Northwest Quilters Guild Quilt Show Part III

Don't miss my first birthday pawty and giveaway going on right here!

Today I have another group of quilts to show you.  If you missed Part I and Part II, you can click on the links to find them.

Before I go on, however, I want to show you the progress I've made over the past week on the Gardener's Journal stitchery.  Here's where I was one week ago:

Here's where I am today:

So, it's getting there, but it seems like it's taking forEVER.  I think I've had more interruptions to my embroidery time than usual with this one.  For instance, I have finished and bound several small quilts while I've been working on it, and I always set it aside while I'm hand-sewing a binding.  Tomorrow I'm going to sew the binding on the Plain and Simple quilt, and so it will get set aside once again.  It's turning into the poor step-child of my sewing world.  Today, I'm linking it to Slow Sunday Stitching.

And now, here's the next set of quilts I have to show you from the quilt show.  I just loved the happy colors and characters on this next quilt.

Here's the tag that accompanied it.  I'm so glad to know I'm not the only person who is making quilts for unborn (and not-yet-conceived) grandchildren.

The next three quilts are my favorites of the challenge quilts for the guild's "Flower Power" challenge.

Who wore jeans like this in the 60's?  (Raising my hand.)

The next quilt was a mini, about 8 x 10 size.  I love the colors, and I'm loving that variegated thread.  I have lots of variegated threads, but they tend to be different tones of the same color.  I'm thinking I definitely need me some of this multi-colored stuff.  I think I still have one or two free spindles on my thread racks.  Definitely need to remedy that.

I really liked this next set of quilts by the same quilter.  Each was for sale, and I stood next to a woman who was beside herself with excitement about having decided to purchase one of them.

They were very densely quilted.  I really like this.  I'm always telling myself I'm going to quilt a quilt like this, but then never have the patience to actually pull it off.

Here is a peek at the back of one of the quilts.

This was the quilt the woman I mentioned was purchasing for $200.  The quilter explained that she had lived next to a subway station for twenty years, and that inspired her to make the train quilts.

I'm always drawn to quilts with a cultural flair.  As I'm looking at this, it almost looks as if the binding has not been finished.  (!)

Last one for today . . . 

I liked this quilter's use of her machine's decorative stitches in the quilting.

There is one more day of these to show you.  I hope you are enjoying the show.

Now I'm off to start cooking.  We are having dinner guests tonight.  I did a lot of the work yesterday, but there is still plenty to do.  I love making dinner for guests, but it's always so much work that I don't do it often.  I suppose I could make it easier on myself, but then it wouldn't be as much fun.  I tend to favor dishes that I can make a day ahead.  That way, I can make it special and still enjoy my guests when they arrive because most of the cooking is already done.  

What's your pleasure when you're cooking for other people?  Do you like to keep it simple?