Sisters Quilt Show 2nd Installment

More beautiful quilts from Sisters Quilt Show. Grab a cuppa and enjoy!

Sisters Quilt Show First Installment

Attending the Sisters Quilt Show in Sisters Oregon has long been on my bucket list. Well today was the day.  The weather was great. It was a bit on the hot side. There were close to 2000 quilts hung allover town so I am sure there are some we missed. I took photos of my favorites. Stopping to read all the cards and photograph each one for the maker was not an option. I will post all my photos over several days till I post all of them. I will just let to pictures speak for themselves.

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Ewe Revealed

At long last Ewe is ready to go off to my little grandniece. This has been a well traveled quilt. It went back and forth from New Mexico to Texas several times when I was working on the applique. Then it went to Oregon. I really love this quilt and might make a miniature version for myself.

I first saw this quilt when my friend Shelley posted one she made on her blog. I liked it so much I made my own version. Thanks Shelley! Of course Shelly only spent a fraction of the time I did to make hers.

Because this is for a small child I used a black sharpie for the applique eyes. I would have used buttons.

I like the detail on the flowers and leaves.

I was working on the quilt at a different retreat year and my friend Suze found some fabric with butterflies on a white background. She brought it over to me and suggested that I fussy cut and applique them on the quilt. I love the whimsy they add. Thanks Suze!

I had to take a closeup of the flowers when I did my photoshoot. The flowers in Central Oregon are all blooming now.

Instead of putting a seam in the background fabric I opted for a stripe to add interest. You can see some of the detail quilting of the flowers on that purple strip.

The label below has a story. At the retreat I attend every February my friend made a quilt out of adorable machine embroidered sheep. She noticed one did not have the blue fabric on the ear and was not going to put that one in her quilt. I told her I would love to have it. She even gave me a scrap of the blue fabric and I did needle turn applique so it is now complete. It was the perfect thing for a label for this quilt. Thanks Judy!

So how do you quilt the black hexie to make it look like a sheep. This was the hardest decision during the quilting.  I finally decided to try to make a realistic face. I  googled sheep photos and did a series of drawings. Then I drew the one I liked with a white removable clover pen on the quilt. I am quite pleased with the result.

On The Forest Floor

I finally finished another task for my online crazy quilt class with Kathy Shaw. This is a more complex motif. Since I love nature I decided to just draw my own design instead of choosing an online clip art design. Just think of this little guy hiding out under the mushrooms on the forest floor.

About a week ago we went to the Ice Cave East of La Pine Oregon. There are two entrances. The ice was melted and the floor of the cave was pooled with water and cold so we did not go in.

I really love this shot looking out of the cave entrance. That is about as far into the cave as I went. These are lava caves made as rivers of lava continued to flow after the surrounding lava flow had hardened around them. Central Oregon is all about volcanoes and there is some very cool stuff to see because of all this volcanic activity.