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Past
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December
2007
BC Showcase
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Calico Plates And Posies, a large bed quilt by Betty Hunter, won the Vancouver Quilt Guild (VQG) members choice CQA Rosette, best of show and the Ruby Cheung Award for best hand quilting and hand applique. |
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The VQG offered viewers a series of attractive nooks with lots of space to view small collections of quilts. |
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Remembering Carol, guild members included a display by the late Carol Maudsley, with help from her husband Ted and daughter Susan. |
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Robin Coates, one of a team of four, stitches while greeting show goers at the entrance. |
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Jennifer Logan and her mother Ann White, both of Vancouver, admire Marj Lewis' A Tribute to My Vegetable Garden, first in a challenge, winning the Ruby Cheung award for most original wall hanging. |
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Mary Alice Sutter, left, Yoshiko Uda and Enid Wright at the Pumkin Seeds table selling raffle quilts tickets. |
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Sharon Coates models her winning Indian hand-print jacket, best among quilted wearables, posing before her Rebecca's Quilt, winner of the large quilt category. |
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The show entrance in the Maritime Labour Centre was welcoming against a backdrop mural placing viewers on the Fraser River in the heart of the city. |
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Jane Epp , left, and her mother Susan Hallett, from Kamloops, joined successful bidders at the first?The Quilt Project?auction held in British Columbia. The auction, held in Kamloops October 11, raised more than $14,000. |
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Auctioneer Ernie Beadle listens while THE QUILT Project founder Carol Miller describes one of the 35 quilts being auctioned in Kamloops October 11. |
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This quilt is being used as a sample of Pippa Moore?s workshop, Timeless Designs For Blocks And Borders at the CQA/ACC Quilt Canada 2008 in Newfoundland |
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Taking third place in the traditional category, Carol Seeley of Campbell River showed herself among the best in the World Quilt Competition with her quilt Generations. |
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This vest, created by Victoria Gray, a Heffley Creek Marigold Applique member was first in the garment division at The Applique Society Show 2007. |
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Val Ursulak's Heart Parade (61 x 61-inches), was named best of show and best large wall hanging at the Nanaimo Material Magic quilt show in May. |
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Enigma was created by Ionne McCauley, Qualicum Beach for the Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters (APNQ) Spice Of Life, traveling exhibit of 50 quilts created by invited members of the APNQ.
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Emilie Belak, Grand Forks, contributed Tidal Pool to the Spice Of Life exhibit. Emile says, ?Good things in life are like rare spices?they come in small amounts.?
? Photo by Mark Frey, Courtesy of APNQ |
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Discussing techniques involved, Judy Farrow of Parksville, left, talks with quilter Sherry Johnson about creating a leaf from fabric. Farrow staged a workshop for members of the Orchard Valley QG in Kelowna in October. |
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A collection of shells was used to illustrate new columnist Maureen Goldberg?s discussion of ways to begin a new project. |
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Dianne Jansson of Pritchard visits during her trunk show, presented to the Oliver Double O QG in October, following two workshops, Timeless Circle and Thread Play Embellishment. |
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Gwen Horne's Sunrise Somewhere won first in the small quilt category at the Vancouver Quilt Guild quilt show in November. |
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West Coast Tribute, owned by Dianne Mellor, who created it with a group of quilters including Liz Austrom, Jocelyn Brown, Muriel Ferrari, Carol Kent, and Judy Williams, was one of several group quilts entered in the Vancouver QG show. |
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Individual prizes featuring the name of the guild, the show and the year, plus the category and place of the award were created, quilted, and machine embroidered by awards coordinator Muriel Ferrari. |
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Susan Loland, an Alberta quilt teacher, works on a project with guild members at a Shuswap QG workshop in Salmon Arm. |
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Vicki Gray of Heffley Creek won the Trend-Tex Fabric Award for her quilt, It?s All About Fun in the 2007 Trend-Tex Challenge CQA fund raiser. |
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Pat Schley shows A Cat In The Treddle, a wall hanging that captured the CQA rosette at the Vernon Silver Star QG show Legacy Of Quilts VI in September. |
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Janice Wettlaufer was named winner of the Vernon Silver Star QG raffle quilt at its Legacy Of Quilts VI quilt show in September. |
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September
2007
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| Shirley Rampton of Richmond received the award for excellence in machine quilting for her quilt Moonbeams And Tulips. |
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| The jacket, Left-Over Dragons, earned the excellence for wearable art award for Lorraine Johnson Brotsky from Vernon. |
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| Judy Crannis of Quesnel was judge Sheila
Wintle's choice with Taking Holly With Us. |
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| Maureen Goldsmith of Chilliwack had Memories Of Maui, accepted in the large innovative category. |
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| Large traditional category included Cheryl Bramble of Kelowna with Journey. |
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| Vivian Kapusta from Maple Ridge had two wallquilts accepted, Phoenix Rising and Autumn Scarlet. |
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| Lenny
De Groot from Sidney with Gingko, was another B.C.
