Courtenay Country fair Quilt Show 2010

Lots of great quilts at Courtenay Fair. Most, in fact, all of them, except for one, were machine quilted. Kind cheating, I say. Nothing like a hand quilted piece. This little Pineapple mini wall quilt was voted as best in its class. Machine Quilted, but absolutely perfect paper piecing.

THis Civil War Reproduction Quilt is the only quilt in the shaw hand quilted. I think it is wonderful. It received 1st place in a special category.

Best Use of Colour in Show....all batiks.

Mariner's Compass Quilt. Best Overall.

Landscape wall quilt. Best in Class.

Native Art Mixed Media. Best in category. Beautiful quilt. Quite unique.

Strip pieced, mixed media levels. 1st place.

Christmas in the Country queen sized quilt. Has pigs on it. Not sure what pigs have to do with Christmas.........but really nice colour scheme.

Kitties and Chickens. Kind of busy, for me, but kind of cool. Placed 1st in its category.

1st Place over all in Unusual Quilts Category. The top is quite fuzzy from the machine quilting, and incorporates wool.

Blazing Star. Unusual. Honourable Mention

Hot Batik Wall quilt. Use of metallics. Strips and Curved seams.

Piano Keys and Simple Crosses. Nice use of colour.

Log Cabin Crows. 1st place. Great log cabin strip pieced quilt. Love the crows. Kind of weird. But really neat.

Eagle in Flight.

Spawning Salmon. Salmon appliques are covered with netting, as if the fish are being pulled up into a Gill Net. Great idea.

Strips and curved wall quilt. Lots of detail in a two tone facade. ALl machine quilted. I think it would have been nicer if it was hand done.

Easter Quilts (commissioned 1999)

#5 #4

#3

#2



#1

These massive quilts were commissioned by a church in St. Albert, Alberta, June 1999, but never reached the sanctuary walls. I suppose they were a little over the top, designed by an artist, and my job was to make the drawings come to life in 3D. I got a group of friends together to sew pearls jewels all over the panels. It was so fun to be ultra creative, but in the end were a bit too "colourful".

The fabrics used were silks, satins, velvets, draperies, jewels, beadings. In Quilt #2 you can see how large they were......my friend,Linda, is dwarfed by the panel.

I really don't know what the church did with them,in the end. They may still be hanging in storage, but hopefully they got a good home.

Quilt #1 MAGNIFY AND WORSHIP ( 1 John ). Signifies Jesus coming down from the cross. Some people did not like the double arms. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.He was with God in the beginning."

Quilt #2 EVANGELISM (City in Heaven) You can see how large each quilt panel was....Linda had to lie on the face of the quilt to attach beads.

Quilt #3 MINISTRY (Sheaves of wheat) Jesus is preaching, sheaves of wheat, dove above His head symbolizes the Father. "Serve one another in Love."

Quilt #4 WORSHIP ( Cross with draperies) Psalm 150.The purple cloths were attached outside of the cross, to hang down. This is after the resurrection, so people are worship and celebrating that HE lives. "Praise God in his sanctuary, praise him in his mighty heavens."

Quilt #5 DISCIPLESHIP ( Tree of Life) Leaves are falling to the people who kneel beneath the tree of life. Notice the dove.