Quilt Show and Cowboy Carnival

I hope that everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend. In our hometown we celebrate with a Cowboy Carnival. Things start out in the morning with horse races. We had a large turn out for the whole day, it was even more awesome that the rain skipped us this day, which has not been the case in the past.

The first two pictures here show a small part of the horse races (pun intended). Just look at these cute little horses pulling the wagons. The were such a delight to watch, and they even raced each other, here they are doing some advertising for a couple of the carnival's sponsors.


















While your looking at the sweet horses and the cowboy, check out the landscape, everything is so pretty right now.......an well it should be, we have gotten (I hear) about 8 inches of rain in May.


















Look at these skies, OMGosh is was the most beautiful day (and I have the sunburn to prove it, LOL). Along with the horse races, we also attended the sharp shoots contest, in its first year with 12 participants. There were dog races, bb gun shoot (for the wee ones), plant sale, book sale, bingo, 2 auctions, pie contest (which I was going to enter, but when I went to make my pie I found out I way out of butter for the pie crust........sigh), I know I am missing some of the events, but fun was had by all.



















Then there was food, yummmmm. And look at that line, we stood in it for 45 minutes. Alot of people attended this year. This by the way is about 1/3 of the length of the line, and that line circles around to the back there where the meat was. We understand they ran out of silverware sets which they had 500 made up.


















Also, the Quilt Show. You did not think I would post this with out some quilts. Now I have more pictures but did not want this post to be to long. I thought I would share with you my entries

The first is my Painted Quilt. It is a kit I bought from Sherry Rodgers-Harrison. She pre quilted it and sent along some pens to "color" the quilt with, but I could not resist adding embroidery, beads and crystals. It is 11.5 x 11.5 inches. Remember you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.



















My second entry is my king size Log Cabin quilt "Colors of Wyoming" I chose the color for the quilt from the colors in nature here.

AND......................DRUM ROLL PLEASE..........................

My quilt took first place in the large quilt division. This is a viewer choice award. So those who attended got to choose their favorite quilts.

The quilts award.......................























And here is the quilt..........................I was so surprised and excited. I hope to enter these quilts in the county fairs quilt show in August. I just hope people enjoy seeing them.






















Happy Memorial Day to everyone and thank you for visiting and I hope you have enjoyed a glimpse of our weekend doings.

WaHooo

Finally.........it only took two weeks of not quilting to get past the um drums. You know how it is to loss your desire to do your favorite thing because you have been doing it at high speed for so long.

Today I went down to work on my longarm, feeling a little bit ready. I had to frog a section, took about an hour, then did a little adjustment to the tension and started quilting.....4 hours later I had to quite so I could make dinner, but I was not ready. It feels good to be back at it. I don't want to over do it again, but we all know how that goes. My list of want to do is pretty long. VBG.

Here is another quilt from the quilt show for you to enjoy.

This quilt received second place in the medium size quilt category. It is a Sunbonnet Sue and is a really cute quilt.
**Remember you can click on it to make it bigger for a
closer view of the detail.














That is it for right now, I am working on some stitching which I hope to have an update on for you. Hopefully by the end of the week I will have the current quilt off the longarm so I can show it to you. It is taking somewhat longer because each block is being quilted individually with different designs. Sew........Until later.

Quilt Show First Place

Here is the First Place quilt (large) from our towns quilt show. There were about 50 quilts entered. It is interesting how different quilt shows go, with this one all the picture type quilts won peoples choice. It wasn't about quality but the picture. LOL. All the quilts chosen are lovely quilts, it is just interesting what will be chosen from one show to another.




















None of my quilts placed which upset me at first, which is silly since I didn't expect to place. I guess it is that little thing inside each of us that wants that recognition. Several people came up to me and complemented my work....what more can I ask for.

I have not been doing much on the quilting scene this last couple weeks, I guess I over did it. So instead I am doing some scrapbooking and had to work on my computer since it was running out of space....Yikes.

I will share a couple more of the quilts from the show in the next few days. I may share some of the scrapbook pages if anyone is interested. Let me know.

Until later,

Quilt Show Entry #4

Here we have quilt show entry #4 "Mystery Rose" This quilt was a mystery quilt that I did with my quilt group in Ca. I am amazed at how it all came together.















After I got it all quilted I decided to embellish the center which is raw edge appliqued. I did not put this quilt on the longarm, instead I did stitch in the ditch.

















I decided to do buttonhole stitch around the flowers and leaves, then of course it needed some beads. Remember to see a closer view, you can click on the picture.
















This is the left hand side of the applique.

















Today was the quilt show that I have entered the quilts in, what an array of beautiful quilts. I will share some of them in the next few days.

Until later.