Northwest Quilt Guild Quilt Show--Last Day

Don't miss my first birthday pawty and giveaway going on right here!  Today is the last day!

If you missed the previous three days of quilts, you can see all of them by clicking on this link.  I have quite a few more to show you, and so I'll just get right to it.  

I love the quilting on this first one.  In general, any quilting that I think I can do is always on my list of favorites.

The next three quilts are all by the same quilter, and they are all so different! 

That face appears so haunted, it reminded me of my favorite Michelangelo painting, The Final Judgment.  Here is a face from the painting:

So the next one, same quilter, but it evokes such a different feeling.

I love the use of the flattened bottle caps.

This is an interesting challenge.

I love the details in this particular panel.

And may I just say that I love minis.  Someday I want to try one, and I especially love these flying geese.

Check out the quilting in the border.  I love it!  I think she must have used a pigma marker or something similar to make the little dot for the eye of the geese.

And perfectly straight machine stitching.  Sheesh.

The rest of the quilts today are all winners from previous shows.  This first one is possibly my favorite quilt from the whole show.  It is the Portland skyline.  There are six panels, and each is standing looking at the Portland skyline from a different point of view.  Put them all together, and the skyline is recognizable for its individual elements, but it isn't an exact replica of the skyline.  I studied this quilt for perhaps half an hour.

For contrast, here is a picture of the actual skyline.  You can recognize individual buildings, but they aren't exactly in the right order.  

I especially liked this first panel on the left because it shows the radio towers on Council Crest (upper middle), then just below is Oregon Health & Science University, or Pill Hill, as it is affectionately known in Portland.  When I was an employed social worker, I worked in the emergency department there.  Then in the foreground is the Steel Bridge.

This next one was by Helene Knott.  Perhaps you are familiar with her.  Many of these quilts in the "Winners Circle" were hers.

Keep in mind that this quilt is hand quilted.  The stitching is so exquisitely small and perfect, that it looks as if it were done by machine.  Amazing.

That's it!  The show is over.  There were many more quilts at the show, but these are just the ones that caught my eye for some reason.  I hope you have enjoyed them.

Today I have a day at home.  Ordinarily it would be a Curves day, but I'm plum tuckered out from making dinner for guests over the weekend.  Still, the house is clean, and there are leftovers for dinner tonight.  Today I have a slew of worker bees coming in today for various reasons.  My window washer was coming to wash the windows that are currently coated with bird shit (or guano, if you prefer), only he just now called to cancel.  He'll come Wednesday instead.  

Also, our pest control guy is coming to spray for carpenter ants, always a good idea when the weather starts to warm up.  He also sprays for the wasps who like to build their nests under the rim of our hot tub.  Since we hot tub in the buff here, wasps are not welcome.  Also, we're planning to carpet our living room and dining room soon, and so I've had folks coming in to measure and give us a bid.  And aside from those interruptions, I'm sewing.  

I haven't done any sewing in three days, and I am Jonesing for it.  Today I'm going to sew the binding onto the Plain and Simple quilt.  Hopefully, I'll have some time to make some blocks too.  Hooray!  I love Mondays, which I suppose makes me sort of crazy.  As a non-working person, it just means a whole week full of possibilities.  How about you?  Are you a Monday person?