Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show

I took a trip up to Portland, Oregon over the weekend to meet up with a group of ladies from the HGTV message board. As part of our get together, we jumped on a bus and headed to Sisters for the outdoor quilt show. It was a wonderful trip. I want to say that I read in their pamphlet that they were expecting 20,000 people for this one day event. The article also said that it took 500 volunteers to hang the 1,300 quilts that were there.

We got off the bus and headed toward the quilt show when we saw this van greeting everyone. It was totally covered with this custom quilt. Isn't it amazing?
Here is a little sampling of what was there. I know I didn't see every quilt there was, but I sure got an eye full. Plenty to look at and lots of inspiration. Enjoy the show.

Inside one of the buildings, they had a group of fractured quilts. I tried to look for a good description of what a fractured quilt is and just couldn't find one. Basically, there is a picture that get divided into sections, each participant get a section and recreates their part of the picture with fabric, all sections are then put together.

There was also a contest for the show and the theme was "Stars Over Sisters." Here is the second and third place quilts.

And here is the Grand Prize winning quilt.

The show was amazing. Some of the members of our group met up with Bonnie Hunter from Quiltville. Some others in the group met up with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims.