sunday inspiration

saturday was a fantastic fun day for me....two friends invited me to tag along to a local quilt show...rain held off until i got out of the car at home...LOL!   here are a few that caught my eye...

nice representation of kaffe's wild fabrics....there was another done similarly but without the sashing...not as effective...the sashing is needed for a visual resting place to really appreciate the prints i think...

there were very few hand quilted pieces that i saw, but this one was done so beautifully...the flowers were painted on and then hand quilted for accentuation....there was a bit of some glittery stuff too, giving it a wow in my book....like irises in the morning sun with dew glistening on petals...

another that caught my eye...so simple yet delightfully appealing because of the fabrics...i thought hmm i have plenty in my stash that would work...perhaps a smaller scale?  

there were a few of these, a mini-challenge i think....the perennial tomato pincushion....i heard many say they had one from a mother or grandmother....i have my mother's as well...

another that drew me in....batiks sashed with the striking black/white stripe....crayola box on steroids....i love it...i could definitely make one albeit smaller....

there was a bed-size hawaiian, hand quilted, and some smaller hawaiian-style pieces machine quilted.  in the "bid or buy" section were small amish style hand quilted priced at $100, quite reasonable.  there was a vendor selling machine quilted table runners priced at $80...and some small pieces that were mostly thread art priced at $3500....prices unjustifiable by me or my cohorts...

i have a neighbor a bit older than myself totally frustrated and constantly complaining about the effects of aging, like why does she have to put up with these changes....and then i saw this on instagram....

it gave me a chuckle but would only increase her frustration....nothing to do really but find quality of life in spite of age....isn't that what we all do?