quilter accepted in the small innovative quilt
category. |
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| Judy Villett also entered the small innovative quilt category with Fall Back. |
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One of 35 quilts that will be auctioned? in Kamloops October 11, Purr-fect Garden was created by a group called Under Construction in Duncan, on Vancouver Island. |
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Named CQA/ACC Teacher Of The Year in May at Quilt BC 2007, Carol Seeley (inset) consistently dazzles her students and peers with quilts like River Dance, seen here. |
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Now hanging in Boswell Memorial Hall, this quilt, designed, pieced and quilted by the 13 members of Boswell Nifty Needlers, is a gift to the hall commemorating
Boswell's centennial July 1, attempting to give a feel for the special nature of Boswell, which is located on the eastern shore of Kootenay Lake, between Nelson and Creston. |
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Carol Maudsley and her quilt Bridge Of Tranquility will be remembered at the Vancouver QG quilt show November 2 to 4. |
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Carol Maudsley served as an inspiration to the members of the Vancouver QG with her special ability to combine colours in a very special way. |
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Colleen Cuthbert, left, and Nancy Hadley, collect their quilt tops at a Vernon After 7
Sew'N'Sews meeting recently. The tops grew out of a block exchange between the Vernon guild and a group of quilters in Kuwait. |
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Lois Conradi's quilt, Feathered Star Gone Wild won the
viewer's choice award at the Kelowna Orchard Valley QG 25th anniversary quilt show, Silver Threads, earlier this year. |
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Orchard Valley QG member Lue Kent with her quilt, Fantasy, voted members? choice and winner of the CQA/ACC rosette. |
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Elinor Peace Bailey travels in costume, becoming a full-size, living example of the dolls she creates and speaks about. She held more than 100 Kelowna Orchard Valley QG members spell-bound at the
guild's 25th anniversary dinner. |
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Erica Lohman, 3, of Calgary, and her sister Justine examine a doll house decorated with quilts at the Sicamous Keepsake Quilters quilt show in July. |
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Guild member Raeline Living, one of only 20, staged a three day show with about 200 quilted. The Sicamous Moose Mouse, mascot of the Sicamous Chamber Of Commerce, was used to promote the show. |
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A beautifully embroidered centre block decorated Flowers In A Basket by Teena Miller, a round robin project by the Whitehorse Pinetree Quilters and quilted by Alberta quilter Melinda Musgrave. |
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A memorial celebrates the life of Sicamous Keepsake Quilters member Lucille Erickson, who died only two weeks before the guild show. |
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Adding a new dimension, the Kelowna Carving Club displayed a carved wood quilt at the Kelowna Orchard Valley QG 25th anniversary show Silver Threads in April. Each square of this quilt shows something special about the life and history of Kelowna. |
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Husband, team member and tour organizer John Bunge, holds the memory quilt Cathy Miller surprised him with for his birthday, deep into their spring tour of the United States, England and Ontario. |
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Created by the Squamish Valley QG, this Garden Flowers quilt with matching pillow shams will be displayed at the
guild's quilt show as a raffle quilt. |
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The diversity and complexity of our modern world is portrayed by 28 female figures on Our World Is One World, by Jean Christensen of Kelowna, one of 35 quilts to be auctioned October 11 in Kamloops. |
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Judy Taylor of Mayne Island, left, accepts her award for the best National Juried Show entry by a first time entrant from CQA/ACC secretary Joyce
O'Connell at Quilt BC 2007 in Kamloops. |
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Judy Taylor's NJS entry was Empowered, a close-up of which is shown here. Her quilt is 89 X 83-inches and grew out of a workshop with Nancy Crow. |
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May
2007
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| Kamloops locations for Quilt BC 2007 included St. Andrews On The Square, above, for a show by the Marigold Appliquérs and the Fabricators group. |
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| A Trend-Tex challenge entry by Susan Wilson of Armstrong became part of the Canadian Quilters
Assocation/Association de la Canadienne Courtepointe fund raiser. |
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| The Marigold Appliquérs invited the Fabricators group to display its Play The Cards You’re Dealt exhibit because Quilt BC had no provision for group entries. |
