HMQS 2014 Quilts in Review

Today I had the fortune of visiting the HMQS 2014 show here in Salt Lake City Utah where I live.  I have gone to the show for the last 3 years.  As a some what new quilter I have been influenced a lot by it as its the only quilt show I have ever gone too.

I took well over 100 pictures and have posted them on my pictures site for any one not able to go to the show you can visit and check them out.  While visiting my picture site if you rate the pictures it will send you to the next un-rated picture in the categories on the picture.  I am interested on what quilts you guys like.

It was so much fun walking around and looking at quilts.  I did not take pictures of all of the quilts.  But then again I took way over 100 pictures so I must have liked a few.  Some pictures I took because I liked the colors. Others I took because I liked a technique used in the quilt.

I am humbled when going to this show because it shows me really how much I have still to learn.  Being a new quilter (only 2 1/2 years) I may have made many quilts but I have not made any really difficult quilts.

This year there were not as many modern quilts as last year.  I am not really a modern quilter but I like the modern quilting and would really like to work more on my modern skills.

It is interesting to see how amazing the quilting is on many of these quilts.  I have realized that I am much more into piecing quilts then I am a quilter.  I struggle a lot with my quilting skills.

I have decided that I really want to get a long arm and start upping my quilting game.  Now that I have have decided I need to get a long arm I need to learn more about them and how to quilt with them.

But then again I don't even know where to get that knowledge.  I do know that as a guy at a quilt show I am some what ignored.  Most assume that I was some husband dragged though the show not a quilter in search of more skills to add to the quilt tool bag.

All in all I love the quilt show and hope that if you enjoy these quilts that I have shared here that you will check out the other quilts on my picture site.

If you love these please view my other pictures on my picture site.

Purple Circular Triangle Quilt Top

I had so much fun last few weeks doing the Triangle quilt along that I had to make another one.  I designed this quilt top on EQ7 and I think it turned out pretty good.  I enjoyed the Minky on the last triangle quilt that I think I am going to have Tanya find me another one for the back of this one too.  My Daughter Rebecca was looking at it and asking if it was for her.  LOL nope it was just made because I wanted too.

I have talked in the past about my patterns on Etsy.  I have never quite figured out what makes the top quilts on the top but from time to time mine pop up.  2-3 weeks ago I found this one where 4-6 on the top 20 were mine.  Tonight I posted a new pattern for my 25 square quilts (I am making a purple one you can see the top on Instagram).  As normal for any of my blog followers if you visit the pattern on Craftsy and comment on it and then come back here and leave a comment you can have a free copy of the pattern.

Hearts for all

Today seemed like a good day to just share a heart with others!

Link A Finish Friday #116

Here are some great linked up items from last week.

Architecture Quilt - Knit N Kwilt

Finish it up Friday - KatyQuilts

Fabric Mountains - Ella and Nesta's Little Room

Swoon Pillow - Quilt in a Not-Shell

Tic Tac Hashtag - Meadow Mist

Now it is time to share what you have been working on.

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Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

My Triangles End in Disaster!!!

You might ask how it all ends in Disaster if I have a incredibly cute quilt to show for my efforts.  Simple I got my quilt done and then I washed it.  Well that does not seem so bad how did it all crash and burn.

I took my quilt out side to take pictures on the back lawn (I cant believe it is green already)  I had a lot of fun and got some great pictures (more of them below) when all of a sudden I stop the above seam.  I hate when I do this.  I hate it even more when I don't notice it at a point that it could be easier to fix.  My guess looking at it I must have when sewing my 2 triangle rows together had a seam that caught just barely on the edge.  During the wash it fizzled out and wamo I have a hole in my quilt.

I have fixed bobo's in the past in various ways.  The most horrible of which is just a bunch of ugly zig zags to hold my hole together and better was applique something cute over the hole (if you cant see it I am sure its not there) but heck what would look good with all of my triangles?

Any way with the pouting of my mess out of the way I want to show off my wonderful messed up quilt.  The back looks totally amazing with the echo quilted triangles over my yellow minky back.

I toyed around with quilting the edges and keeping the triangles intact.  But in the end I chopped them off.  I leaned a lot from doing these triangles and will be making more of them.