PieceMakers Quilt Show – Part 3
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PieceMakers Quilt Show – Part 2
We had the Canadian Japanese Block Exchange Groups’ quilts as a guest exhibit at our recent guild quilt show.
Two groups of quilters separated by the Pacific Ocean – 12 in Japan and 12 in Canada – each made 12 identical blocks. Each block represented something distinct about that quilter’s country. Then each quilter designed their own quilt using the blocks provided. These are the finished quilts.
PieceMakers Quilt Show – Part 1
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
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
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.
