Review of Quilt Canada 2017

It was an honor and a pleasure to teach at Quilt Canada 2017!

There was a sense of anticipation and excitement in the air. 

The quilts on display as always were amazing! 

Participants had a wonderful variety of quilts to see, classes and lectures to attend, a fabulous merchants mall and of course they could help out at Canada's Big Quilt Bee.

Early in the year the goal was set for the Canadian Quilters Association to put out the call to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday by making 1000 quilts for kids in care at Ronald McDonald Houses across Canada. Would we make our goal? Check out the final count at the end of this post.

Here are some of the highlights from my classes.

                    Love the facilities at The International Centre, Mississauga.

Some of the Freeform Botanical Quilting Made Easy students hard at work.

My wonderful helper Gaile Statkus.

Did I mention that there were chocolate and jelly beans for all of my students?

          Tied up in squares of ...you guessed it, Canada 150 fabric!

                   Make Mine Modern (Free Motion Quilting that is.)

                                               

                                                           

                       Make Mine Modern gather around for teaching time.

Great helper Grace Kuiken!

                      Look at all the wonderful work! Such a fearless group.

Group instruction Straight Line Strategy.

Working through the process. So much we can do with a Walking Foot.

Such beautiful work by all!

My helper (and one of last years students) Joy Takahashi.

It was great to spend time with you Joy!

Have you noticed all of the fantastic Janome Canada 150 machines?

A huge thank you to Janome Canada for once again supplying the machines in all of  my classrooms.  

Unlock the Amazing Quilter Within You.

These quilts will all be gorgeous.

                                                       
                                                  Such a fun group!

                                        A Canada 150 quilt.

                                       And look at those perfect points.

My friend and helper Pat Castonguay.

Pat was one of my helpers at Quilt Canada 2016 and I was thrilled to have her in my classroom this year. 

Spending time with current friends and making new ones is one of the best parts about Quilt Canada.

Even Mrs Bobbins took a little time from her busy schedule to chat with me about quilting and of course our favorite fabrics!

And In case you haven't heard... the quilts, both finished and tops kept on coming. 

We were so excited... we PASSED 1000!

And the FINAL count was a whopping 2614 quilts.