Festival of Quilts 2018 Modern Quilts

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Had a very busy time at this year's Festival of Quilts. It all went by in flash, which was funny seeing as I was there for 5 days!

There was lots of exhibitions and quilts to see, more than last year I though. And the standard of the entered quilts was extremely high this year.

I finally get my act together to post some of my favourites from the show. I still have lots more photographs to upload, but thought I'd make a start on getting back to regular blogging.

The Modern Quilt Category was interesting this year, with some really intriguing quilts. Like last year, there were a large number of quilts wrongly entered in this category, but I did enjoy these entrants much more than last year.



Mini to Maxi Churn Dash by Abigail Sheridan De Graff

Curled by Charlie Mankin




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