Local Quilt Show Review

 Every year, just after Easter the Crazy Quilters of Mukwonago WI have a quilt show.  I try to enter/attend.  Its not too far away from me.  I don't know HOW they do one every year.  Our guild does a show every two and it is An Affair!

So on to some quilts for your viewing pleasure.

A friend of mine received an Honorable Mention for her miniature Cathedral Window.

I got an Honorable Mention on Minnie for Mini. (aren't the ribbons pretty?)

 A first for one of our guild members.

 Loved this quilt! (not mine)

 My Fish quilt was up against that Vogue quilt.  I did get another Honorable Mention, though.

 More beautiful and fun quilts.  This was first in "First quilt in a show"  Clearly not a "first quilt ever"

 This bee quilt was in the groups section.  Each block is a different bee/bees.

 I really like the quilt above.  Maybe I'll do something like this after the 10 year hexie quilt.

 Mini helped by taking lots of pictures.

 The simplicity of this one stuck out to me.

 A selvedge quilt.  Both the colors and whites are selvedges.

 A couple of fun cat quilts.

 A friend hand quilted this and received a second place ribbon!

There was a display of Yellow art quilts.  I adore the one in the middle.

I also entered the Mincecraft Quilt, Purple Passion, and a Table Runner (that I can't find a blog post for).

Enter quilt shows people!  If there are no quilts entered there is no show to see!

Minnie for Mini

Meet Minnie.  I made her for Mini.

I also made her for our 50 Shades of Grey challenge at my local quilt guild.  We had one of those get togethers where everyone brought a yard of fabric, then starting ripping in half, then passing, then half, and so on.  The rules were pretty loose.  Mostly grey.  Not more than 50" per side.  Other than that, what ever we wanted.

A couple of summers ago when we went to Disney, they had cute plush of Mickey, Minnie and Goofy that were black, grey and white.  I really loved them, but knew that I really didn't need them.  But I decided to make my own with this challenge.  First, I found a classic picture of Minnie and used that to make a pattern.

All the pieces are fused with Pellon Wonder Under, and then satin stitched around the edges.

I used the satin stitch as part of the quilting, and then swirly pebbles around the outside.

The back looks almost as good as the front.

We all brought in our projects at the last meeting, and there were 38 people who had participated, which was really great.  We did vote for favorites, results will be in at our Christmas Party in November.