Seven Sisters Quilt Show

This last weekend was the Seven Sisters Quilt Show. There are seven large mountains in the San Luis Obispo for which the show is named. 

There are six guilds that participate in the annual show.

Below are the quilts I had in this year's show:

All That Glitters:  This is a reverse applique quilt that I've shown on the blog before. It was done as part of a group challenge.

Mars Moonscapes: This one has some of my itajime and arashi shibori fabrics with hand quilting and embroidery.

Tsunami Sunrise - This is with lots of tedious, but to me enjoyable, fabric manipulation.

This week's stitch for my TAST Facebook group was the wheatear.  It was a fun one.

Hand Quilting Itajime Piece

This morning I finally got a date for my surgery after the insurance folks tried every delay in the book. It's scheduled for the third week of October.  Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish up a piece to enter in an upcoming show. Sometimes I have so many ideas on how I can do that and sometimes not a one. Something I find helpful to do is to lay a clear transparency over the piece and use water soluble markers to plan a design. Then if I don't like it, I can erase and try another one. Below is a picture showing this.

To figure out what thread would be best, I audition a variety of them on top of the quilt, unspooling a couple yards of each. I decided on Sulky variegated long staple cotton 12 weight threads. 

New Itajime and Arashi Shibori Quilt

Here is a picture of my newest quilt all sewn together.  I can see lots of great places for hand stitching on this one.

Below is a closeup.