QuiltCon in Review: 6

Browsing through QuiltCon photos, I see that I have hundreds more pictures! However, I can't begin to share all of them. So today's post is a perusal of some of a whopping 59 quilts in the Windham Ruby & Bee Challenge quilts.

For quilts in this category, a specific palette of colors was selected by QuiltCon keynote speaker, Tara Faughnan. 

Again, a variety of styles and techniques were evident - improv, straight and curved piecing, appliqué, foundation paper piecing, and bias tape.

Also obvious was an abundance of walking foot/straight line quilting!

My friend and Saturday night QuiltCon dinner companion Susan Braverman @wildpoppyprints of San Antonio, Texas made Big Stitch.  

Her recognizable style - always, clean design - is evident in this 63" X 63" quilt. Susan is a longarm quilter. 

Also with a distinctive, clean style is maker Sophie Thomas @softnquilt of Switzerland. This is Seventies.

The quilt is 50" X 70" and is domestic machine and big stitch quilted. 

Marionette was made by Patricia Heath @mysterypoppy of Colorado. 

It's 48" X 47", was improv-pieced, and longarm quilted.

Holly Gatto @hdgatto of California designed Paper Pieced Plaid (Plaid No. 4), a 44" X 44" quilt that was... foundation paper pieced.

I'm impressed that a maker could figure out how to create this beautiful plaid! Perhaps she used the interleave technique?

Blink, a 60" X 60" quilt, was made by Jo Wollschlaeger @jowoquilts. 

It's machine pieced and domestic machine quilted.

Diane Paquin Provost @dianepaquinprovost of the Chicago MQG made Reaching for the Podium. 

This 36" X 37" quilt was inspired by the Paris Olympics, and was created in two sections. 

Christina Arnold @quiltsbychristina made Balance #2, a 55" X 67" quilt.

This is domestic machine quilting. 

Prove It, Chalkboard was made by Christopher Fisher @cfisher110 of Ohio saying that the gray color reminded him of chalkboards used early in his teaching career. 

He must be a math teacher because he described applying the Pythagorean Theorem to this design. It was domestic machine quilted and hand quilted. 

Elaine Cawadias @emcawadias of Canada is the (somewhat crazy :-) maker of Normal is an Illusion, a 55" X 42" quilt that's composed of hundreds of tiny machine-appliquéd blocks. 

It isn't until you view the quilt through a camera lens that you can read "Normal is an Illusion" in the placement of dots. Here I've edited the photo to black and white, so you can see it. 

It's domestic machine quilted.

Compass Star was made by Debbie Schultz of Arizona.

She used multiple techniques to create this 36" X 36" quilt that she domestic machine quilted with 50-weight and 12-weight threads. 

Folk Bloom 2 was made by Canadian Jenn McMillan @jenmcmillan.

This 44" X 53" quilt is domestic machine quilted, and trapuntoed. 

Whispers of the Acacia is 54" X 40" and was made by Tzitzi Bejarano of Mexico. 

After domestic machine quilting, she hand-stitched bias tape.

I think this is my favorite design for its simplicity, and very effective use of bias tape.

Quilts' View is 40" X 35" and was made by Sharon Henderson who explained that this is the diverse crowd of people who shuffle past a quilt displayed at a quilt show. She asks, "Are they enjoying the show?" 

This quilt just made me smile. Linda