The Wolf Brothers was constructed with fused applique and a small amount of thread painting. The eyes and shadows were created using acrylic paints and pens. The entire quilt from the first drawings to the hanging sleeve took seven months to make. It was then quilted on my domestic machine using various Superior brand threads. I like the way the wolves appear to be watching the viewer from every angle. They are relaxed but watchful.
Guild: Piece Makers, ON
Awarded: May 13, 2016
Winner: Best in Show
Quilt Size: 36″ x 53″
Quilted by: Heather Stewart
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Verna” name=”Verna Hollett” quilt=”Queen Anne Star” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Verna-Hollett-1467264730-1.jpeg” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″]
Designer: Smithsonian Institution – American Heritage Quilt Collection
Pattern Source: Canadian Living Magazine Market Place
Techniques: Pre-Stenciled Whole Cloth
Materials: 100% Cotton Fabric and Thread
Type of Quilting: Hand Quilted
Quilt Story: This pre-stenciled quilt top was purchased in Feb/1997. April 2013, Verna hand-basted it an began the challenge of hand quilting. Approximately 775 hours later, the quilting was finished. Binding was applied and in April 2016, just after her 82nd birthday, the quilt was completed!
Guild: Cabot Quilters Guild, NL
Awarded: May 13, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 87″ x 105″
Pattern: Queen Anne Star
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Sybille” name=”Sybille Broten” quilt=”Bali Tiles” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Sybille-Broten-1463084074-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Inspired by a fellow quilter’s use of the Bali Tiles, Sybille made simple blocks to alternate with the printed Bali blocks, set them on point and bordered it with simple setting triangles. She then custom quilted the entire quilt on her domestic sewing machine.
Guild: Fraser Quilters Guild, BC
Awarded: May 10, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 92 x 106
Original Design: inspired by a fellow quilter’s use of the Bali Tiles fabric
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Terry” name=”Terry Whyte” quilt=”Beneath the Canopy” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Terry-Whyte-1476280700-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
An original design, free motion thread painted through the 3 layers using metallic and white threads. Reversible.
Guild: Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters Guild, ON
Awarded: May 08, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 21″ x 19″
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Carolyn” name=”Carolyn Hunter” quilt=”Nourishment” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Carolyn-Hunter-1462859972-1-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
I live in Inuvik, NWT, a town of 3000 people located north of the Arctic Circle in the Mackenzie Delta.
The Mackenzie Delta is mostly wetlands covered with low lying shrubs and black spruce trees that grow narrow thin and tilted as they try to maintain a footing in this permafrost covered inhospitable landscape.
Nourishment is a testament to the resilience and resourcefulness of the Black Spruce trees that thrive and by extension the people that choose to call this part of the country home.
Guild: Inuvik Quilting Guild, NT
Awarded: May 07, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 75″ x 109″
Quilted by: Carolyn Hunter
Original Design:
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Kathryn” name=”Kathryn MacKie” quilt=”Frosty Christmas” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kathryn-MacKie-1476485895-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
This quilt was originally a class I took to learn different skills and techniques which ended up being invaluable in my quilting journey. I envisioned the quilt constructed from low volume fabrics and not the traditional reds and greens of Christmas. Though I pieced the quilt it was beautifully quilted by Jennifer Watson.
Guild: Victoria Quilters Guild, BC
Awarded: May 06, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 75″ x 94 1/2″
Quilted by: Jennifer Watson
Pattern: Christmas Hearts Light by Susie M Robbins
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Judy” name=”Judy Clements” quilt=”Double Wedding Ring %22Forever%22″ image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Judy-Clements-1472052558-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
This quilt was meant to be a graduation gift for our daughter. I started working on it in 2000.Sixteen years later I finally finished it. Our daughter picked the colours,which I thought were awesome.
Guild: Manning Quilters, AB
Awarded: May 06, 2016
Winner: Best in Show
Quilt Size: 94″ x94″
Quilted by: Kim Caskey
Pattern: Forever Pattern by John Flynn
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Marion” name=”Marion Meyers” quilt=”Love Birds” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Marion-Meyers-1464952904-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
I made this quilt for by nephew Alex as wedding gift when he married his sweetheart Kate. I chose the Border Creek Station Pattern Company pattern “Abigail’s Freedom Garden” then changed the appliqué to the raw-edge appliqué designs by Michele Hill from her books inspired by William Morris. This allowed me to work in the birds, acanthus leaves and pomegranates that have symbolism for a marriage quilt. The lovely colour scheme of blues, tans and cream was chosen by the bride, but no one saw the quilt until it was done.
