A trip to Exeter

I had a blustery and drizzly drive down the A303 to Exeter on Saturday to visit the Grosvenor Spring Quilt Show where I had been invited to provide a display of quilts from the last 10 years. I met my mum and sister and a friend there,  none of whom are quilters, and enjoyed looking at the displays from a different perspective and answering all their questions.

 It is a fairly small show and a great showcase for the talents of South West Quilters, an umbrella organisation for all the local groups in the south west. I was really taken by their massed display of banners  and also their Flower Power challenge where there was an exquisite long-arm machine quilted yellow wholecloth quilt (but no photos unfortunately due to too much talking !).

Other invited exhibitors included Gillian Travis and Pat Archibald, Kathy Unwin,  Alicia Merrett, Christine Restall, Jeanette Orr, Mary and Karen Milne and Eileen Blood (to name a few). The few pictures I did take are below.

Gillian Travis' Indian ladies

Pat Archibald & Gillian Travis

Kathy Unwin - A Sad Tale's Best for Winter

Alicia Merrett (sadly hung too high for a good image)

Sandra Longley - Challenging Shapes

I really love the secondary patterns in this quilt above - one minute I see circles, the next squares on point.

If you missed the Spring Quilt shows, most of these quilts will also be at Malvern in May and at Springfields Quilt Show, Spalding in June. Check Grosvenor's website for dates and times. 

Hazel will be showing a retrospective of her quilts starting at the National Quilt Championships at Sandown in June - that's our local show, so if you're in the area be sure to check them out.

bye for now

Terry