More quilts from the quilt show at Quilt Market.  These Art-Pictoral quilts are incredible!  I hope you enjoy.

’52 Pickup by Marcia Stein.

Old Pecos Cabin by Michelle M. Jackson.

Facade by Melissa Sobotka.

Forest Walk by Pat Durbin.

Crossing Calamity Creek by Kathy McNeil.

Cone Flower by Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert.

Imagine by Caryl Scheutz.

Mermaids Wineglasses 2 by Sarah McLean.

Wings and Feathers by Mark Sherman.

Mexican Sunflower in Batiks by Jules Rushing.

Peacockiness by Marilyn H. Wall.

Spring Revival by Deborah Kemball.

Welcome to my Garden by Barb Forrester.

Daffodils by Barbara Holtzman.

Let’s All Spring Forward by Rosalie Baker.

Under the Sunflowers by Barbara McKie.

One of my favorite things about going to Quilt Market in Houston is shopping Cindy Rennell’s booth full of antique quilts.  She always has so many treasures.

This Market, not only did I get to drool on all the quilts in her booth, I also discovered that she had an exhibition in the quilt show of antique patriotic quilts.  I’ve collected a few patriotic quilts, and it was a thrill to get to see the quilts in her collection.  I took lots of pictures so I could share them with you.

New York Flag Quilt c. 1900′s.

Stars of Stripes, also known as Liberty Star, c. 1940′s.

Five Point Silk Stars, c. 1940′s.

Patriotic Star made during WWII.

Commemorative Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic Dresden Plate Quilt, c. 1930′s.  The Grand Army of the Republic was an association of the Union veterans of the Civil War.  The Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic was the women’s auxiliary of the GAR.  This quilt has the town/location and post in the state of Kansas embroidered on it.

Whig’s Defeat, c. 1930′s.

Presidents’ Star, c. 1940′s.

Six Point Stars with Triple Border, c. 1940′s.

Eagle and Shield and Stars, c. 1940′s.

Eagle and Shield and Stars, c. 1940′s.  This is just like the quilt above, but note the differences made by different quiltmakers.

Victory Quilt, c. 1940′s.  The white star in the middle is a sign of hope.  It is surrounded by V’s for Victory.

America Quilt, c. 1920′s.

Star and Wreath, c,. 1900′s.

Pickle Dish, c. 1890′s.

USA Flag Quilt by Ralph Syverson, Cordell, Oklahoma, c. 1940′s.

Flag Quilt by Home Demonstration Club, Pleasant View, Arkansas, 1942.  This quilt was made as a fundraiser.  Tickets were sold for ten cents each.

Eagles and Stars by Clara Banks, c. 1850′s – 1860′s.

Six Point Connecting Stars Crib Quilt, c. 1930′s.

American Flag Quilt, c. 1930′s.

Mosaic Crib Quilt, c. 1880′s.

Four Block Eagle Applique, c. 1880′s.

Eight Point Connecting Stars with Swag and Tassels Border, c. 1860′s.

Victory Flag, Lola Boyer, c. 1930′s.  This is a 48 star flag with the ‘V’ for Victory added.

Star and Cross with Triple Border, c. 1940′s.

American Flag Quilts/Stars and Bars, c. 1940′s.

Stars, Bars and Shield Patriotic, dated 5-21-19.

New York Flag Number 2, c. 1890′s.

Tumbling Blocks, c. 1940′s.

The last two quilts are from the collection of International Quilt Market.

Wow!  445 people left comments on my blog for the Giveaway.  I was blown away!

The Random Number Generator picked number 47.  That means our lucky winner is Susan H.  Congratulations.  And thanks to everyone who played along.

Here’s the last of the show-and-tell from Retreat.

Connie was taking pictures for me and learned how to use the zoom.  Trouble is, she zoomed so close, the “show-er” got cut out of the picture.  Okay, Ladies, whose quilt is this?  Update, this is Susan O’s round robin quilt.

Here’s Teresa showing off the great T-shirt Mary made for her.

This is Mary’s quilt.

Carol O. made this great table runner.

Again, Connie, too close!  This is a Santa of the Month quilt.  Very cute!

Cathy Z. brought Christmas stockings for show-and-tell.

This is Renee’s stunning One Block Wonder.

