Quilting Treasures

Here are a few quilting treasures I picked up in Michigan... some inexpensive fat quarters and Gwen Marston & Freddy Moran's Collaborative Quilting!!!


And at the Waterloo Quilt Festival....some Amy Butler and Robert Kaufman fabric, as well as a couple of half price books! (my camera doesn't seem to pick up the warmness of the brown and blue polkadot fabric, trust me it is chocolatey yummy!)


Here is another neat quilt to show you from the Waterloo Quilt Festival, my personal favourite, Camelot by Judy Garden. It won the CQA 2006 Juried Show award for Excellence for a Bed Quilt.

It seems it is mostly reverse applique. I really liked the choice of blue and green in this quilt. The blue fabric seemed to be a brushed cotton, it had an almost suede like quality to it.

Hah! You guys are funny! I didn't expect so much agreement to my genius comment! Anyway here is the latest progress on my 'robyn' project. I've been busy the last 2 weekends; first we were away in Michigan visiting friends. I managed to work on my piece on the train ride to Windsor and finished up the dome border and vines and added a few berries. Still left to do are to add a few more leaves. While in Michigan, we visited Ann Arbor, a business expo, a few comic book stores, a few used book stores, and a Jo Ann's for some cheap fabric and some quilting tools...a little bit cheaper in the US than Canada. I will show photos on my next post of my latest quilt treasures, when I download them.


Saturday, we had our guild's roadtrip to the Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery or kw/ag for the Grand National Quilt Show and the Waterloo County International Quilt Festival. This is the mecca of quilting in Ontario as it is also Mennonite country.

Below is Ethlyndryal the Protector by Rice 2007 from the Grand National. This year's theme is Fantasy.This was an amazing 3D piece, mixed media with metal, stones and more. We were not supposed to take any photos, so I don't have many photos to show.


After visiting the kw/ag, we travelled on to the quilt festival located at Rim Park. I have more photos that I will post later, after I try and find most of the names of the quilts. I should have written them down, there didn't seem to be a program of the entries, or I missed it somehow. Here was one of the more popular pieces 'Zodiac' by Martha Brown: