I am happy to report that my challenge quilt is quilted and bound, ready for entry in our guild’s little display at this year’s Creativ Festival in Abbotsford on March 24 and 25, 2017.

SISTERS IS OFF THE GRID – hanging in the 2017 Creativ Festival

Title of Quilt: Sisters is Off The Grid
Quilted by: Me (Silverthimble Quilting)
Size: 64 inches x 74 inches
Book / Magazine / Pattern: Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine – Issue Twenty Six
Author / Designer: Jo Avery and the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild
Title of Original Quilt: Off The Grid
About the Quilt: The quilt was created as the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild’s Charity Quilt Challege entry for QuiltCon 2015. The challenge was to make a quilt using an ‘off-grid’ construction. The EMQG produced their version of the quilt in a random, improv style and Jo Avery produced the pattern for a structured version of the quilt. My version of this quilt uses a mixture of prints and solids. In 2014, some members of the FVMQG took a bus trip to Sisters, Oregon in July to see the annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. We were able to visit the famous Stichin’ Post, a quilt shop located in Sisters that is owned by Jean and Valori Wells. I purchased two fat quarter packs of Valori Wells’ fabrics as my souvenir of the trip and used them along with coordinating solids in my version of this quilt. Sisters is a very small town with a population of only 2,038 (as of the 2010 Census), located 155 miles southeast of Portland in the high desert. The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is internationally recognized as the world’s largest outdoor quilt show displaying more than 1300 quilts representing fiber artists from around the world. More than 10,000 visitors from all over the world flock to Sisters on the second Saturday in July every year to attend this quilt show.