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Sew a Season

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Date: 2 Jul 2014 to 15 Jul 2014
Location: Ontario, Canadamap
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Sew A Season

Machine pieced and appliqued, and machine quilted by Karen Carter – July 2-15, 2014

Size: 65 ½” wide x 84” long

The Row-by-Row Experience 2014 was not something I intended on participating in, but it ended up as a great adventure for me. Excitement grew with each new shop and pattern that I discovered. I soon was determined to win a prize.

Seventeen quilt shops were visited in three days (from July 2-5, 2014). Then eleven days of continuous sewing. This equaled one flat tire, one aching back, and a winning quilt.

I had so much fun that I continued travelling to other shops to collect more patterns – even after the quilt was completed.

I wanted my machine pieced and appliqued creation to be more than a “ladder” quilt with the required eight rows to qualify for the contest. So, I surrounded them with five more rows, which also made it wide enough for a youth’s bed. The patterns for this quilt were made by the following Ontario quilt shops:

  • Country Concessions, Cookstown
  • Undercover Quilts, Fergus
  • Sew Sisters, Toronto
  • The Quilting Quarters, Almonte
  • The Marsh Store, Coldstream
  • Lilac Lane, Alliston
  • Country Patchworks, Woodstock
  • Ye Olde Fabric Shoppe, Stratford
  • Threads that Bind, Maxwell
  • The Fabric Shoppe, Meaford
  • Quilters by the Square, Goderich
  • Cobwebs & Caviar, Shelburne
  • Creemore House of Stitches, Creemore

Using an edge-to-edge quilting pattern named “Curlz,” the top was quilted on my Nolting Hobby Quilter with YLI “Pastels” variegated thread.

I could hardly contain my joy when I arrived with the completed quilt at Maxwell’s Threads that Bind quilt shop to claim my prize of 25 fat quarters and a $25 gift certificate for their store. (Hm-m-m, and how many fat quarters did I buy to make this quilt?)

The adventure with this quilt continued in 2015 as it was entered into several local Fall Fairs where it won more prizes:

  • Markdale (2nd)
  • Palmerston (1st)
  • Mount Forest (1st)
  • Arthur (1st)
  • Harriston (1st)
  • Grand Valley (1st)
  • Howick (1st)

It was also entered into the 2016 Wellington County International Plowing Match Quilt Competition, and displayed at the 2018 Four Corners Quilter’s Guild Show.

My grandson, was the lucky recipient to receive this quilt for his first birthday in 2019.





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