Traditional Quilts at Craft & Quilt Fair - Melbourne 2017

Victorian Quilters Inc had several Traditional Quilts entered in their display last month in Melbourne at the Craft & Quilt Fair.

PATRICIA McDONALD

won First Place in the Traditional Amateur section for her quilt

JAPANESE DREAMING 

and also won a Judge's Award

Patricia said "I attended Jan Preston's workshop at Cohuna (Japanese Kaleidoscope) made 1 block, thought table runner will be it but kept going. 

Inspired by Thread Pathway by Indigo Niche Designs and made centre piece for quilt.

Hand piecing, hand embroidery, embellished centre blocks with decorative thread and beads, machine quilted on standard stationary machine."

Quilt is 163cm x 200cm

Retaining the Tradition Award

The Janet O'Dell Award

was won by

NOELENE McGUREN

for her quilt

ALEX'S JOURNEY

Noelene said "My interpretation of a design as seen in "The Fabric of Society" by Annette Gero, made by Mrs. Radin and her son Frank 1880.

Handsewn using English Paper method, hand quilted using stab method. Worked over about 16 months."

It also won Highly Commended

Traditional Professional

Quilt Measures 196cm x 228cm

RUNNER UP

Traditional Professional

was won by

KAREN TERRENS

for her quilt

"CORNFLOWER BLUE"

Karen said "Cornflower Blue is a Diamond Sawtooth quilt - a design which has traditionally been made by the Amish of Pennsylvania. Having quilted a similar customer quilt in red and white colours in 2012, I decided to make my own version using blue and white. Feathers have been quilted to fill the space. A double layer of wadding has been used to create a faux trapunto effect.

Machine pieced, machine quilted on a hand guided, stitch regulated, track mounted system."

Quilt Measures 176cm x 176cm

KAREN also won First Prize
Long Arm Quilters
for her quilt
"SNOW WHITE"

Karen said: "Snow White is a wholecloth quilt and incorporates shadow trapunto. Snow White has cut away trapunto for all the quilting motifs. A blue layer of fabric behind the top layer of batiste has created the pale blue colour. The quilt is based on traditional North Country wholecloth quilts originally made in the lat 1800 through the early 1900's, While based on traditional quilting design, all quilting motifs were re-drafted to make them suitable for machine quilting.

Quilting on a track mounted, stitch regulated, hand guided system."

Quilt Measures:  164cm x 164cm

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS 

and indeed to ALL who contributed their quilts to share.

You are ALL WINNERS!

This week in our National Capital, CANBERRA for the Craft & Quilt Fair

Hope you can visit sometime over Thursday to Sunday

We have FOUR fantastic educational seminars daily too.

Come and learn, get inspired, stock up on all your needs and have a great fun day outing.