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.
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. 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.
We try to get to the Lynden Fair each year. This year, we decided to make a mini holiday of it and we booked a motel room in Bellingham. We headed south across the border on Monday and spent the entire day shopping.
On Tuesday, we headed to the fair in Lynden. First stop once we were inside the fairgrounds was the quilts.
There were a few gorgeous pieces made from 30’s reproductions.
These leaves looked real!
I think that this shade of purple must be FAB purple! This was a gorgeous Trip Around the World.
This piece was loaded with buttons and beads. It must have been heavy!
This piece was also heavily embellished.
What struck me about these next two bright pieces is that they were so perfectly flat and square!
Christmas redwork.
Redwork Santas.
I hope you enjoyed the quilt show!
I am back from the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest in Seattle. What a show! This is the third time I have been to this show and each time I leave this show, I feel so humbled in my quilting skills. The quilts at this show really represent some of the best there is in our industry today.
Unfortunately, I can not show photos of the quilts. The policy of this show is to allow photographs of the quilts for personal use only. Publication of the photos in any media is forbidden–that includes posting to my blog page as it is considered a public place.
I can show you a picture that was taken yesterday in the Merchant Mall of the show though. The two gals in the middle–Lucy in the orange and Laurie in the green–are friends we made on the bus trip that Dot (on the far right in the white) and I took to Sisters in 2005. Lucy and Laurie are both from the Kelowna guild and we saw them at the Quiltfest in 2006 as well. It is always a wonderful surprise to meet up with quilting friends!
While at the show, we learned that Quilt Canada will be in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from May 25 to 30, 2009. It is unlikely that I will make that show.
However, we did find out that Quilt Canada 2010 will be in Calgary. Marguerite is back organizing the bus trips for the Kelowna guild and they are planning to attend Calgary in 2010. Dot and I told Lucy and Laurie to keep us in mind for 2010. If Marguerite is organizing the bus tours again, all who attend are sure to have a great time! 
Calgary, here we come!
