Wonderful Wednesday - NC Quilt Symposium Edition - Day One

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  This week, I am singing the praises of Durham Orange Quilters Guild and the North Carolina Quilt Symposium.  I haven't attended Symposium in quite some years, but DOQ was the host guild this year and it was only (one more) trip to Raleigh.  (As you may recall, I was just there twice in one week to retrieve DS1 from NCSU for Summer Break.)

The people responsible for the hang did a phenomenal job!!  I "worked the show" Thursday afternoon and all day Friday.  Each time I went through, I noticed a quilt that I hadn't spotted on my last pass.

Photos were taken during the first two days of the show and they are presented in no particular order.  Yes, I realize that this IS a photo-heavy post...

This quilt was the first to reach out and grab me.  It embraced the the theme for the show, Building Friendships - Building Skills, with the use of Friendship Star blocks.  Of course, the super-scrappy selvage blocks probably helped draw me in:

Maker tag:

You may not be able to see the texture of the fabric on the "wrinkly" side of the ironing board, but the "irony" side is obviously flat and smooth:

Apologies to the quilts maker, as the tag is blurred.  It was made for a challenge and the theme was **irony**.  I bet the organizers didn't see this depiction coming!!

Ties turned into a quilt:

Maker tag:

Some time must have passed  between the last photo and this one, as I took a shot of the maker tag BEFORE the quilt...

This quilt celebrates a special breed of people:

FINALLY, this quilt's maker was revealed:

Our quilt bee saw this quilt during the quilting process, as the quilter is a member and she wanted to bounce a design idea off the group:

The quilting turned out beautifully:

Just inside the door...

... Was THIS stunning Bargello quilt:

I'm still wondering if anyone spotted the surprise!!

I couldn't resist a shot of this adorable village:

Again, I switched my photo sequence...

The evening cityscape quilt's maker tag:

This photo is for my friends from the RSC Quilters:

There was some fine longarm quilting on it:

 

And... Here is the maker tag:

A fellow NT Nights beemate created this beauty:

Maker tag:

A mini and its maker tag in one shot:

Have you ever seen a fairy garden quilt?

Well, this one is a gnome home:

Along with its maker tag:

A grouping of challenge quilts...

I couldn't decide, but this one might have been my favorite:

Maker tag:

A group of thread painted life-like cats by Karen West:

A raw-edge appliqued landscape, best viewed at a distance:

Maker tag:

Stamping, painting and dyeing, anyone???

Another landscape, but VERY different construction:

Same maker:

En Provence, anyone???

Its maker:

Kaffe-esque, but tamed:

Maker tag:

Do you BQ???

I love the big, bold print paired with black and white:

Maker tag:

50 may have been a year or two ago, but this quilt is timeless:

Maker tag:

Hilary will like this one:

Maker tag:

Here is another textural piece:

The maker tag:

That's it for today's show post.  I hope you enjoyed the quilts that I photographed.  Please come back next week for another look at the 2017 North Carolina Quilt Symposium show.

Until next time...

Quilt happy!!!