Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Vallejo Piecemakers Quilt Club Show, May 2014

Our guild, the Vallejo Piecemakers Quilt Club, had their very first quilt show, "Sew Amazing", this past May 2014 at the Solano County Fairgrounds -- and both my Mom and I entered quilts. This was also our first quilt show! It was really neat to see our quilts on public display, and I had a really wonderful time volunteering and enjoying the show all weekend long. Our show quilts were:

1) I entered "Raven Love", which was a birthday gift wallhanging for a friend. This quilt won a ribbon for "Best Use of Pattern" in the guild's quilt challenge (to make a quilt inspired from a guild library book), and was selected to be featured with an artist photo. I really liked the artist photos at the show -- I think it makes the quilts mean more to see a picture of the artist with the quilt.

"Star Attraction": My photo with "Raven Love".
"Raven Love", by Holly Jessop. Quilted by Holly.




















2) My second quilt was one that I made from fabric given to me by Kim West when we were sewing buddies in Honolulu. I love, love, LOVE this fabric, and scoured the internet to get MORE! I did a "twister" pattern with it, and called it "Girly Girl" because I think it's very feminine. It is lap-quilt size.

"Girly Girl", by Holly Jessop. Quilted by B&B Quilting of Orland, CA.

3) My third quilt was one of my recent scrap-busters, and is nearly a twin size quilt. There is a previous post about this quilt here.
"Mumbo Jumbo", by Holly Jessop. Quilted by B&B Quilting of Orland, CA.
4) And finally, my fourth quilt in the show was another scrap-buster -- a very traditional star quilt, made entirely from fabric out of our scrap baskets. It is a large twin-size quilt. I previously blogged about this quilt here and here.
"Frugal Stars", by Holly Jessop. Quilted by B&B Quilting of Orland, CA.

5) My Mom also made a star quilt with the same pattern, but all out of 1930s reproduction fabrics that she's been collecting. I think it's fascinating how these two quilts turned out, made from the same pattern but different fabrics.
"Ode to the 30s", by Anita Jessop. Quilted by Anna MacCallen of Napa, CA.
6) My mom's guild challenge quilt won First Place for "Best Use of Color". She and I both love yellow, so we were quite pleased with this ribbon!
"Sunshine On My Shoulders Makes Me Happy", by Anita Jessop. Quilted by Anna MacCallen of Napa, CA.
7) And last, but not least(!), my Mom entered one of the first quilts that she ever made. It only recently was finished because we picked out all of the home machine quilting she'd done (and didn't like), and she had it long-arm quilted (huge improvement!). This quilt was also selected for one of the "Star Attractions" quilt-maker photos.

"Okra Coke", by Anita Jessop. Quilted by Anna MacCallen of Napa, CA.