Coastal Quilters Guild Show--Part Tres

This guild has some wonderful guest artists--actually, the one featured at the show is a member and lives locally I believe.  My poor pictures notwithstanding, Norah McMeeking's work is stunning.  Her Bella Bella Quilts book was very popular and also the name of her website.  I enjoyed seeing the beautiful work up close.

This eucalyptus beauty is also Norah McMeeking's work but totally different from her tile-inspired designs. 

There were a lot of small quilted works and one of my favorites was a challenge that a satellite group of the guild created using an ordinary object--in this case, a chair.

These were so inventive!

One of my favorites!  They are small, only about the size of a sheet of copy paper.  Charming, all of them.

Ginkgo leaves are one of my favorite organic shapes.  This was another small quilt, wonderful shading going on here.  

Because this is a Coastal guild after all, there were many sea themed quilts.

Sea turtles.

The artist here is Roxanne Barbieri, owner of a great quilt shop called The Treasure Hunt.  She does a lot of whimsical original designs.  I can guess that she is always doodling on paper.  This is called "Be Careful What You Fish For".

This reads : "If fishes were horses".  So cute!

Scenes of Santa Barbara.

Sailboats and starfish.

And icons of San Buenaventura, my city, commonly called Ventura. Like Santa Barbara, we are a California Mission town, founded by Spanish Missionaries in the late 1700's.  Hope you enjoyed the variety of quilts as much as I did.  I'm planning to attend the next guild meeting as a guest and am seriously thinking about joining.  These ladies appear to have a lot of fun with their craft!