2017 Big Sky Quilt Retreat Entries

The Big Sky Quilt Retreat took place at the Shrine in Billings, Montana on March 8th - 11th.  Setup was on Tuesday, March 7th and tear down was Saturday, March 11th.  We dropped the quilt racks off at the storage shop on Sunday, March 12th and called it a year.

Following are the quilts the boys and I entered in the 2017 Big Sky Quilt Retreat.

We of Artistic Vision had a special display during the show.  I put 2 items in their show.

Handwork Category:

Art Category:

Vintage Category:

Small Quilt Category:

Machine Quilting Category:

Picture of Wrought Iron Daugherty hanging at the Big Sky Quilt Retreat:

I didn't think the picture of Wrought Iron Daugherty hanging at the show was wonderful so I took another photo when we arrived home.  This may give a better overall idea of what the wall hanging looks like.

Challenge Category:

Picture of More Than A Double Wedding Ring at the Big Sky Quilt Retreat.  It was hung near the top of the quilt rack on a sheet so the picture did not turn out very well.

More Than A Double Wedding Ring photo when we arrived home.

Large Category:

Glacier Star hanging at the show:

The Big Sky Quilt Retreat has People's Choice voting that takes place Thursday and Friday of the retreat.  Then, results are tabulated and ribbons are placed on quilts on Friday night.  Viewers on Saturday see the ribbons all day Saturday.

Glacier Star received the third place ribbon in the Large Category.

The top 3 quilts in the Large Category were all Judy Niemeyer patterns.

Miscellaneous Category:

Medium Large Category:

Although I had 3 quilts in the Medium Large Category, they were not seen.  I quilted them with white fabric on the back.  Then, I used these three quilts to pin smaller quilts on during the show.

Keegan entered 2 quilts in the show.

Youth Category by Keegan:

House by Keegan won a third place ribbon in the Youth Category.

Dillon entered 2 quilts in the Youth Category.

  

 The boy's quilts hanging together at the Big Sky Quilt Retreat:

I was in charge of organizing the quilt show section of the retreat.  This is the first year that we have had the category of Machine Quilting.  I thought that may need a bit of additional explanation if we had non-quilters in the viewing audience.  I had used these two small split rail fence tops as a border demo with Mary L. at QBA.  So, I quilted one and used both as a machine quilting demo.

As with everything, there is room for improvement.  I just have to keep getting better - I hope.