The annual Colfax Quilt Show will be held tomorrow, September 25th. Quilts will be displayed outside between the posts along the sidewalks of this historic Gold Mining and Railroad Town. This will be my third year with an entry and I am excited to be displaying my quilt which I have titled Miner's Peacock. The show is one day only and is an absolutely delightful event.
I had a big helper today as I was finishing up some last minute stitching by hand on the binding. Little Honey Bee so carefully holds the fabric in place for me, she is so gentle and seems to instinctively know when I am working on a quilt, she plops herself down right in the middle of it to make sure that none of the fabric moves.
She is quite effective. Notice the placement of the paw, just so. It's a technique that she has developed over several years. You can tell by her face how very serious she takes this work. More pictures will be forth coming tomorrow as the quilt show unfolds.
Another fun small wall quilt that I saw in a magazine. I'm sorry but I don't remember which issue, I probably still have it somewhere and if I come across it I will post it here. I entered it in the 2009 Colfax Quilt Show and received a ribbon from Cal Fire. I was very honored, my quilt was by no means technically superior to any of the quilts there but I think that it was the only one with a patriotic theme which I am sure won me points.
This quilt was a mystery quilt that I saw on TV one day and so I purchased the pattern and the fabric, went over to my mother's house and stitched it up in a couple days. I absolutely love it. Very traditional and I have two of my favorite colors in here, green and red. Oh how vanilla I am sometimes. The quilt was machine quilted. I remember the look on my mother's face as I put it together, she was so amazed that I could do something like that. She passed away in 2006 from cancer. This quilt will always remind me of her. I did get a ribbon for it!
