West End Quilters Show 2018- Fabulous

Our Quilt Show is over! 

Three years of work was on display and it was really impressive if I say so myself. There were well over 100 items from queen size bed quilts to a little teacup and saucer in our Box Top Challenge. We set up on Friday and the show was open Saturday and Sunday. The time flew by. The show was very well attended with people admiring the quilts, stopping for a tea, coffee and goodies in the tea room, shopping for lovely handmade quilted items in our boutique, buying fabric and notions from our vendors, perusing the silent auction and of course chatting. The noise level gradually rose throughout the day as we all greeted family, friends, neighbours and quilters.

Our Guild Banner now has more quilters on it. A few members still have to finish theirs. Our banner was hanging outside the hall for all to see.

All our awards were Viewers Choices voted on by our quilt show attendees. Many people said they had great difficulty deciding.

Best of Show - Courtepointe Quebec Ribbon

Sandra's Moonglow 

Boxtop Challenge Winner of the Canadian Quilters Association Ribbon

Mary's Tea Garden

Winner for Bed Quilts

Audrey's Primroses

Winner for Wall Hangings

Marilyn's My Freedom & Gratitude Quilt

Three fidget quilts.

 Monique won the ribbon in the Other category for Fidget Quilt #1 which is the middle one. 

All the Box Top Challenges

Our Paint Chip Challenge Quilt to be donated to Quilts of Valour

Allison's wall of little online challenge quilts plus Anna's Pears and Squares

Laura's Birds in the Window Quilt which was 20 years in the making

Linda's Mystery Quilt which turned out to be very large and gorgeous

Jae's very colourful quilt

Priscilla's quilt for Anna

Nathalie's Olympic Quilt for her daughter. 

Roz's guitar quilt

Rita's Alphabet Quilt

Jean's Northern Neighbour's

Barbara S. & Anna's miniature quilts

Joan's first finished quilt, hand pieced and quilted.

Barbara M's Gordian Knot 

one of a number in the show and all very different.

Linda's on the left and Moishe's on the right used Kaffe Fassett fabrics

 in their very colourful quilts.

Another of Marilyn's gorgeous art quilts.

Dancing in the Desert

Monique's Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt

English Paper pieced by hand

More Box Top Challenges

Barbara S's Taco Tower, Lise's Tea Cup, Moishe's Fire and Priscilla's Fox

Anna's Colour Wheel

All but one piece from her stash!

Last but certainly not least, the first quilt sewed by Sophia, Sandra's granddaughter.

It received a very extra special ribbon. 

One Week until the Quilt Show

In a week our quilts will be displayed for all to see!

We have been working for three years, come and see the results.

There will be a members boutique. We haven't only been making quilts. Many handmade items will be available for purchase including pincushions, bags, boxes, table runners and pillowcases. 
Remember all you sewers, we know you can make it but will you!

There will also be a tea room with cookies, squares, breads, muffins and other goodies to sample. Not only can we quilt some of the quilters can bake too!

So mark your calendars and come to the show.

Less than three Weeks Until the Quilt Show

We are hard at work getting ready for our Quilt Show. 

This Year there will be four vendors:

Louise Turcotte from L'Artisane and https://www.facebook.com/lartisane.stgabrieldebrandon

Styliste Et Complice https://www.facebook.com/stylisteetcomplice/

Both are quilt shops with fabric, notions, books and everything a quilter could want.

Amanda Elias from Atelier Fibre Arts will be promoting her sewing classes plus a few quilting items. https://www.atelierfiberarts.com/

We are very happy to have Valerie Gobeil a jewellery maker and artist who use uses fabric in her creations. https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ValerieGobeil?ref=l2-shopheader-name




Here are our quilters hard at work these past three years. A lot of fabric has been cut in pieces and sewn back together and now all the creations are ready to be displayed.

Soon what is now a pile of quilts will be displayed for everyone enjoyment.

 This was our last show. What will you see this time?

See you at the Show!

Expo 2018 Courtepointes Quilts: May 5-6 2018

It is almost time for our Quilt Show!

West End Quilters are having a Quilt Show. We have been cutting, pressing and stitching for three years and in just a month it will be time to see what we have been making.

Come and see us May 5th 10 am - 5 pm & May 6th 10 am - 3 pm
at St Ignatius of Loyola Church Hall
4455 West Broadway, Montreal

Admission is Free

Money raised will go to
Artistri Sud which empowers women around the world through entrepreneurship
and Women on the Rise which helps local mothers help themselves.

We will have two quilt shop vendors:
L'Artisane
 Stylist et Complice
and
Valerie Gobeil - Fabric Jewellery Maker
and
Atelier Fibre Arts

We had a Paint Chip Challenge. We had to find paint colours that that began with the letters of our first and last names. We could then use one other colour. Everyone made a block of their choice using these colours. The squares were then made into a quilt. The quilt will be hanging in our show and then donated to Quilts of Valour which supports our injured Canadian Armed Forces members past and present with quilts of comfort

Deciding where to position the squares

The final result
See it hanging in the show.

Retreat March 2018

It has been quite a while since anything was posted on our blog. That doesn't mean we haven't been quilting, just not blogging. We love retreats and so they are now three nights and twice a year. It is amazing what one can get done when all you need to do is quilt, eat and then a little sleep. We have our quilt show coming up in a month so there was lots of quilting to do. 

This time we had extras at the retreat, sisters, mothers and friends so there was a lot of laughing, talking and exchanging ideas.

We were again at the Ermitage Ste. Croix and there was still snow on the ground and ice in the lake and a skunk wandering around. We were treated to three spectacular sunsets, each better than the one before. 

Sunset #3 from inside our quilting room.

Quilting is all about colour and Priscilla did an encore presentation of her colour value talk. 

People listened intently

Checked things on the internet

And tried to put the colour papers in order of their value. We
were not quite successful. 

Our show quilts are almost ready
"Cool Colours"

"Hot Colours"

Joan's quilt will not be in the show this time.
She says she will be finished hand quilting after three or four more retreats.

Priscilla's Gordian Knot

Mary's Gordian Knot

The floor is great for sandwiching and pinning

Some conversations are very deep!

It's amazing the photo you can get with a phone balanced on a sewing machine.
Most are even smiling.