Caught My Eye

This quilt is made from the 'apple core' shape. Incredibly clever.
Quilt name: Blooming Azalea
Made by: Yvonne Skodt
"When holidaying in Tokyo we saw the last bit of the cherry blossoms, but we were so glad that we got to the beautiful vibrant coloured blooming azaleas everywhere."
Original design.
 

Quilt name: Blue Mountains
Made by: Elizabeth Lewis
"This is a charm quilt and contains 1050 different fabrics and has been hand quilted." An original design.
 

Quilt name: Flying North
Made by: Helen Perlman
"Made from Oakshott shot cottons. This quilt depicts fat geese flying upwards. This quilt is designed by Andy and featured on his blog abrightcorner.com. Andy calls this 'Right Turn Only.'

I haven't tried strip tube piecing - but I do like the look of this.
Add that method to the list!

President's Choice

Awarded "President's Choice"
'Bojagi for a Public Servant'
by Cherry Johnston
Cherry states "Inspired by Korean Bojagi (patchwork wrapping cloths). This quilt is made from discarded woollen garments worn by my family members over many years. Quilt designed by Cherry.
 

This quilt and the one below are the results of a workshop with
Lisa Walton of 'Dyed & Gone to Heaven'.

This quilt was made by Charmian Lees, a QuiltWest Committee member.
For display only.
 

This quilt was made by Rebecca Stewart-Bartell,
also a Committee member,
for her six year old daughter. For display only.

The "Membership" table was located just in front
of this sweet mermaid quilt.
Everyone who looked at it smiled, so I got lots of vicarious smiles!

WAQA Community Quilts

WAQA call the quilts that are given away "Community Quilts".
It was changed from charity quilts years ago as it seemed more appropriate. Each year our members donate literally hundreds and hundreds of quilts ranging in size from 10" for stillborn memory boxes to humidicrib covers to lap quilts for the Royal Flying Doctors Service to large bed quilts. They go to hospitals and hospices and refuges and foster children and fundraising and disaster relief.


These are just some of quilts on display at the exhibition donated to our program. We have a very dedicated team who allocates quilts where they are needed in liaison with the organisations.

 

I think these quilts are amazing. I love the 3-D effect of the one below.

 

The machine quilting on the quilts is donated in most cases as well.
 

I'm proud to be a part of such a great organisation.

Don't we quilt to share the love?

QuiltWest 2013 Best of Show

The Western Australian Quilters' Association
recently held their annual exhibition.
Best of Show was awarded to Jocelyne Leath for her quilt 'Papa'.
 

'Papa' detail.

From the catalogue:
"Textured portraiture in the raw. De-colourant used to create variation of colour in fabric. Free machine quilted, inspired by the works of Mary Pal and her use of cheesecloth. An original design inspired by an article on Mary Pal in the "Quilting Arts' magazine."

The WAQA website has been updated to show all the prize-winning
quilts from this year's exhibition. You can see them here.

Quilt Show 6

Stilts on Pink Lake by Elizabeth Humphreys

84cm x 63cm

Weeping Willow by Judith Fewings

66cm x 56cm

detail

Purple Dimensions by Margaret Perrott

149cm x 149cm

detail

Quilt Show 5

Trying to Make a Hole by Jan Rowe

96cm x 134cm

Year of the Dragon by Laura Lochore

75cm x 105cm

detail

Animalia by Julie McAllister

139cm x 160cm

Women's Work by Judy Campbell

39cm x 55cm

Quilt Show 4

Daisy Bush by Marisa Valentino

114cm x 145cm

Argentinian Adventure by Jan Rowe

123cm x 152cm

Chilli Peppers by Julie McAllister

198cm x 198cm

Bloomin' Circles by Elizabeth Humphreys

178cm x 178cm

Bright Bouquet of Beautiful Blossoms by Louise Moller

188cm x 188cm

Quilt Show 3

Unfortunately I did not get the name of the quilter.

Small challenge quilt.

Diane Firth

Small challenge quilt.

Barbara Daniels

Small challenge quilt.

Hilary Arbor.

Small challenge quilt.

Robyn Vallence

Small challenge quilt.

Quilt Show 2

Happy Wanderer by Christine Petersen

80cm x 88cm

Flow of Life by Christine Petersen

122cm x 103cm

Night Spawning on the Reef by Suzanne Wray

132cm x 97cm

Candy Flipping by Jocelyne Leath

70cm x 110cm

The Blues at Bridgetown by Bobbie Deans

Quilt Show 1

I've prepared six posts with a few of the quilts that caught my eye. As usual there were many, many wonderful quilts (over 200 to look at) and I could in no way show you everything. I took a few photos of quilts that caught my eye. I only had my phone camera with me, but I think they are mostly ok to look at.

Best of Show.

Bed of Blooms by Yvonne Skodt

167cm x 208cm

Liliums for Glen by Carole Pianto

163cm x 163cm

Circles upon Circles by Carole Pianto

107cm x 92cm

In the Current by Sharon Brown

102cm x 11ocm

From a sister quilting group in Kagoshima Japan.