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Saturday, 5 November 2016

Auckland Festival of Quilts 2016 - the quilts

Yesterday I showed you my shopping from the quilt festival, and today I'm going to show some of the quilts that caught my eye.  At the end of this post I'll include a link to my friend Julie's blog because she took different photos from me.

This was my favourite large quilt. It's called "Good Vibrations' and was made by Ansa Breytenbach. she was inspired by the Beach boy's song - Good Vibrations.
 



My favourite small quilt was "Chirpy" by Rosemary Rush. She was inspired by Jane Sassaman and I love Jane's designs.
 


I love Sue Spargo's designs too, so naturally loved "Jungle Walk" by Annie White, based on Sue Spargo's Folktales pattern. The hand stitching on Annie's quilt is just perfect.



Cheryl Houston from All things Patchwork shop made this very effective geometric design. I love the simplicity of just using blue and white.


I liked this quilt by Anu Hills.  The blocks were made for a fat quarter challenge back in 2009.  The quilt contains many memories.


I loved this "Plus size" quilt by Robyn Croft. It's her own design, and she quilted it on her domestic machine.


There were many other quilts that I liked too, but I encourage you to pop over to Julie's blog and look at the quilts she loved at this show.

Here's how Auckland looked at 7am today.  It's about 20C today = 68F.  A lovely day.

That's a Cabbage Tree on the left - cordyline australis


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11 comments:

  1. travelinsewl5 November 2016 at 15:58

    Oh, my! Everything is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. Melody5 November 2016 at 16:53

    Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful quilts.

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  3. Rochelle aka Bella Quilts5 November 2016 at 17:30

    What wonderful quilts and photos of them. I do love the "Vibrations" quilt with all the colors and circles. Thank you so much for sharing them.

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  4. Razzle Dazzle Quilter5 November 2016 at 18:16

    Thank you for taking the time to share

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  5. margaret5 November 2016 at 18:27

    some real beauties here especially loving the winning quilt so colourful and looks very difficult to do

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  6. Frances Meredith5 November 2016 at 19:17

    Lovely quilts, thanks for sharing.

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  7. Kunzfrau6 November 2016 at 09:41

    So beautiful. Thank you for showing the quilts!

    Marion

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  8. Granny Maud's Girl6 November 2016 at 16:14

    I never would have thought to add a black outline as Rosemary did, but it really works. You don't see it from afar, but it gives the outlines are crisp edge.

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  9. Karen - Quilts...etc.7 November 2016 at 04:38

    Beautiful quilts!!! I went to Houston and saw beautiful quilts also- I took a photo of your mom's quilt and posted it on my blog the other day to share a good photo! There were so many beauties. I will be posting more when I get home we leave tomorrow.

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  10. Afton Warrick7 November 2016 at 13:35

    I love that blue and white one. Very visually interesting!

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  11. Ali Honey7 November 2016 at 16:45

    It was a lovely show. You have photos different from mine and from Julie.

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