Canadian Quilters’ Association / Association canadienne de la courtepointe

Quilt Canada 2014 takes place at Brock University in St. Catharines from June 11 - 14. One of the events that quilters could take part in was the Trend-Tex Challenge. This year's theme was Modern Ways and it's the 26th year for the challenge. This year there were five fabrics that you had to use in the quilt or wearable piece. There was no minimum size but the maximum size could be no larger than 120 inches in perimeter. The winners are to be announced on June 14 and then the entries will all be auctioned off.


These are the fabrics that had to be used - the ones in the challenge kit. If you added fabrics (you were allowed up to 3 additional fabrics), you were not eligible for the award.
**Note: This photo was taken from Jackie White's blog. She co-ordinated the challenge and accepted all the entries.

Here's a link to most of the entries. I am amazed at the creativity and the amount of entries. Go have a look to see what exactly you can accomplish with just 5 fat quarters.

Doors for inspiration and a gift for me

A couple of posts ago I showed some of the tile that I took photos of while on vacation in southern California where my daughter used to live. When going through the photos again, I realized that there were quite a few that featured doors. I love unusual doors, windows and chairs. Here are some of the door photos I took.

 

This was taken at a residential complex that my daughter's employer was involved in - it was a landscape architecture firm.

Same residential complex.

This gorgeous door was in the Venice Beach area.

I know it's a window in the middle but off to the left is a really nice grill on what could be just a plain door. I love the window above the door too. This was taken at the The Embassy Hotel Apartments in Santa Monica, California.

 

This is the front of The Embassy Hotel Apartments. I love the courtyard and think it adds so much to the entrance.

This huge entrance was photographed at Balboa Park in San Diego, beside the zoo.

 

Just to give you an idea as to the size of these doors.  

(I always like to have some idea as to size when I see something. The digital camera is great but when I see something, I really want to know if the object is the size of my hand or the size of a house.)

Lastly, this beauty is at the Mission in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Here's some arches. I figured they went well with the theme of doors.

This arch with the columns was at the residential complex mentioned above.

An unusually designed arch at The Embassy Hotel and Apartments. It wasn't the only one like this that they had.

 A pretty, decorative arch at the Mission in San Juan Capistrano.

This wonderful, serene photo showing many arches is in the central courtyard of the Mission.

**Note, once again: Please ignore the date stamp on some of the photos. It was a new camera and I did not know that the date would show up - nor did I know that the wrong date would make it's way onto the photos.


Gosh this post just goes on and on....

Last month, one of the bloggers I follow, Sandy at Dangling by a Thread, was giving away a small token of appreciation to her followers/commenters. I totally forgot about it until this morning when this lovely package came in the mail. Sandy is a Canadian living in Suffolk, England and she is a wonderful textile artist.

It includes a piece of hand dyed fabric in gorgeous green and aqua and some gold and bronze foil that you iron on to your work. THANK YOU Sandy, you made my day. Please stop by her blog and take a look at the wonderful things she does.