AQS Lancaster Quilt Show

Had to share pictures of my goodies & some of my favorite quilts seen at the show: 

These two items are unrelated. Some cute snowman fabric & fabric dye, which I'm going to play around with to try to perfect THE PERFECT "tea-stain" effect. So far my efforts have been lack-luster.

I actually bought two kits! I typically avoid kits since I have so much stash; however my felted wool stash is nowhere near my cotton stash, AND that the moment I felt it'd be nice if I could just start now or whenever the whim strikes my fancy!

Oop... three kits (the felted snowman pillow on the left!) & a preprinted stitchery project I picked up for my 17 year old daughter.

On the left is a contender for the yearly Christmas ornament & more lovely stitchery patterns on the right.

Necessities... 

Inspiration for back home...

More ornies on the left... and below is a woolen/stitchery combination! HELLO?!??! Stitchery is popping up everywhere!

Now for the eye candy of the completed kind:

The gold coloring of this quilt shows up better in the close up which comes next. Truly spectacular.

The detail is amazing!

I particularly liked the use of crystals in this top.

Have I mentioned how much I love stitchery? Some in these parts would call it embroidery, and I'll acknowledge it IS simple embroidery. In my mind's eye, however, I picture embroidery as more filling, whereas stitchery is more of outlining a picture. 

Wedding - Memory Quilt

An eclectic Wedding/Memory Top; QUILTED with Puzzle Piece Meander (freehand)

I woke up feeling alright, but all week I've been dragging by about noon. You ever feel like you're burning the candle at both ends? Yeah that's me... for about the last 20 years. lol 

So even though this quilt loaded fine & went quickly, it also felt like it was taking forever! When in reality one of the blessings/curses of working from home most days is that while I'm home I can do other things too. So after quilting a couple rows I might quickly do a household chore, switch laundry loads, spend some time gabbing with one of my gang, etc. Doing it this way, a quilt that would take about 3 hours to quilt can span the entire day. I don't quilt all the time like this, but since today was a long quilting day (no working outside the home, no running errands, and no homeschooling) I guess I felt like I could get away with it. It all gets done in the end, but I'm starting to wonder if I just shouldn't get the quilting done, like BAM, and then go onto other chores or other quilts even. 

I might start probing other quilters to see how they work best... the "BAM method" or the "sprawling all day" method. 

In other news, we here in Lancaster, PA, are gearing up for another wintery weather week...