DiVersity Heritage Quilt Show June 2017

 I wanted to share some photos from a Quilt show I went to see back in June. 

Their theme was "Women & War Story Quilts", very interesting & well done.

Each of the squares utilized the
 same background fabric.

The use of a military issue blanket, made for a great
background for these squares of remembrance.

This quilt was some 74 years in the making!  About 1993 the stripped diamond
pieces (thought to have been made in 1943) along with the newspaper templates
shown framed below, were found at a garage sale in the Williams Lake area.  The
newspaper dated 1943 has images & stories of war & bombs.

Close up of the stripped diamond centre

Framed newspaper templates.

Hand sewn

Made of 1/2" hexagons & each flower has 7 hexagons.
Made to commemorate the 230 French women
resistors in Auschwitz during World War II.

Entitled 'Camp Communication'

Also published in newspapers back in the day
were nursery rhyme blocks.

Close up of Barber Barber

Ole Mother Hubbard

Hey Diddle Diddle

Humpty Dumpty & 1930s fabrics

The border quilting reads
'Canada's Women, keeping the home
 fires burning'

Airplane block utilized to remember the 

Women in aviation.

Feathered Star