2021 Retrospective

Our second year of COVID and I accomplished a lot, but not as much as last year.

Here are twenty-three of the twenty-six quilts I completed last year. (Three of them are in competition for CQA).

Christmas Log Cabin Tree Skirt

Nutcracker Tree Skirt

The star/diamonds tree skirt started as a scrap buster. My daughter-in-law loved it so it went to her. The blue nutcracker treeskirt was in my UFO cupboard for 30 years and finally finished. My sister collects nutcrackers and has a blue living room which matches this perfectly; long story short, it finally got delivered! What do I procrastinate so?

The ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas quilts were started in classes I taught years ago and finally got around to finishing. Again, more UFO’s – done! They were perfect presents for my boys and their families.

Funky Fabric Faces

I taught a funky fabric faces class to my guild. These are fun quilt-in-a-day projects. Lots of fun and a perfect first art quilt class with whatever scraps are at hand.

Sand and Sea (orange)

Sand and Sea (blue)

I belong to FAN – the Fibre Art Network. My first challenge was for the Chromatopia show. We were given paint chips and we had to use them to create our pieces.It was a realy great challenge; I enjoyed finding fabric, threads and beads in those colours. When put together with 48 other similar pieces, hey made a really beautiful show. They will be travelling throughout Western Canada for a couple of more years.

Chromatopia – photo by Karlie McChesney

For The Birds

The next FAN challenge was a show about birds. These are very small pieces 8″ X 8″. This show is also travelling and can be borrowed by any guild or group for just the price of shipping.

Ostrich

Owl

I had always wanted to try thread painting. I got to practice on these. I will definitely do it again.

On The Bias

On The Bias

This quilt is for the latest FAN show. It’s pretty exciting. I can’t wait to see this show in person.

Links of Cloth

Every year we do an exchange between all the textile artists in the Fibre Art Network. This was my piece. I received a beautiful piece from Dale MacEwan; here is her piece:

Links of Cloth by Dale MacEwan

You Could be Quoting Shakespeare – SPECTRA

I am part of a group of textile artists in Calgary area (and beyond). We do a new show every year and it usually travels for two or three years. Two years ago, we started the Shakespeare show. Unfortunately/fortunately I sold my two pieces “Out, damned Spot!” and “A Rose by Any Other Name”, so I had to make two new pieces. I quickly created these two.

Calgary LongArm Quilters

Every year the LongArmers Guild put together a group show at Heritage Park’s Festival of Quilts.

Last year, the challenge was a 30″ to 36″ square whole cloth quilt. I couldn’t decide which style to make so I did two.

Serendipity

My Favourite Things

Leaf Table Runner

For years I have been teaching a leaf table runner. This year Silver Thimbles Quilt Guild asked me to teach online, so I made another so I could have a complete slideshow to go along with the lesson. It was also a chance to get a new table runner for our front hall table.

Block of the Month UFO’s

Twenty years ago, Block Bonanza (Along Came Quilting) and Friday Fifteen (Traditional Pastimes) blocks were very popular. I started them all. Last year I finished four of them!

Summer Daze

Storm Warning

Star Gazer

Tropical Breeze

We are doing a Calgary Montage at Quilted Mouse. I have entered two. I am quite excited to see the end result once all the quilts are included.

There are three others that are headed for CQA so I’ll share them with you next year. As long as COVID goes on, I have no excuse to not be quilting (who needs to do housework anyway?). Hopefully 2022 is another productive year! I would love to hear from you and see what you’ve been working on.