Quilter's Day Out 2009....

Saturday was Quilter's Day Out here in Evansville. Once a year, the 3 local area quilt guilds get together and enjoy a day of quilting exhibits, speakers, vendors, and sharing our last years quilting experiences through show-and-tell of our projects. It's a great day for all the area quilters! This is our raffle quilt for this year and if I can figure out a way to sell tickets to any of you that are interested and who don't live too far away (like across the ocean!) I will be happy to do so. Tickets are $1 a piece or 6 for $5. The raffle isn't until December at our Christmas meeting, so I will get back to this later.
There were lots of vendors waiting to take our money and a treasure table of items individuals wanted to sell.

A very nice display of Underground Railroad quilts for us to look at and enjoy.

Lot's of great quilting door prizes.......I won a couple of Fons and Porter items (a pin magnet and a lot of assorted pins). The big door prizes of the day, were 3 baskets each with 50 fat quarters.

We had two wonderful speakers. This is Dallas Reed and not only is he a great quilter, but one of the funniest guys I have ever heard. His talk...."Confessions of a Fabricholic" had the place in "stitches" :-) He also writes poems and I wish I had a book with his wonderful quilt poems....some funny, some nostalgic, all good.

Here is one of his African inspired quilts.

Our second speaker was Marti Plager and spoke on "My Journey as a Quilt Artist". Her work ranged from the traditional to much more modern works as her artist vision changed.

I'll admit that I like her early work best and this was one of my favorites.

And of course each of the guilds provided some beautiful quilts to look at as well as many "show-and-tell" items.

I have tons more photos and will add a link below where you can go to see more of our Quilt Day. What a great time we all had!

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Green in my quilts for St. Patrick's Day....

I seldom make a quilt that doesn't have a lot of green....unless it is for someone else. My favorite quilt for the green in it....I love the greens in the border.
The "Lover's Knot" quilt has a lot of green.

One of my tea cup coasters that I made for myself....so green background, of course!

The back of Mike's car quilt is green and the label has his little green GTI on it.

A lot of green on the "Not My Grandmother's Flower Garden" quilt and the entire back is green with photos on it....but I posted that already.

Another green bit from that quilt.

2 quilted postcards that I made. The rose went to a friend, but I have never mailed the other one.

Green leaves and the green side of my reversable background, for this quilt.

Green squares in my daughter's "Uptown Seattle" quilt.

Green kitties making up the grass in my cat quilt.....with Mouse on the right.

Lots of lovely green batiks in my new bed quilt. I love sleeping under this one!
Time to create a new green quilt, I guess :-)