Joan Dorsay – Quilt More

Twenty years ago, I promised myself I would make a Baltimore Album Quilt some day. I worked on this quilt almost daily for over two years. I was so relieved to finish quilting, only to find that the borders and the sashing rippled, and that meant MORE QUILTING was needed. The border and four blocks are original; the 16 remaining blocks are based on designs by Elly Sienkiewicz and Jeanna Kimball.

Hand appliquéd, hand quilted and embroidered.

Mary Lajoie – Water Lilies

Water Lilies was a quilt that I made using the pattern Water Lilies by Aie Rossman. This is my first attempt at needle-turn appliqué and it took about 3 years to complete. I started it in Brighton and worked on my blocks with a group of 4 women who also worked on the same project. I redesigned the border and it is not at all like the original pattern. I used a variety of batiks and found that with each block I was able to take more risks with the colours that I used. Georgia Beale hand quilted this quilt and I am so happy with the results.

Margaret Dunsmore – Family Time

Our family currently includes five generations. Over the years, our roles in the family change as we move from child to youth, to adult, senior and aged. One thing never changes: the support, comfort, pleasure and love that we give and receive, in good times and bad.

The figures were drawn and assembled using Ruth McDowell’s pattern-making and piecing techniques. The figures are:

• in red, my mother, Violet Buchner
• in purple, my sister, Penny Penwarden
• in mauve, Penny’s daughter, Kathy Cousineau,
• in blue, Kathy’s daughter, now Sherri Nicholson, and the mother of three boys
• and Chuck, the chipmunk

Linda Hobbs – Piece of Peace

This “artsy” quilt was designed by Jane Kennedy and was called Whose woods are these? After seeing this in a quilt magazine, I knew I had to attempt to make my own version of it. It turned out great. Grace’s quilting and the addition of “little trees” made this piece fantastic. The making of the silver moon taught us both what a circle looks like. The starkness of this piece makes you stop and enjoy the peace of the moment.

Machine quilted by Grace Whiting.

Twenty years ago, I promised myself I would make a Baltimore Album Quilt some day. I worked on this quilt almost daily for over two years. I was so relieved to finish quilting, only to find that the borders and the sashing rippled, and that meant MORE QUILTING was needed. The border and four blocks are original; the 16 remaining blocks are based on designs by Elly Sienkiewicz and Jeanna Kimball.

Hand appliquéd, hand quilted and embroidered.

Rosemary O'Connell – Coffee Classics

This set is from a group of patterns by McKenna Ryan: Just Coffee, Warm Up and Four Big Shots. I had been collecting batiks so this was the perfect project to use some of them.

Margaret Dunsmore – Family Time
Best Quilting – Domestic Sewing Machine

Our family currently includes five generations. Over the years, our roles in the family change as we move from child to youth, to adult, senior and aged. One thing never changes: the support, comfort, pleasure and love that we give and receive, in good times and bad.

The figures were drawn and assembled using Ruth McDowell’s pattern-making and piecing techniques. The figures are:

• in red, my mother, Violet Buchner
• in purple, my sister, Penny Penwarden
• in mauve, Penny’s daughter, Kathy Cousineau,
• in blue, Kathy’s daughter, now Sherri Nicholson, and the mother of three boys
• and Chuck, the chipmunk

Elizabeth Gravelle – Pineapple Plus

Medallion Pineapple: the centre is based on a picture I saw (not a quilt). I started it, not knowing what to do with it. Then I designed the remainder of the quilt from my own ideas.  I consider it my own design. The materials were selected from my stash.

Elizabeth Gravelle – Butterflies & Hearts

The centre of this medallion quilt was done at a week-long workshop at Canadore College Artsperience 2004.

The remainder of the quilt is from a 6-part series in McCall’s Quilting and was added in 2008.

The quilting was started in 2008 and finished in 2009.

Gwen Whitaker – OVQG Mystery Quilt

In September 2008, the first clues for making this mystery quilt were printed in our guild newsletter. More clues were given in the next four monthly newsletters.

My quilt is machine pieced and hand quilted.

The fabrics were chosen from my current stash of scraps.

