And the Star of the Show -- Priscilla Kibbee

Today was the March meeting of the Genesee Valley Quilt club and Priscilla Kibbee did an trunk show of some of her more recent garments. She only bought 50 of her tremendously large collection of garments as she had done a trunk show for the same audience over ten years ago. It was a fantastic show and the models did a wonderful job of showing off the jackets and coats.

Mary was wearing this beautiful turquoise outfit -- not even a Bernina outfit and look how beautiful it is!

This is the tiger jacket with appliqued tigers all over!

This was one of the garments that was featured in either the Bernina or Fairfield Fashion Show (Bernina took over the show from Fairfield).

This is Priscilla's interpretation of a Rachel Clark pattern. It just sparkled.

This is the back of a beautiful turquoise and orange jacket.

Priscilla (you can see her blog on my blog list) travels all over the world and uses many purchased textiles and embellishments in her jackets. She even creates many from patterns she has drafted.

It is truly amazing how much you can learn in just one class from her. I am a relatively competent seamstress but I learned so much about how to alter garments, structure them as well as designing for garments that are essentially three dimensional.

It is no surprise that she got a standing ovation at the end of the trunk show!! I have only seen that a couple of times in the 12 years I have been in the Club.

To see the whole show, follow this link: https://picasaweb.google.com/Elizabeth.Brandkamp/20110310GvqcMarchMeeting##

This was a stunning quilt that was part of our show and tell. I didn't get any of the names today unfortunately.

I also loved this beautiful quilt.

This is an album quilt which is our 2011 raffle quilt. It contains scenes from various Rochester area sights. It was hand quilted by Chris Wickert and if you go to the GVQC.org website, you can see a better picture than this that shows all the stitching. It is a beautiful quilt and was appraised at $8500 which is not a surprise!

This was a beautiful applique row quilt.