September Show and Tell

Welcome to September's show and tell.  

This is Ingrid's pastel blue quilt.

Diane was made a healing heart quilt and she loves it!

Diane's jelly roll leftovers turned into this beautiful quilt.  I'm in love with those vines!

Here are a couple of community quilts Diane finished off.

Robyn's gorgeous kaleidoscope masterpiece. 

This quilt is titled "Black and Bright" and is the second prize in our annual raffle that we hold during our January exhibition.

Shirley made this from our fabric bingo squares from our August meeting (now that I'm posting September's show and tell I've realised I haven't done August, so I'll tell you about fabric bingo another day).  I think this is destined to be a community quilt.

This is another from Shirley - an absolutely lovely wall hanging.

Close-up!

September's meeting was all about fabric postcards.  We had the lovely Margaret teaching us how to put them together and we had a great selection from Gaylene and Robyn to peruse in show and tell for inspiration.

Oops!  This isn't a fabric postcard!  This is a little needle case - how gorgeous.

Here's what it opens out to.

And I'll leave you with a close up of the decorative stitching on the sashing of Ingrid's pastel blue quilt.  And thanks to Suz for this month's photography.

July Show and Tell

 Carol has been busy.  There is a new grandchild on the way and that calls for cute and cuddly.

This was a pattern Carol found on Moda Bake Shop, which is a lovely site dedicated to 'recipes' to use with Moda pre-cuts.  It's worth checking out.

And then back to a more traditional quilt - I think we can guess the gender of the new baby!

Aida finished this lovely colour wash quilt.  Just divine.

Daryl made this top for a friend's boy who's favourite colour is yellow.  

Ngaire has made a stunning quilt using the drunkard's path block.  The back was gorgeous too.

This is what Edna made from a jelly roll she couldn't resist.

Caroline made this for Community Quilts, which is what Quilts for Kids has been renamed.

Gaylene belongs to the same group as Margaret, who showed off her house quiltlet last month.  These are all hand pieced and just gorgeous close up.

July was our Community Quilts day.  We spent the morning piecing, basting, and quilting quilts to be given to people in the community who have a need.  I love this photo of Beryl, Judith and Caroline stitching away industriously!  

May Meeting Show and Tell

We had a great meeting with Carol and Valerie demonstrating quilt-as-you-go techniques.  Next month is hand embellishment with Lyn - there will be a requirements list in your newsletter.  And now, here are some photos of May's show and tell.  

Sue made this lovely bright quilt top for Quilts for Kids.

Terri's flowers are dimensional on this wall hanging.

Terri has been busy and finished her hand-painted silk organza sampler that was started in a class with Jeanette De Nicolis Meyer.

Ingrid took the ideas of last month's machine embellishment class and made this neat little underwater scene complete with fuzzy anemones. 

Margaret confessed that she can't throw anything away...but who would want to when you can make these  gorgeous little postcards with your leftover threads?

Margaret likes working in mini size - these wonky houses were just sweet!

A close up for you.

Suzanne finished this for her daughter.  It's backed with flannelette and was quilted on her new quilting frame.

Margaret made this for her 18th great grandchild!!

Above are photos to show you the two floor mat quilts that so many people helped Imogen put together before her hurried trip to the UK.  She wanted to thank everyone who helped with providing "I Spy" fabric, cutting out, layering, quilting etc - it really wouldn't have been possible to get them done without so many wonderful friends.  She also would like to thank those other friends who, she knows, would only have been too willing to help as well if they had only known that the need was there.  Special thanks to Valerie, Shannon, Suzanne, Charlotte, Monica and Steph B.  Imogen knows they will be thanked again by the recipients in the UK.

See you all in June.

March Meeting 2012

We had our AGM in March, which generally means a lot of talking - but we like to keep it short and sweet and as an added bonus for attending, you get to listen to an interesting speaker.  This year we had Kerry from Tulis Textiles.  Kerry was a great speaker, full of energy, you could tell she loves the life she is living.  She also had a fantastic amount and range of quilts to show us.  But she doesn't stand still ;) !  Eventually I got a couple of reasonably unblurry pictures of her and her delicious quilts.

Most of Kerry's quilts are made out of batiks, because that is her deep love and what her whole business is built around.  She gave us interesting backgrounds about batik fabrics and the way they are made.

And Kerry loves to teach and has several different classes.  I love this blue and yellow drunkard's path quilt and she had it made in the same colours but a different layout to illustrate how different it could look.

After a bite to eat we had a bit of show and tell.  

This is made by Margaret and I love the scrappy look of it against the plain background.

This is Betty's lovely stitchery quilt.  You might get a better look if you click on it to enlarge it.

Carol finished her piece started in the Jeanette De Nicolis Meyer workshop.  She cleverly used her drop cloth for the binding and it works perfectly.

This is Dolores' piece from the Jeanette class that she brought to show members who weren't  lucky enough to be at the class (it's a bit washed out from the flash unfortunately). 

And this is also Dolores' work.  She found some beautiful batik fat quarters in Kerry's stock to border it.

That's all for March.  I won't be at the April meeting but I'll try and bribe someone to take pics for me ;).  Have a great month everyone!