Utah Quilt Fest 2012

The Utah Quilt Fest was held in St. George this year, and as usual, was a wonderful event.  I have taken pictures of some quilts in the quilt show and some quilts from 2 of the national teachers and a collection from a fabulous Utah quilter which I will post later.  For now, enjoy the fabulous quilts from the quilt show!

This is by Annie Unrein entitled "My Bed is Like a Little Boat".  It was made as a challenge quilt.  Look at the rules below.  I am so impressed with her creativity and interpretation!

A stunning variation of the New York Beauty by Kaye Evans.

Isn't this a fun quilt, with fantastic quilting by Lea Hardee.

"Bali Wedding Star" by Barbara Walsh.  Gorgeous!

"Autumn Birches" by Sue Gilgen.  Someday I'd like to learn how to do landscapes.  

Amazing work.

"Cinco de Mayo" by Lorna Toone.

A close up of the appliqué border and beautiful hand quilting.

"Primitive Sampler" by Karen Martindale, quilted by Carmen Geddes.

"Dandilions Yellow" by Kaye Evans, quilted by Sue McCarty.  A cute story was posted with this quilt.  It was inspired by her 2 young grandsons who picked bouquets for their mothers.  The oldest bearing flowers and the youngest bringing the stems.

"Halloween Baltimore" by Pat Peters.

Close up of the center block.

Love the bat border and the wonderful hand quilting.

Another quilt by Pat Peters called "Christmas Baltimore".

Closer look of one of the blocks.

Holly border and again, amazing hand quilting.

"Leap of Faith" by Judie Weiss

Close up of the 3 dimensional flowers in the flyinggeese.  Very creative!

"Daisy" by Patti VanOordt and Cory Allender

"Aunt Millie's Garden" by Cathie Purdy

Love the quilting with the yellow thread.

Close up of one of the blocks.  Great use of color!

Hope you enjoyed this look at the quit show.

Springville Art Museum Quilt Show - 2012

I'm lucky to live in a city that is nicknamed "Art City".   We have an amazing Art Museum that has a quilt exhibition every year.  Here is just a sampling of some of the amazing quilts!

This is "Tree of Life" by Laura Delis.

The details are intricate and beautiful.

 This is a fun quilt called "Busy Bees" by Shauna Mooney Kawasaki using lace t-shirts, drawn & colored insects, crocheted flowers and beads.

What creativity!

I love traditional quilts.  This one, called "Modern Pine Burr" was made by Konda Luckau and Machelle Hansen and quilted by Kaylene Parry.

Detail of the amazing quilting.

Xenia Driggs Stirland made this award winning quilt called "No Place Like Home".

Isn't this a creative use of yo-yo's?

"My Favorite Town Square" by Judy S. Fitzgerald, quilted by Xenia Stirland.

Look at the fun details in this quilt.

Kathy Ann Porter made this collage quilt named "Blue Fish".  Love the ocean wave border.

She used transparent Setacolor paints, Shiva paint sticks, crystals and beads for the embellishments.

A beautiful quilt titled "Celtic Twilight: by Kristen White Webb.  Love the graphic movement.

   Another quilt by Kathy Ann Porter called "Tree of Life Doodle".

Look at all the amazing embellishments!

This was made by Marian E. Eason for a quilt challenge about a play on words.  Can you guess what play on words she used for this incredible quilt?  "Bird Brain".  How clever!

"Jane's Garden" by Lisa M. Schetselaar.  These Jane quilts are fantastic - but I don't think I'm crazy enough to try one yet.

This embroidery quilt is by Charlene Nelson titled "Bats Surrounding Hocuspocusville".  This picture doesn't show the amazing embroidery unfortunately.   Aren't the wacky flyinggeese great?!

Every embroidery block has such fun details.  What a great Halloween quilt!

"Autumn's Glory" by Lisa J. Tucker.  Wonderful use of color and technique.

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Jacqueline Thomas made this "Dancing Among the Dutch" Baltimore Album quilt using the hand needle turn method.  Quilted by Denae Hansen.

Perfect choice of fabrics for this look and wonderful quilting.

Another applique quilt with a totally different look.  This one is LuAnn Carlson's "My Whimiscal Quilt Garden" quilted by Carmen Geddes.  LuAnn used the machine applique method.

Don't you just love how quilts are all so different?

A striking quilt by Megan C. Legas titled "Amalgamation".  

Even though machine quilting can be amazing, there is just something about hand-quilting.

This pictorial quilt is by Susan McBride Gilgen and is named "Emma's Vigil at Cumorah II" using hand dyed & batik fabrics.  Wow!  Too bad these pictures don't do the quilts justice.

The quilting detail is amazing!

Another beautiful traditional quilt titled "French Nosegay" by Marilyn Landry Toone.

Close up of the wonderful hand quilting.

Lisa Brothman made this "Black Medallion" quilt using only black fabric.  All of the color in this quilt comes from the thread!

She uses her home machine for all of the quilting and couched cording to separate the medallion rounds.

Here is the quilt that won Best of Show.  Sorry the lighting isn't the best, but it is an incredible quilt with beautiful colors.  It was made by Helen Butler and is named "Millie's Quilt".   Can you see the block that looks like the truffala trees in the Dr. Suess books?

She used the needle turn hand applique method.  

She also does her quilting on her home machine (yes, even this big quilt) and used metallic thread and 100% poly invisible thread.

A look at the back where the quilting really shows up.  Notice that cute label?

There were so many wonderful quilts - too many to put here, but I hope you enjoy the sampling of the many different techniques and the wonderful creativity of these quilters.  If you are a quilter, try something new and stretch your abilities.  You'll be surprised at what you can achieve!