Saturday, 16 March 2019
The annual Peninsula Quilt Guild show at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco had over 100 quilts this year.
As always, my favourites are the ones with floral and garden and nature themes.
Here they are.
I liked this one because it reminded me of teatime.
This one was almost my favourite mini; I love the languid petals:
My grandmother made several quilts with flowers like these:
Nature themed quilts:
We got to pick our favourites for best mini, small, medium, and large quilt.
My pick for medium was Grandma’s House.
My first thought was that, though impressive, it was so impractical…and then I read the description and got tears in my eyes.
Looking at the details, I did think of my grandma’s house, so of course it had to be my favourite because I had a wonderful grandma whom I still miss daily.
My favourite small quilt (and my favourite in the whole show) was Goofy Garden by Toni Tweedle Healy, and here it is with its creator.
Native Plants by Joe Ann Reidesel came just barely after Goofy Garden (only because I love the garden theme with seeds and hose and secateurs), so I am including it here as what would have been a tie had that been allowed:
My favourite mini quilt just barely edged out the sunflower.
Wildflower Album by Becky Olson Evans was my favourite large quilt.
Finally, here are three more glorious quilts that we must include even though they are not at all on the gardening and nature theme.
I am putting photos of most of the rest of the quilts on the Our Ilwaco blog, so avid quilters might want to have a look over there.
These are beautiful. My Aunt in North Carolina was a quilter and would have loved these!
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It would be hard to choose favorites, but I do love the puffins and the wildflowers. Thank you for sharing these beautiful quilts.
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I think that in a feast of great quilts, Dream Big was my favourite.
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Wow! Those are great!! Is the show over? Let me know next time!! I LOVE quilts!
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