Last week I went with friends to spend a few days in Northern Virginia. We rented a little house with a living room/dining room combo large enough for us all to set up and do some quilting, we went to a local quilt show, and we tried to visit some quilt shops.

Here are some of my favorite quilts from the Northern Shenandoah Valley Quilt Show, presented by multiple guilds from the area.

The theme of the show was “My Favorite Color is Plaid”. Members of the local Modern  Guild challenged themselves to make small modern quilts using fabric from plaid shirts.

“Curved Plaids” by Heidi Haynes was made for the plaid challenge in the traditional category

Springtime in Plaid Land, made by Susan Adams, was an interesting entry in the plaid challenge

Intersections, made by Melissa Mattice, was another interesting entry in the plaid challenge

Mexican Star Dance, made by Elaine Breiner

The quilt above was one of many well made, beautiful quilts in the show. I was especially interested in it because the pattern is by Annette Ornelas, who will be speaking at one of my guilds soon.

As for the shopping, we did some at the show but found that most local shops were closed in order to vend at the show. Of course, we really didn’t need anything so we went happily back to our rented house and sewed for a few more days! I didn’t finish anything, so further show-and-tell will have to wait 😀