Wednesday, 1 February 2017

A New Quilting Year Begins. Wednesday 1 February 2017

I bet you all thought that we would start the New Year with something different. Maybe the blogperson would use a new background, or a new font, or a new camera with better pictures resulting. Sorry folks. Same old, same old.
We made the starting date February 1 to miss the heat of January and give everyone time to settle in to the new year. Unfortunately, it seems the heat of February is much the same as the heat of January. Still, we had a reasonably large and very happy group turn up for the first meeting of the year. While some people are still working on their holiday projects, (and some people, no names mentioned, haven't even started yet), we ended up with a lovely Show and Tell this morning.

There is a demonstration of Westalee Rulers at Mackay Sewing Centre this coming Sunday, 5 Feb. Cost is $10 and you need to ring up to book a place if you wish to attend.

Del has just used a jelly roll to make this quilt which her two grandaughters are currently fighting over. Well, it was actually one and a half  jelly rolls. Anyone know what you can do with half a jelly roll?

Del has completed her Bargello quilt from the Chris Timmins Workshop last year. The fabric requirements were very generous in case mistakes were made. And if you didn't make mistakes, as Del didn't, then you had enough fabric to add another four rows on each side. This quilt fits a king size bed. Di quilted it for Del with shamrocks to match the green, although Del thought one lucky four leaf clover should have been added somewhere.

Now that Liz is a permanent Queenslander, she has brought all her special things up here. This is the very first quilt she ever made - all hand pieced and hand quilted.  Calico was the popular and essential background back then, wasn't it?

Margaret has made this for a lady who spent her entire working life as an employee of Margaret and Trevor. The panel is from Needleworx and is one of the Loralie Design panels. Margaret cut it apart and added different borders to each figure. There are some very cool looking ladies there!

A scrap quilt for a little boy made by Fay and all hand quilted as usual. This one is full of  puppies and farm animals and monkeys, as well as naive houses and Japanese fabrics. I don't know how Fay makes them all go together so well.

Deane has finished her strip 60 degree triangle table centre. Despite worrying predictions, the binding has gone on perfectly with very neat corners. Well done Deane!

Cathy needed to see how the kaleidoscope pattern worked where you line fabric up and cut 6 similar pieces and then sew them together in a hexagon. She has made this quilt bag from her practice blocks and it looks as if the fabric was, in fact, a remnant of poly dress material. Cute retro bag though, Cathy.

Cathy's neighbour's little girl is turning one. So Cathy dug out the only corduroy she could find and made this bunny pajama case. Did you realise that pajama cases were still around?

Anne borrowed a friend's pattern to make this patchwork bag. It needs a toggle for a closure but otherwise is ready to go.

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