Canadian Quilters' Association - Quilt Canada 2011

This year, Quilt Canada was held in London, Ontario. Ninety-four quilted pieces were juried into the show. To see the winners, go here. See the Trend-Tex Quilters Challenge here.
Quilt Canada 2012, Seams Like Home,  will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

For more photo gallery shows, check below:
The Canadian Quilters' Association
The Grand National Quilt Show - Balancing Act
Bach Music Festival of Canada Quilt Show
Dallas Quilt Show 2011
Caravan of Quilts - Dubai (2011), 2010
Arizona Quilters Guild - 2011 winners
Paducah Quilt Show
2011 Annual Central Vermont Quilt Show 
Tokyo Quilt Show
More from the Tokyo Quilt Show (169 photos) - well worth the look!
About Quilts - a web log just about quilts

Puzzled - Again!!!

Again, Firefox is showing only part of the photos that were uploaded using Internet Explorer!!!

Eastern Edge Quilters - June Show & Tell

Here are some of the quilted items shown at the June meeting Tuesday evening.

The Textile Blog / William Morris

I came across The Textile Blog a few days ago. This site is a very comprehensive educational resource for anyone interested in the history of design, decoration and craft. It is easy to navigate. The photos and information are wonderful. You just need the time to explore!

Their latest post is titled the Work of William Morris which refers to some ceramic tile designs by Morris. However, if you go to the subject index, you will find many other articles written about Morris. For example: William Morris and the Snakeshead (Snakeshead was a textile fabric first produced in 1876); William Morris and the Daisy Wallpaper.

Here are some quilts that are inspired by William Morris:
William Morris Quilt Inspiration from Stitching Cow
William Morris Inspired Quilts from The Earthly Paradise
A Quilter & William Morris in Iceland
William Morris and Kelmscott
William Morris Fan Club

Embroidery

Today's post has a list of sites for hand and machine embroidery. Of course, if you spend time searching the web for ideas, you have already come across Stitchin Fingers and the Hand Embroidery Network. Now you can have a look at these:

Stitching Cow has some freebies as well as tutorials.
Stitching in the Sun with Daniela Maschera
Stitch Cloth Colour (check out the Flickr Photostream)
Bustle & Sew  
Pin Tangle
Susan Lenz - contemporary embroidery
Shirley Anne Sherris
Linda Matthews
Skunk Hill Studio with Karen Williams
Living the Creative Life

Enjoy!

Puzzled - again for the 3rd time!

The previous post, when viewed in Internet Explorer shows the photo of a landscape. It does not show up in Firefox.

Gardening!

Today was sunny! However, the temperature was nothing to write home about as it was rather cool when the wind blew around the side of the house. Rain is in the forecast for the next week so I took advantage of the sunshine to work in my garden. We are moving our shed so I have to give up a few flower beds. Thankfully, I can transplant some of my larger plants to new beds out front.

I no longer own this landscape but it is still a favorite of mine. It has over a 100 hand embroidered daisies attached to the foreground.

To celebrate gardens, here are a few quilting projects that I found. Enjoy!
Blooming Lovely
Garden Quilt Pattern
Cat & Sunflower
Daffodil
Garden Queen Iris Block
Gossamer Wings Quilt Block
Garden Quilt
Merry Mushrooms    
Butterfly Wreath Tutorial

2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia

The "patchwork quilt" is the concept design for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia. The design was created from motifs of ornaments of the most famous Russian national crafts.
One such craft is Gzhel Ceramics, a pottery made of burnt white clay, covered with painted glaze. This pottery is traditionally blue on white. (see photo below)

Check out a few more of Russia's national crafts:
Khokhloma
Palekh Miniatures
Trihedral Champleve Enamelling

Happy Victoria Day Canada!

This is the Victoria Day long weekend! It is a public holiday observed across Canada on the Monday before May 25th to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday on May 24. As Canada is still a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, of which the Queen is head, we have a holiday. In Newfoundland, this weekend starts off the camping / fishing season (if you are brave enough to venture out into the cold weather). Typically, the weather here in the middle of the cold North Atlantic, at this time of year, is not really suitable for camping. But there are lots of brave souls out there (I'm not one of them)!
This photo is one of my decorative book covers.
2010 Victoria Day post.

To celebrate this holiday, here are some quilt related sites to visit:
Ocean quilts to see
Spool of Fish Designs (paper piecing) blog
Red Fish Quilts
Mary Quilts fish pattern  
Fish Bowl
Tessellating Fish
Fish & Quilts
Three Fish
Fantasy Fish Quilts
Fireworks Quilt Pattern   
Fireworks Table Runner 
Marilyn Rose Journal Quilt: Fireworks
Birthday Bling Art Quilt
Tea Cosy with fish
Pisci Fantasticus
The Deep

Puzzled - again!!

I just posted to the blog. When viewed in Internet Explorer, all the photos are shown. However, Firefox just shows a few! Go figure! So if you want to see them all, switch to Internet Explorer as your browser.

Cabot Quilt Guild - Show & Tell

Here are some of the quilts shown at guild last evening.

Tale Town

Tale Town: A Facebook Game for readers just reached their goal and then some. Check out this Face Book game.  Play the video! Who knows, you just might like it!

Congratulations to the team!!

Puzzled!

Something is going on with Firefox, the browser I use for posting to this blog. The photo is missing from yesterday's post however when I view it with Internet Explorer everything is as it should be. Just thought I'd let you know!

Spring 2011

Today we had sunshine! I took a quick look around my back garden. Armed with my camera, I captured some of the bright greens of early spring! The first photo will eventually grow into soft orange Day Lilies. The Periwinkle are just beginning to bloom. Soon there will be a carpet of these flowers underneath the Globe Cedar. I can't wait for the tulips to bloom as I don't remember their colour. These haven't bloomed in a couple of years and I have no idea why.

Well, here are some flowers that will bloom all year long (if you make them):
Blooming Lovely
Spring Posies Quilt Block Tutorial
Spring Buttercup Block
Dandelion Quilt
Scrappy Spring Tulips Baby Quilt
A Freshness of Spring (for inspiration)
A Spring Scene (applique)
Flower Power
Leaves of Green    
Many Thanks Quilt
Circle of Violets (this site has lots of small projects)
Spring Tulip Place Mat   
Tulip Garden

Enjoy!

Show & Tell - Eastern Edge Quilt Guild

The Eastern Edge Quilt Guild meets the first Tuesday of each month. Here's some of the quilts shown this month:

The last two mini quilts were part of the program. Two of the quilters presented curved piecing from Judy Dales book, Curves in Motion. It was an excellent presentation!