Frisco Quilt Guild Exhibition

The Frisco Shawnee Trail Cowboy Days is an annual event that takes place, in downtown Frisco during fall, and is presented by the Frisco Heritage Association (a volunteer non-profit organization). For more information visit www.everydayfrisco.com.

This event brought a wonderful opportunity for our Frisco Quilt Guild to display our talented member's quilts in one of the historic homes next to the Heritage Museum.  

Here's what the historic house looks like at night...

Below are our committee co-chairs, Karen & Pam, along with enthusiastic members, who did a great job of organizing this event.  

We set up the evening before.....and as you can tell by the smiles....we turned work into play.....it was so much fun.......

We set up tables....

Others set up Xmas trees....thank you Lesley & Diane....and a very special thank you to co-chair's husbands Tom & Skyler for your help..... 

Great tree for the Xmas quilts section.....

This tree had a lot more ornaments but, I got busy and forgot to take another picture...

The Xmas section looks good......

Close up of wreath.......great idea for displaying ATC's, Artist Trading Card's.......A group of us traded these for one year.....they're great keepsakes and I would keep this wreath out all year round.........

 

There was a blue & white quilts section....

Vintage quilts.....

     

Jewel Toned Batiks......

Fall quilts greeted visitors walking indoors.....

     

Red, White, & Blue upstairs....

Traditional meets art.....

More smiles......

My pictures don't do these quilts justice.....this quilt had some metallic sparkling thread quilting.....

Children's section....

So many people helping made this fun and easy......

Art Quilts.....

Let's go back downstairs.....

By this time some of us are hungry....in spite of the candy dish....we held out.....cause Babe's restaurant is next door....

Display board showed how our guild participates in the community  & other activities available to it's members....thank you to Karen Egle Jordan (co-chair) for this board! 

Once we finished.....some of us posed for a picture....this isn't everyone that helped out.....some had gone home....

Dinner at Babe's.....

The morning of the event started out nicely.....

This year's raffle quilt.....

Scenes from the day's events.....

Armadillo races....only in Texas.....

Pumpkin carving.....

One of the other historic homes.....

If you didn't make it out to the event, there's always next year....thanks to a great group of ladies for making this quilt show come together so well organized and fun!

Until next time......

Half Square Triangles...

Simple Abundance.......this is what I will name the traditional quilt top that I just made with half square triangles, aka HST's.  I started making this quilt because I inherited an abundant stack of brown squares from a friend who was cleaning out her sewing room.  I had just finished my Spanish Lavender art quilt (see Gallery-Impressionist tab for photo) & wanted to piece something a little easier.  Here's part of the stack I still have left for another quilt top...

These squares are 5" and were pieced by drawing a diagonal line from corner to corner, sewing 1/4" from each side of the pencil line, then cut apart down the pencil line to form two HST's.

 Pressed open..

After you have several HST'S sewn and pressed, you're ready to begin with designing the layout.  There are so many variations but, I decided on a barn raising layout.......

Getting back to basic sewing was very therapuetic.....it's not yet quilted but here is what the quilt top looks like thus far.... 

Draped over a chair... 

Close up of border....

Spread across a queen size bed for a better view of barn raising layout.....turkey reds go well with browns and neutrals......

Now on to the next thing on my to do list....unfortunately, it is not quilting related.....

Here's wishing that your day be filled with simple abundance.....

Until next time!