Allen Quilt Guild Silent Auction

This is a small guild in a town northeast of Dallas. http://allenquilters.org/   There are very friendly and welcoming. 

Last Thursday was their silent auction and sale.  The fat quarters were on sale for $.50.  I restrained myself because I really have lots of fabric.  They sold preowned notions and panels also.  Then there were items in the auction. 

Here are my treasures:

I am going to save one of the desktop organizers for a gift.  The boxed pouch will be used for EPP notions - needle threader, scissors, etc.

I am almost embarrassed to say I only spent $35 on my loot

Rally Day 2019 - Pam Holland

This post is late!  Rally Day is in July.  It is put on by TAQG (Texas Association of Quilt Guilds) It's an annual event with a guest speaker.  If you are a member of one of the associated guilds entry is only $5.  There are lots of door prizes, raffles, silent auction. Most of the guilds bring their raffle quilt to sell tickets. 

There are two lectures/trunk shows from the guest speaker.  This year the speaker was Pam Holland.  She is a wonderful artist and speaker.  It was so fun and inspiring.  After speaking she had her quilts out for us to get closer looks.  Some of her quilts:

these were laid out on the steps of the stage.  The elephant is one of my very favorites:

The speaker was selling things and I picked up this print of a sketch she'd made.  It was $6 and just a lovely reminder or her art and a great day spent with friends.

Also the first 500 people get goody bags with donations from all the guilds.

Small Landscape finished

This quilt was also at the quilt show.  A non-judged exhibit where members show projects they made from guild workshops the previous year.

This was from Ann Loveless' workshop in January.  I like it.  I never finished my poppies quilt from her other workshop.  I am not happy with it.  It is sitting in a drawer having a bit of a time out

Bethane Nemesh's class The Devil is in the Details.

I have been a fan of her work since I first saw it a few years ago.  She spoke at our guild Thursday night and it was an excellent lecture.

Today I had the pleasure of taking a class.  Someday I would like to take another class from her.  She is a great teacher.

Some of her quilts hanging in the classroom:

some of her samples:

she supplied us with small quilted samples to try techniques. Below is some of my work.  It was so much fun.

Good Fortune Bonnie Hunter Mystery Finished.

This was the other quilt I finished for the quilt show.  I helps me to have a deadline otherwise my projects languish.

Caveat, I love doing Bonnie's mysteries but I start rushing in my piecing and points aren't perfect much of the time.

Play Modern from a workshop with Gyleen Fitzgerald

Recently I had two quilts in the Plano Guild Show. They were not of a quality to be competitive but I wanted to participate and use the opportunity to finish a couple quilts. Of course the Judges gave some compliments and critiques. I was explaining how judging works to my granddaughter France. She gave me a double edged compliment saying, " I don't care what they say - in our house it's a masterpiece!"

One of the judge's critiques was that it wasn't quilted modern - valid-I had entered it under modern.  I did wavy lines, moving into leaves and then flowers in the big cubes.  I debated straight line quilting in the background which I think I would have preferred but once I started quilting wavy I stayed with that rather than rip out.  I have no issue with the judges comments.  It is simply information to file away if I wish to be more competative.

Here is a closer view of the quilting.