Wednesday 19 August 2015

Today was the first day for new President Marilyn,  best wishes for a successful term.  Numbers were low but we still had a lovely day amongst lovely friends.

Heather has made this beautiful quilt for grandson Nathan - 'Urban Tracks', material bought from the Red Bus.

Anne W. made this basket and serviette holder for a wedding present.

Anne W, Anne F and Jan E have completed their Mystic Mountain Table Runners

Margaret had Foundation Pieced this Table Runner and much preferred doing this to the paper pieced Leaf  Place Mat.

Cathy Mc called this 'Cathys's Curves, pieced the background then cut the curves.  Ironed it onto the lightweight interfacing and then joined with a Bias Strip.

Wednesday 12 August 2015

Anne W made this very handy bag at Janome with Joan Flack.  she purchased the bird fabric from America

Elaine likened making this quilt to childbirth 'the pain is soon forgotten'.  Moon Glo is a Jinny Beyer B.O.M, Foundation Pieced and Quilted by Di.

Brenda has completed her 'Mystic Mountains'  Table Runner

Brenda also whipped up these Sewing Caddy/Pin Cushion/Scrap Bag for friends of Joans.

Brenda's 'Striped Roses'.  A Disappearing Nine Patch, the fabric purchased from the Red Bus and quilted by Di.

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!

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Our In House Workshop 'Mystic Mountains' with Joan proved to be very popular.  Joan was very busy buzzing between all the participants.  As usual, the different array of fabric colours chosen made for a large variety of stunning combinations.  It was, however, quite easy to make a mistake and distractions did cause  a few hiccups!

Part 2 of the workshop will continue next week for those that don't finish them at home.

Very busy ladies

Margaret going well with her choice of green, red and white
at the workshop

Show and Tell

Joan's huge quilt 'Floral Cornucopia'  made with Kaffe Fassett
fabrics. It is one huge mass of flowers

Brenda's intricate quilt done with curved foundation piecing.
The Fire Island Hosta  design  is by Judy Neimeyer.
 Fabrics are from Patchwork Paradise and it is quilted by 
Lisa Warne at Quick Quilts

Di's '12 Days of Christmas' made in the Shadow Box Design.
 The embroidery was done by Heather C.

 Heather W's  China Doll quilt. Each doll has a different
 oriental fabric dress and different styled  hair.

Reverse of Heather's quilt

Close up of the favourite doll

Here is a mini photo workshop from Di for finishing off binding. 

This tip ensures the binding is joined accurately and sits flat.

(If you can't follow the instructions, Di will shortly do a In-house Demo on this.)

This example uses a 2 1/2"binding. It will work perfectly though for all binding widths.

1. Attach binding, leaving an overlap gap of approx 8"

2.  Cut off a small piece of fabric from one overlap approx 1"

3.  Open out cut piece ( example 2 1/2" x 1" when open)

4.  Line up the cut piece with the  2 1/2" length (width of binding)
 under the top binding along the bottom overlap

5.  Trim top overlap excess back to cut edge of open piece.
Then join ends of  binding on bias as usual.

Wednesday 22 July 2015

Wednesdays seem to come around so quickly. You need to make sure you don't lose track of the date or you will miss out on too many interesting things at patchwork. 

Next week 29th July we have an In-House Workshop conducted by Joan to make a Mystic Mountain table runner as shown in the 8 July Blog. The workshop will be over two Wednesdays. If you want to join in, bring your machine, mat, cutter and ruler and 4 coordinating fat quarters, two light and two dark. They should be trimmed to all measure 21 1/2" X 19 1/2". If you wish to do the "Flip and Sew" shortcut, you will also need a piece of wadding and backing about 60" X 22" pinned together around the edges. This looks like it will be heaps of fun.

Just a short Show and Tell today.

Margaret has finished her very soft and beautiful quilt made of flower fabrics backed with minkee and crocheted together. She did teach many other people to make a quilt in this method and that is probably why she has been the last to finish.

Anne finally has a quilt made just for herself. Beautiful pansy fabrics in a simple but graphic design. Pansies for thoughts we believe.

Diana has completed yet another of her time consuming fabric strip mats. This one is for her niece's daughter's friend. The poor little girl with the original purple mat is not allowed to let her friends into her bedroom now in case they see her wonderful mat and she tells them her Zea will make them one too!

A very touching little embroidered verse on this pillow case Anne made for her mother. A beautiful delicate and somewhat pastel pattern not really very 'Anne-like' and we hope  her Mum doesn't cry too much when she sees it.

Anne bought so many stunning sarong pieces in Tanzania that husband has demanded she does something with them. So one has gone into making a couple of lovely cushions to match the truck quilt.

The Badge Draw today was won by Diana who is off to Needleworx to spend her $10.

Wednesday 15 July 2015

We had good numbers today and it was lovely to see some of the travellers returned.

Di Hope has created this 'Agave Garden' Wall Hanging with a couching technique

Close up of the couching

Di Hope has been busy creating this Paper pieced Starburst from a Judy Niemeyer pattern and materials dyed by Di,  Black and vibrant dyed materials used.

Linda's pretty pink and brights appliquéd and pieced quilt is titled ' I Hope I Have a Granddaughter One Day' 

Wednesday 8 July 2015

Margaret Lombardi - Japanese Table Runner, with Shashiko stitching, from an Indigo Workshop at Di Hope's house a few years ago 

Japanese Quilt by Margaret Lombardi again, material given to her by Faye Cole

Maree's Quilt by Margaret Petersen who is hand quilting this.

Joan Flack's 'What am I - Bird or Fish?' Quilt

Joan Flack made this Runner with 4 fat quilters.  'Mystic Mountain'  a Stack and Slash, Flip and Sew quilt as you go.
Joan is going to do a workshop on this.

Jan Wild has made another baby quilt for niece #3.