October Show and Tell

Hi everyone.  Welcome to October's show and tell.  We had a small showing this month.  Hopefully that means that there are lots of quilts nearing completion to be shown next month?  Actually, November is the club's Christmas lunch, December is a no-meeting month so maybe those quilts can all wait till our exhibition in January!  Yes, our exhibition is drawing near, get stitching!

This is a very special quilt.  Daryl made it from blocks that were going to be a healing heart quilt for her sister.  Unfortunately, her sister passed away before it could be made.  I'm sure it will be treasured.

Carol made a big Hawaiian bag.  There are a few of these floating round the club now, it shows how useful they are!

This is what Judy made with her Princess Mary blocks that she made at the workshop with Beatrice.

Nita had a 'few' 1 1/2" squares hanging round so she decided to sew them together.  Look what happened!!  Apparently she has a few more hanging round too.  I love the secondary pattern.

The other happening at the meeting was a demonstration and mini-workshop that I ran on fabric stamping, monoprinting and screen printing.  I think it went really well - everybody seemed to have fun.

See you next month when I'll have pictures of the Christmas Lunch.

Jeanette DeNicolis Meyer Workshop

What a weekend!  Jeanette's workshop 'Layers of Lightness - Quilt and Collage with Translucent Fabrics' was a  huge success.  Everyone I spoke to took something away with them, whether it was new skills that they were sure they would use again, inspiration for a new work, or just more of an idea of where they are heading in their quilting journey.  

Day one and we got to play with lots of paint.  Trying out colour mixes, methods of laying down paint and getting texture were all part of our experiments.  We were painting on silk organza for the most part and it was wonderful stuff.

Our drop cloths were almost as exciting as the organza, and I for one, caught myself planning my next colour to match my drop cloth rather than what I needed to complete a range of colours in my organza!

We all ended up with a pile of beautiful fabrics.  And they were all completely different. 

Day two saw us learning about the different ways to seam our fabrics and then we jumped right in to composing.  Sue was congratulated in being so brave as to cut up her beautiful piece of organza that forms the centre of her quilt.

And here are our compositions up on the design wall.  Above, from left to right, are Kerry, Gaylin and Terri's pieces.

From left to right we have Vikki's, Charlotte's (who did two) and Sue's.

Then we have Shirley, Petra and Dolores.

From left to right again, Carol and Donna.

Then we have Patricia, Robyn, Cynthia and Monika.

And last, but not least, we have Suz.

You can see how different each piece is.  Yet we all started with the same white organza and the same paints.  Some people used their drop cloths and others added a patterned fabric as their base to work on.

Jeanette is a fabulous tutor and a wonderful person as well.  She is teaching again in New Zealand next year, Wanaka's Autumn Art School (this links to the 2012 programme as they haven't put up the 2013 one yet) from from 22 to the 26 of April 2013.  If you ever have the opportunity to take a class with her, you won't be disappointed, whatever it is she may be teaching.