Basting plus eye candy

Yesterday I basted my new quilt, the one featuring "Loulouthi" by Anna Maria Horner (see this post for more information and pictures).

Nemo the Quilting Dog

As you can see, my "helper" fell asleep on the job.  

Here's a little eye candy to jumpstart your day, from the Open European Quilt Championship:

 

This was the grand prize winner.  What can you say except WOW.

More pictures from this show are available at this Facebook page