My
quilting quild is 20 years this year, and we celebrated by putting up a grand exhibition last weekend. The exhibition took place in an old prison (now a museum) down town. We feared we would get few quilts to display, but we ended up spending almost 4 hours hanging up lots and lot of wonderful quilts.
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The surroundings were perfect for our quilts, and the visitors where impressed. We got a lot of positive feedback, and several proclaimed that this was by far the best quilt exhibition they had ever visited!
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We had several rooms and cells to fill, enabeling us to sort the quilts into different color themes and so on.
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This hall we named the Japanese hall. It was filled with quilts made with japanese fabrics.
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This Buggy Barn-quilt was made by my good friend
Hege, with leftover (!!) blocks.
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I know I have posted about this jewel before, but a good thing can never be seen too often. It is made by Inger Solveig (no blogg), and is hand sewed and stitched in its entirety. I dream of making this quilt some day.
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We dressed the cells up really nice. I doubt they were this cozy when the prisoners lived here.
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One of the cells were filled with care quilts. Our quild is a big contributor, last year we gave away app. 80 quilts!!
I will be back with more pictures from the exhibition.
Have fun sewing!
Siv Hege