Guild: Port Perry Patchers, ON
Awarded: May 06, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 100″ x 100″
Quilted by: Marion Meyers
Pattern: see above
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Maria” name=”Maria da Silva” quilt=”Many Tomorrows” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Maria-da-Silva-1464458353-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
17,661 hexagons were hand cut from paper, then wrapped in fabric, hand sewn together and then the paper was removed. I don’t know what I was thinking when I started this quilt, but I’m sure happy with the results!
Guild: Langley Quilters’ Guild, BC
Awarded: May 06, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 82″ x 82″
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Heather” name=”Heather Grover” quilt=”Landscapes” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Heather-Grover-1462900008-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
This was my first fibre book. All the pages were made and given to me from friends around the world. In exchange I sent them pages for their fibre books. The pockets on the back were filled with postcards, letters, brochures and fabric. I thought this was a good example of fabric that travel and made by a group.
Awarded: May 06, 2016
Winner: Best in Show
Quilt Size: 8.5″ x 8″
Quilted by: Heather Grover
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Leeann” name=”Leeann Millar” quilt=”Argyle” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Leeann-Millar-1473025873-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Leeann’s Bargello quilt is the second Bargello quilt that Leeann has made and she enjoys the process that goes into making one. After making the first one for her in-laws, she knew she wanted to try another.
Guild: Crocus Quilters Guild, SK
Awarded: April 30, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 94.5 x 96 inches
Quilted by: Terry Whitman of Meandering Star Quilting
Quilt Magazine or Book: Eileen Wright’s book, More Twist-and-Turn Bargello Quilts
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Anna” name=”Anna Gagnon” quilt=”Love of Poppies” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Anna-Gagnon-1470718128-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Anna’s Love of Poppies quilt is hand appliqued. She enjoys the needle turned applique method because she can take it with her where ever she goes. This is one of several needle turned applique quilts Anna completed recently. She was so pleased to receive the award. We truly enjoyed giving Anna the Viewer’s Choice Award.
Guild: Vermilion Quilters, AB
Awarded: April 30, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 88 X 101
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Mary” name=”Mary Jane Fleming” quilt=”A Celtic Garden” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mary-Jane-Fleming-1465074617-1-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
This quilt was very labour intensive. There are four yards of material in the Celtic knot work. Each petal and leaf of the flower blocks was fussy cut and sewn by hand. The Celtic blocks came from a pattern Canterbury Rose by L. Gerard and some flowers from a book by P. Duncan. The borders and some flowers were my own design.
Guild: Sunset Country Quilters Guild, ON
Awarded: April 30, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 80″ x 90″
Quilted by: my daughter, Penny Boyko
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Maureen” name=”Maureen Rawson” quilt=”A Song of Fire and Ice” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Maureen-Rawson-1462666648-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Original design using 15 Double Aster blocks. The title is in tribute to George R.R. Martin, whose audio books helped during the quilting. Judged by Elaine Theriault.
Guild: Oakville Quilters’ Guild, ON
Awarded: April 29, 2016
Winner: Best in Show
Quilt Size: 80″ x 96″
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Helene” name=”Hélène Gautron” quilt=”Le jardin de Marie” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Hélène-GAUTRON-1462472709-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Un Patron de Sallie B. Pate et un assortiment de tissus batiks, reçus en héritage, sont à l’origine de cette réalisation. Le titre de l’ouvrage rend hommage à la donatrice. Le piéçage et le piquage ont été réalisés en une seule étape à la machine domestique.
A Sallie B. Pate pattern and a variety of Batiks, donated by a quilter, are the reason for this quilt. The title of the quilt is my expression of gratitude. The piecing and the quilting were done in one step by domestic machine.
Guild: Les Courtepointieres Appliquees, QC
Awarded: April 29, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 72 X 75
Pattern: Sallie B.Pate pattern
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Linda” name=”Linda Lautamus” quilt=”Sunday Ride” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Linda-Lautamus-1463331007-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Linda made this quilt for her granddaughter. It will be a gift for her wedding. The technique used is fusible machine applique and some hand embroidery embellishments. Custom quilted by Kathy Schwartz of Tamarack Shack Longarm Quilting.
