I went to QuiltCon for the first time and it was So Much Fun!
QuiltCon is a modern quilt show – so it was right up my alley. I didn’t get into any of the classes – but next time I’ll be more organized and I’ll be online the day those registrations open. They had a great slate of instructors there!
So for me it was a shopping and soaking up inspiration weekend. 🙂
The quilts in the show were amazing! Here are some of my favorites. . .
Bling by Kat Jones was the big show winner. I’m completely in awe of it. Isn’t it amazing? Abby Glassenberg recorded a podcast with Kat during the show and it was really interesting to listen to her talk about it. You can listen to that here.
Arches by Leah Pahlmeyer was inspired by her time in Alhambra, Spain. I just love the repetition of shapes, the solids, the simple quilting.
I loved Cursive by Paige Alexander – it made me look closer and closer. The quilting is like those practice pages of letters we used to do in grade school. 🙂
You all know I’m a sucker for stripes, so of course I loved Inner Monologue by Anne Sullivan. I love everything about this! Here’s a closer look at the stitching detail – a mix of machine and hand stitching.
Yum!
Speaking of big stitches – look at Mend by Melanie Tuazon! It makes me think of huge running stitches!
This is Moonie McMoonFace by Melissa Averinos. That title just makes me smile. 🙂 She does a lot of improv face quilts and this was her first attempt to make one that she could release a pattern for that people could reproduce. I love it!
My Cat Is a Jerk by Monica Solorio-Snow was made after she took one of Melissa’s improv face classes. I love it! And I think I really want to take one of these classes sometime. It would be loads of fun!
This one is completely different – Organic Mid-Century Mod by Laura Bennet. Beautiful!
Sunday Best by Michelle Wilkie really caught my eye. She made this in bits and pieces every Sunday over a period of months.
Vertigo by Elaine Poplin knocked my socks off and made me dizzy. If you look closely you’ll see that it’s four simple circles – but the way they’re offset and the angles of the squares that make up the rings make the whole thing spin. Wow.
There were more show quilts that I loved – but I accidentally took videos of a lot instead of photos. Oops!
My favorite booth quilt was this one at Michael Miller Fabrics.
Look closer!
Most of the quilt is quilted so densely that it makes the less-quilted parts really stand out. Just awesome!
Michael Miller makes the fabrics I used in my two newest fabric bundles – Box of Crayons and Dots.
And here’s my favorite purchase.
The fabrics are hand-dyed batiks from Malka Dubrawsky and the threads are gorgeous 8 wt. (that’s even thicker than 12 wt.) rayon threads from WonderFil. You’ll be seeing more of these soon. I can’t wait to play with them!
Happy stitching!
Best,
Wendi