Pat Amundrud – Hmong Hearts

While traveling in Laos we saw street markets filled with reverse appliquéd bed covers. In northern Thailand I capitulated and bought twelve heart squares. My challenge was to decide how to complement the Hmong (or Mon) appliquér's work. I invisibly quilted around her hearts and then quilted my own hearts. I've titled it Hmong Hearts, easily pronounced as "A"mong Hearts, as a reminder of our wonderful experience in Laos and Thailand.

White, blue and red fabrics, in my own design, using an unknown Hmong appliquér’s work.

Grace Whiting & Linda Hobbs – Trapunto Trial

The motifs on this quilt were one of my first attempts at real machine trapunto. Feathers were done by stencil using iron-away chalk. Cross-hatching by ruler and “McGracing” as filler.

I originally quilted this one for Linda, but when it came up for sale, I purchased it to have for myself. Of course, I love the quilting.

Alice McKay – Out of Africa

This quilt was made as a 50th birthday gift for my sister. I decided on a medallion style, using a small piece of focus fabric for the centre diamond shape. The rest was “built” around the centre using African-themed fabrics. There was no exact pattern I followed; I used ideas from various magazines and fit the pieces together.

Grace Whiting did the quilting on her long-arm machine.

Maggie Fontana – Carolina Star

I made this top during our vacation last March in North Carolina - a pattern by Judy Niemeyer. It took me forever to audition my fabrics and come up with something effective, but I was pleased with the results.

Joan Dorsay – Quilt More
BEST IN SHOW

Twenty years ago, I promised myself I would make a Baltimore Album Quilt some day. I worked on this quilt almost daily for over two years. I was so relieved to finish quilting, only to find that the borders and the sashing rippled, and that meant MORE QUILTING was needed. The border and four blocks are original; the 16 remaining blocks are based on designs by Elly Sienkiewicz and Jeanna Kimball.

Hand appliquéd, hand quilted and embroidered.

Carol McFee – Under the Mistletoe

This quilt is from a kit from Fons and Porter. It was hand quilted using a cotton batt and light brown YLI cotton quilting thread. The binding is made from several fabrics used in the quilt top. I embroidered the label with my Bernina machine.

Leona Pasmore – My Favourite Activities

Original design!  People would ask me “What do you do, now that you’ve retired?”  This pretty much answers the question.

Alice McKay – Untitled

This quilt was made from a pattern called State of Grace designed by Daniela Stout, from a book entitled Strip Clubbing-Perfect for Jelly Rolls.   I liked the richness of the fabrics in the jelly rolls, and used fabrics from my stash for the background and borders.

Mary Lajoie – Amelie's Quilt

I made this quilt for my granddaughter Amelie for her 8th birthday. It is based on the pattern A Blooming Garden by the Button Bush Pattern Company. I chose the fabrics and the colours for this quilt. It was machine quilted and the appliqué technique is raw-edged appliqué.

Albertina Pianarosa – Shadows

Inspired by a quilt seen in Quiltmania Magazine.

Hand and machine- quilted.

Adeline Alkan – Someday?

A crib quilt for a possible grandchild some day. Stars with pockets containing soft animals.  Machine pieced, hand quilted.

Vickie Thomson – A Teddy for Ethan

This quilt is for a new grandnephew. The family always seems to have girls so I had Sunbonnet Sue ready.

I had to go back to the sewing machine and am a little late.

This is from Cristal Carter’s book A Child’s Garden of Quilts.

Alice McKay – Islands in the Sun

This quilt is the result of a workshop given by Elaine Quehl, one of the Artists-in-Residence for the 2009 Festival of Quilts show.  The technique and choice of colours were a challenge for me, as I think of myself as a more traditional quilter.  The result reminded me of something tropical, hence the name Islands in the Sun.

Linda Hobbs – Piece of Peace
Best Quilting – Long-Arm Machine

This “artsy” quilt was designed by Jane Kennedy and was called Whose woods are these? After seeing this in a quilt magazine, I knew I had to attempt to make my own version of it. It turned out great. Grace’s quilting and the addition of “little trees” made this piece fantastic. The making of the silver moon taught us both what a circle looks like. The starkness of this piece makes you stop and enjoy the peace of the moment.

Machine quilted by Grace Whiting.

Betsy Theriault – Gerry's Joy-Baltimore Album

I started this quilt in 1996—a class with Sharon Goldack doing a block each month for almost a year and a half.  Put it away for ten years.  Last year I discovered it again.  Put it together and had it quilted beautifully by Georgia Beale.

Maggie Fontana – Don't Bug Me

This is a pattern that I put together last year on a vacation.  The quilting was done on my long-arm and was finished in May 2008.

Mary Lajoie – Water Lilies
Best Quilting – Hand

Water Lilies was a quilt that I made using the pattern Water Lilies by Aie Rossman. This is my first attempt at needle-turn appliqué and it took about 3 years to complete. I started it in Brighton and worked on my blocks with a group of 4 women who also worked on the same project. I redesigned the border and it is not at all like the original pattern. I used a variety of batiks and found that with each block I was able to take more risks with the colours that I used. Georgia Beale hand quilted this quilt and I am so happy with the results.

Grace Whiting & Della Nordick – Psyche-Della-Two

My friend Della made the top from her scraps from her original and gave it to me as a present.

Since most of these colours are not in my own stash and the hand-appliqué is not my method of work style, this piece brings great joy and variety to my collection of quilts.

Celebrate friends and their differences!

Carol McFee – Mariner Jane

This wall hanging is made from a combination of sixteen “Dear Jane” blocks and a Mariner’s Compass block. Appliquéd blocks were appliquéd by hand while pieced blocks, including the Mariner’s Compass, were foundation paper-pieced. Arrangement of the blocks is mine. This piece was hand-quilted using a feathered heart motif and applied variations of same. Ecru YLI thread was used to quilt. The label was embroidered using a variegated thread.

Maxine Robertson – Log Cabin Miniature

Leona Pasmore - Spring is Here

Based on a pattern in Log Cabin in the Round Designs by Barbara Schaffeld and Bev Vickery.

Linda Hobbs – The Homestead

A photograph taken in winter at 7 a.m. inspired this art work. My son, a television animator, helped me understand perspective. This is my first pictorial quilt—my home. The 100 year-old tree in the forefront has since been hit by lightning and will be greatly missed. My large front porch is my cottage in the summer. Last year, I made a large pond with waterfalls and koi that is right behind my porch. When I sit on my porch, I face the base of the Gatineau Mountains. God’s Country.

Machine quilted by Grace Whiting.

Margaret Dunsmore – Choices

This wall quilt was inspired by the words of Vaclav Havel which are quoted in the outer border. It represents the personal and political struggle between good and evil, using an image of birds in conflict, none of which is either black or white, but some shade of gray.

The painted fabrics in the "roulette wheel" suggest that the future of the environment is not a matter of chance, but will be the result of choices we make, both as individuals and as societies.

Kris Broadhead – The Storm

I was at a cottage a few years ago when a series of tornadoes and heavy thunderstorms went through the area. Not something easily forgotten.

Machine-felted wool rovings and yarn, quilted background, hand embroidery, beads.

Vikki Zulpo – Gingko Passion, Jacket

My intent was to create an elegant, stunningly rich jacket from Oriental-themed fabrics.

Made the summer of 2007 from a Vogue pattern, I finally ventured into a fitted style of jacket.  Built on an old cotton sheet, I used gold braid and trinkets to embellish.  I added free-motion quilting with high-sheen variegated gold threads on the arms to mimic the gingko leaf.   Much of the design in the fabric has been outlined by quilting to add texture.   I enjoyed the challenge of making a fitted jacket from all these fabrics without it looking too bulky.

Gingko Passion won First Prize in the International Ploughing Match, 2007.

Jo-Ann Raven – Twisted, Vest

An original design.

Vest is made from cotton and wool. The leaves and lining are hand-dyed by Linda Palaisy. The fabric leaves were fuse appliquéd. The cheesecloth leaves, the vine and the berries have all been needle-felted into place. There is a layer of flannel for the batting. It was stipple-quilted with Linda Palaisy's hand-dyed thread. The binding is 6 strands of lopi wool that is needle-felted over the edges. The dragonfly is a machine embroidery design by Cactus Punch. 

This vest won Viewers’ Choice at the Cornwall Quilters’ Pleasure Retreat in January, 2008

Vikki Zulpo – Asian Armour, Coat & Hat

For the Armour Challenge of my Artwear Group, I designed an Asian- influenced coat inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. 

