Festival of Trees

At the November meeting

Mary B showed a quilt she and her group of

Beverly, Barb L and others made for the Festival of Trees

 charity auction this week at Liberty Hall in Lawrence.

Trees and quilts and other seasonal items will be on view:

November 29, 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

November 30, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

December 1, 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

December 2, 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Public Viewing Donations: $3.00 for adults. Children's admissions free.
 
The auction is Tuesday November 30th
6:00 p.m. Patron Preview Party

7:00 p.m. Wine and Hors d'oevres
7:30 p.m. Auctioning of Trees begins


See more by clicking here:
http://www.theshelterinc.org/FestivalOfTrees/festivaloftrees.htm

November Show And Tell

We didn't get everyone's name

Detail of Sheryl S.'s quilt with her machine quilting

The back

What she wears to quilt

Becky

Harold

Christina, made from a Prairie Point kit

Ruth P for a new nurse in the family.

Marziah

Mary Margaret with her Bonnie Hunter workshop project

Jane

Marge

Toothbrush Rugs

HI!
I promised I'd post a few notes from the toothbrush rug demos. The rug here is one I made last fall.
Toothbrush rugs are a great way to use up all kinds of fabrics. You can use nice quilt leftovers but old shirts and pants with spots and tears go well in these too, as do old sheet, stained tablecloths - you get the picture? They all look great in a rug.

If you want to learn more about these rugs, just google toothbrush rugs. You'll find instructions, videos and products that help make these rugs. Bring your rugs to upcoming quilt meetings so we can all admire them!
Deb

Quilt Market in Houston

Quilt Market was in Houston Texas last week.

This trade show for quilt shop owners features booths

 by fabric companies, publishers, notions vendors, etc.

The Merchant's House by Ruth Powers

They also have quilt exhibits on a variety of themes.

Ruth Powers had a quilt in a show called Tactile Architecture

And Linda Everhard had a booth for her pattern company, which is called "Among Friends."

She's all set up here on the morning of the first day.

The women from the Eudora quilt shop

demonstrate twilling for their "Of One Mind" pattern company.

Trees

Above, two from the Miniquilt auction at the quilt show last spring.

The Sewhatevers minigroup has made a Christmas quilt to donate for the Festival of Trees that benefits the Shelter. The auction is in November.

Have any other groups made quilts to donate to this event at Liberty Hall in Lawrence?

The major focus is decorated trees but Christmas-themed quilts sell well too.

Jen

Scrabble Quilt, a wedding gift

Jen Dixon Perkins is relatively new to quilting.

This may be one of her first quilts.

Foster's quilt

Painted Fish

She has a blog. Don't You Think It Should Be My Blog. http://shouldbemyblog.blogspot.com/

Here's a blurry picture of her from the September retreat.

She's teaching herself embroidery with this necktie quilt.

Rosemary Cromer

Furrowed Fields above and below

More Birds From the Quilt Show

Miniquilts from last spring's quilt show.

Are you working on your miniquilts for the April, 2011 show?

Deb's Quilts

Barkley's Birds 2005

Here's a short retrospective of Deb Rowden's quilts:

Ocean Waves

She's always loved small pieces and she often looks to vintage quilts for inspiration.

Postage Stamp

In the past few years she's been doing less planning and more impulse piecing.

The yellow nine-patches with the blue centers are vintage blocks from about 1950.

She pieced the setting strips.

She collects impulsive quilts and potholders with faces on them.

Here's a combination of both influences.

She donated this to the Lawrence Humane Society auction last month.

See her blog: Deb Rowden's Thrift Shop Quilts

http://debrowden.blogspot.com/ 

More from the EDGE exhibit

David Brackett, Lawrence, Dragonfly Effect

Brackett, who spoke at KVQG this summer, juried the show for the Kansas Art Quilters

"What's Up" by EDGE: Exhibiting Artists of the Kansas Art Quilters is up at the Merriam Art Gallery,
5701 Merriam Drive until October 30th.

Sharon Bass, Lawrence, Organic Matters

Sharon Bass organized the show.

Ruth Powers, Carbondale, Nasturtiums

Several KVQG members have pieces in the exhibit.

Nancy Eha, Minnesota, Just Spinning My Wheels

You don't have to live in Kansas to be a member of the Kansas Art Quilters

Click here to see their webpage: http://www.kansasartquilters.org/

Janet Perkins, Lawrence, Crossing the Line

Rayna Gilman, New Jersey, Jazzfest

See more pictures of the installation and scroll down to see the pieces at this webpage:

http://www.merriam.org/park/Gallery/current-show.htm