Quilt Con Day Two

Today was chock-full of lectures with time squeezed in here and there to 1. View more quilts in the show; 2. Buy some fabric; and 3. Charge my phone.

This is my choice for best in show so far:

So stunning. I love the fade, I love the blues, I love the funky, wild blocks. This is in contention for the guest room quilt for sure. It is also not actually the prize winner for best in show. The one that won it has very little negative space and I find its winning Best in Show a bit puzzling.

Anyway.

This is another fave:

I can't do it for the guest room quilt because I have already bought the background fabric and I definitely didn't get enough to make it this much of the quilt. But I see making a version of this as a baby quilt - come on, somebody I know, get pregnant!

I'm always a sucker for rainbow quilts.

A glacier? Africa? What's with the newspaper-y boat at the bottom? Such pretty blues.

I do like this pattern but I think what I really like is the calming colors.

Another quilt following the oval-and-wedge script, I think.

This one was titled "That Twitch".

"You other bruthas can't deny...."

Some blocks I saw that I particularly liked:

The way this block goes together with its identical twins to form the whole quilt was fantastic.

I suppose this might drive me crazy to actually make, particularly if I make a whole quiltful of them, but it looks so cool!!

As you can tell, this quilt had a bunch of these blocks in different colors. I like the quilting, too.

I took pictures of a lot of blue quilts! But I'm pretty sure I like the format of them all, and not just the color choice.

Here are some quilting patterns I particularly liked and want to try out;

I like the back and forth lines with the little knob on the end. Although now that I'm posting it I'm wondering if it's not a bit overtly phallic?

I like the big loop-de-loos.

I like the swirl in the middle with the feather effect sweeping up off of it.

Swirls mixed with pebbles to great effect.

And this is the kicker as far as the quilting I saw today. How great is this!?

I took a picture of this one just to send to the couple of Benedict Cumberbatch fans I know. It is an amazing likeness:

There was one of Jared Padalecki that was not nearly as recognizable. There is one of Conan O'Brien that is recognizable - I'll try to get a pic tomorrow. It's fantastic. Of course, when I saw it today, my phone had died.

Today's QuiltCon experience was truncated due to a sick husband and needy children. Luckily, I have had a friend agree to watch the kids tomorrow so I can go back. I won't get to go early as I had planned and I think I'll miss my first lecture, but hey! I'm going! I think I've been through almost all of the show. I'm still hunting for a cutting doohickey that I saw my very first day. I hope I can find it tomorrow. I also spoke with a Sulky rep and have been looking covetously at the metallic thread being used to quilt with. I've seen it used sparingly, here and there in certain areas of a quilt on several of them in the show and I love how that works. But I don't want to buy just to buy. I need an idea in mind that I intend to carry out! So, I'm trying to come up with a valid idea by tomorrow. :-)