Aurora Colony Quilt Show & Giveaway Winner

Here are more wonderful quilts from the Aurora Colony Quilt show. It is a small show but also one of my yearly favorites.
Scroll to the bottom for the giveaway winner.

This unknown quilt pattern was a gift from descendants to the museum. Made by Caroline Miller & Lydia Irvin. Note the date of 1866.

I like the way the red pieced border mimics prairie points. You can see from this photo the left blue border is a lot more faded than the right side.

I loved the braided style quilting.

The three quilts below were also a gift from descendants to the museum.

The 30's quilt had some very tiny 9 patches!!

In the quilt above the blocks were antiques and the quiltmaker did an excellent job at making a wonderful quilt from them.

A fun sampler from 1855.

How can a simple mangle cloth turn me into a drooling fool?! LOL

This medallion quilt was made by Becky Pauly Spencer. A beautiful reproduction.

At first glance I thought both of these quilts were old. They are new and  beautifully reproduced with hand quilting by Sue Winfield.

This humble quilt I saw in an antique store. I wonder why the quiltmaker felt the need to chop off the stars!!?? I love the big Baptist fans.

Karen at Log Cabin Quilter was the name that was pulled from the hat. Thank you all for entering!!!

Congratulations Karen!!

Old Aurora Colony Quilt Show

I am showing two of my favorite quilts from a show I attended on Sunday in Aurora, Oregon. If you are interested Jane Kirkpatrick wrote a wonderful book called
Aurora: An American Experience in Quilt, Community, and Craft. It's worth checking out from the library.

This quilt really caught my eye. I love how there are two wreaths at the top but no more. I wonder if the quiltmaker decided she didn't really want to fill up that space with applique.

Tiny hand buttonhole stitch, but only at the top of the tulips.


 Lovely little prairie points.

This one is so graphic. I think I'm getting more drawn to the beautiful simplicity of the Amish quilts. This was made by Matilda Knight Stauffer and owned by the Yoder family.

I hope you can click on this to see the wonderful quilted motifs and beautiful feather quilting.

If you haven't commented on my last post you still have time to win 4 angel patterns and two fabric kits!! What are you waiting for? If you are international I will ship outside of the US.

End of Summer Giveaway

OK, so it's a little past summer. We've had our first snow in the mountains....that must mean winter is coming soon.
I won the four season's angels from Vivian, Quilts in a Mug blog  early this year. I finally got this one quilted and bound!! Of course, I started with summer 'cause it's my favorite season. I haven't quite figured out what sort of mouth to add to her.

I know I won't be making any more of these so I thought I'd pass them on as a giveaway. When I won them from Vivian she had used one of the fabric kits. I used one more, so the fabric you see should make 2 angels.  These patterns are designed by Joined at the Hip and I have to say, in my opinion, they really put the time into making the directions easy and understandable. They are tops in my book!!

Thank you for dropping by and reading my humble little blog. It's been fantastic getting to know so many of you!!  Many comments have been left lately that are anonymous or no-reply so I haven't been able to respond.  I want you all to know how much I appreciate every single comment!!!

Leave me a message if you'd like to win and I'll draw Saturday evening.

Little Distractions

As much as I've tried to stay focused on getting a few UFO's done, I couldn't help myself from a couple of little projects.

I'm calling this one Dixieland. Dixie made the little block with the cutout and I couldn't resist doing a couple of more applique blocks. I tried adding an additional border but it wasn't working at all, so I'm going to leave this one "as is". Thanks again Dixie!!

Here's a little quilt I made from the Provence scraps Valentina sent to me. All of still smells heavenly from the lavender she sent with it. I'm calling it Provence through Cyprus.Thank you Valentina!! I only had to add two squares on my own fabric. Can you spot them?

And here's what I did with my Wool Crazy Round Robin. I won't be putting any pins in it, but I found this frame that worked perfectly!! I have it hanging next to an old bright red child's swimsuit. It fits the summer theme perfect. Thanks again ladies!!