The Quilter's Guild of East Texas so kindly allowed us to have a booth this year at the 2018 Azalea Quilt Show. We were so excited to have the space to promote our guild and let quilter's know about the modern quilters in town.
We decorated our booth with mini and small quilts made by members of our guild and with a few lawn chairs from my porch. :)
There was a wonderful turnout for the quilt show and our volunteers stayed busy all day Friday and Saturday talking to people about modern quilting and the Modern Quilt Guild. Thanks so much to Amanda Hines and Heather Grant for the promotional materials from the MQG for our booth!! We gave out tons of cards and got so many emails to add to our newsletter list that we ran out of spots on the paper to write them!
Thanks to all the volunteers from our guild who manned the booth to promote our group. And a special thanks to Ruben Gutierrez, Ben Harvey and David Harvey for helping with set up and take down.
Quiltcon 2018 has come and gone. Our guild was lucky to have four members who were able to go. And of course, our first Quiltcon Charity Quilt.
I think each of us noticed different things about Quiltcon this year. Like the increase in big stitch hand quilting, the use of variegated threads for quilting, and even some quilts that were tied. I was able to go to a leadership panel where I learned so much about other guilds. And as usual, the classes were awesome.
Here are just a few quilts that I particularly enjoyed. I hope I have the credit page for each quilt and I will post those as well. For more Quiltcon quilts, please check out https://www.quiltcon.com/.
I didn't get the credit page for this lovely tied quilt. So sorry to the maker.
I think my very favorite was the "I am Enough" quilt by Jessica Levitt. It's a sentiment most of us need to hear but never do. We need to practice telling ourselves this as well as telling others.
