Show and tell

I have some beautiful quilts to show you today.  The first is The Farmer's Wife quilt made by Annie.  It's hand pieced and hand quilted and took her 18 months to make.  Isn't it gorgeous?!

 

 

 

The Calvary Cross was made by Gail for her daughter, Linda, for her 40th birthday.  The squares are all 3 inches and pieced to form the cross on the hill.  It was quilted by Kerrie Thomas in Mount Macedon.

 

 

Beverley used a kit from Quilter's Lane to make this lovely quilt for her cats!  My dog slept all winter under one of my favourite lap quilts.  Who else has pampered pets?

 

Mug bag workshop

A mug bag workshop was held at Tuesday night quilting this week.  It was lovely to see so many of our newest members joining in!  The bags are pretty simple dolly bags with outside pockets for tea bags and spoons etc.  Even though the bags were simple it was amazing how they all looked so different!

Here's Glo hard at work with her mug bag. 

 

Ailsa working on the lining of her bag with Heather looking on.

 

 

Ann's finished bag.

 

 

Carolyn, where did you get that hat?!

 

 

 

The next workshop is the zippy organiser which will be held on Saturday 20th October.  See you there!

 

The next quilt show entries?

I uploaded my camera to update the blog with the latest show and tell and found three week's worth of beauties!  Apologies for being so slack!  Ha ha!

 

This lovely quilt was made by Esmae.  She began it in 2004 but recently started to bring it to Tuesday night quilting to finish it off.  It's handpieced but the leaves were machine appliquéd which was a first for Esmae and she says she didn't enjoy it!  The backing is an old sheet passed down from an elderly relative so holds lots of sentimental value.  It was machine quilted by Patchwork on Essendon.

 

 

Betty designed this quilt for her curved bed in her caravan to keep the area looking neat.  Betty fell in love with the yellow fabric in Lincraft and just had to use it!

 

 

Karen made this quilt to use as an every day quilt for her lounge.  She bought a bundle of fabric at a quilt show and started the quilt straight away.  The hand quilting took three years.  Karen used bamboo batting for the first time and says it's great for hand quilting!

 

 

Joy used a Moda jelly roll to make the braids in this lovely quilt and used the left over fabric to make the border.  The birds are machine appliquéd and Joy stipple quilted this.

 

 

This is another quilt made by Joy after doing a class on mitred borders.  The animals have been machine embroidered onto fleece.

 

 

Anne made this quilt for her son's 21st birthday and finished it recently. He's now 30!  When Anne saw the panels she just had to buy it for him! Anne has added a pocket to turn the quilt into a pillow!

 

Another quilt by Joy!  This one is called "The parliament". The pattern is from Angie's Bits 'n Pieces Joy machine appliquéd the owls and machine quilted lots of flowers all over it.  It'll be used by her grandchildren when they come and visit.

 

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Great Shirt Challenge No.2

Annie and Lyn recently brought their shirt challenge quilts in to show us and we were so impressed we all wanted a go!  So Annie and Lyn kindly organised challenge No.2 for us.  Over the last few weeks we've been scouring the local op shops (or not so local!) for 100% cotton shirts and last night we cut them up into sections, those sections were mixed up and divided into many piles and put into bags, beautifully decorated with a shirt appliqué.  We then all took turns to choose a card bearing a tie and the fabric swatch hidden underneath the tie matched one of the shirts on the bags.  It was so exciting wondering what fabric we'd all end up with!

Cutting the shirts into sections

 

 

Busy group!

 

 

The shirts all cut up

 

 

My lucky dip shirts

 

        Rules

•  Use as much shirt fabric as you can for the front of the quilt.
• If you wish, you may add ONE other fabric of your choice to help tie the shirt fabrics together - the amount can be as much or as little as you want.
• There is to be no dying of fabrics, however you may reverse the shirt fabrics if you prefer the other side.
• Backing will be a fabric of your choice.
• Binding will be a fabric of your choice.
• Completion time : date to be advised in August 2013.

Have fun everyone!

 

 



 

 

Christmas in July

We had a lovely day on Saturday sitting in the hall stitching and chatting and the meal at The Olive Tree was delicious too!  But the best part, of course, was the Elves' challenge.  Last Christmas Beryl and Sharon handed out our little packages containing fabric, ribbon and bells and told us we must use them somehow to create a Christmas project to show at the Christmas in July.  We all had to vote for our favourite entry and there were prizes for first, second and third places.  As you will see it was really difficult voting for just one!  If you want to see more detail click on each photo and it will enlarge.

In first place...

Joy's owls!  Aren't they adorable?  Each owl is different and they have the cutest facial expressions!

In second place...

Glo's carousel house!  There were four rooms altogether and you could spin it around to view each room.  Glo even had working lights!

In third place...

Sandra's Christmas Advent fairy.  All her pockets held small chocolate bars.  Yum!  (Thanks for the photo Judy!)

A feast of other entries...

Heather

Ailsa

Marlene

Esmae

Annie

Barbara P

Barbara B

Judy

Jocelyn

Lyn

Evelyn

Maureen


The elves did a brilliant job and all the completed challenges were fantastic.  Who will be next year's elves I wonder?  It could be YOU!