Manchester NH Show

Enjoy!

"Albert Picks Roses for Victoria" by Jeanie O'Sullivan, New Zealand. I just loved the use of the black&white striped edging she used on nearly everything! Fantastic!

"Millefiori" by Chris Kenna, New Zealand. This quilt just dazzled us! Millefiori means 'a thousand flowers' in Italian......this quilt was inspired by those Venetian glass paperweights with the little flowers in them. Awesome! I've seen this pattern in the blogs a few months back.....loved it then, too!

"Indian Rapsody" by Hazal Foot. She matched quilting thread color to the pieces on the front, so the back was just as beautiful with lovely thread work design. And when they hung the quilt, it was open to the back, so you could see the whole thing. Didn't photo well, though.

"Solstice" by Barbara Barber, England. Barbara was a featured quilter in this show, and had many quilts there. This one knocked me out! I love everything about it.....especially the color! :o)

There was a special exhibit of reproduction quilts. It's the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, War of 1812 Bicentennial Quilts Traveling Exhibit. They were all long, and very narrow quilts, as though made for soldier's cots. Each one had a special significance to the maker, most having a connection to someone lost in a war. The repro fabrics were wonderful! And I'm really liking the size for wall hangings!

These were about 1" quarter square triangles! Yikes!

"Longfellow's Wayside Inn and Grist Mill" by Cheryl Pratt, Lafayette, CO.

"Last Christmas" by Grit Weigmann, Germany.

The following are close ups of the gorgeous hand quilting on this quilt. But the photo of the whole quilt is just a big orange square! So I didn't include the whole pic.