Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

I went to the Quilt Guild of Greater Houston's quilt show... Joy of Quilts today.   It was a lovely show and I had a few quilts hanging with my name attached as my own or quilted by me.   A couple of these have not been blogged about yet so this is the first you will have seen them. Let's just start with the best.   1st place!  Pieced Wallhanging - Large.   Lou Ellen Hassold's "Star Bright quilted by me!   Lou Ellen had a vision for this quilt and thankfully I was able to step up to the challenge.       2nd Place - Group Quilt - Pam Heine  Double 4 Patch.   This one makes me really happy as this is an e2e design.   I think our shows need to include a category for e2e quilts because they may be impecabbly pieced and have great color composition but if they are not quilted to death they lose points to those more elaborately quilted pieces.     ...

I'm entering my Gravity quilt into the large quilt category.   Technically, it could be considered scrappy as there are 112 fabrics in it....   but I did not make from scraps so I opted for Large Category I'm sure most of you have seen this quilt, a number of versions can be found online.   I really loved making and quilting this one!   My original post can be found here       Be sure to visit to vote for your favorites         My last entry for this event.   I loved in the spring she hosted an instagram event, that worked nicely for sharing photos.   Last year I entered and my friends and myself could not get on, could not get pages to load (so many ads!).   Entries were on there, then when voting started.... My 2 entries were each on there 2 times!!!   She had some issues, had to close the event then re-open and ...