Entering Eggbert

Entering Eggbert
41″wide by 36 ½ inches tall
Original designed hand painted, hand appliquéd and machine thread painted and quilted
By Sharyn Mellors
August 2008
Update: Please see this Press Release for more information regarding Entering Eggbert.
The theme for the challenge was County fair. I wanted to represent the county fair of days gone by. The day after I [...]

64 Geese and a Duck

“64 Geese and a Duck”
April 2004
10 ½ inches square
This tiny duck may not be able to fly in perfect formation and her technique may not be perfect.  But, when she tries really hard she can still fly.
I made this little quilt was my first entry into a quilt show.  It is 10 ½ inches square [...]

Puppet Theater

“It’s Show Time for Maile”
Aiden and Emmet Playing with Puppet in the collection of Artist
April 2008
This is actually two quilts.  The puppet show was made for my granddaughter Maile because her cousins Aiden and Emmet enjoyed their puppet show so.  The two boys and the puppet is actually another separate quilt which I made so [...]

About the Artist

Sharyn Mellors Bio
Sharyn Mellors has been creating things from her imagination ever since she was a small child when her grandmother made her learn to sew because Sharyn wouldn’t leave the treadle alone on the sewing machine. She wasn’t always a wiz at sewing as demonstrated by the “D” she got in Junior high sewing [...]

Press Release – Sept. 6th 2008

ENCORE! Another Blue Ribbon Quilt Fest in La Conner, Washington

This year’s Blue Ribbon Quiltfest celebrates the 11th anniversary of the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum. The festival will be held Sept. 26, 27 & 28, 10am-5pm, in La Conner and offers many quilting-related festivities:

La Conner Quilt Walk: In anticipation of the Quilt [...]