Sunday last was a day filled with dreary weather but adorable buildings in our local historic Heritage Park bathed in light rain, people absorbing all of the incredible quilt designs, colours and quilting that was around them. The Guild tent was full of Calgary and area guilds showing off all of their goodies through out the year that have been taught, shared, loved, cherished, and best of all...finished :)

This is my Millarville Guild, thanks Janet for posing :)

While Janet was working the booth, she was squaring up these little beauties...

June 12 is our wind-up party and we have an apron challenge that will indeed be judged that day, Yikes, I'm so glad mine is done these look like good candidates!

All 500+ quilts are supplied from Calgary and surrounding areas, the volunteers at Heritage Park lay, hang, display, cover, and many more positions of showing off our quilts for everyone to see in the most historic of buildings on the town grounds at Heritage Park.

One thing Calgary, Alberta, CANADA is famous for besides the Calgary Stampede is their Udderly Art around the city...yes you are reading this right udderly...

So the Quilters cannot be left out, right?

what do you all think?

Until next time, have a happy and creative weekend!!

Hi Everyone, I'm so please to report on our Fun Quilts Lecture(s) and Trunk Show is was FAB!!! 

The Flying Needles Guild gathered on Thursday for an excellent lecture and workshop on the Luminosity Quilt

here's Susan G's graduation of reds

Jan B stayed up late on Thursday night to complete her quilt top for show and tell on Friday - this is just stunning Jan!

Friday, I was supposed to take the workshop on Role of Colour but unfortunately my life got busy and I couldn't attend the workshop. I was however on setup and in charge of a few things for the Friday night Trunk Show and when I arrived the room was a buzzin with inspired and connected women from the workshop that day. From what I can tell, from the enthusiasm in the room when I arrived, I should never miss another work shop again!!

Trunk Show was an unbelievably enlightening evening full of visual stimulation and of course good food and camaraderie with new and familiar faces. It was a superb night, thanks to everyone who pitched in and helped out!!

"Happy Go Lucky" this is the workshop I took on Saturday, all solids and it was so fun, everyone's looked totally different.

"Raindrops" Bill Kerr explained it kind of like this...picture the rain drops hitting the still water, this is the effect it gives once it penetrates the stillness...

As a side note: Bill was an exceptional speaker, he made things relateable and made us appreciate current things in our surroundings like chairs, buildings, highways and more. I know it sounds a bit different from the traditional way we think about quilting like 9-patch, log cabin, etc 

"Leaves"

 "Outside of the Box" slight variation of a log cabin assembly anyway..

"Starry Starry Night"

Bill Kerr and Janice, Janice had Bill sign one of her quilt blocks, what a great idea.

Here's my blocks for my Happy Go Lucky quilt - I want to get this quilt finished so I can hang it in my new studio.

Kim working hard on her purple themed quilt

Hi Shirley, and closest to us is Ana's blocks gorgeous.

Well ladies, that is only a tip of what I learned and I'm sure other people took away so much more. Very grateful to have been part of this, I've heard some talk about them coming back up our way in the Spring :)

Shannon M is in charge of scrapbook for our Guild and here's a little slide show she did up for us capturing so much more...thanks Shannon. If you want to follow Weeks with her excellent blog and sense of humour (read her post on April fools day pranks it's a riot!!) check it out here, Craft Nectar

Until next time,