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| The Kamloops museum hosted the Kamloops Rivervalley Quilt Guild heritage quilts display. |
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| Salmon Arm quilter Wendy Brown shared some self portraits at the North Meets South quilt show with Gloria Loughman of Australia. |
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| A show goer examines some of the many quilts found at the Invitational show. |
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| Kamloops quilter Lynda Desrocher’s Flower Garden quilt at the invitational show. |
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| A traditional bed quilt by Carla Fawcett of Kamloops in the downtown art walk. |
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| Teacher Sheila Wintle of Richmond, Quebec, left, meeting quilters during Meet The Teachers night. |
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| Nanaimo quilter Phillipa Zapf’s answer to Why I Quilt in the Trend-Tex challenge. |
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| Kamloops quilter Myrna Giesbrect’s Fibre Expressions solo show at the Cube art gallery. |
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| Another Kamloops quilter, Willa Dale, placed quilts in a downtown antique store. |
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| The Katja’s Quilt Shoppe classroom was buried under thousands of mini hexagons as part of an English paper-piecing exhibit. |
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| Lenten Seascape by Coreen
Zerr, left, of Nanaimo used the starkness of the tree and the churning of the water to portray these turbulent times. She received the Viewers Choice award and Honourable Mention in the large innovative category at
CQA/ACC’s National Juried Show (NJS). |
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| Coordinator Jan
Wasylyshyn, left, of of Innisfail, Alberta, and Joan Walline show the quilts and designs being used to honour Canadian soldiers by Operation Peace & Comfort
(OPC), a project dedicated to the support and recognition of fallen and injured Canadian soldiers. |
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| This 7 by 6.5-foot Great Canadian Quilt, has been created by the Can Go Grannies of Kamloops, with over 200 Canadian celebrity signatures and are sending it to every province and territory where other Granny groups can employ the quilt to foster greater awareness of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. |
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| A close-up of the Great Canadian Quilt by the Can Go Grannies of Kamloops reveals some of the 200 signatures of prominent people the group collected in creating their fund raiser for African grandmothers caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. |
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| Participating in the Fraser Valley
QG Preemie quilting bee March 13, Sharon Franzious, left, and
Arita Rai portray one of the roots of quilting activities. |
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| Quilting by hand and sharing shoulder to shoulder, Terre Dalton, left, Agnes Haus and Brenda Bennett, right, work on another quilt for a member of the Mssion Quilters in Kelowna at a regular meeting. |
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| Celebrating the bicentennial of David Thompson’s British Columbia explorations, an exhibit was unveiled in Invermere April 21 by the Valley Piecemakers
QG, the Hoodoo Quilters and Ktunaxa artists, and support by historians, design artists, businesses and donors. |
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| This quilt shows the ornate Northwest Company coat of arms and Thompson’s map of Western North American, which introduced the world to the waterways and mountain ranges between Hudson’s Bay and the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Engrossed in the display, Patricia Hull of
Osoyoos, above, studies Sunbonnet Sue squares created as part of a challenge at the 2007 Gathering Of The Guilds in the
Thompson - Okanagan - Similkameen April 21 in Penticton. |
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| Maureen Goldsmith, above, will be helping Connections FOR QUILTERS with a brand new column, starting in September. She agreed to a column while haring her trunk show at an Orchard Valley QG meeting in Kelowna recently. |
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| The After 7
Sew’N’Sews, a relatively small, Vernon quilt guild, through former member Linda Hancock, now working in Kuwait, accepted a block exchange with a group of ladies (not necessarily quilters) in Kuwait, producing 20 blocks, most showing some aspect of Canadian culture, including the maple leaf, the apple, snowmen, and Canadian wildlife, later receiving a batch of blocks made by the Kuwait women. |
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| Among many other major projects by the Vernon After 7 Sew'N'Sews was this raffle quilt featuring many aspects of nature that we made for the Allan Bishop Nature Centre here in Vernon. |
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| The Sicamous Keepsake Kwilters have used the Sicamous Mouse to promote their 2007 quilt show. The happy little mouse has been used by the Sicamous Chamber of Commerce in it's promotions since it was invented by a local restauranteur in 1962 and it has been used as an official village mascot since 1968. |
