Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: ~South Coast Country Quilters Quilt Show~

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

~South Coast Country Quilters Quilt Show~

Last weekend I went to the South Coast & Country Quilters Biannual Quilt Show

I took some pics of a few of the quilts that caught my eye

Dragonfly Dance by Sheila Williams

The Golden Domes

The Golden Domes of Terem Palace, Moscow

Photos taken in 2008

Jenny Cantrill

My Favourite Things designed by Anni Downs

Needle Turn Applique and Hand Piecing

Margaret Herzog

Winter Wonderland

From a Crab-Apple design with some added Appliqué

Features Red Work Embroidery and some Embellishment

Pieced by Marilyn Gibson Redwork Embroidery, Machine Piecing

Quilted by Marilyn Gibson

Dalmeny Quilters

For Sam

Quick Irish Chain

Pieced by Barbara Steller

Quilting by Allison Willis

Barbara Steller, Tuesday Twitterers

I absolutely loved this one

Disappearing 9 Patch

Inhouse Workshop

Machine Pieced by Liz Perry

Quilting by Debbie Adam

Liz Perry

Night Owls

For Zach

Scrap 16 Patch Quilt

Machine Pieced by Margaret Browning

Quilting by Debbie Adam

Margaret Browning

Night Owls

And Autumnal Pinwheels

Scrappy Quilt

Machine Pieced and Quilted by Patricia Chanter

Red Berry Quilters

Another great Quilt Show SCCQ.........Looking forward to the next one!!!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hi Dzintra,thankyou for sharing ,I love the golden domes,enjoy your evening my friend.xx; September 17, 2014 at 10:54 PM
Liene said...: Dragonfly Dance is my favorite of the ones you shared, although I would love to have any of them in my home!; September 18, 2014 at 12:46 AM
Susan said...: I don't get to many quilt shows so I love it when people post lots of photos. They are all lovely, but I really liked the Dragonfly Dance too. Maybe there will be a quilt by Dzintra on display next year!; September 18, 2014 at 7:19 AM
Fiona said...: some amazing quilts there... it is so inspirational going to see them....
Hugz; September 18, 2014 at 8:58 AM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: OH! Those golden domes! Those are sensational! I wish Irina could see this! She would love it, and then that aqua and red one, oh that's so pretty!

A beautiful array of art and heart today my friend. And thank you as well for visiting today!

Enjoy that summer sunshine! Anita; September 18, 2014 at 9:44 AM
Michelle Ridgway said...: Thank you so much for sharing all those lovely quilts Dzintra. I enjoyed seeing them.; September 18, 2014 at 5:06 PM
Terry said...: Great photos. It' always nice to have a day out with great eye candy.; September 18, 2014 at 9:14 PM
RitaGri said...: Cik daudz skaistu darbu!; September 19, 2014 at 2:54 AM
Rachaeldaisy said...: Thank you for sharing these wonderful quilts with us! They're all so wonderful!! I bet you came away inspired to sew.; September 19, 2014 at 6:48 AM
KimM said...: WOW! That must have been quite a show! Awesome quilts!!
xxx; September 20, 2014 at 11:57 PM

Welcome To My World

Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...)

Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

Dedicated to Carers...

'Welcome to Holland'

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this ...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'.

'Holland'? You say. 'What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy'.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

Kerri...

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war; and a time of peace.~

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

~South Coast Country Quilters Quilt Show~

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