More show and tell!

Post written by Evelyn

Get yourself a cuppa (I believe you may have been sent one recently!) and come and sit and admire these beautiful creations! This blog post is all about our lovely quilters Annie C and Sheila.

Annie says...

 I've been busy using a lot of my pre-cut scraps ... not so much of yardage ... this isolation could go on for years and I'll still have enough fabric!

My pile of memory quilts is growing, as are the knitted teddy bears.

My latest quilt finish is one that I have wanted to do since 2012 when I saw this quilt  http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=46-7A-109 in person and a few days later saw a version at the Houston Quilt Show that a French lady had reproduced..

In 2014 Quilters Companion put out a lovely book called "Inspired by Vintage Quilts" and there was a pattern for the quilt reproduced by an Australian lady.  

The years rolled by, 2020 began and the Corona Virus struck ... time to start that quilt!  So, on 24 March, just at the beginning of isolation, I began.  The quilt kept growing ... and I thought, how am I going to quilt this on my domestic machine?  I did think I could hand quilt it ... but that thought lasted about 30 seconds ... so I decided not to include all the half square triangle borders and finished with a couple of plain borders.

Whilst quilting the quilt, I managed to break not one, but two, prongs on my Westalee fan ruler!  I finished the quilt just before we went into Stage 4 of isolation ... even with a couple of other interruptions thanks to Glo's mystery quilts.

With the quilt finished I wondered if I could make a smaller version and include all the borders.  So, that's what I am working on now ... a quarter size version of the original quilt, with the half square triangles supposed to finish at 1/2 inch ... but they're actually finishing at 5/8" because I have my machine set wrong!

The Baptist fan quilting really gives this stunning quilt a vintage feel!

Annie is crazy as you all know but at least she doesn't need a huge design wall!

Sheila says...

Going back a while I did the Laundry Basket Quilt. It was made from my scrap collection. Making it was one thing but now I have quilted it which took many many hours . Every small piece has some quilting on it so it is hard to show.

Then I fell into the mistake of making the Mysolation Quilt, again totally from my scraps.  It is the quilting I enjoy most so I quilted that to death too.

My new favourite thing to do is paint so I took the theme of the Butterfly being a creature of hope and came up with this. Is drawn then painted with acrylic and fabric medium paint. It has two layers of polyester batting to make it puffy and then the background heavily quilted to make it stand out. 

This is another paint job obviously called The Dragonfly. This is as a gift for a friend.

I tried to do a series of pictures which started off as the Faces of Covid but I got carried away and my drawing skills are not that good. They are a series of 6 faces measuring about 12x12. It is OK doing all these things but in a woeful moment I thought “What for?” So looking for suggestions for my faces. They will probably get joined together with red sashing and put on the pile.

I did the Love n Hugs Stitch along and have finally put it together.

Ron has a picture of Kookaburras which he really likes and wanted to put it up in the house. All wall space is taken up with quilts so when I saw this panel I had to buy it. I have made the border and now it is ready for quilting. I can go to town with some thread painting what fun!