Off To The Fair!

Today I took three of my quilts and entered them in the Great Frederick County Fair to be judged and scrutinized! This is my first time entering my quilts in any sort of contest.

These are the quilts and their categories:

Cosmos Starburst -- Long Arm Quilted by Another

Citrus Simply Woven -- Made by Group

Prospect Park Triangles -- Made by Machine Quilting

I was able to enter up to three different quilts among the 25 quilt categories (yes, 25!) so I decided to just go for it and enter some of my most recent finishes. Park Ranger Husband thought that I should definitely enter his Civil War quilt, but I told him that I couldn't because it hadn't been finished in the last year. He was quite disappointed.

The judging takes place next Friday but is closed, so I am not quite sure how/when I will find out the results! Next Saturday the buildings with the quilts will be open to the public, so you bet your life that I am going to be there with bells on when they open!

Since the fee for entering items includes a week long pass to the fair, I might be tempted to go every day and get fair food. This is a terrible idea since the following week is my sister's wedding and there will be zero time to alter my bridesmaid dress if I gain five pounds from eating funnel cakes every day for a week.

Happy Saturday!

Finished Triangle Quilt

Hooray! It's finished!

Here are some work in progress pictures that I didn't have a chance to post:

Quilting:

Trimming

Finished Quilt! Sorry, no artsy pictures today because my husband isn't here to hold it up for me and it's raining outside.

I quilted it with a meandering curly cue and found this taupe-grey with metallic dots fabric at Joann to use at the backing that matches perfectly to the fabrics in the quilt! I also used it for the binding.

This was my ALYoF goal for April and I am so excited to be 4 for 4 this year! Now to think of what I need to finish in May!

Linking up with The Sassy Quilter, ALYOF, Fabric Tuesday, and Linky Tuesday!

Tuesday Triangles

Hooray! I've completed the top of my triangle quilt!

Here's some of my rows all together:

It was a lot easier for me to sew them together in rows diagonally rather than rows across to keep track of which way to iron my triangles and to keep them in the right order!

Here's the whole quilt sewn together and the sides trimmed:

It needs a good press before it gets layered to quilt, but before that I need to get a batting and a backing together! Thinking that I might do a pieced backing for this one, but not entirely sure yet! Need to stare at my (now-organized!) stash and see what matches well.

I've already decided that I want to bind it in either solid black or solid dark grey with the entirety of the quilt in prints. But I am SO happy with how it has turned out and that I get to knock one more quilt style off my "to-do" list.

Linking up with The Sassy Quilter's Triangle QAL, Fabric Tuesday, Linky Tuesday, and WIP Wednesday.

Triangle Quilt Progress and ALYoF April Goal

Dual purpose post!

My ALYoF goal for April is to get my Triangle quilt top put together, quilted, and bound.

Here's my progress on getting all of those things done as a part of the Triangle Quilt Along.

I decided to go with my eight colors in diagonal stripes across the quilt instead of random placement. I didn't think I had enough different colors to have random placement without making myself completely insane, so I just went the easy route with a pattern.

I have a few rows sewn together, but still quite a few rows to go.

Happy Sunday to you!

Triangle Quilt Along -- Fabric Choices

I've decided that I'm going to take the plunge and make a triangle quilt with The Sassy Quilter's Triangle Quilt Along!

My fabrics are half-yards from Kitty Yoshida's Prospect Park Line. I actually had already decided that I wanted to make a triangle quilt with these fabrics and had set them aside for this project and now I get to be inspired by lots of others as well!

Check out what everyone else has pulled from their stashes for this project here!