AQS Paducah – Wall Quilts (Stationary Machine Quilted)

Wall quilts are some of my favorites….to view and to make!

The reason is that I personally don’t need any more bed-size quilts, but I can always find room on my wall.

This quilt placed first at Paducah, but I had seen it before in Houston, where it was one of the special award winners.

While at Houston, I heard her speak about making the quilt, and you can find it HERE.

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I don’t know what “sample book” she was working from, but the detail is exquisite…..

It deserved the 2nd-place ribbon!

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Third place was awarded to……

The trees have an interesting texture to them….

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This quilt is made by the way the borders flow into one another. Very appealing!!

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This heavily quilted piece was awarded an Honorable Mention ribbon.

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This quilt was made as part of a mandala class by Christopher Weinhold.

I sure do like the design!!

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Apparently, this is a pattern…. “Green Tea & Sweet Beans” by Jen Kingwell.

Regardless, I love the cacophony of colors and flowers….just what I want my flower garden to be.

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To continue in my Africa theme, this one caught my eye…..

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Yu-Chen is another of the Taiwan quilters who add so much detail to their quilts, cover them with tulle and then heavily quilt them.

Each little streak of light is made from several different fabrics…..

Tomorrow I will share a reel of some of the amazing quilting that I have seen!!

AQS Paducah – Group Quilts

Like the hand-quilted quilts, most of these are from Japan.

Obviously, Japanese quilters make a point of working together on projects. Maybe we should do more of that ourselves!!

This Blue Ribbon winner has so much detail!! I could have spent several hours looking at it, and still not have seen it all!

Each of the hanging quilts was exquisite, and I LOVED the trapunto sheep and Yo-Yo flowers…..

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This quilt won the 3rd place ribbon. I found it interesting because I couldn’t figure out how it was done as a group quilt. Many are done in blocks or sections, so it is easy to see how it would have been split up, but not this one!!

However they did it, it was WELL DONE!!

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Just look at the detail…..

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This one is very similar to the previous one and makes me think about how much fun it would be to pick a block design and assign colors to create a great rainbow pattern.

Maybe this would be a good guild project??

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Although there is nothing amazingly creative about this quilt, it is AMAZING that 13 different people could piece these blocks and have them all come out the same size!!

I hadn’t noticed the oval “OLIVE” quilting until now. Such a fun idea!!

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My favorite thing about this quilt are the clam shells used on the mermaid.

Tomorrow, we will move on to some of the Wall Quilts…..stay tuned!

AQS Paducah: Hand Quilted Quilts

This category is probably the easiest for me to look at.

Why?

I have NO aspiration to do hand quilting, so I am not looking at them and thinking….”Gee, I wish I could do that!!”

So here we go….prepare to be amazed!!

This was the Blue Ribbon winner. Although it doesn’t appeal to me personally, the detail was outstanding!!

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I love the monochromatic design of this quilt. It truly looks like a black-and-white photo of a colored quilt!!

I also appreciated the cut-out border…..or is it cut-out? Looking closer…

… she ran a piece of black fabric thru slits in the white fabric. STILL very impressive!!

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The photo makes this quilt look asymmetrical, but it wasn’t. It was PERFECT in every way!!

….perfect points, perfect applique and perfect grid quilting!!

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This quilt won the Merit award in Hand quilting, and OH MY….

I can’t stipple that close using my sewing machine and can’t imagine doing it by hand!!

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Everything about this quilt screams FUN in the SUN!!

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This was by far the CUTEST entry in the entire show!!

I love how the quilts hung on the walls

…and the cats hung everywhere!!

This quilt also emphasizes something that I noticed. Of the 17 handmade quilts at the show, only four were from the US, one from the Netherlands, and the rest from Japan or Korea.

OKAY American Quilters….. we need to up our game!! Not me, of course…. I don’t hand quilt….HAHA!!