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Here are the quilts for the seventh team from the over 320 teams that participated in the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE). 201 teams submitted their quilts to be a part of the Exhibition in Houston 2018 and we are featuring the 24 teams selected for the first IMQE Exhibition.

Click here to learn more about the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE).

Enjoy the quilts from Team 142 created by Mayleen Vinson and Judy Garden.

Title of Quilt: A Little Blue

Quilter's Name: Mayleen Vinson

Location: Haysville, Kansas, USA

Alike but different, that’s how I’d describe my IMQE exchange partner, Judy Garden, and myself. We both like traditional quilting and are starting to learn more about new techniques in art quilting. However, we are different in our color preferences. I love color, especially red, and use as many fabrics as possible in a quilt. Judy likes two color quilts, blue and white is her favorite color combination. I rarely use blue and she rarely uses red. We agreed to make a miniature medallion quilt for the exchange in each other’s favorite color. Restricting myself to two colors was a challenge but also a great learning experience about value and monochromatic colors. I did include other colors for some of the tulips so I guess I bent the rules a bit! I enjoyed learning about Judy’s lifestyle which is different than mine. She lives near a lake, I live in a more rural area currently in a drought. She’s accomplished many things in her life, I’m a homebody. Even though we’re different, we share a love of quilting that allowed us to connect and share our happy and sad times. During the construction of Judy’s quilt, I thought about her likes and dislikes. Will she like this blue? Is the quilt too scrappy? I was concerned about my lack of machine quilting skills. In the end, I realized that the meaning of the quilting process and the generosity of the resulting quilt is a gift between friends.

Title of Quilt: Kansas Spring

Quilter's Name: Judy Garden

Location: Cobourg, Ontario, Canada

What a great year it’s been. From the first trickles of information about an international miniature quilt exchange, through ups and downs in the lives of our team mates, we come to the finish line. Mayleen and I turned out to be kindred spirits in our love of quilting and appliqué. Emails back and forth determined that we would each work in the favourite colours of our team mate. We wanted appliqué, pieced blocks, and a centre medallion. My quilt had many interpretations regarding the centre medallion and the finished one is the fifth attempt. It was all about balance between the little pieced blocks and the appliqué itself. Over the next few months we learned about our lives and the challenges that we faced in meeting deadlines (whether quilt related or not), choosing designs and colours in keeping with our original goal, family matters, weather, and information about the towns we live in. I know I’ve made a friend and we will keep in touch long after our little quilts are hanging in our homes.