CQ Challenge: CQ@10 2012

In 2012 the Group celebrated its 10th birthday.  We have come a long way in those ten years and now have over 700 members.  To mark this occasion we held a special exhibition of quilts based on a black and white photograph of East Poole tin mine in Cornwall taken by professional photographer, Tony Howell.  Why a tin mine? Because tin is the symbol of 10th anniversaries.  We were granted a gallery space at the Festival of Quilts 2012 to hang the 23 quilts juried into the exhibition.

There is a book which catalogues the quilts and the history of the group's first ten years.  There are over 500 full colour images of quilts.  Details of how to buy a book are found here.
Below are details from some of the quilts in the collection.

Judy Fairless - Wheelhouse 1

Hilary Richardson - Engine houses

Liz Heywood - In the wheels of the mine

Sandra Grusd - Balcony rail

Terry Donaldson - All the remains

Cathy Stonard - Sardines and tin, a marriage made in Cornwall

Christine Seager - Ten x tin

Dee Nicholson - Stacks of Time

Jennie Wood - Ten tin pennies

Lesley Brankin - The pump house.

The exhibition has travelled to the following venues:
Weavers Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire – 22nd – 28th October, 2012
Aldwark Gallery, Quilt Museum and Gallery, York:  26th January – 30th March, 2013
Loch Lomond Quilt Show:  15th - 18th May, 2013
Llangollen Museum, Llangollen, Wales - June 5th to July 3rd, 2013
Helmsley Art Centre, Helmsley, Yorkshire: 9th July to Friday 30th August, 2013
Level One Gallery, Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Nr Pontypridd, Wales - 16th November to 31st December, 2013

Helmsley Art Centre, Helmsley, Yorkshire:  9th July - 30th August 2013

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Llangollen Museum, Llangollen, Wales:5th June - 2nd July, 2013

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Aldwark Gallery, Quilt Museum and Gallery, York: 29th January - 31st March, 2013