Quilt show inspiration

Colleen and I went to a quilt show in Ontario on Sunday. It was so fun. There were several booths I could have spent lots of time in, including one that had every cute vintage and new ribbon, trim, button, ric rac, and lace you could imagine, sorted and displayed by color on vintage spools and in vintage glass bottles. I also got LOTS of inspiration for my next quilt, which will be a twin size for Lucy's room (when we switch the boys to bunk beds and give the twin bed to Luce).

Here's the only picture I managed to take at the show, since the booth vendors don't want you to take pictures of their stuff:



I liked the scalloped border and think I'll do at least one or two edges of Lucy's quilt scalloped like this.

I also loved a quilt a vendor had in her booth that had several different girl dresses adorned with tiny buttons, ric rac, lace, etc. It was just very sweet. I told her as much, and since it was getting toward the end of the day, she said if I came back at 3:30, she would give me her last piece of fabric that she used for the quilt. I couldn't pass that up! So I came home with about 1/2 a yard of the fabric, with 6 dresses on it. Lucy and I are making it a mini-quilt project. Here are 5 of the dress squares cut, pinned, and ready to be quilted (all of which Lucy helped with):




Then we will adorn the dresses (think fabric belts, mini buttons, ric rac, aprons, etc.). I plan to frame a few for Lucy's walls and use 2 to make a pillow. Lucy is SO excited.