Dragged and bragged

I talked about my beloved thrift shop quilts at the Miami County Quilters Guild show yesterday - appropriately titled the Drag and Brag quilt show. What a fun show it was, with a little bit of everything: great new quilts, a few antique ones, vendors, lunch and finding a few old friends too. Here are a few quilts that made me think, "I'd like to try that."

Buttons on yo-yos, I need to make one of these. This is from a Christmas quilt made by  Ruth Fladung and Dorothy Franzen.

We all have some doilies stashed away - look at the bold way Ruth Fladung used them in this quilt she made with her granddaughter Leslie Franzen.

 

More bold vintage big stitch! This quilt was worked on a silky whole cloth in 1971 by Marilyn Davies. Her daughter-in-law Sarah Davies showed the quilt, in her memory....

 

I was pleased to find a memory quilt with a good story. Annarose Hart made this quilt for her brother Gus - from jeans, including some worn by their father when he was in a roping accident (good news, he survived.....).

I promised the Drag and Brag crowd a bibliography of my talk:

Gee’s Bend: http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/explore/catalog/slideshow/index.htm

Anna Williams: http://www.equilters.com/annawilliams/index.html

International Quilt Study Center collections: http://www.quiltstudy.org/collections/

Lucille Young: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ideasv52/fryb.htm

Rosie Lee Tompkins: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121100083.html

Eli Leon: http://www.elileon.com/

Robert Cargo essay about African American quilts: http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa748.htm

An improv project: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2010/04/improvisational-quilting-tree-improv-placemats/

Pepper Cory: http://quiltflapper.blogspot.com/search/label/strange%20and%20wonderful%20quilt

http://quiltflapper.blogspot.com/2008/11/wahoo-back-on-blog-again-googles.html

Denyse Schmidt: http://www.dsquilts.com/

Modern quilters: Jacquie Gehring http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/2009/01/project-improv-wont-you-join-me.html