She designed this dress block.  I think it’s fabulous!

Hmm. Again, I don’t know whose quilt this is.  Can someone help?  Update!  Debbie W. made this for her daughter.

This is Debbie W’s Soduko quilt.

And her very stunning block quilt.

And she made this paper pieced flower block.

Carol L. made this adorable bathrobe for a granddaughter’s doll.

Jessica made this photo quilt.

And this one, too.

Oh, I should know who made this!

This is Gail with her quilt.

Here’s Maryann with her wonderful applique block.

Help!  Who made this?  Update: This is one of Nancy’s quilts.

And this?  Update:  And this is also Nancy’s!

Peggy shared her Kokeshi doll with us.

Sally showed off the scrapbooking she got done during retreat.

This is Robin’s gorgeous Nasturtium quilt.

Mary’s quilt was made from blocks she got from her secret sister a few years ago.

And even one of the staff at the retreat center shared her wall hanging.  She said she made it for her sister, but I think her sister made it for her!

Retreat was so much fun, we’re going to do both Spring and Fall next year!

I was delighted that Joy shared these vintage Sunbonnet Sue blocks.  They were made by her husband’s grandmother and she plans to finish them.

Penny made this great wildlife quilt.

Lynelle made this gorgeous jacket.

Margaret showed us a beaded bag she’d made with some vintage beading.  It was stunning.

Linda F. was a great presenter–pulling socks she’d made from her sleeves, waistband, etc.!

Sherrie made this beautfiul quilt.

This is Carol C.’s stunning table runner.

Here’s Pearl’s striking Log Cabin.

And she’d made several of these wave table runners for gifts.

Another table runner design of Pearl’s.

She also made this Bargello quilt.

And this is the quilt she made for her bed!

Virginia made this great circle quilt.

Oh, look–my Sweet Pea panel.  Thanks,

Suzette made these paper pieced animals.

Another quilt using old sheets made by Evelyn.

And look at this great sheet on the back.  I could have used that in highschool–my bedroom was hot pink and orange!  Imagine!

Quyhn made this charming quilt.

Sisters Kim and Emily were given this antique Redwork quilt by a great aunt.  It was quite amazing.

Michelle showed off her new Jessie Bag.

She also made this quilt using family photos of bathing beauties!

Peggy fell in love with this fabric at Boardwalk Quilts and had Renee make her a jacket from it.

Then Renee surprised her with a sewing machine mat made from the leftovers!

Susan shared this Basket Sampler with us.

And I think this, too, is one of Susan’s.

More in the next post!

Besides the Wall of Fame at Retreat, we also had a lot of Show-and-Tell.  Here’s Sandy with a completed quilt she brought to share.  Edit:  That IS Sandy holding up the quilt, but the quilt belongs to Linda K.

When people hide, I’m not sure who the quilt belongs to, but I think this is Sandy’s also.  Edit: Nope–this is the back of the quilt shown above–made by Linda K.  Don’t you love that it’s reversible!?!

This Lover’s Knot was made by Becky L.

And these are the blocks she won at a retreat about 7 years ago.  She finally finished it.  Way to go, Becky!

Sandy made some quick, cute charity quilts.

And Sarah G. made these table runners.

Linda A. showed us her Hunter’s Star.

Rebecca M. had taken a class in portrait quilts.  Amazing!

Here’s Phyllis showing off a Christmas quilt.

Here’s a darling charm quilt.

Karen J. rescued this Yo-Yo quilt.

Judy was working on this at the last retreat and now has it finished.  Way to go!

Laraine made this cute Turkey Table Runner.

Phyllis’ wonderful batik quilt.

Marsha’s great batik Card Trick.

Patti with the *&%* quilt she was working on last year.  Another one finished!

Patty made the Liberty Garden quilt from Michele’s pattern, Victory Garden.

A beautiful star quilt from Sara G.

Kirstie was making Barbie clothes for her granddaughter from a vintage pattern.

She also made this striking table runner.

Heather brought this amazing, vintage Trip Around the World.

And I love this Basket Quilt she made.

I believe Sarah M. was working on this quilt at the last retreat!

Stephanie made this great quilt.

More to come….

64 ladies and I just spent 4 days at Falls Creek Retreat Center for a wonderful, relaxing quilting retreat.  I want to share some of their fantastic work with you.  I hope I give the right people credit for the right quilts!  I’m sure the ladies will straighten me out if I didn’t!

