Last Show Quilt

Carol here ~ 

Happy Thanksgiving week! I made vegan bread for the vegan grandson yesterday, will make yeast rolls for the rest of us today.  Yum!

This is the final quilt that we entered into shows.  It's a doozy! 

ORDER IN CHAOS ~ designed and pieced by Dan, quilted by me. It was displayed at Machine Quilter's Expo and Vermont Quilt Festival where it received a ribbon for Exceptional Merit and also a Special Award.

From Dan ~ I designed this one after a session of clean up. It seems like that takes place before most of my tops. I guess I get inspired through organizing. This quilt was designed around the disappearing 9-patch concept. I designed a block and repeated it then added partial blocks to create the pieced border. I can’t really find the block today. I had a hard time finding it talking to people as it hung in shows shortly after I made it. I guess I really should not be surprised, many of the tops I have been creating these days I find it difficult to remember how I made them a couple quilts later. Records show the quilt contains 6200 pieces and was rather impressive even before Carol worked her magic.

Chaos makes you crazy dizzy looking at it from afar.  But, get up close it's a whole other story.  I feel this was, by far, my best quilting job.  My inspiration for the 129 medallions came from one our granddaughter Kailey's coloring books.  Yes, 129 medallions and I'm pretty sure they are all quilted with a different pattern.  This quilt took me 70(+) hours to quilt.  

We have no judge's comments because we still can not find any of the paperwork.  We do have the appraisal paperwork so will share a couple of comments from the appraiser ~

In a hundred years, quilt historians will give their right arm to own this quilt, it is a study in colors and prints. Excellent construction, well executed machine quilting.

Okay, here we go with photo overload ~

Grand Kailey drew me a dragon to include.  

Dan chose the right name for this one as during this time our lives were in complete chaos.  We had sold our house, was packing and getting rid of stuff, taking many trips from Rangeley to here at the pond where we were deciding what of my mother's was staying, what was going and how the heck is Lena Longarm going to fit? It's was a crazy time and I don't remember most of it, very overwhelming.  But we made it!

Hope you have enjoyed our "quilt show".