The Yuba-Sutter Valley Quilt Guild Show – 2025

 

This show never disappoints. The Yuba-Sutter Valley Quilt Guild‘s show is always worth the drive. This year’s show held some lovely surprises. I include way too many photos below; I just could not edit out. Whenever I attend a show, I usually get about 20 min in and then start chatting with people and losing track of what quilts I got photos of. I know I missed some. Although I have comments in my little head for each quilt, it would take too much time. A few need comments to explain what is not obvious:

There were 3 quilts by a new-to-me maker that were just stunning, including the Best of Show:

This is beautifully hand quilted and my photo does not do it justice. Each of those plates is an image created from scratch with hand embroidery and quilting, applique, trapunto, ink, beads  and maybe even more things I didn’t notice. Here is one close up so that you can understand:

Amazing!

She entered two other remarkable hand quilted pieces:

Five hundred yoyo’s!

Remarkable fact: Verlaine describes herself as a “new quilter and hand quilter”! The above quilt was her first attempt at English Paper Piecing. Oh. My!

This quilt represents Kathleen’s grief journey after the loss of her only child. The linen represent the roughness of grief, the sari fabrics evoke motherhood, the unpolished fabrics were deliberately chosen and she left in the wrinkles, imperfections and sagging of the quilt.

I absolutely believe that the viewer, me included, can sense strong emotions in a quilt. Not all quilts have that, but the viewer senses the ones that do. I have to say, as I was walking through the show, with all its beautifully crafted quilts, this stood out. It made me pause. It drew me in. You knew those imperfections were there on purpose. This was not an inexperienced quilter. What was the story? Once I read the card I was hit with the grief she must still experience. This is one powerful quilt.

The Featured Quilter was Delainia Watson, a talented quilter with a wide variety of styles:

And here is the rest of the show!

Even the visitors were interesting!

I hope you enjoyed the show!

I’ll be linking up:
Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday