PieceMakers Quilt Show – Part 1

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Norma Hanson

Yesterday was our guild’s bi-annual quilt show. The theme for our show and our show challenge was Quilts From the Heart.

We had a total of 12 guild members who participated in the challenge. (To see a closeup shot of the challenge fabric and the rules of the challenge, please see my January 28th post.

The winner of the challenge is the colourful scrappy heart quilt in the lower left hand corner of this shot.

This is my challenge piece.

All of the guild members who volunteered to work on various aspects of the quilt show were entered into a draw. The lucky winner won this huge basket of quilting “stuff”. …..I was the lucky winner!

This basket was heavy! The basket was jammed with fabric, magazines, patterns, hard cover books, quilt templates, basting spray and thread.

A big thank you to Sharon L. who put this wonderful basket of goodies together!

Halloween Quilt Finished

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Norma Hanson

My “All About Me” quilt is finished!

Last week (on Tuesday night) I was encouraged to enter this quilt into our guild’s quilt show to be held this weekend (Saturday, October 25). The only problem with this was that this quilt was only a flimsy at this point.

There is nothing like the pressure of entering a quilt in a quilt show to make sure it gets finished! I spent last weekend quilting and evenings this week hand-sewing the binding. I finished today. I was just in time as we hang the quilts for our quilt show tomorrow!

Since there were no quilt hangers available today, I put the quilt on our bed for its picture. Of course, Joey took the opportunity to inspect the quilt. It must have met his paw of approval as he was not in a hurry to get off the quilt.

Harrison Mills Quilt Show – October 19

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Norma Hanson

Last Sunday was the Harrison Mills Quilt Show. Harrison Mills is a tiny community. Local quilters are encouraged each year to bring their quilts for display in the community hall over the weekend. Admission fees to the quilt show along with raffle ticket proceeds go to support an annual bursary for a local grade 12 student wishing to pursue post secondary education. This show was great value for $2.00.

This is Ursula’s house quilt. Ursula does our program presentation each month at our Guild meetings.

This is another of Ursula’s quilts.

This quilt also belongs to Ursula.

The hall is small, but these ladies know how to get all of the 100+ quilts displayed.

The blue and yellow quilt on the left belongs to Leslie. Leslie hosts our Monday night quilt group at her house.

The green Warm Wishes quilt on the right is one of mine.

Recognize these quilts? These were two of the five quilts that I displayed at the show this year.

This is another of Leslie’s quilts.

Fish Quilt and Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Norma Hanson

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians! I have a bit of time while I wait for the turkey to cook and before I have to turn the vegetables on so I can update you on the progress of my current project.

This morning I was busy working on my husband’s fish quilt. I am determined to move this one off my UFO list.

I finished the inside portion of the quilt and I am now ready to add the borders.

The fabrics on the left are the border fabrics. The black fish fabric is the outer border and the narrow beige strip will be the narrow inner border. (You can only see a bit of it peeking through in this picture.)

Tomorrow is the Thanksgiving stat holiday here so I will not be going in to work. I hope to be quilting tomorrow–putting the borders on this quilt!

DH’s Fish Quilt

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Norma Hanson

Today was the day to drag out a very, very old UFO and move it forward. I am embarrassed to say how old it is. On my UFO chart, I don’t even have the year marked down so that tells me that it was in existence when I started that list years ago. I actually have already given my husband one of the blocks for Christmas many years ago thinking that I would finish it right after Christmas. Needless to say, that did not happen.

The pattern is in Susan Teegarden Dissmore’s book, Clever Quilts. This is the diagram from the book showing the quilt pattern, which is called, “Q is for Quilting”.
After today’s work, this is how far along I am.
It took a while to get back into the piecing of this one. I had modified the size of the block and I had not made note of that change. I also had not kept a swatch of each fabric and labelled where it was on the pattern. If both of these things had been noted, I would have spent less time trying to figure out where I left off on this one years ago.