Ontario Quilt Show

Val and I attended the Ontario Quilt Show this past weekend and it was visually overstimulating.  I have been to different trade shows in the past, but the color diversity and the samples/competition pieces were overwhelming!


The entrance fee was $10 for the day with parking of $8.  We arrived after a lunch at the Panda Inn just down the road from the convention center.  We were lucky in that the up close handicapped parking lot was open for everybody.  We got a really close parking space.


The crowds here were as large as the ones at Maryland Sheep and Wool.  In some aisles, we just had the "put on our patience panties" according to Val and just wait it out.


At the entrance to the exhibit hall, a Boy Scout Troop had this sign.  You can have your purchases "bag sat" by the troop as you continued to shop.

There were fabrics, sewing machines, long arm quilt machines, buttons, thread, patterns, needles, gadgets, and more fabrics.


I walked away with a quilt kit - here are some photos of it.

I also got some patterns, some fabric, and an iron.  There was a show special for this iron and it came with a free board cover.  See the video of this one of a kind iron their website.


Here is the store from San Diego demonstrating a long arm quilt machine.

There were also aisle upon aisle of competition pieces.  I took some photos of a few that caught my eye.  I can't imagine the work that went into some of these pieces.  I wasn't able to take down all the quilters or names of the pieces.  A few of these pieces were works in progress for over 5 years.