Quilts at h + h show!!

 So have you heard of  h + h americas??  It is a newish trade show for all things handmade that has pretty much taken the place of Spring Quilt Market.  Like spring market, it is a trade show for people making a living in crafts, so again, not open to the general public.   I look forward to being able to attend someday, but for now, I was lucky enough to have some of my quilts attend at this years show!!

This is my Wandering Star quilt, along with the amazing Lissa Alexander from Moda giving a booth tour :)   My quilt was the first stop on the tour so a grabbed a still from Lissa's video.    I have to say, getting asked to make a sampler of my own quilt design, so awesome!!!   Wandering Star will be the newest Happy Quilting Pattern coming this summer!!   You all know I love stars, and combining two different stars in this quilt was oh so much fun!!  I am also teaching this quilt at Garden of Quilts in September, so fun :)  And as you can see, the stunning fabrics I made this with are called Seaglass Summer by Sweetfire Road.   It will be available in Jan 2025, and it is just gorgeous!!  Of course, I was totally drawn to it because of those perfect purple prints :)

Next up, it's over to the Riley Blake booth.  I was asked by my good friends at Riley Blake to sew a few samples for this show.   And I was absolutely honored to make the Prairie Patchwork Quilt featuring Melissa Gilbert's (Laura Ingles from Little House on the Prairie) first fabric line, A Walk on the Prairie.  This quilt was such a fun one to make with all of that beautiful patchwork.   And I had even more fun custom quilting it for the show.   And what an honor to have Melissa Gilbert standing right there by the quilt I made, just so cool!!  A Walk on the Prairie will be coming in Sept. along with the pattern for this gorgeous Prairie Patchwork quilt by Modern Prairie.  

And the other sample I got to sew was this beautiful Mansfield Park Gate quilt!! I love that Riley Blake is making Jane Austin fabric lines, they are all just so lovely.  And boy oh boy, this quilt was some super fun patchwork!!!   Yes, that gate is made entirely of 1" finished strips, how cool is that :)  And again, I had oh so much fun custom quilting this for the show.   I did a wavy crosshatch in the center and then lots of custom work on the borders.   Again, just a joy to make . . . And you don't have to wait quite so long to make your own as this fabric ships in August.   

And those were the quilts that I made hanging in the h + h americas quilt show ;)   And it is also why I was a little quieter in April here, as I was behind the scenes making all 3 of these, tee hee hee.    I am so hoping that next year, or maybe the year after that, I will get to go and see the show in person!!  

Did you watch any of the booth tours from the show??   The nice thing is, there is so much video and social media, it is "almost" like you are there in person anyways ;)