Catchin’ Up

It’s been a great week.  After thinking about it for the past few years, I finally decided to buy Electric Quilt 7.  It was delivered this week.   The first night I installed the program, I ended up playing for 3 hours!!  It was fun, though.  Here is my first attempt to design a quilt.

I started with this simple block.


I love making a disappearing 9 patch, so I decided to cut this block vertically and horizontally down the middle.  I flipped and turned the blocks around and made this complicated looking (but very easy) quilt.


Flip a few more blocks around, and I got this:
 

Amazing!!  All from the same block.

Change the colors and layout with a few clicks of the mouse:

This is going to be fun!  It was a good thing this program came on Tuesday, because I lost my internet connection due to storms for the next 3 days.  I’ve been trying to catch up today with my blog reading.  Talk about internet withdrawal…

On Friday, I went with my friend to Shipshewana for the shop hop and quilt shows.  I will blog later about the great day we had along with pictures of some amazing quilts as soon as I can get them unloaded from my camera.  I was so inspired, as I often am when I go to quilt shows, that I spent Saturday and Sunday sewing my New York Beauty quilt.  I have the 4 borders all cut and ready to sew, and then I am finished with the top!!  I will take a picture to share once the borders are on.

Take care, and have a great week!

Midland Quilt Show

I finally got a chance to download the quilt pics from the Midland quilt show I went to (a month ago?)  Oh well, there’s no time limit for looking at pretty quilts.

I love the colors in this quilt.

I thought this quilt created from a picture was interesting.

 

I love the colors in this quilt.  The sign said there was 5,237 pieces in this quilt that were individually cut and sewn together, and there are only 2 blocks in this quilt.  Whew, that’s a lot of work.

These were part of a children’s book challenge.  Such creativity!

 

I love the pictures in this quilt.

 

This embellished quilt was very pretty.

The quilt show was held in a historical village.  The building next door was having a blacksmith show.  There were several old carriages and sleighs.  This sleigh “cutter” with the quilt cover caught my eye.

Another sleigh.

This ambulance sled from 1890 was fascinating.  I wonder what's inside that black trunk?

I like this fringed carriage.

It was a lovely quilt show in Midland.  Traveling to get to the show took us through many beautiful areas with gorgeous historical (and huge) homes.  Unfortunately, it was a bit rainy for us to get to see the Dow Gardens.  I've never been there, but I hear it is beautiful.  I hope to get back there soon.

Hope you enjoyed the show!