Wednesday 5 August 2015

Quite a good crowd of quilters appeared today with Jo and Robyn McG back after some extended time and even Carol M from many years ago popping in with "cleaning out the cupboard" presents from Barbara now in Brisbane. And Karen was here between Solomon Is and Flinders Ranges excursions. We all certainly get around! There was even a message from ex-president Sue all the way from England who says hello to everyone and is off to the Famous Birmingham Quilt Show.

There were a few workshop results to show with Iris and Anne W sewing frantically all morning under Joan's watchful eye.

Well done to Robyn McK, Marlena and Phillipa who had completely finished examples.
 Doesn't the choice of materials make a diverse range?  No doubt there will be more completed by next week.

Show and Tell

Marlena  has made the quilt 'Petal Power' for her daughter-in-law.
  It was quilted first by Joan  and then Marlena needle turned all the petals on afterwards. Apparently the traditional pattern has many many more petals but it was decided that this was enough!  A pillow sham in the same pattern has already been completed and left over fabric is still being incorporated into other coordinating cushions. 

Beth made 'Spider Man' for a girlfriend's 65 year old young at heart husband after being provided with the front panel and coordinating fabric. There was so much fabric Beth had to make a fancy pieced backing. 

Robyn McG made this delightful and large quilt from a kit of Kaffe Fassett fabrics.
 The blue border and binding just draws out all the fabulous blues in the quilt.
 It was machine quilted by Judy Easton.

Linda W has two quilts in the camping swags. This one is a McKenna Ryan BOM pattern called 'Ocean' .  It is all  raw -edge appliqué.  I'm sure many of us have looked at these patterns and thought , "Way too hard!"  

A detail of some of the intricate free machining with invisible thread.

The second "swag quilt" Linda completed in the same year is this McKenna Ryan "Barnyard" pattern. It is just  stunning. We are glad we got to see them so thanks Linda for bringing in some work from a couple of years ago.

Deane  has been making 'Fiddle Quilts' for dementia patients. They are made with fabrics of  different textures and incorporate buttons, zips, elastic bands, braid and other things that can be fiddled with and are backed with a soft flannelette. The next step is to use the same principles to make some aprons.

Badge Draw today was won by Anne F who was very excited as this was only her second win ever. She picked out a little parcel with some pins in a fancy tin, a quilt label and some papers to make an English piecing pincushion. We'll have to wait and see if the English piecing is ever attempted!