It was really hard to just pick three quilts for this post. There were sooooo many beautiful quilts at the show. Unfortunately, I was totally distracted by all the details in the one quilt, that I selected as my viewers choice quilt, that I didn't get a "whole" picture of it. But I did get some of the other beautiful quilts.
This first quilt, I thought was unique. There was machine piecing, hand piecing and some hand embroidery as well. The blocks are square and then each block was unique with the design placed in a circle or forming a circle using the piecing. Hard to explain really, but check out the pictures to understand what I mean. The quilting, also accentuates the circle theme going on, and it was further emphasized with a curved crosshatch pattern.
I was drawn to this block, with the hexagon pieces forming the circle around the hand embroidered designs. The hexagons were hand appliqued to the background square block. You can see here as well some of the curved crosshatch pattern that went between the circled designs.
The quilt name was something to do with "garden". We have the hexagon circle around this one too. I want to draw your attention to the border on this quilt. In the picture up top, you can see the whole border and in the picture below, you will see a closer view. The reason I want to point it out, is because I thought this was a great use of fabric! Believe it or not, the pink scalloped section and the blue and white stripped fabric are in fact one piece of fabric. The quilting sets it off and makes it appear to be two parts of the border. That was a great idea for using the fabric, and instead of making a mitered corner, the maker used a checkerboard corner stone.
This one was so cute. I loved the colours of this quilt, mostly pieced with solid fabrics outside of the background. I fell in love with these bees with colourful wings!! This piece was paper pieced. See how small the vain of the leaves are? There was a lot of this type of piecing on this quilt. Very intricate.
Then we came across this traditional quilt. The blocks are pineapple blocks, with careful attention paid to the colour placement. Note how there are two separate grid patterns running through this quilt. The black and the white. Each section within the individual blocks is different, with each quarter section using the same fabric for each strip. The piece uses all the warm colours. Note that the piece on the left is a separate piece of art and nothing to do with the pineapple quilt behind it.
Lastly, I took this picture of a medallion style quilt. There is so much going on with this quilt. Each border is very detailed. The centre square is beautiful and is extended by four half lone star points on each side. This is followed by a unique zig zag pattern on the corners and as you can see much more in each border that follows. This must have been a challenge to construct and make sure that all the pieces matched precisely to make the whole top. I would love to see this quilt done up in other colour ways. This one is definitely more of a male colourway.
I hope you enjoyed a bit of a sampling of what was at the Waterloo quilt show. As I said in the last post, you should have been there!! It was definitely impressive!
Take care everyone.
No comments:
Post a Comment