The Guild Quilt Show

The biannual Oxford Quilters Guild Show in Embro, Ontario happened over the past couple of days. As you know, I spent much of my sewing time over the past couple of weeks sewing sleeves onto my quilts for the show. On Wednesday morning, I dropped off my quilts and Christine's quilts so that they could be hung for the show. I entered 11 quilts and my barn quilt into the show and took pictures of each of them at the show.  

This is one of the quilts I made for the new Hospice which will be opening this summer.  It's a potato chip quilt. 

My modern sampler was my only bed sized quilt that I entered into the show.  It was a bit too long for the quilt rack so the bottom of it was pinned up. 

This big quilt was made by Megan using a pattern from "Quilts of Iceland".  My Shadowbox quilt is on the chair beside it. 

Here is my Overlapping Tiles quilt. It has all bias edges which is why the bottom is a bit wavy. 

I can't remember who made the house quilt but Christine made the pink and gold quilt.  My Crumby Stars quilt is on the chair. 

This is a better picture of Christine with her Pink Pineapple quilt. 

Christine called her hollow nine patch quilt "Jelly Beans."

Here is my scrappy nine patch.  You can see that both Christine and I like to make scrappy quilts!

Yet another scrappy quilt--this one is an I Spy Potato chip quilt. 

This is a Poppyprint pattern--I forgot to get a picture of the label and can't remember who made it.  You can probably tell why I liked it!

Several years ago, three friends and I ran our own round robin one summer.  This is Christine's quilt.  I made the triangle border.   (More scraps!)

Lynn made this fabulous teal/turquoise quilt during the pandemic. 

My Arizona Adventures quilt...

It was fun to see two barn quilts at the show--this one is mine and Christine made the second one, but I did not get a good picture of hers. 

My Whistlestop quilt was displayed with another quilters "cats in teacups."

This is Christine's recently finished Christmas quilt. 

"Put a Ring on It"-- machine pieced and hand quilted by me.

I really like making I Spy quilts... this one was  made with Half Rectangle Triangles.

I suggested that we offer a Scavenger Hunt for younger visitors to the quilt show. After the quilts were hung, I went back and made a list of things that could be found in the quilts.  I typed it up and the chair of the quilt show committee and I made prizes for participating in the hunt.  I made several rope bowls and Gwen made some pouches and crayon rolls. I was at the show on Friday and there were several children that completed the challenge.  It was fun to watch them looking at all the quilts to find everything.  (Feel free to borrow this idea for your guild's quilt show!)

Finn and I did some reading on the front porch this week.  I started a new book. 

Our gardens are bursting with spring blooms. 

When in Newfoundland in 2023, I purchased a rug hooking kit. This flower, a pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant and is the provincial flower of Newfoundland.  Here is a picture of the plant in full bloom--this is not the pattern that I am stitching.  I have started hooking the border as you can see below.  This will be my slow stitching project for the next while. 

Christine, Katharine, and Carol and I are doing another round robin starting this month.  Here is my centre block and the fabrics I am including for people to add borders. I will not see it again until the big reveal at the end of the summer. 

 I will link up with Kathy and Frederique as usual.