Betty's Rules for Practically Perfect Piecing

For those of you that wanted to print out my Rules please follow the link here.

You might like to print them out, laminate them and pin them near your sewing machine.

If you are not sure what my cryptic rules mean just add a comment here where I can answer it for everyone.

Sydney Quilt Show

Our Wilma's Chocolate Roses quilt made it to the Sydney Quilt Show. In the photo above it is row 4, second from the right. It looked stunning from a distance when you could not see the quilting issues. This photo shows about 1/3 of the total exhibition and of course there were hundreds of stalls as well as workshops to attend.

Robyn and I volunteered for 1.5 hours of 'white glove' duty and our quilt was in Robyn's section. It was great fun doing the duty because we really got to look carefully at the quilts we were in charge of and by finding out the answers to all the questions asked we learned a lot about various techniques.

I'll certainly be happy to volunteer for white glove duty again. And well done ladies for a lovely quilt which will now go to Robyn who was the winner of the draw and has decided to keep the quilt.

A quilting weekend in June

This weekend we had a small but very productive group at our weekend. Robyn brought a new quilt she has recently completed. It is magnificent! We thought this would be a good challenge for one of our next lucky dip fabrics that doesn't actually have a block  in the parcel. Robyn's quilts are so inspiring for us all.

We have started quilting the Seashells quilt. It is a small quilt but should be just beautiful when it is finished. Our last job yesterday was to tack it to its backing before quilting then I started the quilting last night.

In this photo the two quilts over the banister are two more that we were able to put together this weekend. Jenny's Poppies is just waiting for another border and then for me to buy the fabric for binding. Marion's Churn Dash has beautifully mitred corners done by Karen and is now ready for tacking onto its backing for quilting.

Linda and Elaine both had an opportunity to do a little more on their current quilts too. A lot of progress was made! We did not draw another lucky dip as there were just too many quilts awaiting finishing but now there is only the Linda T's Hidden Nine Patch to finish. This means we'll choose another block soon.