Red Deer Quilt Show (25)

My Sister, her two boys and I ventured to the Red Deer Quilt Show recently, we met my Mum there and we were all inspired...

We were also supposed to meet some other ladies like my dh's Aunt and a friend of ours from our Quilting Guild but they ended up running late. We had arrived at the show for first thing and it was so busy...busy like Christmas shopping...busy like when you turn around you bump into someone or they bump into you...I love going to this show because they do have a LOT of vendors and have some really great door prizes and of course the quilts are amazing... but when the show runs for only the Friday and Sat and not the Sunday too it's so packed with people that one may not spend the time there that they would like.

Here's some inspiration from the show for you today...I hope you enjoy!
 

Lakeside Quilters: Spring Fair (17)

The Lakeside Guild, Chestermere Quilt Show "Country Connections Spring Fair" was a huge success, can I say "WOW" we had the best turnout of quilts EVER and the best turnout of people. Thanks to everyone who took the time to come out to the show and make it a success for all of us a Lakeside Quilters. THANK-YOU!! Celebrating out 10th year as a quilters guild is so rewarding and we still have 5 of the founding members.

Thanks to all of the husbands who climb ladders, hauled tables and chairs - so appreciated!

It was really nice to have a few vendors there selling their awesome goodies!

Sue and Elke hard at it greeting all of our visitors!

the ladies looking through some candids

Cathy doing some selling in my booth, thanks Cathy

Heather won the amazing bag full of goodies, Kim posing with her..

Finally a great group shot of all of us and I think we are all present!

What a great looking group of fabulous quilters!!

Sherwood Park Quilt Show (entry 7)

Because of the snowy weather here last weekend I (and my trusty quilter buddy Kim) couldn't make it to the Rocky Show...and the same weekend was the show in Sherwood Park - suffice to say we missed both shows...

Haven't found any pics yet for the Rocky Show but here's an update I found on the Man Quilter's Blog for the Sherwood Park show...enjoy I know I was very impressed and enjoyed looking through them all..

Here's a sneak peak

isn't this center one amazing..so native looking.

Leduc Quilt Show Part Two (entry 6)

We headed out to the Rocky Mountain House Quilt show this weekend to do some photographing and some blogging but the weather turned for the worse and we decided to turn around - weather in Alberta is very unpredictable as most of you know. Thus no photos of great quilts to share with you this time.

Black Gold Quilt Patch Quilt Show "Expressions form the Heart"

We took so many photos at the Leduc show so I had to split this blog posting into two settings. We've saved the best for last...enjoy.

these minis were all grouped together at the back of the room...well worth the wait

This was a mask that you would wear for New Years - such a neat concept and great work.

This thread painting is incredible

My Sister loves these landscape quilts - I haven't gotten into these yet but I do appreciate them and this one is great with the vibrant colours.

Look at this interesting frayed ribbon she used - what a good concept and technique to incorporate.

there was a few Christmas quilts but this one I liked best - so cheery and fun.

here's a close up of the details.

large photo of this quilt - looks good doesn't it?

here's the close up of the center - now doesn't this bead work look incredible - it was truly stunning.

There was such a great mixture of quilts throughout this display - so inspiring. I've done or have started one of these apple core quilts - I hand pieced mine and now I really should get it finished - it's such a neat one to try with all of those curves.

These hearts someone made for their very special Auntie - what a nice gift and can I say...from the heart.

Would this be considered a spin off of the kaleidoscope quilt - the one that you layer to get the results - I think this is the best interpretation I've seen of this quilt.

more amazing hand quilting - look how straight everything is lined up...

here's the center block

This Japanese cherry blossom quilt has silk flowers and thread painting galore..

these silk flowers and beading centers was such a great quilt to look over and admire.

I thought this quilt was so neat - it actually looks like water and fish - she did such a great job love it - so different and unique.

Here's a close up of one of the fish in, look at the quilting does it look like sea creatures to you?

There was this display towards the back of the gym and it has all of these mini's on it - they must have taken a class to learn these technique as my sister and I were amazed

Look at the detail and the thread work

Leduc Quilt Show Part One (entry 5)

As I mentioned on Facebook I headed out to Leduc last weekend for their show

Black Gold Quilt Patch Quilt Show "Expressions form the Heart"

it was held at the PAC centre and it was such a well displayed show with many really nice quilts.

don't you just love the blue and brown in this convergence?

here's most of the front of this quilt (the isles were a bit narrow)

close up of some of the applique and hand quilting

isn't this incredibly BOLD - I think the texture and the mixture is so perfect!

there were some cute bear quilts (I adore this echo quilting around the bears)

Does anyone think of a cute lego house?

these golfing gals were hilarious!

How about this one - what a way to use of scraps and get an amazing result

an isle shot

these were all needle turned applique

another incredible example of needle turn applique and some amazing quilting

here's the close-up.

I'm heading to the Rocky Mountain House show this weekend...