American Craft Council (ACC) Craft Show 2016 - Baltimore

Last weekend we went to the ACC Craft show at the Baltimore Convention Center. Love.Love.Love this show. This year I actually bought some handwoven apparel pieces which I absolutely ADORE!

I own pieces made by two different exhibitors...and follow their blogs (journals) as well.


Ann Brauer - (http://www.annbrauer.com/Ann_Brauer_Quilt_Studio/Welcome.html)

Erin Wilson - I find her work AMAZING!!! She has shown me the backs of her blocks and they are neat and trim and I have no idea how she manages to piece things that teeny....(http://www.erinwilsonquilts.com/)

And I also got a picture of Cindy Grisdela - I follow her blog now. She's been exhibiting at the ACC show for a few years and I just love her work (http://cindygrisdela.com/)

It was just a really nice day. There was some amazing work there.

UFO Challenge 2016

Well, I didn't win in January....so hoping I have better luck in February. The number for February is "8" - and my UFO is a Houses and Stars quilt top that needs to be quilted (and has needed to be quilted pretty much forever...). This is a Thimbleberries pattern I think, which is what I liked when I first started quilting so it's really been waiting a looonnnngggg time!

The challenge is being sponsored by Spring Water Designs ( http://springwaterdesigns.blogspot.com/ ),

Sewing Machine Cover

I finished a top of bright and scrappy fabrics…and something just didn't look right about it. I had fussy cut some fun centers for one of the rows from a Mary Lou Weidman fabric that I liked…but the "realistic" centers in that row looked really out of place. Now, normally, I just let things like this go - I really like it to be DONE when it's done. But this row just screamed GET ME OUT OF HERE!! So I bit the bullet and picked it out, made new blocks and reassembled. The finished top:

Here's a detail:

BUT…(there is always a but(t))

I still thought the other blocks were fun and didn't want them to get buried in the Black Hole of miscellaneous blocks. SO - I made new sewing machine covers out of them!!!

VOILA!

(The blocks were made from a set of Kwik Krazy patterns)