The quilt show

MY JOYFUL JOURNEY: My life as a Quiltmaker and a Quilt Teacher. All things "QUILT"!

I am finally home after starting my travel in August and being away through the first week of November. I ended the travel in Houston for Market and Festival or what I call, the main quilting event of the year. I would have never guessed I would have to worry... Continue reading »

The time is here! It's Quilt Week in the Quilting Capitol of the world, Paducah Kentucky! It was a time of firsts for us at Quilted Joy since for the first time EVER we had our first booth at the Show and we also co-ordinated TWO Quilt Fairy Magic busses for 100 of our fellow quilt lovers! A Quilted Joy First Our cozy

Each year, the Springville Museum of Art (Utah) has one of the best quilt shows in the country. It features award-winning quilts from Utah...

Long Time Gone is a wrap. A six month, once a month class, we wrapped up . They did the sewing at home, I demoed the various blocks each mon...

Hi there! Hope your weekend was good! Here we go with some more quilts from the show! Hop..hop..hop.. First we have "Symphoney of Roses" created by Barbara Clem of Rockford, IL. Look at the scalloped edges! Look at the hand quilting! Oh my! Next is "America the Beautiful" by Barbara Massengill of Sandford, NC. See the bunnies? Sooooooooo Cute! Then there is "Crazy with a Twist" from Mary Chalmers of Willmar, MN. Notice the blue ribbon! Check out all that embroidery work! Oh my gosh! Finally…

This has been one of the quickest quilts I've made recently - from an idea I had in mid-June to putting the final stitches in the binding last night. It is made of Bonnie and Camille's "Handmade" range of fabrics with Moda Bella Solid Ruby Ice for the chains and 97 for the background. Especially love the pretty cross-stitch backing fabric. The quilting design is "Rainbow Hearts", a favourite at the moment.

Hello Everyone, Here she is, Lil' Orphan Scrappy in all her glory. Six rows are sewn together, five more rows to go. After this picture was taken, we finished adding another row. Thanks to Gail, all of the rest of the blocks are finished. They only need their setting triangles sewn on and then assembled into the last four rows. It is going to be a BIG, scrappy quilt! What are your thoughts about a border. Do you think it needs one? I'm undecided, and it will be easier to make that decision…