Susan O. made this stunning floral quilt.

Laura designed this quilt and calls it Hole in Nine.

She also designed this flying geese quilt–all made from my Sweet Pea fabric!

Jessica was working on this great memory quilt.

And I think this was Penny’s.  It was her first time doing curved piecing.  Added, Oct 27. This was Stephanie’s first attempt at curved piecing, not Penny’s!

Penny made this cute Boo wall hanging!

Another beautiful floral quilts from Susan.

And to show she’s about more than just florals, she made this eagle quilt.

Gail made this outdoors quilt for her uncle.

Mary P. was involved in a string piece swap and put her blocks together to make this striking quilt.

Linda K was making X’s and O’s.

Quynh made this pretty quilt with lots of paper pieced hexagons.

Another pretty floral from Susan.

My sister, Sally, was our lone scrapbooker at the retreat.

Carol O. was working on hand quilting the quilt she made from her mother’s vintage blocks.  These blocks were the inspiration for my Dear Dorothy fabric line.

Jean made this quilt.  Isn’t it perfect for fall?

And I love Sherrie’s quilt.

Robin is making this adorable baby quilt for a friend of her daughter’s–whom she’s never met!

This quilt of Marsha’s is made from Minkie.

Her sister Billie made one, too.

And here’s Susan again!  Don’t you love this setting for a panel?

Peggy was making this adorable Hip Baby.    Added October 27 – Oops!  I knew I’d foul up.  Emily made this quilt, not Peggy!

Gail was making this great, fun pattern.

Phyllis had this stunning batik quilt up on the wall.

Sandy finished this quilt top from a kit she bought at Anna Lena’s a few years ago!

Bernice was the first to complete a Hunter’s Star.  I had demonstrated the Rapid Fire Hunter’s Star ruler.  Boy is it a slick way to make this block–no set-in seams!

Karen J. made a pincushion from these fabrics and loved it so much she had to make a whole quilt!

Sue made this great quilt from my book, Fat Quarter Fun!

Barbara made this wonderful Christmas wall hanging.

Stay tuned for more!

Our next stop was a tour of the Bush House, featuring red and green quilts from 1840 – 1860.

Again, considering it’s October, the grounds were lovely.

Mr. Bush, I presume!

This house had the most elegant wall papers.

Many of them had fantastic, coordinating borders.

And there was truly a treasure trove of oil paintings.

Our guide was a hoot, tailoring the tour to our interests.  Here he demonstrates the player organ.

Another beautiful painting.  I especially love the seascapes.

And this old map of Salem is pretty cool.

Check out this hot water bottle in it’s holder.  The “bottle” is made from copper.  I have a holder like this that’s embroidered ‘hot water’ but I never knew the insert would have been copper.

Near the kitchen was a different style of painting.

What a great stove.  I’m sure some grand meals were prepared on it.

The punched tin pie safe is pretty neat, too.

Kitchen weren’t “public” places in Victorian homes, so no reason to have doors on the cupboards.

Even though this kitchen light fixture is plain, it still has an elegant grace.  I think it may have originally been a gas fixture.

This mug is so similar to an ABC plate that my mom has.

Of course every historic home had a hole where they buried trash….

….and today people love to dig through them to see what they can find.

The good china was in the butler’s pantry.

Very pretty.

Another beautiful oil painting.

Mr. Bush again.  I was in love with this frame.  It was made by someone locally.

It was the pinecones that sucked me in.

Ah, finally, the quilts!  This Arkansas Lily was hanging on the banister upstairs.  Often times in the old red and green quilts, the green will have faded to a soft tan.

This light fixture was a combination of gas and electricity.  People just weren’t sure that new-fangled electricity was going to catch on!

A gorgeous medallion quilt with eagles.

Again, you can see that the green dye was fugitive.  But remember, these quilts are 150 – 170 years old!

I don’t think ladies of the day carried as much stuff in their purses as we do!

This quilt is in pristine condition.

I hope you can see the beautiful quilting on it.

Of course a lady always had hand work at the ready.  Idles hands are the devils workshop, after all!

Another beautiful Lilly quilt.

I love the scalloped border.

Here’s an interesting piece.

