Astrid Works on a Traditional Dutch Quilt

Good morning!  I went to have tea with Astrid this morning, and she was busy pinning and sewing broken dishes blocks for her Dutch quilt.  Broken dishes blocks are also called hourglass or bow tie blocks.  Most quilt blocks have more than one name, as different localities name them separately.  That was back in the old days.

We have a friend who gave us some old quilting magazines, and Astrid found the article and pattern, for the Dutch quilt, in one of them.  It was from December of 2004.  If you have followed our blog much, you should know that Astrid likes making quilts that reflect the heritages of different countries.  She has done quilts for Japan, Scotland, and Ireland.  I may have missed one, but you can look at older posts and see for yourself.  

Once she gets all those blocks pieced, pressed, and squared up, her quilt should go pretty fast!

2022 Winners at the Fair(s)

We friends who quilt, decided to each put something in the fair this year.  There are five of us in our little group: Kirsten, Marsha, Jane, Astrid, and Edna.  Edna lives out-of-state, so she entered her liberated medallion quilt at her location.  The rest of us entered ours in Idaho.

Edna said she had a wonderful time at the fair.  She was so excited when she found out she got a blue ribbon on her quilt!

Astrid entered a quilt and an outfit that she sewed.  She won blue ribbons on both!  She is major awesome.

Marsha did a fine job on her paisley log cabin quilt; another first-place ribbon here.

Jane said she had a wonderful time at the fair, too!  She was quite surprised at her first-place ribbon, in the contemporary pieced class.  It is a stunner!

Here am I, Kirsten, with my winning nine-patch sampler.  It was a treat to stand up here and get my photo taken, when I came to pick up my quilt.

I may be posting photos of Marsha and her "Fair" adventures, if I can figure out how to 'add a page' to our blog.  Stay tuned and start making your own project for next year's fair.