Stitches in Bloom - A Quilt Show

The first major quilt show of the year in Oregon is this weekend.  Chris, a wonderful quilter friend, and I drove up yesterday to take it in.  It was held at the Oregon Gardens in Silverton just outside of Salem.  Since it was an almost 3 hour drive from home we left at 8 AM.  The driving time went by quickly as we talked the whole way....what do women find to talk about - well, just about everything!

You are not dropping in to hear about 6 hours of driving and talking so on with the show!

The quilt show is called Stitches in Bloom and the featured quilt was just that.  But for that quilt you will have to scroll through the whole blog to see it as there was no space large enough to hang it at the show.

 Notice the fog and the grass that we are parked on!  This is the over flow parking...

 ...but we made it!

The following pictures are only a small part of the quilts that were there, and not all the quilts had pictures taken of them.  They were all outstanding and made by the best in the quilting world.  

So sit back and enjoy!

 The show was broken into two buildings so Chris and I started in the closest and smallest one.  This quilt was a raffle quilt and it will go from show to show with a drawing sometime in the future!  It takes only one ticket to be a winner so I bought a ticket and so did Chris.

This building held the selected quilts for Oregon: State of Diversity 2. The following is only a few that were there.

Oop's rather dark.  This was one was made with raw edge applique.  Trying to match up quilts with quilters is a quess but I think this one is called "At Ocean's Edge" by Laura Jaszkowski.

The fish were painted on this one while the reeds are hand appliqued on.

And a close up.  Possibly "Spawn" by Kathy Blondell.

"Three Sisters: Clouds Rolling In" by Sheila Finzer.  Looks like a photo!

An odd one but colorful...close up follows.

"Glorious Pears" by Karen Bates.


These were only a few of the quilts in the first (small) building. From here Chris and I walked down to the larger of the exhibition building.  Again, the following pictures are only a few that were there.

Velda Newman was the featured quilter of the show.  This was only one of her quilts featured.  We sat in on one of her lectures and learned that this quilt took her a year to make.  I wish I had taken notes from her lecture.

A more traditional block quilt.

Isn't this a gorgeous one....I have close ups on it if anyone would like to see them.

If you are a quilter you know what Chris is looking at!  What does the quilt look like on the back....???

There was so much talent displayed here...

A pineapple quilt...it could have been because it was Friday but it was quite easy to take most of the pictures without a lot of women being in them. But then women are also very nice to move out of your way when they see a camera.

There were a few men but not many.  This quilt has a feathered star center and there were no cut off tips.

The following pictures are from the 2:30 lecture that Chris and I sat in on.  As mentioned before Velda Newman was the featured artist for the show.  The following quilt was taken out at the end of her slide presentation...

This quilt took Velda two years to complete.  


These have only been a few selected pictures from the many taken.  The show was awesome.  It was a fun day spent with Chris doing what we like best looking at quilts and shopping the vendors!  We both came home with vendor goodies!


Happy Quilting Days!