Quilters’ Show & Tell: Green Love (St. Patrick’s Day)
The theme for this week’s Quilters’ Show & Tell event is Green Love (St. Patrick’s Day). Any quilting style is acceptable as long as your quilt has lots of GREEN. Unfinished quilt tops are welcome as well.
Read the Guidelines and submit your photo before Friday, March 15th, 2013 at 8 a.m. (EDT).
Sponsors
To sponsor a weekly Quilters’ Show and Tell event, please send me an email and I’ll send you the information package. Check available dates here. Sponsors are featured on the voting post published on Friday.
Guest Judges
The guest judges for this week are Jill from The Quilt Rat and Jo from Jo’s Country Junction. They’ll both have 100 bonus points to award to their favourite quilt(s). I asked them both, what they’re working on, and here’s what they told me…
Jill – The Quilt Rat
What have I been up to lately?
Well, those that visit my site know that I enjoy experimenting will all sorts of ways to play with fabric and thread. I am not a fan of Winter and like many, can hardly wait for the arrival of Spring. I did entertain myself thru the season by trying some snow dyeing, here is an example of fabric and threads created using various snow dyeing techniques.

At the moment, I have finally gotten around to quilting my king size bed quilt. Look, can you see my machine in the background….I swear this quilt is growing, I am now on to the final borders.

I also find papercutting a great way to keep my creative juices flowing, this week’s contest being a nod to St Patrick’s day and all things green, inspired this shamrock snowflake.

Visit Jill at The Quilt Rat!
Jo – Jo’s Country Junction
We have been really busy over at Jo’s Country Junction. I am now sharing my space on the web with my daughter, Kelli. She is writing some of the posts for the blog and we’ve teamed up and are working on projects together. We have two projects that we are working on for Moda Bake Shop that will be published on their site in the next couple months. We have a quilt block that will be featured in Quiltmaker’s 100 block issue that will be out in May. We also have a quilt that will be featured in Quiltmaker’s July/August magazine.
We have started to hit the road teaching at guilds too. We are having lots of fun with whole process teaching class and doing trunk shows. It’s honestly been so fun getting out and meeting blog readers and fellow quilters.
I got a new beagle puppy, Ruby at the end of October after our beloved Gracie died. Life has been a big adjustment with a puppy. I have fallen in love with her though and am so glad we were able to find her. She shows up on the blog all the time.
We gained a son in law and will gain a daughter in law in August. We love them both and have really enjoyed the changes happening with the family.
I have decided this is the year of the UFO. I have finished THREE already this year and have several more projects that are now quilt tops and are waiting for their turn to be quilted on my new APQS Millennium. I have really enjoyed getting back to these projects and reaping the extra space in my sewing room has been great too.
Kelli and I post our happening on the blog daily (sometimes even more often). We are always updating, sharing projects and recipes, sharing our stash reports and what we’re reading so feel free to come on over any day and see what we are up to. Make sure to stop by on Tuesday for our “Try it on Tuesday” posts. We get great goodies from book companies, pattern publishers, fabric manufacturers and the like. We review the products and often give them away to our readers. It’s lots of fun and our readers love it.
Stop by and chat…we’d love to hear from you!!
Visit Jo and Kelli at Jo’s Country Junction!
Last Week’s Quilters’ Show & Tell
Thanks to everyone that entered quilts and voted for last week’s Quilted Pillows Show & Tell event.
Guest Judges
Here’s how the guest judges awarded their bonus points:
Sarah from Sew Joy Creations awarded her bonus points as follows:
30 points – Linked – 30 + 61 = 91 points
14 points – Facets Pillow – 14 + 10 = 24 points
14 points – Antonia’s Butterflies – 14 + 32 = 46 points
14 points – Spinning Canoes – 14 + 44 = 58 points
14 points – Patchwork Pillow – 14 + 43 = 57 points
14 points – Butterfly Garden Cushions – 14 + 61 = 75 points
Jackie from Canton Village Quilt Works awarded her bonus points as follows:
33 points – Stripes Squared – 33 + 21 = 54 points
27 points – Antonia’s Butterflies – 27 + 46 = 73 points
15 points – Kirigami Snowflake – 15 + 28 = 43 points
15 points – Radiating Dresden – 15 + 25 = 40 points
10 points – Sedona Star – 10 + 111 = 121 points
Winners
The winning quilted pillows are Hartjeskussen by Carla Cornelissen which received 171 community votes…

… and Holiday Lane by Pauline Francis which received 125 community votes:

The winners from the comments are #19 and #37:




They’ve all won both copies of the Quilters’ Cookbooks that I put together from recipes submitted by quilters around the world.
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