These are some of the smaller quilts that were hung on the lattice work down the side of the hall.

Our guild has a very active We Care committee that inspires the membership to make many quilts for donation to local Women’s shelters, hospitals, seniors’ homes, and victims’ service agencies. This was a display of some of the quilts that have been make over the last year for our We Care program.

These are some of the We Care quilts that were bundled and ready for presentation to some of our benefactors later in the show. They look like presents ready to be unwrapped by their new owners.

Remember this quilt? This was my entry for our quilt guild’s show challenge. It has been some time since we received our fat quarter of fabric so if you don’t remember what we were challenged to work with, check here.

When the quilt show was opened to the public this morning, the challenge winners were unveiled. I was thrilled to find out that I had won first place in the traditional quilt category! My prize was $20.

It was my label that helped the judges understand my interpretation of the challenge. (My name on my label was covered so the judges did not know who owned the quilt). This was my label:

I hope by clicking on this picture you are better able to see the words on the label. Credit goes to Linda J. for linking my challenge to the hymn, “For the Beauty of the Earth”.

The first place entry in the contemporary category was:

The following are pictures of the remaining nine entries.

I love to participate in quilt challenges. I think challenges are opportunities to venture outside my comfort zone and work with fabrics I might not always choose to include in my regular quilt projects.

It always amazes me that when a group of quilters are given the same parameters and a piece of the same fabric, each person will interpret the challenge differently, resulting in such a wide variety of creations. All eleven entries were exhibited together as a collection and made for a very colourful display.

Each quilter who participated in the challenge received their choice of two batik fat quarters as a thank you from the guild for completing the challenge.

This Saturday, our quilt guild is hosting its first “hung” quilt show.

In the past we have had two “show and tell” type quilt shows where guests were invited to view the quilts at specific times during the day. The MC read the “story” related to each quilt as it was held up for viewing on the stage. The problem with this type of show is that people showed up at various times during the day to see the quilts and it was not necessarily when one of our “showings” was scheduled.

This year we are having a traditional quilt show where the quilts are hung from quilt racks in a hall. This type of show is a lot more work to set up than the show and tell version but I think it will be appreciated more by our viewing audience.

I head out later today to help set up quilt racks and hang quilts. The show opens tomorrow.

If you are near by this weekend, drop in and see our “best”. If you can’t get to our quilt show in person, return to this site later in the weekend for the “virtual” version.

I haven’t been posting a lot to my blog lately. I have been quilting–just not my own projects. The quilting of customer quilts has taken up all my spare time. Yesterday, I decided to take a break from everyone else’s quilts and load one of my own.

This quilt has been a completed flimsy since February. It is made from Mile a Minute blocks, also known as Crumb blocks.

This afternoon, I am getting together with other members of our quilt show committee to assemble some of the quilt frames for our upcoming quilt show on October 28. We are borrowing the quilt racks from another guild and have never used them before. Since we have limited time to set up for our show on Friday night, we felt the need for a “rehearsal”.

Aren’t these flowers beautiful!

I received flowers on Friday at work. They are from my co-workers at my old work location. I started work at a new work location on the 12th–same employer; I have just moved to a work location closer to home. I will miss my co-workers at the old site but I will not miss the 1 1/2 hours driving in my car everyday!

Friday the 13th is supposed to be an unlucky day–but as you can see, it was just the opposite sort of day for me!

Thank you Ferndale staff!