County Fair Quilts (2019)

Ready? I said I'd do this a couple weeks ago, so I hope so!

I'm going to keep it simple this year and pretend like we're walking through the Home Arts building.

First up, as always, are the raffle quilt blocks. Here are the ones that made it onto the quilt (usually 20, if they have enough entries):

 Here are the top six, if you'd like a closer look:

 Then we have the quilt blocks that will be made into pillows:

Hanging above are this year's blocks. Below on the shelves are last year's pillows.

And here are all the extra entries. There were a lot this year.

Some of these didn't meet the rules for the use of the fabric or didn't fit the theme. The block way on the top left was judged to not fit the theme ("Grandma's Scrap Quilt"), but look how great it is!

So cute!

After this year's blocks comes last year's blocks made up into the raffle quilt:

Click here to see the blocks last year to compare to how it looks now with the sashing. Always an amazing transformation.

Next is the Grand Champion of the larger quilts:

 That was a lot of fussy applique. Almost everyone exclaimed at this quilt as they walked by.

A Tshirt quilt for a USPS deliverer:

 A couple wall hangings:

 This is the quilt that bested my blue and white elephant quilt. It was hand quilted:

 A few more wall hangings. The hippo one is really cute.

 The following quilt was hanging from the scissors lift instead of along the wall:

(It hides the lift and the big garage door behind it. Shhh.)

Butterflies!

There is a lot of detail in the border of this one:

All those pieced triangles!

 Next is the row of wall hangings that fit over the photograph and art displays.

 Look! More hippos! There were two of this quilt!

You can see the one below on the left was the Grand Champion of the smaller quilts.

Beautiful! And on the right is another Tshirt quilt. One of the local high school teams is called the "Eddies" and you can see Eddie at the top centre.

That's the end of the second wall. There's nothing on the third wall (no room), but when you turn the corner you see my quilt hanging by itself in a corner:

It might look lonely, but it must have worked since it got the People's Choice Award! (It's also one of the few spaces for a big quilt.)

Carrying on along the fourth wall, some more wall hangings or smaller quilts:

 A lovely Christmas quilt:

That's the end of the hanging quilts.

There is always one set up on a bed. This year it was a maze illusion quilt:

And since the number of produce entries was down this year, some of the shelves were used to hold two more quilts:

The superintendent mentioned that mine might have been displayed here, but one of these had a white backing and she didn't trust hanging it against the wall. Since my quilt had a dark blue backing, she thought that was safer!

And there you go. Quilts at the fair. I love seeing other people's work and I hope you have enjoyed seeing these too. I think clicking any of the pictures will get you a larger view and I encourage you to take a closer look at them.