Los Angeles County Fair Photos

I went to the Los Angeles County Fair last weekend and took a bunch of pictures. It was nice to go somewhere and see a bunch of quilts. I was thrilled to see how many people are making things and taking the time to enter them into the fair.

The pictures were really hard to shoot, because all of the exhibits were in glass cases. Additionally, they all had fluorescent lights in the cases, which seemed to reflect off the quilts. The exhibits were also all folded and the quilts often had other exhibits hanging or standing in front of them. Sigh! I did my best and hope you enjoy the quilts.

Snowballs Really Flowering

I spent the weekend in LA. No machine. I brought my handwork with me and was able to sew four Cross blocks (Flowering Snowballs)! I have said that each one takes me an hour and a half, but these, except perhaps the first, did not take me an hour and half each. I really blew through them.

One has two pinks, but I tried hard on the others to make all the corner pieces different colors. I started to run out of greens and really need to add some violet or purple to the mix. I’ll work on cutting some different colors this weekend.

Now that I have a good amount of blocks, I decided to lay them out. They are really looking good! I just love the design that is made when the blocks are set together.