This was my spot during the three days of
the 23rd Annual Davies Manor Quilt Show
for my Dumpster Diving display and demo.
(L to R: DD3-Waterfall,
DD2-Good Morning Sunshine,
and DD1-Willy Nilly)
Here are the same three quilts looking from the
wall towards the center of the room.
On the back side were the other three completed DD quilts.
(L to R: DD4-The Christmas Edition,
DD5-Catharsis,
and DD6-Lagniappe)
Over the course of the three days,
in between talking to show visitors
and explaining the scrappy process,
I stitched together the purple and green strips
and assembled 45 DD triangles in squares
that will become DD 7 - Respite.
(layout TBD)
I also sat and chain pieced solids
for what will become DD8 - Bella.
It was such fun to see peoples' eyes light up
with the possibilities of these 1.5" strip segments
as they realized they didn't need a pattern.
Elsewhere in the show area . . .
sCRUMBtious hung in the
machine pieced-machine quilted area.
Conundrum was in the Small Wall Quilt category . . .
. . . as was Mosaic.
MO Color Story was in the Large Wall Quilt category.
My cross stitch pillow and a scrappy Christmas runner
were in the Accessories category.
And April Showers was part of the smaller
but still amazing exhibit of BLUE challenge quilts
from earlier this year.
Next year the Davies Challenge will follow
the same 24" x 24" approach
but with the theme of GREEN.
I have three ideas and I'd like to make them all.
Time will tell!
Little Man made a marble bag
with the help of Miss Andrea
and her hand crank sewing machine.
It was awesome to see the difference
in his ability and understand
And this big bag full of now-freshly-laundered fabric
was my take-away from various vendors.
The local Modern Guild had four tables of fabrics
for sale this year - their members clean out
their stashes and sell the bounty to
raise funds for their dues and speakers -
so we all benefit.
I picked up a set of 31 hand pieced
churn dash/hole in the barn door blocks
that have been hand washed in Orvus soap
(three times before the water was reasonably clear)
and are now drying flat between towels.
And there are enough random scrap pieces
from the grab bags to start cutting 1.5" strips
for a "someday" spiderweb quilt.
* * *
It was a busy and worthwhile weekend.
Next comes the "take down" day
and the "give back" day
and then this year's show will be done.
Quiltdivajulie
