Have a very Merry Christmas!

 Post written by Evelyn

It's a busy time of the year and busier still for those frantically finishing off handmade gifts for Christmas!  

Before I show you any of the beautiful work some of our ladies have done, Margaret told me that making her quilts helped her get through this difficult time and she would like to thank Janette for helping and supporting her through this.  Margaret says that she would have found life hard going without Janette's help.  I hope each and every one of us has found our own support over the last months.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them.  You're in for a treat!

 Margaret made this flower quilt for her granddaughter.

This Shop Hop quilt is a machine embroidery design by Anita Goodesign.

This Mylar Spring quilt is also by Anita Goodesign.

And another by Anita Goodesign called Christmas town.  Margaret has been very busy!  She's also finished her shirt challenge and hopefully soon we'll be able to see them all!

Here's Kay frantically finishing off a gift.  It's a hard life!

This train quilt started life as a panel.  It's for Kay's daughter's in laws.

Kay made this quilt for her daughter in law.  It's called silver lining by Jacquelynne Steves.

Robyn has been busy! She's made this reversible baby quilt for her daughter's friend.  

This is a gift for Robyn's 93 year old mum.

Robyn has made this table runner for her daughter.

Ann made this batik stained glass quilt.  It's similar to the one hanging at The retreat in Gisborne but it's amazing how different fabrics makes it look like  a different design!

Gail started this quilt top at retreat.  It's been quilted with several spirals and will be a gift for a lovely lady who helped out during lockdown.

This bag is a gift for Gail's mum.

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone!  Hope to see you all in the New Year!

Birds of a feather

 Post written by Evelyn

It was pointed out to me recently that I hadn't posted on the blog for a long, long time!  I think we've all been busy doing anything except sewing since our restrictions here in Victoria have eased.  This blog post has a bit of a bird theme.

Di made this fantastic Flying Geese quilt.  Di quilted it herself and it was hard work as it measures 78 x 90 inches and she used wool batting!  She's now working on a scrap quilt inspired by one on display at The Retreat in Gisborne.

Kay made this quilt for a Collingwood loving friend.  It started life as a panel!

Sheila has been busy with her birds too!  This cockatoo measures about a metre and a half and was made using batik fabric.  There are approximately 300 pieces of fabric in this raw edged appliqué!

Sheila also made these three Australian native birds panels.  She made the birds by drawing them in chalk on black fabric before painting, trimming and then mounting them on to pieced fabric backgrounds.  

Ann made these two Maze quilts.

Robyn has been busy trying lots of new techniques.  She made this rather lovely bed runner.

Busy busy bees!

Post written by Evelyn

We've all been very busy during lockdown.  We've all had our different ways of doing things though.  Some people are using up their stash and others are buying lots more.  Some people are tidying and sorting and others are making more mess.  Guess which one of those I am!  Other people have been learning new skills.  And then others have just sat back and relaxed!

I've been busy buying essential supplies.  Actually, I have done a lot of sewing but haven't finished anything!  I have a LOT of bindings I'm trying to pretend I don't have to do!  If we were able to meet up I'd be looking very hopefully at people ha ha!

Janette made this lovely quilt for her newest granddaughter.  The cats were embroidered on her machine.

Ann Mc has finished off a few more quilts.  I've lost count of her total! This quilt is a crazy log cabin that Ann started in 2010 at a workshop in Benalla.  

This animal quilt was pieced using a couple of panels.

Ann's Heartstrings quilt finished.

This gorgeous quilt comes from the book Garden Fresh Quilts by Jason Yenter.  Ann bought the book and fabrics while she was on holiday once upon a time when we were allowed.

Robyn made this bag and quilt for Backpacks for kids

She made this book bag for her grandson who supports the wrong footy team!

Robyn started making these hexies as a carry around project when we were meeting up.  She's turned it into this gorgeous table runner.

Robyn also made these Melba flower purses.  I believe there was a lot of swearing while she formed the flowers but don't tell her I told you!

Robyn made this dreamcatcher quilt for her granddaughter.  She practiced her free motion quilting on it.

Kay has been really busy.  I know she has a lot of quilt tops finished ready for quilting.  She made these zippered bags for her daughter and grandchildren in SA.

Kay made this Splendid tote

And this bag for her granddaughter.

This chook quilt is destined for Kay's van.  Happy travels chooks!

Kay bought this cute doggy fabric while in the US and made the quilt as a gift for her niece.

This knitted vest is for one of Kay's grandsons.

Kay jumped on the cleaning bandwagon and carefully wrapped her fabrics around comic board.  They look brilliant!

Judy A started this bag a while ago when she first got her Sashiko machine.  The fabrics are laid randomly onto batting and quilted with the machine.

Here's Annie C's mini version of the 1840, The Key Family quilt.  It measures 33inches.  The half square triangles, all 1,668 of them, finish at 3/8"!!

We will conquer this pandemic and meet again!

 The Quilt Fairy has been at it again and brings a smile to our faces.  Thank you whoever you are!   I do have my suspicions however!

I enjoyed seeing Sheila's beautiful productive efforts on the previous post.  What amazing work she has done.  I have been all over the place with various new and old projects and seem to be going in circles.  I have spent an inordinate amount of time just mucking about and achieving nothing.

I did totally take apart my liquorice  all-sorts quilt and put it back together again and hopefully improved on some of the matching points.  It is heavily quilted for me as I used it as practice for Rachelle Denneny's online quilting class. 

Just for fun I have tried making aa little video of some of my projects, mostly work in progress.  I have not had any luck with attaching it to the BLOG so that is a work in progress as well!  In the meantime I will post some photos instead.

Little charity quilts.

Silver linings quilt - very pink!

mystery quilt from Quiltmania by Jen Kingwell!

My big stitch efforts.  Looks like sashiko.

And Barb Brown is no slouch either with these great efforts!

 

Star power!

Flower Power

California from Laundry Basket Quilts

Log cabin delights!

Keep safe everyone and quilt on!