Friday, August 31, 2012

Jeanette is prolific

When I sent fabric and the pattern to Jeanette (WA) this time she had her block done and in the mail the next day. Looks great!

She had already done a few practice runs before she got the fabric and they look great too.



She sent me a few more pics of blocks she has been experimenting with. For a new patchworker she is very good.








Amazing! Thanks Jeanette.

I am really glad Jeanette lives so far away because I am sure neither of us would get anything else done if we lived near one another. We'd be quilting all day every day I am sure.

Monday, August 27, 2012

UFO Sunday! What a great idea

UFO Sunday is a post from the Free Motion Quilting blog by Leah McTavish. Read it. It is quite inspiring. I think I'll start a UFO Tuesday because Tuesday is my quilting day. Perhaps tomorrow I will just sort out all my UFOs then select one of them to progress with. Wish me luck. Perhaps borders on this beautiful one will take it off my design wall.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

August Patchwork and Quilting


Prior to our quilting weekend in August Liz came over from New Zealand and we were able to complete the finishing touches on our Penny's Sampler Quilt. 
 

So our raffle was held and Lian won the quilt but has decided to donate it to Bezzina House with most of our other quilts.

 We welcomed our newest member Sue who was actually the first to finish the new block - Marion's Churn Dash.

By afternoon tea on Saturday we had 11 members all enjoying our time together upstairs quilting, and downstairs around the dining table. The roll call included Elaine, Sue, Ruth, Jenny, Lian, Wilma, Robyn, Karen, Mary, Linda and myself. What a crowd!


Our next block is Marion's fabric and a churn dash design. The background colour and centre block should be white (not cream) and the straight lines are your choice of fabric but remember the colours must be present in the mystery fabric.


And look at Wilma's Brown Roses so far!! There are a few more borders to add and the binding of course but it truly looks magnificent. The sides on the cross caused a few issues and a point of discussion for Robyn and I but we eventually got the thin brown border on and the quilt square! We are going to batt and back this one rather than using polar fleece.


Yes, and this is a photo just to prove I was there too.
 

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Using stripes

Jenny alerted me to this great site See How We Sew

It has a great entry called Make the Most of those Sensational Stripes