A Week of Surprises!!!

This has been an interesting week! A few weeks ago, I submitted three pieces of work to two quilt shows- two to the Grand National in Kitchener and one to the Wee Quilt Challenge in Cambridge. The GN was in touch very smartly to say that both pieces I submitted to them had been accepted- YAY! BUT, I heard nothing from McDougall Cottage in Cambridge. I waited patiently, surprised that they did not even acknowledge receipt of my entry form , and then called them. I was told I SHOULD have gotten an email , but that I would be informed as to whether my work was accepted or not. More waiting. Deadline for entries came and went and I just put it out of my mind. No prob! BUT, two nights ago, just at supper time, I got a call from them asking when I would be bringing my quilt to them??!! I was flabbergasted, to say the least. To make a long story short, I WAS accepted but the emails had been sent to an incorrect address. Easy error to make, I guess. Anyway, patient DH drove me to Cambridge yesterday with the quilt so now three of my babes are out for public scrutiny!

Last evening, I got a lovely surprise from Remy, one of six really FUN ladies from Guelph ON who took my Urban Cubes class last fall, with a nice attachment- see below- of her finished piece. It is so nice I really wanted to share it with y'all.

Didn't Remy do a lovely job!

This is not a pattern , per se. I taught them how to make each of eleven cool, 3D blocks and then they arranged them as they liked. Remy chose the hexagonal shape similar to the one I used as my teaching sample. It is on my blog somewhere I think. The blocks are a combination of ones by Sara Nephew, Maxine Rosenthal and Joy Pelzmann. Great fun to do and a very effective little wall quilt.

The pieces I submitted for jurying into the two shows are Red Iris, Smokebush Leaves and Tangy Glen Bluebells. See below...

Smoke Bush Leaves 

Red Iris

Tangy Glen Bluebells

The top two are at the GN , this year's theme being Local Colour, and Bluebells is the late arrival at the Wee Quilt Challenge.

Now, here is the last nice surprise. I have JUST learned that the Red Iris has been chosen to be used as the photo advertising the opening of the Grand National - 21 April at Homer Watson House and Gallery in Kitchener,ON. The Wee Quilt Challenge opens 10 April at McDougall Cottage, Cambridge, ON. Maybe we shall see you there? 

Urban Cubes

Named by my DH because he thought this reminded him of Expo 67 Habitat for Humanity, these are little quilts designed by me using the various hollow cubes from the lovely book, One Block Wonders Encore by Maxine Rosenthal and Joy Pelzmann. They are REALLY fun to do and men seem to LOVE them. Must be the 3D look!I have taught this class a zillion times and am set to do so once more this fall. I am very glad I enjoy doing  it :-) I am surprised that I have never posted these photos before . I have done several of these quilts in various configurations, all enjoyable to do and to look at. Anyway, here they are , two of them at least, for your continued dining pleasure!

This is the first one I did. It is now in the collection of my daughter and son in law. DH got all bent out of shape then because HE did not have one so I made him one too but do not have a picture.

Here is a crooked picture of the sample I did for the class. This is what we will be building together. Great fun to do. Have a look at the series of One Block Wonder books. They are great!