I have just returned from a wonderful week in the Houston TX area where I was teaching and meeting many great quilters.
I even got a minute to stop on the side of the road and enjoy springtime in Texas.
I love the fields of blue and white, I have never seen the white poppies before, they are beautiful.
My special treat from Michael was to have a morning at an antique show, it reminded me of an Easter egg hunt as I browsed through many different booths and found a little bit of everything from buttons to hidden treasures.
What fun! – You could say I found a whole wagon load of quilts with colors as bright and happy as Easter eggs. See the slide-show below for a few of the quilts that I saw at the show.
Click on the photo to advance or wait for the show to run.
I love going to flea markets and antique shows, a simple bouquet of flowers in an unusual pot becomes an inspiration.
In the end of my Easter hunt, I was one happy girl – while I didn’t have any chocolate eggs in my basket, I did find this fantastic quilt!
I love the colors and the size of the pieces that are 1/2″ finished, I just could not leave this one behind and had to bring it home with me…
At home, the true egg hunt was underway!
My girls tried something new this year for coloring our eggs, we wrapped them in pieces of old silk ties, then boiled them in a water/vinegar solution to cook.
It was amazing how the colors and patterns from the silk was transferred to the eggs!
Then we proceeded with the traditional egg coloring to create our rainbow eggs.
Easter Sunday turned out to be a wonderful day, with family and beautiful weather – you can’t ask for more. I hope your day was great as well!
So many quilts in one show, what luck. Did you happen to take more pictures of the quilt (?) at the bottom of pic 9 in your slideshow, the one that has a 1836 date? It looks so intriguing.
Thank you for sharing your lovely stop at the antique show. Glad you got to take something home that will last longer than chocolate!
how did you keep the fabric on the eggs while they were boiling? They are beautiful!
Karen
Hello Karen, we wrapped the silk around the egg and used a rubber band to keep it closed on the end. We then used a second layer of plain fabric around the silk and tied it with a string.
Edyta
I enjoyed seeing all the photos from Texas and was happy to see that you brought yourself home a new treasure!! I love the silk dyed eggs and think I’m going to have to try this process.
Thanks for sharing…it’s always a treat for me!!
Thanks for sharing your finds, they are all lovely.
what a wonderful post. Loved the slide show! Beautiful eggs. – the colors are sumptuous!
Sue
Thanks so much for coming to Tri-County quilt guild and showing us your beautilful quilts. I really enjoyed your presentation and the class was phenominal! We all really enjoyed getting to meet Michael as well. Looking forward to the new book coming out in May!
Shelly
What a wonderful quilt to bring home!! The colors are really bright — reminds me of the quilt on the cover of your new book. I have silk ties — thought I’d make a quilt out of them “someday” — may have to rethink that. Welcome back to Michigan — this cold weather should return to Spring SOON!!
and Texas loved you. Whoop !!!!
OMG Edyta…what a beautiful slide show of quilts….luv the ironing board….and I think I have 2 of the old wooden ones in the basement. I know I have one for sure….My mom always made boiled eggs at Easter that were wrapped in silk….my grown boys even mentioned them this year, they remember them well. I have a lot of my DH’s silk ties and next year I will surprise them and the grandpeeps with some gorgeous Easter eggs. Thanks for sharing…see you at the GAAQG in July….hugs from Michigan, where did our spring go???… it is sEw dang cold and windy!!!
I loved all the quilts I saw.I am working on my 2nd quilts from Edyta’s book