Saturday, 15 March 2014
In the afternoon , while Allan ran some errands (possibly having something to do with my birthday), I went to the Peninsula Quilt Guild Show at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum. Here are some photos of my most favourite quilts. There were over 100 on display. I respond to garden themes and to jewel tone colours. (It takes a lot for a quilt based on brown and tan colours to win me over!) There is a ballot box for people’s choice of small, medium, and large quilts.
The cactus quilt reminded me of two gardening blogs that often feature cacti, The Miserable Gardener and Danger Garden.
I chose Oriental Floral as my favourite medium sized quilt, until I saw another quilt that won me over. I wish I had taken detailed photographs of the gorgeous floral fabrics.
How Does Your Garden Grow was a very close runner up for my favourite medium quilt; I just love the center panel so much.
And here is my favourite quilt, not just in the medium category but of the whole show. You can read more about it in the Oysterville Daybook blog.
In the museum gift shop, you’ll find a raffle quilt on display.
Having examined every quilt, some more than once, I walked the three and a half blocks home….past Larry and Robert’s house:
I had a visit from Planter Box Theresa to take a hellebore admiration stroll through the garden and a long talk with Montana Mary about something that was troubling me. I so appreciate having had a friend for 47 years whose peculiarities are similar to mine. The rest of the afternoon on into the evening was spent posting the day’s cash mob photos on Facebook and the day’s blog entry.
Teresa and me on a Hellebore admiration walk
Hi, Say… We have the same favorite quilt! I cannot stop thinking about it! It would be perfect in my kitchen, except I don’t have a wall large enough!
When is your birthday?
And now I will forward this e-mail to my cousin, who left the Peninsula Thursday and missed the quilt show.
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Birthday was yesterday. I was really quiet about it.
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Ah, so you are a Pisces too. My birthday was on March 2nd…uh, the big 60. Happy late birthday to you!!
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Happy belated 60th!
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The round peg in a square hole gets my vote. It’s hard to beat a good quilt show for colour.
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That is a good one.
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Loved the quilts, thank you so much.
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Wow, now I wish I had visited the Quilt Show. Thanks for taking pictures of all of the wonderful quilts!!
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This was just a sampling. I believe the Peninsula Quilt Guild Facebook page may have them all and I have most (but not all) posted in an album on Discover Ilwaco on FB.
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