Vintage Quilt Show and my Urban Cowgirl Quilt. My OTHER Urban Cowgirl Quilt....

 

I went to a vintage quilt show last weekend. some of them were really neat. but there was one fun surprise.

I was amazed by the Queen Sized hexie quilt. It looked like this one. The Hexie's were one inch. Literally. ONE. INCH! Wow.

(picture borrowed from here caused I didn't take one. augh!)

There was also a very fragile yo-yo quilt in a glass case. So neat. Partly because it was obviously about queen sized.

(again, borrowed a picture! from this gal who took the quilt out of it's glass case when she saw it. I wonder if it was the same quilt?)

Loved this one!

I also really love Dresden plates. and the hand quilting.

But the fun surprise was seeing this one! I am working on that Urban Cowgirl pattern by Urban Chiks for my daughter to take to college. I was so surprised to see that that pattern must have originally been taken from this old pattern - Star Dahlia! My daughter and I so enjoyed seeing the original way of doing this quilt!

The new pattern is very 3D. This one has the flower petals actually pieced into the star. The circle is also pieced into the center so that the whole thing is only one layer - very flat. Looks like it was rather difficult to do.

 

 

Here is one of the Urban Cowgirl quilts I've done. You can see the daises here are 3D.

 Here are some pretty squares!!

 

 

there's the polka dots!

 

 

Here's the machine quilting.

The border quilted. And I added some felt to the centers so that the centers are puffy.

 

 

 

 

Urban Cowgirl by Urban Chiks for moda

                    Here is a great idea for 2 charm packs. Simple squares on the diagonal, but looks great.
                                                                  See the tutorial here.

I like the single squiggly line quilted down the sashing. ;o)

You can sorta see it in the upper right area.

Love the fabrics in this line!

I did my first feathered border on this quilt! I started with light thread but switched to dark so you could see it better.

Here's one example of  how I use rit dye on the fabrics in my quilts. See the narrow inner border there? that's the original color. It matches the lighter blue in the quilt nicely. But, I thought the darker blue in the line was a more pleasing color, so i dyed the backing with some navy blue rit dye. It changed it so it's closer to the dk. blue. 

Here's how i quilted the squares. You can see it better on the back. What would you call that? double tear drop machine quilting?

a better view of the machine quilted feather border.

More Jovial and Jelly Girl

                               Some of my favorite Squares...

 

The black is "Christmas Countdown" by moda

Trying to choose a border. I have two fabrics I thought might work.

White?...

Green?...