Sisters III

Here are a few more quilts from my trip to the Sisters Quilt extravaganza. As you may have guessed I love looking at quilts. Every time I look at other people's quilts I am inspired. There are so many things I have yet to try.

Colour Block Quilt -- In Progress

I still have oodles and oodles of images to post from the Sisters Quilt show, but first some images of the quilt I have just been working on. I was inspired to do a quilt made of simple blocks or strips of colour when I saw this one. Of course, once I began it was not all that simple. As I worked on it I was designing it as a vertical piece (and a blanket) like the one that inspired me, but I plopped down in a chair while talking on the phone and I saw it hanging horizontally on the ironing board and I kind of like that. So we will see. And I haven't decided what I will do to finish the top, I am seriously thinking of doing a band similar to the quilt that inspired this project, but I am not yet sure. Again, we will see.

Hanging on the clothesline -- I liked the light shining through it (and glaring in the camera lens).



And a detail because I love the stained glass effect.



And finally laying on the carpet without the benefit of solar glow.

Sisters II

More Quilts from the 2010 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Exhibit

This was the 35th annual outdoor quilt exhibit in Sisters. Apparently there were about 1400 quilts on exhibit this year. I am sure I missed many of them, but even so the exhibit is a sensory overload. So many quilts and people and wonderful sunshine.

Hens And Chicks

There is something about the way these little fellows grow all crowed together that just appeals to me. It also would make a nice model for a quilt pattern.

Sisters

The Mountains from the Edge of Sisters

This year for the first time ever I attended the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. I took many pictures and not nearly as many as I would have liked. At some point in the process I suddenly realized my memory card was filling up. It is easy to reach sensory overload looking at so many quilts in the hot sun -- all in one day. But I think looking at all those quilts and my photographic reminders will improve my quilting. It will take me a month or two or three to post them, but here are a couple images to set the scene.

This is where I was dropped off by the bus -- at City Hall and the Start of the quilt walk for me.

Here is blocked off main street full of people admiring the quilts.

Quilts hanging on City Hall. Unfortunately, I only rarely managed to capture quilters names -- I will post those I got.