Quilt Show Journal: Quilted Treasures 2025

Hello Friends and Welcome Back!

A few weeks ago, I invited my Mom and Aunt to visit a quilt show hosted by a local quilt guild!

This show was very timely as it happened shortly after my Opa passed away and offered us a happier occasion to spend some time together!

The show in question was Quilted Treasures 2025, hosted by the Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild, and featured quilts in a variety of styles and techniques, as well as vendors, local history booths, and a cafe!

With Quilt Canada 2025 coming up this weekend, I was reminded that I never shared any photos from this show! Though I didn't take many, I did photograph a few of my favourite quilts, and I'm excited to share those with you all!

Colour Block

The first quilt is called Colour Block, pieced and quilted by Diane Tink, and designed by Carl Hentsch of 3 Dog Design Co.

It seems right to start off with a quilt by Diane Tink, since she made about half the quilts on display at the Quilted Treasures show. Of those that she made, this is my favourite!

I love the bright, bold colours, and how the contrast highlights different elements of the pieced pattern in different areas of the quilt!

And taking a closer look; the whole quilt was custom quilted!

It's hard to see in photos, but in person, the quilting highlighted the shapes of the piecing, and created a lot of secondary shapes within the larger pieces!

Diane Tink did an amazing job with this quilt and I hope to see some of her work again!

Lone Star

This next quilt is a much more traditional one; Lone Star, pieced and quilted by Esther Graham, based on a traditional quilt pattern.

I really love the colours chosen for this quilt; the reds, oranges, and greens feel very Autumnal, and they contrast really well with the soft cream background. And the order the colours were pieced into the central star make an interesting secondary wreath design!

Though the pieced motif is really lovely, what I was truly drawn to in this quilt was the quilting!

The whole thing is quilted by hand using several traditional knot motifs. I wish I had taken a closer picture of some of the larger motifs in the cream areas of the quilt, but they showed up surprisingly well in the larger picture!

On top of being beautiful, you can tell Esther Graham is a very skilled hand quilter; her stitches are small, straight, and even. I hope to reach her level of hand quilting some day!

Alaska

The next quilt is called Alaska, pieced by Karen Henderson, quilted by Chloe Quilting, and designed by Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts.

This pattern uses a variation of the traditional Maltese Cross block, as well as highly selective colour placement, to create a beautiful medallion quilt!

I've seen a lot of photos of this pattern online, so it was very exciting to see one in person for the first time! It's also been made in a different colourway than I'm used to seeing, a creative choice by Karen Henderson!

This is the first quilt I've shown that wasn't custom quilted, instead, it was quilted with an all over pantograph. The curlicue motif is an interesting choice that reflects certain areas in the piecing where the triangular units come together to form the illusion of circles and curves!

Broken Star

This final quilt is another very traditional one; Broken Star, pieced and quilted by Mary Hyslop, based on a traditional quilt pattern.

The striking combination of white and indigo blue is very traditional in quilting, and is highly reminiscent of traditional porcelain dishes made in the same colours!

Like Esther Graham's Lone Star quilt, the colours in Mary Hyslop's quilt are arranged to form a secondary pattern. The central pieced star motif seems to dissolve into the background, looking like a small star in a wreath!

Also like Esther Graham, Mary Hyslop hand quilted this beautiful traditional quilt, showing off great skill!

The quilted motifs she used are just as traditional as the pieced pattern, but layered in an interesting way! Vines and leaves are very common traditional motifs, and the cross hatch grid adds another layer of interest to the whitework background quilting!

Mary Hyslop showed off her beautiful skill, and is another example of the level of hand quilting I hope to achieve!

This was just a small sample of the skill and passion put on display at the Quilted Treasures 2025 show! Thank you so much to all the quilters who shared their work!

And with that show a few weeks behind me, I'm now looking forward to Quilt Canada 2025, which opens later this week! I'll be visiting that show on Saturday with my Mom, Grandma, and Sister, if you happen to see me there, please stop to say hello!

And if you're looking forward to any upcoming quilt shows, please tell me about those in the comments below! If I happen to be in the area, I would love to check them out too!

Until Next Time Friends, Keep Creating!

~VA