Crafted from 100% boiled wool and lined with kasha, the Eastern look was developed through use of a Tibetan/Nepalese shoulder style, modified to a personally designed princess-line pattern.  A modified mandarin collar has partially inset braiding.  I designed the scroll work, photocopied the result onto tear-away foundation sheets and sewed the designs using the bobbin-work technique.  The embellishment of an Oriental coin and metal jewellery was enhanced by braiding on the sleeve and coat vents, Plethor at the cuffs to prevent wear, an interior tie belt, and 3 layers of interfacing for the magnetic purse closures. The hat was simply a circle and a band, measured to my own head; the stiffness of the upright brim was obtained by using Fast 2 Fuse.

Asian Armour was accepted into the National Juried Show of Quilt Canada 2008.

Joan Dorsay – Quilt More
Best in Show

Twenty years ago, I promised myself I would make a Baltimore Album Quilt some day. I worked on this quilt almost daily for over two years. I was so relieved to finish quilting, only to find that the borders and the sashing rippled, and that meant MORE QUILTING was needed. The border and four blocks are original; the 16 remaining blocks are based on designs by Elly Sienkiewicz and Jeanna Kimball.

Hand appliquéd, hand quilted and embroidered.

Annette Boudreau - My Millennium Quilt

In the winter of 1999, I read in various magazines about people making a special millennium quilt. I started with the idea of making a charm quilt with 2000 pieces and planned to have this quilt finished for New Year's Day 2000. It took a lot longer than expected and it was finally completed in October 2007 …8 years in the making. The quilt was done by using the English paper piecing method. It was all hand-assembled and hand-quilted by me.

Pat Amundrud – Hmong Hearts
Merit Winners, Bed – Pieced, Hand Quilted, Honourable Mention

While traveling in Laos we saw street markets filled with reverse appliquéd bed covers. In northern Thailand I capitulated and bought twelve heart squares. My challenge was to decide how to complement the Hmong (or Mon) appliquér's work. I invisibly quilted around her hearts and then quilted my own hearts. I've titled it Hmong Hearts, easily pronounced as "A"mong Hearts, as a reminder of our wonderful experience in Laos and Thailand.

White, blue and red fabrics, in my own design, using an unknown Hmong appliquér’s work.

Elizabeth Gravelle – Butterflies & Hearts
Merit Winners,  Bed – Pieced, Hand Quilted, Second

The centre of this medallion quilt was done at a week-long workshop at Canadore College Artsperience 2004.

The remainder of the quilt is from a 6-part series in McCall’s Quilting and was added in 2008.

The quilting was started in 2008 and finished in 2009.

Maggie Fontana – Carolina Star
Merit Winners, Bed – Pieced/Appliquéd, Long-Arm Quilted, Third

I made this top during our vacation last March in North Carolina - a pattern by Judy Niemeyer. It took me forever to audition my fabrics and come up with something effective, but I was pleased with the results.

Anne Hedberg – The Spin I'm In

This quilt was modified from the Star Spin pattern
(© Oregon Treasures 1988). I first saw the pattern some years ago in Pennsylvania and really liked it.

My husband chose the base colours and this quilt is a wedding anniversary gift for him.

Vikki Zulpo – More Than Meets the Eye

This memory quilt was many years in the making for my youngest son. T-shirts and other memorabilia and photo transfers were fused to “wonder-under”, then randomly framed to avoid the monotony of a sashed T-shirt quilt. Before binding, an insert was added. It was long-arm quilted with wonderful detail by Jan Kittle—designs, related “sketches” and phrases. Besides being a fan of Spiderman (hence the backing fabric) he loved the “Transformers”. So, along with the hidden messages in the quilting, the title has a double meaning. Clothes and T-shirts were saved from the time he was 2 years old and they were finally “returned” to him upon his university graduation!

Joan Dorsay – Quilt More
Best in Show

Twenty years ago, I promised myself I would make a Baltimore Album Quilt some day. I worked on this quilt almost daily for over two years. I was so relieved to finish quilting, only to find that the borders and the sashing rippled, and that meant MORE QUILTING was needed. The border and four blocks are original; the 16 remaining blocks are based on designs by Elly Sienkiewicz and Jeanna Kimball.

Hand appliquéd, hand quilted and embroidered.

