Pictures from last weekend's quilt show

There were so many beautiful quilts and inspiring quilts on display at last weekend's show, I thought I'd share some pictures so you can be inspired, too! I'm sorry that a lot of the cards showing the title and the maker's name got cut off, but for large quilts it was often hard to get far enough away to get a picture of the whole quilt.

First, some of the winners:

"Best in Show" winner

"Best Use of Color" winner. This was one of my favorites in the show!

"Best Hand Quilting" winner. This was huge and amazing! I don't have the patience to hand quilt.

A close up view of the hand quilting.

This is not a closeup of the same quilt, it's one of the "Best Machine Quilting" winner, by this fabulous lady. She did this on a home sewing machine, not even a longarm. It blows my mind.

Many more pictures are after the jump!

Shameless bragging

Tonight was the member preview of the Cotton Patch Quilt Show, and of the five quilts I put in the show, two won ribbons (and check out how gorgeous the ribbons are)!

A red (second place) ribbon in the Novice category for my second quilt ever, The Other 71%.

And an Honorable Mention for Global Warming. As you might remember, I really felt that while some of it turned out well, it wasn't a great effort overall. If it hadn't been made specifically for the Show Challenge, I would never have entered it, so this came as a huge surprise and is very gratifying. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the judge's comments on all my quilts.

I think they look pretty sweet hanging in a show! I'll be taking lots more pictures, but today was a bit crazy (awards + find where your quilts are + take advantage of the vendors' preview discount all in only two hours!), so I didn't really get to look carefully at all the quilts--but I can tell you there are lots of gorgeous ones!