Tuesday night Show and tell

 This quilt started off as a wall hanging and was the Heartstrings  pattern put out by Hugs and Kisses during lockdown. Sheila made this while away on the extended holiday last year. All the top was hand pieced until you get to the wide border. When she came back she asked advice from club members about what to do with it, not needing another wall hanging. And so it grew and grew........ She was anxious to try out her new machine for quilting, now having a bigger throat made the task a little easier. The top was all from her stash but the backing was a wide back. It gave her a chance to showcase the quilting

Diane is trying her hand at a small embroidery to hang on a wall.

Robyn shared a good idea to avoid making those sleeves to hang wall hangings. She uses ribbon and buttons to make hangers for the dowel .

Mary had made this, just that morning

Embroidery Part 2

 Welcome back Janice after your short forced stay at home. Glad you were not too sick. The embroiderers were back with continues enthusiasm for excellence. There was lots of concentration and excellent tuition.

There is always show and tell so bring your work to share, any time we love to see what you have been up to.

Mary has a wonderful store of items to show us. Great to see that we don't always have to make quilts. She admitted to spending a lot of time on You tube and Pinterest and finding great ideas like the 5 4inch squares that turned into a mug rug.

Janice showed us her idea for the storage of threads which are colour coordinated. She displayed her skills in the bag she had made and a photo does not do justice to those teeny tiny stitches that are all lined up. 

Both of these quilts are samplers. It is where I have been honing my free motion quilting skills. I have decided I prefer quilting to piecing and sorry Janice even embroidery. In the pink one each block is quilted differently. In the bottom sample each section is heavily quilted with as many different fillers as I could find. I had spent some time following Angela Walters so "Quilting is my Therapy"

Saturday Sit and Sew

 

Debbie has also been having fun with 2 1/2” squares. What a delightful quilt top 

Gail made this lovely scrappy quilt to test out a pattern. The finial quilt top made from Kaffe Fassett fabrics is currently at Kerry’s. Can’t wait to see it.

HSQ’s - it never ceases to amaze how great they look!

Debbie really has been busy. With these cute fabrics from ‘Sew Together’. This baby quilt is expecting to find a home with a new grandchild soon.
Plus, the leftovers have gone into a sweet baby quilt for Sunshine Hospital

This stunning blue flying geese quilt will be much loved by Andrea’s grandson who requested a ‘blue quilt’. 

And Karen has been busy with this cute little baby quilt. Mainly using liberty fabrics for a stunning effect

 

Judy has been busy with this oriental quilt which started with a panel and turned out bigger than expected. Made by adding a series of 8 different sized borders to frame the panel

 

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Annie has been very busy. The Fairy Quilt Godmother quilt was an online challenge with facial features determined by the roll of a dice 

https://www.paperpanache.com/get-your-fairy-quilt-godmother

The small heritage colour hexi quilt uses the circle method for creating the hexagons and then modern machine stitching to create a unique top.

 

The green hexagons are part of a challenge which is coming to an end. The quilt looks fabulous now and is nearly done.

The below was based on the Lancaster Quilt. Annie used her computer program to design and print the foundation piecing patterns

Thank you ladies we have so much talent in our midst.

Happy Birthday

 A big happy birthday to those people who celebrated birthdays in January and February. 

Judy Anderson, Janette Harwood and Andrea Sheddick. 

Last night we celebrated your birthdays with a supper, well really lots of cakes, doughnuts, an

The birthday spread, sorry no balloons!

This is Mary Smith aka "The Bag Lady" no offence meant. She brought along a wide variety of bags for all occasions. All such good ideas and I think I see some workshops coming from some of these. Many of us have made some or all of these but hey.... do we use them!

A very versatile bag.

One of those useful bag that Judy Van Dyck has made multiples of, so useful.

The block holder

Iron Bag

Lamp Bag

Iron and ironing pad bag

Lots of chatting and exchanging of ideas. 

I cant remember the flower but it was a picture taken from Clip Art and enlarged. It was traced on to fabric and painted with Lumiere paints. The tracing was done with a black texta to define the image. Then you stitch over the texta in black thread to define the image. The fabric I used was batik. It was quilted very heavily in the background but two layers of poly batting was used which made it puffy

This was my own design but not difficult. Same technique the double batting making it puffy. Heavy background quilting is needed to keep the puffiness out of the background and highlight the feather

Same technique

Same technique

This was a bit different. It was done on calico and I used all Inktense pencils. It meant I was able to colour the background in various colours and shadings. The quilting was done done in black to highlight the design. 

These belong to me (Sheila). I was asked to bring them along as samples of painted work

These two embroideries are Robyn's work. Those stitches are magic

Welcome Lynne who brought along a bag which she uses and made. It is that very useful bag which we have seen from others. I know Annie C and Gail have made them. The bag is not as easy as it looks so well done.

There were a few people who had been "Out and About" but no pictures. Annie and Rosie had been to a Kilmore Sit and Sew and Robyn had been to to a Gail Pan workshop