Leona Pasmore – My Favourite Activities
Merit Winners, Bed – Appliquéd, Hand Quilted, Honourable Mention

Original design! People would ask me “What do you do, now that you’ve retired?” This pretty much answers the question.

Carol McFee – Under the Mistletoe
Merit Winners, Bed – Appliquéd, Hand Quilted, Second

This quilt is from a kit from Fons and Porter. It was hand quilted using a cotton batt and light brown YLI cotton quilting thread. The binding is made from several fabrics used in the quilt top. I embroidered the label with my Bernina machine.

Mary Lajoie – Amelie's Quilt
Merit Winners, Bed – Any technique, Domestic Machine Quilted, Second

I made this quilt for my granddaughter Amelie for her 8th birthday. It is based on the pattern A Blooming Garden by the Button Bush Pattern Company. I chose the fabrics and the colours for this quilt. It was machine quilted and the appliqué technique is raw-edged appliqué.

Alice McKay – Untitled
Merit Winners, Bed – Any technique, Domestic Machine Quilted, First

This quilt was made from a pattern called State of Grace designed by Daniela Stout, from a book entitled Strip Clubbing-Perfect for Jelly Rolls. I liked the richness of the fabrics in the jelly rolls, and used fabrics from my stash for the background and borders.

Leslie Mills – Yin & Yang

This is the wedding quilt I made for my daughter and son-in-law. While I was making it, they were living at a yoga school in Thailand. I made this to represent the idea that every successful marriage has two sides—the good and bad, happy and sad, health and illness, ups and downs. Mixed in along the way are laughter, sharing and caring. And in the centre is the deep lasting core of love. I used Sharon Pederson’s reversible quilts technique. It was challenging but fun. The result is two quilts for the price of one!

Adeline Alkan – Someday?
Merit Winners, Small Bed – Any technique, First

A crib quilt for a possible grandchild some day. Stars with pockets containing soft animals. Machine pieced, hand quilted.

Alanna Smith – Hidden Circles

Inspiration came from a gift bag that had colors to compliment a teal-colored leather sofa. I adapted the Winding Ways pattern from the Big Book of Scrap Quilts.

Instead of piecing using templates, I appliquéd the 4 patches onto the background.

Pat Amundrud – Anna's Alphabet I Spy

I bought fabric with the letters. Now what? I cut it up and started to pair each letter with appropriate picture fabric. Oh, no, I don't have nearly enough. My quilting circle contributed so many I even got the outer rows.

Linda Hobbs – Piece of Peace
Best Quilting – Long-Arm Machine

This “artsy” quilt was designed by Jane Kennedy and was called Whose woods are these? After seeing this in a quilt magazine, I knew I had to attempt to make my own version of it. It turned out great. Grace’s quilting and the addition of “little trees” made this piece fantastic. The making of the silver moon taught us both what a circle looks like. The starkness of this piece makes you stop and enjoy the peace of the moment.

Machine quilted by Grace Whiting.

Vicki Thomson – Coloured Star

This is a Jinny Beyer kit. I love her use of colours.

It was a step in moving to smaller pieces. It is paper-pieced.

Georgia Beale – Spring Garden

100% cotton fabrics, low loft polyester batt, hand-quilted, hand-appliquéd.

Maggie Fontana – Cosmic Sparkler

A Judy Niemeyer pattern called Raindrops.

Mary Lajoie – Water Lilies
Merit Winners, Large Wall Hanging, First

Water Lilies was a quilt that I made using the pattern Water Lilies by Aie Rossman. This is my first attempt at needle-turn appliqué and it took about 3 years to complete. I started it in Brighton and worked on my blocks with a group of 4 women who also worked on the same project. I redesigned the border and it is not at all like the original pattern. I used a variety of batiks and found that with each block I was able to take more risks with the colours that I used. Georgia Beale hand quilted this quilt and I am so happy with the results.

Carole Carraro – Tis' Xmas

The pattern for this quilt came from a quilting magazine, the name of which escapes me at this time. Each piece, other than the border and the light stars in the sashing, was fussy cut from every piece of Xmas print fabric I could find at the time. I quilted it by machine, diagonally in both directions.

