Throwback Thursday - More Quilts from The Quilts Show - The Ribbon Winners

Welcome back to The Joyful Quilter and another edition of Throwback Thursday!!  We usually go a bit further back in time, but today we are headed back to the Capital Quilters Guild Show from last weekend.  I shared a few photos in yesterday's Wonderful Wednesday post, but took so many quilt photos that I decided to separate out the ribbon winners.

Enjoy the eye candy!!!

Congratulations to the following winning quilts...

I captured this one for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge friends:

Along with this one for those who enjoy a modern rainbow vibe:

This one is for the cat lovers among my readers:

Here's a photo for the traditional quilt lovers out there:

Of course, I had to get a photo for the T-Quilt makers among us:

And I captured the following quilt photo for Britt:

Why, Joyful???

Because the multicolored print featured prominently in the quilt (shown right beside the show label) is the same fabric that Britt as the cover of her current tag journal project:

After seeing all the quilts in the show and reviewing the photos I took...

This might have been my favorite...

The reason is probably two-fold.  The pattern has been on my "To Make" list for quite some time and you know I absolutely LOVE scrappy quilts.  Even the ones with a constant/consistent background:

Congratulations to the following big winners...

Thanks for coming along with me to the quilt show!  I hope you enjoyed the quilts I shared.  Were there more winners?  Yes!  I just took photos of the ones that captured my attention for one reason or another.  Thank you, Capital Quilters Guild for your hard work.   It was a really good show!

Until next time...

Have fun with FABRIC!!!

Wonderful Wednesday - Fiber, Fabric, and Friends

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  Today I'm here to share last week's fiber and fabric adventures.  This past weekend I attended Carolina Fiber Fest and the Capital Quilt Guild Show.

Come with me to see the highlights from Friday...

These three friends from my Knit Group met me at Lou's Bakery in Mebane:

I ran into a friend from Quilt Guild: 

And met one of the members from the Quilters Knitting group on Ravelry:

Saturday at the Fiber Fest...

You may not be aware, but I love all things Iris.  It's my favorite flower and I fervently wanted to bring this yarn home with me:

This morning I was accompanied by this beautiful soul:

Oh, look!!  A knitted quilt:

Speaking of quilting...

Carol from my Weekly Quilt Group on my way out:

Then I was on my way to visit the Quilt Show...

I bought a raffle ticket for this quilt:

I also saw a few small quilts that I quite liked... 

A sweet little mosaic:

This interestingly constructed garden quilt:

And a modern wall hanging in a favorite color combo of mine:

There were plenty of other quilts on display...

But this unusual "T-shirt" quilt made of hockey towels...

 And this lovely rainbow quilt particularly caught my eye:

Kirsten and I ended up both shopping at Schoolhouse Quilts at the same time:

It was good to see my friend Carolyn and catch up a little bit.  She was the first quilter I met when we moved to North Carolina more than 2 decades ago:

The winning quilts that I photographed will be featured in tomorrow's post.  Come back then for more quilty eye candy.

In case you were wondering...

These were the only purchases I made all weekend:

Along with a cute quilty hair clip that I've already managed to misplace.  :o((

Until next time...

Have fun with fiber, FABRIC, and friends!!!

The 100 Day Project 2026 - #100Days100ThingsDecluttered - Week 3

Welcome to the 2026 edition of #100Days100ThingsDecluttered, a new mini-series here at The Joyful Quilter!!  I started The 100 Day Project last week.  I'm excited that I've committed to it, again.  It's particularly popular on Instagram.  I was hesitant to participate before last year.  I'll be releasing weekly updates on Tidy Up Tuesday for those of you who might be interested in seeing what goes out the door.

What did you say your project was, again, Joyful???

I signed up with a different idea in mind than most.  You can read about it HERE.  That link will tell you all about my project.

The gist of my focus...

Decluttering my home and studio in an effort to free up space for MORE creativity.