Guild: North Star Quilt Guild, MB
Awarded: April 23, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 58″x 79″
Quilted by: Kathy Schwartz
Pattern: Sunday Ride pattern by Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Glenda” name=”Glenda Pidlisny” quilt=”Little Bitz” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Glenda-Pidlisny-1462304920-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
While attending the Road to California Quilt show in Ontario, California I found the pattern “Little Bitzs” and fell in love with it. I thought of what a wonderful way to use scraps. When I got home and took the pattern apart I wondered ” what was I thinking ” and sat down and started cutting. I guess the intimidating aspect was the 1/4 inch finished strips and the first one being 1/4″by 1/4″. I enjoyed the challenge for it was my first paper piecing pattern I had ever done and I will do more.
Guild: Prairie Patch Quilt Guild, SK
Awarded: April 16, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 27″x27″
Quilted by: Glenda Pidlisny
Pattern: Little Bitz-Diamond Log Cabin-Cindi Edgerton
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Nikki” name=”Nikki Watt” quilt=”Baltimore Variations” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nikki-Watt-1461300889-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Baltimore Variations is a design collaboration between Linda Earl of Village Fabrics in the UK and Kathleen Starr of Starr Fabrics on the US. While making this quilt I was also teaching a class at Thimbles and Things in Orillia focusing on Baltimore Quilts and their many techniques. I have always been drawn to Baltimore Album quilts but the addition of the pieced sashings and borders gave it such a modern dimension that this became the one that I HAD to do.
Awarded: April 16, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 88″ x 104″
Quilted by: machine quilted by Jennifer Ricca
Pattern: Baltimore Variations by Linda Earl and Kathleen Starr
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner – Robin” name=”Robin Wardlow” quilt=”Robin’s Village” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Robin-Wardlow-1461084508-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
On different occasions while shopping at Central Sewing, my husband Jeff saw “Joan’s Town” on display. He said, “this is so cool, would you like it?” I said, “no thank you, politely.” In 2011 just before Christmas he said, “a lady is going to call sometime, please get her address and send her a cheque for the dollar amount she tells you, please.” Then one day the phone rings and this lady said, “Hi, I am Joan Statz, your husband said to call you with my information and a price.” I said, “Oh my God! He didn’t!” Silence … Then she said, “Oh dear, yes he did.” After a nice visit with Joan, I mailed off a cheque for my Christmas present. Then I had a little talk with Jeff! He told me he worked really hard several times trying to convince Joan to make the kit. He was so excited that she called. My Christmas gift was amazing and overwhelming. I should have taken a picture of all the stuff. So not knowing anything about appliqué I took a class from Joan. She is a wonderful teacher. While at the class a lady came up to me and said to thank my husband for talking Joan into making the kit because she bought one also. I started to work on the village in 2013 and worked on it on and off for awhile. In June 2015 it was time to “get it done” and it went every Wednesday to sewing with the ladies at the church, to many different weekend retreats, and there were lots of them, and every spare moment at home for months I worked on my project. “The Village” became an obsession. Someone would ask, “what are you working on?” And always it was “The Village!” Finally it is finished. I am having fun watching people look at it and hear their comments. I have called it “Robin’s Village” because that is all Robin did for a long time. Thank you Jeff for my Christmas present. “I love it!”
Guild: Hearts and Hands Quilter’s Guild, AB
Awarded: April 15, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 52 1/2″ x 53″
Pattern: Joan Statz
[/et_pb_ros][et_pb_ros admin_label=”Rosette Winner” name=”Krista Zeghers” quilt=”Serengeti Moment” image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Krista-Zeghers-1461679036-1.jpeg” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
Serengeti Moment is a realistic pictorial wall quilt made using hand-dyed cotton and wool, raw edge appliqued, thread painted needle felting and ghost images in the sky quilting. The two quilters who created this piece are quilting colleagues who live 2300 km apart.
Guild: Manitoba Prairie Quilters, MB
Awarded: April 08, 2016
Winner: Viewers Choice
Quilt Size: 69″x30″
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