shop turnover. I had been wanting to move the cases that were up against the windows out, we were finally able to do that. Yea!
We now have 1,000 bolts of fabric and I think that we look like a grown up quilt shop. Woot