Rouge Valley Quilt Show - Part two

Continuing on with more photos of the show.

This is a very simple pattern but the colours were quite nice.

I wish now that I had stood back a bit more to get a better photo of the quilt but there were quite a few people at the show.

 Marg liked this quilt. I liked the applique pandas.

This quilt was so very pretty in person. They were my colours.

The surprise for me was that it was machine appliqued.

A classic pattern.

Nice to know that the blocks were finally used.

I really liked this quilt because even though the pattern looks very modern...

there was a lot of hand quilting on it.

One of my all time favourites - the lowly nine patch.

This horse took Marg's fancy.

Just something different that took my fancy.

 I hope you can see how pretty this quilt was. It was simply gorgeous in person.

Made by Hetty of Crafts and Stuff blog. Pop on over to her blog since her photo is better than mine. One day we will meet in person.

Another French braid but in very dark colours this time.

That's it for today. I will post the rest of the photos tomorrow.

Rouge Valley Quilt Show

Saturday wasn't bad but it was windy and a bit chilly. Perhaps spring is having a hard time waking up. This past weekend the Rouge Valley Quilt Guild held their show and since it wasn't too far out of town, my friend Marg and I went. It was at a community centre and was held in one huge room with loads of quilts, many vendors, a tea room, members boutique and a silent auction. Neither Marg nor I purchased much but in the members' boutique, they were selling scraps in a mason jar. We were told that the scraps had to be at least as big as one's hand. Some of the jars held 2.5" strips and others had pieces that were almost as big as a fat quarter. I found a jar that was $2.00 (most were $3.00) and boy, did I get lucky.

Most of the pieces were almost the size of fat quarters, if not bigger. I haven't measured them. These fabrics, I am hoping, will come in handy for future quilts. They are all in the pink/purple colour family.

This pretty group of fat quarters was $8.00. Still, quite a bargain. That's it for the purchases. I really didn't need any more fabric and I put the blame solely onto Marg who just had to check out the fabrics in the mason jars.

And now, on with the show.

Marg really liked this one and thought it would make a nice future project for the Champagne Quilters since the flying geese are all made from scraps.

The bonus was that it was hand quilted.

This is such a fun quilt.

As you can see, the maker just had to make the quilt.

A nice use of bargello.

 You don't often see diamonds used in quilts so this was a nice change.

Each diamond was hand quilted in a different motif.

 A blue French braid.

There were some quilts for sale.

It was nice to see a wide variety of quilts.

There were more hand quilted quilts in this show than in any other that I have attended over the last few years.

Marg and I really liked this Sunbonnet Sue quilt.

A couple close-ups...

with 3D elements.

A good mix of some older patterns.

I have always like fan quilts.

There was a nice selection of wall hangings too.

This was a fun wall quilt.

Part two will be posted in a day or two.

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.