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| The wonders of Australia come alive in the strong compositions and full colours found in quilts by Gloria Loughman of Kerang at the North Meets South exhibit with Wendy Brown of Salmon Arm during Quilt BC 2007 in Kamloops May 2 to 5. |
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| Representing ongoing leadership, every president of the Vernon Silver Star Quilters
(VSSQ) gathered at a recent 20th anniversary tea. Shown here, in the back row, from the left, are Jean
Skolbaski, president-elect Joanne Marsh, Cheryl Moore and Shirley
Hopps. In the front row, from the left, are Katy Moore (sitting in for her Mom, Jean Moore), the current president Nancy
Tindall, Bea Cormier, Sharon Wickstrom, Sharon Derry and Eileen
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| Wende
Arnette, Oliver Double O QG president, listens as Lilly Thorne talks about her wallquilt Treasures From Mother Nature. Lilly, a talented teacher and artist from Abbotsford, was in Oliver during Arts and Culture Week presenting her slide and trunk show of quilts and garments April 24. |
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| Donation quilts from the Pumpkin Seeds, the community quilt group of the Vancouver Quilt Guild, were displayed at the St. Faith’s Church church boulevard sale of books, home baking, hot dogs and ice cream June 9. |
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| When tragedy took the life of her stepson Rita Crawford immersed herself in sewing and making a memory quilt for her fiancé to cope with her grief. From that has grown a business of making memory quilts. |
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| Rita Crawford's stepson Kris, below right, with her son Parker, enjoy a ride at the Pacific Nation Exhibition in Vancouver. |
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February
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by the Abbotsford QG this CCRP quilt was presented to
Mrs. Berry and her son by General Romses at a special
ceremony on November 14th at Canada House in London
England, a temporary?measure until a ?quilt made by a
group of quilters in Whitehorse, Yukon was delivered
after being delayed in transit. |
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| Made
by members of Prince George QG this CCRP quilt was given
to the family of Corporal Paul Davis, a 28-year old from
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He and his wife Melanie have
two daughters, three and five years old. Cpl. Davis was
the ninth Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan. |
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Kelowna Orchard Valley QG (OVQG) CCRP quilt was created
by 23 guild members coordinated by Wanda Lebedkin, Betty
Lowery and Val McPhedran. It was machine quilted by
member Darlene Friesen.?The label, listing all the
members who participated in making the quilt, was made
and donated by Karen Gibson, guild member. |
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The theme of hearts, in many forms, such as this
creation by Earla Horne, will be significant even if not
visible when the Marigold Appliqué
join so many others
supporting the Canadian Quilters Association/
Association de la Canadienne Courtepointe at Quilt BC
2007, May 3 to 5. |
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This Jack Of Hearts is one of 14 quilt designs in a
collection called Play The Cards You're Dealt by The
Fabricators, a group of British Columbia quilt artists
who will be included in the Marigold Appliqué show
during Quilt BC 2007 in Kamloops in May. |
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The Six Of Spades is another in the collection called
Play The Cards You're Dealt which will be seen in the
Marigold Appliqué show
during Quilt BC 2007. |
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Dwarfed by her postage stamp quilt, Patti Bentley of
Kamloops helped raise $8,462 for the cancer ward at
Royal Inland Hospital in 2006. |
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One of two quilts by Earla Horne that may be seen in a
show by the Marigold Appliqué in
Kamloops during Quilt BC 2007. |
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Earla Horne shows one more quilt that may be seen in a
show by the Marigold Appliqué in Kamloops during Quilt
BC 2007. |
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T-shirts, as modeled here by Victoria Gray, left, and
Peggy Heath, are available as souvenirs for Quilt BC
2007 planned for May 2 to 5 in Kamloops. |
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The Rivervalley QG in Kamloops, although busy with
helping for Quilt BC 2007 in May, decided to make an
ongoing commitment to supply place mats for
Meals-On-Wheels. |
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This quilt, plus one other, was created by quilters in
Calgary and sent to Vancouver to comfort Canadian Armed
Forces wounded. |
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Postcards called Winter Solstice were created by Cheryl
Bramble of Kelowna, who offers help for those who want
to try this quilt art form. |
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A child in Guatemala receives a donation quilt, one of
17 created in 2006 by the Copper Valley Fat Quarters QG
in Logan Lake. |
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