Wednesday 31 August 2016

Another minute's silence today for the loss of another long-time and always prolific member. This blog will be much shorter without her colourful quilts and there will be a gap in our patchwork mornings at the table near the door.

The BomB blocks returned today and if only we can find the magazine with the pattern in it, we can start piecing the charity quilt. 

It was lovely to have Joan back with us this morning, but sad to hear she is moving permanently back to Mt Isa. And to show our appreciation, Joan won the badge draw. (Or maybe it was just a coincidence.)

The Colorada Beauty blocks from the August BomB ready for the latest quilt for charity

This is Faye's last quilt. Beth had quilted it for her last Thursday. Faye had used this pattern, called Exquisite, before. And this time she had dug into some really old scraps, some of which she wasn't even sure of  how they got to be in her stash. 

Beth now has matching single bed and cot quilts in the room for when the grandchildren sleep over. And how cute they are!  It is all machine blanket stitch applique. The cot quilt has been hand quilted and the big one was stippled on Faye's machine.

Joan has had this quilt on the go for about six months.  When the blocks were finished, she started using a design wall, but it just didn't seem to make a nice pattern. So the method of piecing was to put all the blocks in a plastic bag and just randomly pull out two and sew them together. That has seemed to work! (This is the prettiest pale blue quilt, but for some reason the camera turned it to grey.  Maybe too sunny a day today. Sorry.) And Joan also managed to find the perfect matching pale blue backing when she stopped at the patchwork shop at Clermont on her way to Mackay.

Kay has made this bright fun quilt for a new grandnephew. Expecting lots of wear and tear, the applique is done with a machine double blanket stitch.

Reverse of Deane's little bag.

Deane purchased this pattern and no-fabric kit from the Red Bus at the Fair. It had the papers that you iron to the fabric in it. Deane has found them quite easy to work with and now has a beautiful little project carry bag.