Rosettes
One rosette, annually, is available for a CQA/ACC member guild/group to present for either Best of Show or Viewer’s Choice at their local quilt show.
Requests are made to the Secretary/Publicity Director with the following information:

• name and address of guild
• dates and location of show
• contact person’s name, address and phone number.

Make a Rosettes request. secretary@canadianquilter.com

After years of cross-stitch, embroidery, needlepoint, and crocheting, Diana Barlow was ready for something new! Quilting was it. She used to laugh at the expression, “Quilting is addictive”, but now, after three years of quilting she completely agrees. When, on November 24-26, 2006, the York Heritage Quilters’ Guild held A Celebration of Quilts IX, her quilt, Cheryl’s Garden (62"square) won the viewer’s choice award. Diana Barlow, of Toronto, used Mary Sorensen’s Pattern # 24 as a jumping off point. Then she added the bird motifs and broderie perse butterflies. The entire quilt is echo quilted by Linda Hoiko.	click for a closer view
Jeri Biron’s quilt block, Broken Star Variaion (16"square) won viewer’s choice for a machine-pieced block in the Mary Mayne Award for Workmanship competition (December 2006), sponsored by the Rivervalley Quilters. Jeri resides in Kamloops and has been quilting for over fifteen years. She belongs to several quilting groups and enthusiastically supports them all.	click for a closer view
The Mahone Bay Quilters’ Guild held their show September 29-October 1, 2006. Elaine Macaulay, who has been quilting for about 35 years and lives in Mahone Bay, NS, won the viewer’s choice with her quilt, Fancy Fans (90"x 104"). She enjoys appliqué, pastels and hand quilting, all evident in this quilt. Her Tuesday Bee, The Bay Buddies, helped with the hand quilting. The photo shows L to R: Barb Himmelman (Quilt show hanging Chair), Elaine Macaulay (winner of the CQA Rosette), and Michele Stevens (Quilt Show Chair).	click for a closer view
Heather MacDonald-Sorochan of Coalhurst, AB, says, “I love the light of the summer evening when the prairie colours are so vibrant and alive. The wildflowers are their own rainbow.” And with those thoughts, she created Priaire Light, a 60"x 76", which won viewer’s choice at the Festival of Quilts VII—Under a Prairie Sky, sponsored by the Lethbridge Centennial Quilters Guild, and exhibited from September 23, 2006 to January 7, 2007. The quilt is an original design and is machine pieced, hand appliquéd and hand quilted. Several of the fabrics are hand-dyed by Carol Schuld.	click for a closer view
Pat DeSchover of Lloydminster, SK, has been spending many hours hand quilting with her mother. She believes that it has surprised her mother that she was able to stick with this project until completion. Her quilt, Family Heirloom, 80"x 90", took three months to hand quilt. But it was worth it, Pat; it was appreciated by the viewer’s of 2006 Quilt Show sponsored by the Lloydminster Log Cabin Quilters Guild, and consequently won the CQA/ACC rosette. The quilt pattern was published in the Oct/Nov 98 issue of Quiltmaker Magazine. Pat is a charter member of the Guild which was formed in 1989.	click for a closer view
The Oxford Quilters Guild held their show, Pieces of Magic Quilt Show from September 21-23, 2006. They awarded the CQA/ACC Rosette for Viewer’s Choice to Jean Hillis of Ingersoll, ON, for her 85" x 104" quilt, Bali-Go-Round. The quilt is hand pieced and appliquéd and hand quilted with batik fabrics, mostly purchased in Bali. The Traditional Winding Ways pattern is bordered with an original appliqué design.	click for a closer view
Mary Anne Smith of Millarville, AB, began quilting in 1975 when she got involved with making charity quilts for the Canadian Red Cross and the Alberta Handicraft Guild. When the Chinook Country Quilts showed the results of a Tinbox Challenge, in June 2006, Mary Anne’s Tinbox Challenge quilt, 62"square, was the award for viewer’s choice.	click for a closer view