This Palm quilt was stunning.

I love how the border anchored everything.

One of the bedrooms had this gorgeous wallpaper border.

I believe this is a variation of the Whig Rose pattern.

The fan quilting is amazing.

And I love the pitcher, or urn, appliques.

One last oil painting to share with you.

This Pomegranate quilt also uses a popular color from the 1840′s—cheddar.

Again, this quilt looked like it was brand new.

This Mariner’s Star is quite spectacular.

The floral border is unusual on a quilt like this.

Oops!  Someone left out their underwear box!

Part 3 still to come–photos from the quilt show!

I had an email from a local woman two days ago.  She said her dad sent her some unfinished quilts and she’d heard from Andi at Jelly Bean Quilts that I was the one to talk to about them.  Thanks, Andi!  I love to see old quilts and quilt tops, and these were a treasure.

She had two nearly identical tops with alphabet blocks embroidered and appliqued.  This top is finished except for the last block on the bottom right which seems like it should be XYZ.  I’ve seen quilts made from this pattern before but don’t have a quilt or the pattern in my collection.

The second top has a few problems with its border and sashing strips, but luckily, she has extra fabric and I think she will be able to fix it.  She believes her grandmother started these quilts and that her mom worked on them at some point.  She wondered what I could tell her about them.

I was pretty sure that it was a serial quilt.

A serial quilt was a series of blocks that were published, one at a time, in the newspaper.

Women would clip them out, collect them all and make a quilt.

This was a great promotion for the papers.

No woman wanted to miss a block!

The Kansas City Star was famous for serial quilt patterns.  But I didn’t think this was a Kansas City Star Design.

The blocks are certainly charming, though, and the stitchery and applique are nicely done.

I’m not even going to mention there was orange!

After Cheri left, I did a little web search and learned that this was a Florence LeGanke design.  She designed under the name Nancy Page, and her patterns ran under the name “The Nancy Page Quilt Club.”

It turns out the last block wasn’t XYZ, but YOU.  Nancy suggested you personalize the quilt for whomever you were making it for.  Seems odd to me!  Perhaps she offered some other options.

I did find some photos on the net of other vintage ABC quilts.  This one was finished with XYZ.

And here’s a combination of the You and XYZ.  I think I like this best.  This is actually a preprinted fabric available from Grandma’s Attic.

I thought I’d share a couple other photos I found.  I like the alternate setting blocks used in this one.

The quilting in the setting blocks is simple yet effective.

It looks like these letters were chain or stem stitched rather than satin stitched.

Here’s a pretty yellow version.

I think the crosshatching on it is perfect!

But this quilter had the most unique setting.  She made her own ‘X’ and ‘Z’ designs, and used the original YOU as well.

And she personalized it, too.  How clever!

Had a great time last weekend at Quilt Expo in Portland.  This is what greeted us!  Wouldn’t it be fun to have one of these?  Maybe I could cover one of Bob’s tractors!

There were so many beautiful landscape quilts.  The thread work on this one was amazing.

Check out the quilting on this–its different in each of the strata and really adds a lot to the overall effect of the piece.

I am so in love with this wall hanging.  I have used pinecones as a decorative accent in my house, and would love to have this piece.

I could rotate it with the one for fall!  Exquisite!

And how about this one?  It just makes me think I’m in the mountains in Colorado.

Another gorgeous piece set off with amazing quilting.

I loved this beach scene and the creative holder.

Another great beach wall hanging.

I’m amazed at the perspective in this quilt.

How do people create these amazing pieces?

This must be Italy.

You can really feel the movement here.

Incredible!

Superb!

Unbelievable!

I’m running out of adjectives!

I think you can see the stunning quilting on these quilts.

And how impressive are these points!?!

I recognize this as a Marie Webster pattern from the early , early twentieth century called Windblown Tulips.  Great choice of fabrics here.

Nosegay is one of my favorite quilts.

This is a pretty picture, but it was more amazing in person.

The gradation in color and the “loose” blocks really made this quilt interesting.

I loved how the prairie points made the perfect edge on this quilt.

And isn’t this charming?

Do you see the stars or just the patchwork blocks in this one?

Wow!  I want to make one of these!

Amazing barns.

This flag quilt had stars in the feathered quilting.

I have more to come….