A Quilters Gatering

Good Morning to you! I had hoped to get here last week, but as always our week was filled with our Best Friends who were here for the week and a presentation for our quilt mini group that I was involved in hosting. We had Ms. Jeananne Wright speak to our group and share a small part of her quilt collection with us. This morning had been in the works since last year and it was wonderful.  We decorated all the tables with quilted runners and jars with buttons in them.  Love this first one!

Since Spring has been officially here(although last week was raining and cold), we decorated with that in mind.

Our greeters, Julie and Rinda.  Rinda originally started our group and has been an inspiration with quilting to all of us.

More incredible food that our group supplied.

Loretta, myself and Rinda. Loretta was the brains behind this whole morning and has the creative flair to put the extra special touches on the details. She made the cutest name tags.

Loretta and I work so well together and have a very similar style with quilting, so it is always fun to get together.  Look at all the beautiful quilts behind us.

Our Speaker  was Ms. Jeananne Wright; her presentation was on Feed Sack Quilts.  I had no idea what Feed Sacks looked like, I thought they were burlap sacks with ads on them-I was wrong. In fact, the dress and purse she is wearing were made from feed sacks.  The history of quilting always amazes me.

Come back tomorrow and you'll see her quilts.  This woman is a quilt historian, appraiser and collector with 807 quilts, ranging from the late 1880's-1970's.  I've heard her speak on Civil War Quilts and that was fabulous too.  I learned a lot of history of the era of quilting from the 30's.
It was a lot of work and I learned a lot on how to handle situations that arise, but so thankful we put it on.
Blessings on your day!
Noreen

St. Vrain Historical Society

Yesterday I had the privilege to go to Longmont's Historical Society to hear Jeananne Wright speak on a Century of Quilts. Jeananne is a quilt appraiser, antique quilt collector and gives wonderful lectures. She brought many antique quilts from her collection of 800. Where does one put that many quilts?! She covered the years between 1830-1930 and we were so lucky to see several Civil War Quilts. I didn't get photos of them, as I was sitting to far back. However, these are some of her beauties!  The next four were from the 1800's and I love the colors, especially this top one. Can you imagine cutting all those tiny squares by hand-oh my.

Two variations on a Log Cabin pattern.

This pattern is the Drunkards Path.

Love this rework.

The remaining quilts  are from the 1930's.  Love the color and appliqué on this one.

This green was a mixture of blue and orange, because the green that was prevalent in this time frame was not as pretty as this.  The Hexi's must have taken forever to make.

Believe it or not, this fabric all came from grain sacks.  Such vibrant colors.

She had many more quilts, but these are the ones that struck my fancy.  My mini group is looking into having her come and speak with us on another topic.
It was so fun and I'm glad to share these here.
Happy Tuesday!
Noreen