Medallion Quilts NEQM

The American Quilt Study Group had an amazing exhibit of medallion quilts at the New England Quilt Museum. I'm sharing some of them today.

From the NEQM:

AQSG members were challenged to select and study an individual “medallion-style” quilt. Each participant either chose to make a small replica or create a new quilt using the original as inspiration. The NEQM Genre Gallery features 25 of these medallion-style quilts along with photographs of the original inspiration quilts, most of which span the 19th century. Included are personal statements about what the quiltmaker learned during the process and their reflections on the original quilt that inspired them.

I love this! BUT it is the only one I didn't get a photo of the tag. If you know who made it I'd love to add that info here.

Added:

I love this one so much!

Wendy Reed's adorable medallion. 

 I really enjoyed this exhibit. I hope you got some inspiration today!

You Don't Know Until you Try!

My thought was to have something similar in the center of my bird sampler quilt. 

Odd shapes are always difficult for me to paper piece. 

I persevered and actually thought it looked pretty good. 

I cut the pattern out for the center

It wasn't perfect, but it was good enough. 

Then I printed the frame pattern, made templates,  and sewed them together  and the plan was to applique it to the top of the block.  I knew it was the moment of truth.....

It started out pretty good....

Uh, but went south pretty fast! lol

I thought I pressed carefully but obviously I stretched it at some point. 

This block will be the center of something else that doesn't need to have a precise measurement. 

Back to the drawing board. My second choice is a feathered star block. 

Have a great week!

 

Wednesday Finish

I finally completed Cheri's sampler quilt. I kept it fun and prim!

Patchwork backing, as usual.

We were in Bend on Saturday after a race and stopped by Quiltworks for a final look (my kids' first look) at the medallion exhibit. Thank you to those who were able to enter and commit for a month of viewing. Marilyn says it has been a big hit!

We will be doing to the final reveal of Fall Festival on Friday. Or whatever you have completed. We'd love to see it, even if it isn't completely done. Send me a photo or plan on adding your link!

First Friday- Our Quilts! Photo Heavy

I tried to get to Quiltworks a tad early so I could get some photos without people. (They are fun ones too) 

 First up I met Sally from Salem. Our quilts were positioned next to each other so a photo op with our quilts was first!

Lori

 Sally

 Karen K

 Cathy 

Juliann 

 Wendy 

 Karen D

 Sharon

 Julie

And while I was standing to the side of Julie's I could really see the fun 

quilting and had to snap another photo.

 Cynthia (the featured artist was a professional machine quilter and she loved the quilting on yours!)

 Rebecca

They looked fantastic! If anyone else has a place they would like to exhibit them, please speak up! There are so many more to choose from too! At least 40 quilters participated in this challenge.Thank you all who sent their quilts.

Happy Monday!