Loch Lomond Quilt Show

After 10 years this was the last Loch Lomond Quilt Show, for people not familiar with the show it's set up in about 10 churches. It's the first time I've visited many of them. The quilts were beautiful. Some had obviously taken months or even years to make in the case of the huge Baltimore quilts. In one of the churches a group of ladies from Japan were demonstrating sashiko and there was a large display of sashiko quilts some brought from Japan.

I was very impressed by the entries for the mens competition, they were very different but in a good way, they had strength and masculinity, with a good eye for composition. There was a lovely range of indigo quilts and amazing pieces using a hand sewn quilting technique called boutis, which is a white on white originating as it's name suggests in France.

Here are some of my favorites 

The following pictures are of the stained glass in Renton Trinity Church, they were designed and made by Oscar Paterson a world renowned stained glass artist and dedicated in 1912, I was particularly struck by the colours and how warm and intense they were.