Here's my progress for Week Three:

I'm trying to identify a single item each day that can go.  If I miss a day or two, I try to gather a few items each day when I jump back in, as I find decluttering less overwhelming using this method.

I got rid of the following items:

1 cardboard box

7 T-shirts (from the offspring's old room)

1 bag of trash and broken items (collected from DH's shop)

Week 3 Total:  9/100

Updated 100 Day Project Total: 44/100

Thank you to those of you who encouraged me in my decluttering efforts as I kicked off this challenge!  I appreciate your kind comments and your willingness to cheer me along.  Cherie @ See More Quilts commented by reporting her own decluttering progress:

I passed on a bag of mixed sized fabrics, from 2 yard cuts to 4” squares. By weight it was 6 yards total. In other areas I trashed 2 pair of used up shoes and mailed off a box of vintage McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to a youngster who is having fun with them as I type! 

 

Way to go, Cherie!

@dothe100dayproject

#The100DayProject

#DoThe100DayProject

#100Days100Things_TheDeclutterEdition

#100Days100ThingsDecluttered

#filltheboxjoy

Come back next week to see what goes in the box during the next 7 days.  You can also follow me on Instagram @thejoyfulquilter, if you are there more often than in BlogLand.

Until next time...

Do the 100 Day Project!!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 11

Welcome to Week 11 of the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This is going to be another mixed up week.  Wanna see???  We'll get to that momentarily.  Let's start with a bit of...

URGENT Scrappy News!!!

I contributed a block (3rd from L in 5th row down) for the first Scrap Club Group Quilt.  The group's leader assembled and quilted it.  The quilt, titled Window Seats, hung at the Scottish Quilting Show in Glasgow, Scotland from Thursday - Saturday, March 3 - 7, 2026.

Photo credit: Kristen @ Scrap Fabric Love

Come on!  Let's see how the last 7 days unfolded ...

SUNDAY - ProjectQUILTING

My Weekly Morning Art Zoom time was spent on this page in my Collage Scraps journal...

Later a Zoom call with Knittingsuek followed:

MONDAY - Art Day

Tammy Kaye hosted another FREE watercolor workshop on painting her Loose Florals:

Since that was a midmorning class, I decided that I had time to get to the grocery store and back before time to meet for my Weekly Zoom Call with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

TUESDAY - TidyUp Tuesday

I went to Britt's house for another ART-venture.  She has other plans for Thursday so we worked in our Ledger journals again this morning...

During Tuesday Explorers Open Studio at Get Messy, I put the finishing touches on my QuiltCon page in my personal journal:

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

During Midweek Meetup I used bits from an old Vicki Boutin paper pack to create another page in my Collage Scraps journal:

After lunch I enjoyed another Art Zoom with my friend Belinda...

I worked on the Watercolor lesson from last month's Season of Fertile Ground at Get Messy.  It was a challenging painting for me.  I'm not one to paint animals, but I really like how the person's face and hair turned out:

THURSDAY - Weekly Quilt Group met at @ Lynda's, but I stayed home since I drove to "Hboro" on Tuesday and will be heading to Raleigh tomorrow.  It was a good call, as it poured rain today!  Instead, I attended another FREE watercolor workshop hosted by Tammy Kaye.  Here is my (somewhat imbalanced) floral arrangement based on our reference image found in the book Flower Color Theory:

This is Tammy's interpretation, adding blue flowers to her twigs, based on a class vote:

Later, I watched the replay of a class I missed early in the week with a new-to-me artist.  Chicago-based artist, Nicholas Holman, taught a class called From Blank Page to Simple Landscape.  Here are my light and cloudy landscapes from the lessons:

FRIDAY - Knit Group

We're heading out on a field trip to Carolina Fiber Fest in Raleigh:

I skipped Get Messy's Friday Friends Open Studio and my Weekly Evening Art Zoom today.  I wasn't near a computer in the early afternoon and was visiting DS1 tonight.

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  I was late to the party, but I'll fill you in on Wednesday's post.

In the meantime, here are the RED scraps that I've been playing with this week:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!