Maxine Robertson – Log Cabin Miniature
Merit Winners, Miniature

Leslie Mills – The Producers

Pinga belongs to my daughter and son-in-law, a beautiful little Jersey cow. She gives buckets of lovely milk every day for making cheese, yogurt and butter. One of “the girls” who share the barn is perched on her back. I thought it was so funny, but Geneviève said “Mom, the chickens are always standing on Pinga”.

This was the result of trying out a new technique for transferring a photo onto fabric.

Leona Pasmore - Spring is Here

Based on a pattern in Log Cabin in the Round Designs by Barbara Schaffeld and Bev Vickery.

Linda Hobbs – The Homestead
Merit Winners, Art Quilt, First

A photograph taken in winter at 7 a.m. inspired this art work. My son, a television animator, helped me understand perspective. This is my first pictorial quilt—my home. The 100 year-old tree in the forefront has since been hit by lightning and will be greatly missed. My large front porch is my cottage in the summer. Last year, I made a large pond with waterfalls and koi that is right behind my porch. When I sit on my porch, I face the base of the Gatineau Mountains. God’s Country.

Liane Thiry-Smith – Painted Desert

This UFO was started around 1990, when I learned this strip-piecing technique in a Sheila Wintle workshop. It waited until new inspiration came to me. I realized just last year that it need painted ponies and not cacti and have spent that time reconfiguring my original design.

Originally from the Southwest, I wanted to reclaim some of that nostalgia of my youth.  Horses represent power in the Native tradition and in the process I also reclaimed a greater sense of personal power in my life.

Margaret Dunsmore – Choices
Merit Winners, Art Quilt, Second

This wall quilt was inspired by the words of Vaclav Havel which are quoted in the outer border. It represents the personal and political struggle between good and evil, using an image of birds in conflict, none of which is either black or white, but some shade of gray.

The painted fabrics in the "roulette wheel" suggest that the future of the environment is not a matter of chance, but will be the result of choices we make, both as individuals and as societies.

Vikki Zulpo – Gingko Passion, Jacket
Merit Winners, Wearable, First

My intent was to create an elegant, stunningly rich jacket from Oriental-themed fabrics.

Made the summer of 2007 from a Vogue pattern, I finally ventured into a fitted style of jacket.  Built on an old cotton sheet, I used gold braid and trinkets to embellish.  I added free-motion quilting with high-sheen variegated gold threads on the arms to mimic the gingko leaf.   Much of the design in the fabric has been outlined by quilting to add texture.   I enjoyed the challenge of making a fitted jacket from all these fabrics without it looking too bulky.

Gingko Passion won First Prize in the International Ploughing Match, 2007.

Jo-Ann Raven – Twisted, Vest
Merit Winners, Wearable, Second

An original design.

Vest is made from cotton and wool. The leaves and lining are hand-dyed by Linda Palaisy. The fabric leaves were fuse appliquéd. The cheesecloth leaves, the vine and the berries have all been needle-felted into place. There is a layer of flannel for the batting. It was stipple-quilted with Linda Palaisy's hand-dyed thread. The binding is 6 strands of lopi wool that is needle-felted over the edges. The dragonfly is a machine embroidery design by Cactus Punch. 

This vest won Viewers’ Choice at the Cornwall Quilters’ Pleasure Retreat in January, 2008

Janet Patch – Dress Jacket

I purchased the main fabric for this jacket when Quilt Canada was in Ottawa a few years ago.  After two years of professional dressmaking, I felt ready to create a jacket with this “too nice to cut” fabric!

The pattern was drafted by myself, and the jacket quilted where necessary.

Grace Whiting – Raven Eyes

Quilt patterns based on native totemic works by Tommy Joseph, a Tlingit wood carver, have been following me home from Houston for a few years now.

As a test case for a future larger project, I tried this Raven and Salmon design using leather for the major element.

Jane Roszell – The Northern Lights Have Seen Great Sights

This piece is designed on the principles of Fibonacci’s number series (1,2,3,5,8 etc.). Every aspect in terms of proportions and lines is extracted from this number series. The star shapes are 3” x 5”, the curved color shapes around the stars are cut from the Fibonacci spiral (nautilus shape), the convergence strips are based on the same number ratios (1,2,3) and the tumbling squares are 1”. The overall dimensions (28” x 49”) do not reflect the number series, but do correspond to the golden ratio (1.6).

Maureen Roach – Celebration

As a northern country, we display great pride in celebrating Canada Day.