President's Challenge 2011
This year the president's challenge requires a visit to the Dufferin County Museum and archives (or its website) for inspiration. Choose a theme from something you see on display there.
There are no restrictions on size or shape. Make a block or an entire quilt.
The Guild is one of the sponsor's for the museum's exhibit A Stitch in Time. The challenge dovetails nicely with this activity.
President's Challenge 2010
Complete ONE entry for our Quilt show in October! A quilt, clothing item, decor item, mini quilt, etc.: we want the show to reflect who we are and where we are with our quilting. There is no such things as "not good enough"!
President’s Challenge 2009
GO GREEN!
REDUCE: Create a miniature quilt, with a perimeter from 40” to 60”, using a minimum of four blocks.
REUSE: One or more traditional/public domain block patterns,
BUT put your personal spin on it, through the use of a new technique, border, setting, colour, etc. I will have a form for you to fill out to accompany your entry.
RECYCLE: Draw from fabric in your stash, trade or borrow from a friend, BUT do NOT purchase any new material! Embellish your work with found things and/or quilt with an old pattern.
 Viewer's Choice... 1st. place
In my case it is "Memories of Aunt Birdie and Aunt Dot". I call it "Aunt Birdie's Aprons" as she was the cook. Because my mother died when I was ten my sister and I were brought up by our unmarried twin Aunts. The fabric was scraps of theirs from the 1940's. Some was their aprons
and house dresses. They were also quilters. This quilt was made with love in their memory in 2008.
Joan Tipping
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Viewer's Choice 2nd place
My mother was a quilter - a very precise one. She hand appliquéd beautifully and when she pieced all her points were sharp and precise and all of her lines were straight as an arrow.
I used some of her fabrics in my Memories of Mother wall hanging, along with some of her laces, dress buckles from her button stash, a child's antique collar she had in her UFO box, a heart she had already basted ready to be appliquéd, and a hankie doll also from her UFO box
When I sewed Mother's blue fabrics together (Mother was a VERY BLUE person) to make the background I purposely cut everything a little bit "off." There is not a plumb line to be found on the whole wall hanging. In doing so, I feel that this quilt has liberated my mother. Her fabrics and
embellishments can, in fact, actually be made into something a little "off."
Something she would not have done herself.
Beckie Shaw
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 Viewer's Choice ..3rd. place
My Mom has always been a keen gardener (still is at age 87), especially flowers. Once the spring arrives & the first blooms appear, she cuts a bouquet to enjoy in her home. My wall hanging is an interpretation of a bouquet that Mom might have picked from her garden.
Fern Pugh |
My mother passed away after a long fight with cancer when I was only ten years old.
The embroidered blocks in the quilt represent the activities that she had my three sisters and me doing to keep us busy on her last day in our family home. We were making doll clothes. The sashing is made of Newfoundland tartan to represent the province where I was born.
Shirley Roberts
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Phyllis Louise (Hall) McLeod.
Memories of my mother are few but very vivid. She passed away when I was 10.
On her bedroom wall was a shadow box with miniatures. I decided to use this theme for my wall hanging. In the shadow boxes are my memories: her beautiful auburn hair, her love of flowers, especially the Lily of the Valley, baseball - she was a talented player, her knitting skills provided all five of us with many outfits, her favourite colours - blue & green (possibly because of her hair colour), Christmas - even though it was the 30's my mother always made it special. Lastly I included a picture of her children which friends told me later were her life.
Doreen Riggin
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President's Choice
I decided to honour my mother-in-law with my quilt because by the time I started my plan she had passed away.
The top three blocks represent her career as a librarian - books, and a photo of the library in which she worked. Of course I incorporated a photo of her great-grandchildren. The next two blocks are her two favourite TV shows, car racing and curling. She would always call her son, my husband, after the races and discuss the results. She was never without her crosswords which she worked in pen, and spent many an hour working on jigsaw puzzles. She had a favourite cup for tea, which I tried to copy. In her latter years one of her favourite outings was to Tim Horton's for lunch, and of course I couldn't do a memory quilt without a picture of my mother-in-law. In the corners I put violets, the only plants I ever saw in her home.
Jeanne Bell |
