Fabrications magazine.

Whenever you have a quilt shown in Fabrications magazine they are really kind and send you a copy. The current issue has two of my quilts shown in the Sandown/Hoffman Challenge article. Neither of them will bring home any prizes or rosettes but it is rather nice to see them in print :o)



The picture below is of the full page advert for this years Great Northern Quilt Show in Harrogate. Last year my Coneflowers quilt was the overall champion winner which of course was a wonderful feeling! What didn't sink in at the time was how many times I would see that quilt in print and on flyers for this year's show. I daren't even begin to think how many pictures of it there are or even how far they have travelled!

Sandown Entries

Not brilliant pictures but they give the general idea :o)
Sandown is a long way from the Lake District so I won't be able to see them hanging. A couple of people on the BQL list have kindly promised to send me some photographs.


This is my entry for the theme competition. I have called it ring-a-roses. Usually I title my quilts when they are finished. This one I thought of the title and meant to do an applique one showing children playing ring-a-roses. Somewhere along the line it changed into a wholecloth with trapunto and painted roses!

The next is my entry for the batik competition and the one below is my Hoffman Challenge entry.
(I was quite pleased with the striped binding on the latter as it used up every last scrap of the fabric to make it.)

I really did hear correctly!

This weekend was the Great Northern Quilt Show in Harrogate which was on for three days starting on Friday. On Thursday I had a phonecall and even though I wrote down what was said I didn't take it in until we went to the show on Sunday. It felt as if I sent emails about it or told anyone that it would prick the bubble---- but it really was all real!!!!

The theme competition for the show was "Butterflies and Blooms" and I entered this quilt with coneflowers and butterflies seen in the garden.

It won the competition!

As if that wasn't enough it won the Machine Quilting award too and the Overall Champion award and prize.

On top of that my entry into the Hoffman Challenge won Second Prize.

I am still pinching myself!