The quilt has, in addition to winning a prize at Quilt Canada, won 4 awards, including Best in Show, at the Ottawa Valley Quilters Guild Festival of Quilts in 2011, a first place ribbon at the Vermont Quilt Festival in 2010, and has been accepted into the Hands All Around exhibit to open in Houston in October 2012

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ABOUT JOAN

Joan lives in Ottawa, Canada’s national capital. She has been quilting for more than 30 years and has won many awards for her quilts, both in Canada and the United States. Although she makes pieced quilts, her passion is for hand appliqué and hand quilting.
 
Her first patterns were developed after teaching classes in hand appliqué, and several of her designs have been inspired by the buildings and the grounds of Parliament Hill, Ottawa.
 
After seeing a Baltimore Album Quilt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1980s, Joan decided she would eventually have to make one; after retirement in 2007, she finally gave it a try.
 
Having spent more than 2,300 hours on her first Baltimore, Joan insisted she would never make another one.  Within a few months, she began working on her second Baltimore, and is now completing her third.  It is now an addiction.