Quilt Show 2011

Recently I attended the annual Quilt-a-Fair sponsored by Colorado Quilt Council. This is a combination quilt show and very large vendor mall. This year the quilts, which are hung very high, seemed to be ho-hum, kind of predictable. In fact, there was one quilt that was an exact replica of the quilt on the cover of the Yellow Brick Road pattern by Atkinson Designs. How sad is that?


But there were several of the quilts that caught my attention. First up is this quilt and I know it was the fabrics that caught my eye because it is a very straight forward log cabin type of block that is set on point. But don't you love the fussy cutting for the center?

"Cinnamon and Ginger" by Marti Oetzel

Or this one, which looks to be a self design. What I really like about this quilt is it's simplicity of design using only three fabrics. Because two of those fabrics are stripes, the design looks complicated. 

"Tightly Woven" by Lea McComas

This next quilt is also by Lea McComas. Unfortunately, the program had a typo and the name for the quilt is unknown. But look at the possibilities in this design of strings, glorious strings!

Unknown quilt by Lea McComas

How about triangles? Do you like them? This next quilt's title is so true.

"There Is No Such Thing As An Ugly Fabric" by Leslie Frisbee

I am such a sucker for a red, white and blue quilt and when it combines with a kaleidoscopic stack-'n-whack I'll get reeled in every time. Isn't this a fun quilt?

Unknown title by Delma Oberbeck