QuiltCon 2015 in Austin

Yeeaahhhh and jiippeeehhhh, I still could shout out loud like that every day thinking about the 4 days at QuiltCon in Austin!! It really was like that, believe me. All the people that I´ve met were just unbelievably nice, amazing, creative, supportive and a pleasure to get know and talk to. During those days I experienced so many moments of fun and joy to last a very long, long time. 

Whether the helpers (in blue T-shirts) at QuiltCon or the women doing the workshops and lectures, they all communicated their topics in such a positive, catching and fantastic way that there is only one thing to say about it: I´m loving it !!

Enjoy the pictures, I will post small reports about each workshop or lecture that I attended during the next few days.

Should you wish to see even more pictures, go the the blog site from the Modern Quilt Guild, it´s worth taking the time, scrolling down and see what it´s been like!!

https://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/

Go see the winners in the different categories but also all the other quilts, each and every one something special.

Austin downton

A wonderful shop full of yarn, wool and knitting staff!

A shop called "Uncommong Things" - fantastic !

The QuiltCon agenda - everything a quilters´ heart desires!

Registration on Wednesday evening - the staff in blue T-shirts were just great!

The QuiltCon goody-bag - so many useful things, what a pleasure to go through the bag!

Workshop with Penny Layman - papier-piecing, a sewing organizer!

Quilts from the show - sorry if I did not note down the quilters names and titles, should you wish to know who made a quilt, please let me know, I´ll check it out for you!!

Maura Ambrose and her husband - lecture about "natural dyeing" - such an interesting and catching lecture. It made you wish you´d live on a small farm like her!

The charity Quilts of the several MQG groups from all over the US - fantastic quilts!

The demonstrations were super, you got everything from A-Z in the quilting and sewing world shown and explained!

Carolyn Friedlander´s color palette

more quilts....

Jen Kingwell - handpiecing - unbelievable !

Elizabeth Hartmann - everyone loves her patterns!

Windham Fabrics - isn´t that a super idea to present your blocks?!?

"Seams unlikely" lecture with Nacy Zieman - an example of the "American Dream come true", but only by hard, enduring work and a lot of support from family and friends !

Yoshiko Jinzenji - the lecture seemed strange with this small, white-haired woman, but what a bubbly and lively person she turned out to be when the lecture was "finish" and she explained her quilts and dyeing processes.....

more charity quilts...

Penny Layman´s workshop paper-piecing for a sewing organzier

Jenny Doan from the Missouri Star Quilt Company - everyone knows and loves her from her youtube-videos. But you know what: she is the nicest and kindest woman, not only in her tutoring videos but also in reality!

This is my finished sewing organizer - from the workshop with Penny Layman and her book "The Papier-Pieced Home" - go get it, the papier-piecing patterns are just the most fun you can get at sewing - my cushions with the furniture patterns are already in the planning process.....

Scraps here, scraps there....

scraps seem to be everywhere! And as I need an orderly place to work for myself the scrap boxes seemed to bother me because they were popping up in every corner of my working space. Reading about the many scraps projects I took stock of mine and started to work on it. That it would take a couple of more hours than expected didn´t bother me at all, because now everything is in a very tidy order, new (scrap)projects being planned and everything is now very easy to find.

I had two big boxes full of fabric scraps, some small, some big. I cut them into the following categories: 5x5 cm squares, 10x10 cm squares, 4 cm stripes, 6 cm stripes, fabric patches bigger than 15x15 cm and heavier fabrics than can only be used for accessoires (most of them from fabric swatches for upholstering).

The weather being again very bad it was the perfect thing to do and I am very happy about the result - although, it will probably take another year of scrap cutting until I have enough to make a quilt of it. But I will also try the use them in between on other projects, for appliqueing e.g., we´ll see.

small blog meet

I´ve linked up to Small Blog Meet on Lily´s Quilts blog - a fantastic idea for bloggers yet unknown (such as me) and to see more unknown blogs, link up to them, visit them. Thanks for that, Lily!!

And I finally updated my pages, added one called baby quilts - which I love to do. But after three baby quilts in a row I will be off to bigger ones this weekend - I´ll keep you up to date!