I’ve entered my Sylvia & Louise quilt in this week’s Quilting Gallery’s Quilters’ Show & Tell.

The Quilting Gallery features a different theme each week for their show and tell, and this week’s theme is Creative Expression and/or In Memory Quilts.

There are some incredibly beautiful quilts entered, so stop by and take a look!

I’m so pleased that Diamonds & Rust won a third place ribbon at the Sauder Village Quilt Show in the Large Wall Quilts/Machine Quilted division. The quilt was designed in EQ7 and created for last year’s McCall’s Quilt Design Star contest, in which I was a finalist. Thanks for all the kind comments on the quilt; it was a labor of love!

I always get a bit nervous when I sit down to quilt a piece. It’s almost like I forget that I know how to quilt on my home machine (a fantastic Janome 7700!). I’ve done it many times before and once I start quilting I always enjoy it. I just have to get beyond my initial jitters.

I used a combination of stitch in the ditch, gentle curves with my walking foot (my Janome has an open toe Accufeed foot which gives great visibility) and free motion quilting. I tried not to overdo the free motion quilting, because there’s a lot going on with the design of the quilt. I used it in the yellow background in the center, the lightest blue backgrounds and the teal in the middle border. I did a simple stipple and I’m really pleased with how it came out.

In the next few days I should have photos of it hanging in the show, as well as the quilt I featured in my last blog entry.

I dropped off both quilts today and I’m looking forward to seeing them hanging with the other 400 quilts on Tuesday when the show opens! Several friends are showing quilts and I hope to post photos of their lovely work too, if they give me the okey dokey.

Enjoy your week!