A Great Little Quilt Show

Yesterday I visited the Maugerville Quilt Show just outside of our fair city. This is put on by the Maugerville WI, and quilts are provided for display by WI members and local women. Some of these women belong to guilds in Fredericton, so there is always a lovely display with lots of variety, despite the small venue. Tickets are sold on a Raffle Quilt each year, drawn in November, and your visit is always topped off with a hot cup of fresh coffee or tea, homemade brown bread and cheese and sweets. Yummm... This years' show featured another offering as well - there was a table laden with quilting magazines, most of them quite recent- and they were free for the taking! Bonus! Did I need any? No. Did I take a few? Yes...

I thought I would share with you a few pics of some of my favourites from this little show. My friend Gail also posted pics of her favs- you can skip on over to her Blog and see her pics here.

As soon as you came in the door you were greeted by this bright and cheery wallhanging (above left) titled Sundance, made by Dawn Sharpe. I loved it! Love that hot pink- reminds me of a scorching July day- bring it on!!
Another fav was this One Block Wonder by Cathy Hachey(right). This is similar to a Stack and Whack, but rather than cutting a number of pieces from the exact same spot on the print and using one stack of triangles for each block, each block is from a different spot on the large format print, at least that's how I understand it... I love the way Cathy has added in those hollow 3D cubes - great effect!!

Although I hope Fall is a long way off, I couldn't help falling for this one- a gorgeous Autumn quilt by Darlene Dewar. It was for sale for a very reasonable price- lucky buyer, if there was one!

Below you can see a few more of the beautiful scrap quilts that were on display. There's nothing like a lovely scrap quilt to help decrease one's stash... I have about a dozen of them in my mind, on my "Want to Make" list...
Even though this was a small show, it made me itch to get back to my Bernina... I just have so much gardening to take care of right now, it will be another week or more before I get back to the stitching. My goal for this week is to get all my outdoor planters/pots planted and a vegetable garden in... Once thats done, it'll just be maintenance then. All other gardening jobs are pretty well done.

Piece,

Linda

"The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before". ~ Vita Sackville-West