Maine Quilts 2009

Alas, the quilt show has come and gone, but a fun time was had by all. Well, I don't know about my cousin Kelly. She kinda got dragged to it and she's not a quilter.

There were soooo many beautiful quilts on display and as always, it got the creative juices flowing! Here are just a few awe inspiring quilts:

Ursula by Michele Scott

Transitions by Carol Taylor
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by Karen Veiga

Luminous Trees by Mary McFarland

Darwin's Diamonds and Flowers by Rhonda Kay Beyer

The rest are over on my flickr page: FaeryTreeCreations

Maine Quilts 2008

Just a smattering of quilts from the show, click on the mosaic to bring you to the rest.

Maine Quilts 2008 was...as always...amazing, awe-inspiring, creatively inspiring and just plain old fantastic! Mum and I got there just a little after 9 on opening day and immediately hit the vendors! I found some really great fabric...

and then spent 3 hours wandering through the quilts (though the last 4 rows we skimmed through in 15 minutes because it was getting on to lunch time and I was starved! Next year, I'll bring snacks).

Every year, I am in awe of the talent and the creativity and the effort that these people put into their quilts. So many go beyond the traditional, but even the traditional are so well done, so intricate in pattern...I just can't get over it! There were so many three dimensional quilts...it made me itch to do a picture quilt again (something I haven't done in a while!), something with lots of detail and embellishments (and yes, I've already started something! No pictures yet, but soon).

After the quilt show, we headed out for some crazy-inspired fabric shopping. At first, I went after batiks...like always, but I put them back. They really weren't saying much to me. But then...then I found these and I just had to get a yard of each.

Not sure what I'll use them for, but there's definitely an apron in there!

2 more days

Just 2 more days until the start of...

2008

3 days and over 650 quilts in all shapes, sizes, colors, textures and creative imaginings!

Here are just a few amazing and awe inspiring works that appeared at the last two quilt shows...

More can be seen here:

Maine Quilts 2007

Maine Quilts 2006

I can't wait to use the new camera at the show and see just what I get for colors and detail! And as always, a fabric shopping trip to follow to fuel the creative fires that the quilt show always inspires (I know, it rhymes...poet...didn't know...yeah yeah, whatever).

Maine Quilts 2007

(**Update** I had to completely empty this post of images and recreate the whole thing, as the pictures suddenly stopped appearing on my blog! God only knows why.)

These were my quilt show companions - my Aunt Patricia (in the green) and my Mother. Words can do no justice in describing these beautiful pieces of fabric art goodness; you just have to look…






These are just a few that hit my favorite category. I'm always drawn to nontraditional quilts with robust color schemes. This year I found that I was very drawn to those that combined the elements of shape, line, the use of negative space, of light and shadow. There is just something geometrically pleasing about them; a conformity in the chaos that appeals to my ordered side.

I took many more pictures. To see the rest, go here.

Back from Vacation!!

Just a quick note to say that I'm back from vacation. YIPPEE!!! I had a nice long week spent with my family on the water at the Lake and 3 1/2 hours at Maine Quilts 2007 quilt show! I have pictures - lots of pictures that I need to get up on Flickr as soon as I have a moment. Until then, a tease...

Color Dance by Bette Haddon of DeFuniak Springs, FL.

My favorite so far! And I need to do a garden update because my cukes are going NUTS and I have ZUCCHINI!! But that will all have to wait until tomorrow - oh so much to catch up on. I haven't read a blog in over a week - yikes, really have some catching up to do!

:^)