Class quilts

Not bad for a foundation-piecing newbie is it!

Moyra's done a beautiful job.

Mr Pelican looks right at home here in Kay's version of my Emperor's Wheel. Love those marching crabs too.

Lorraine's finally finished her Lots of Dots and it's on the way to the quilter. Looks great!

This is also Lorraine's - a Xmas runner using the Supernova block from quilt camp and a really cute Santa with tree.

Pam's made this for her granddaughter - lucky girl. Pity you can't see the quilting - it was beautiful.

Another from Pam - love those leaves and yes, less is more.

We have finally finished the raffle quilt for our Springwood Quilt Show for 2012. Go on over and have a look - blue and white always looks great and Susie will do a wonderful job on the quilting.

Various

These two quilts share the same border fabric and the same blocks with a slightly different layout.

How different they look with the individual owner's fabric choices. Both stunning.

These foundations are a lot fun to do and allow for lots of colour combos - really only limited by your imagination.

Show and tell at Figtree yesterday.

Such a different approach and such bold fabrics. Quilting was pretty good too.

The day was a riot - someone said because it's a full moon. Things just went awry all day.

Lucky we can laugh!

This was a fantastic group class with the Birdhouse Quilters.

2 days of frantic sewing produced a couple of finishes and lots of WIP's.

Great venue at Narelle's beautiful house and we were fed and watered constantly.

Thanks Maggie for accommodating me and say hi to Tiger!

My stepson sent me this from a store in Santa Monica - he thinks it was a clothing store.

Too cool!

These two pics are from Lynne who was in my class at Toowoomba. Here's what she wrote:

"Have finally finished quilting my Mariners Compass, in the border I used the William Morris fabric

designed by Michelle Hill.

Now it's back to Lots of Dots & pickled Lillies, but still have my Deauville to quilt. Nothing like a few more challenges! I love foundation piecing, it takes all the hassle out of piecing."

She's a girl after my own heart. Well done Lynne and keep on piecing.

Various classes

Lorraine's machine-pieced hexagons

Lorraine again - a Sue Ross class in Toowoomba.
(I really love this quilt).

Pam's camp project  nearly finished - what a woman!

Sue's Lots of Dots - yummo.

Vicki's Mariners Compass from Summer School at Hobbysew - now a lovely cushion

Now this one!! A big blooper turned out beautifully. Well done Sandra.

How's this for graphic - Roxanne's done a great job and used lots of scraps in the process.

Pat's oh-so-gentle Mariners!

Love this use of memorabilia. Roxanne's dad's shirts and jeans and some family pics as well. It was so soft to touch.

I never tire of these NYB's. Val's all ready to be quilted.

I'm off to Bomaderry for two days teaching - see you soon.

Out and about

I had the pleasure of visiting the Waratah Quilters from Telopea at their retreat in Wentworth Falls last week.
There were several projects happening and we had a fun day. Thanks again Hannah for my lovely present!

Lee who has been in a class with me years ago!! brought this along for show and tell. Her version of my Noodle Box quilt - what a beauty and so big. Below is a close-up of one of the blocks - just great.

Then it was a weekend in Canberra at Hobbysew Belconnen for a NYB class followed by a Mariners Compass class.
Great work from all the girls and such enthusiasm. I'm back in January for the same thing if you're interested.

Some girls sewed faster than others and despite a few hiccups the results were beautiful as you can see.

I have lots more pics but blogger is being difficult today so more next time.

AQC!!!

The program is finally released for next year's AQC in Melbourne in April - details here. The event is billed as Australia's largest event dedicated specifically to quilting.

And I will be one of the tutors! How amazing is that - finally playing with the big kids. There are 13 different tutors - 3 from the US, 1 from the UK and 1 from Japan as well as lots of famous Australian quilters. Hope I can keep up!

I will be doing 2 x 2-day classes on this quilt - Jacobean Star and two blocks from my Lots of Dots quilt.

 

Lots of Dots has been chosen as one of five by the NSW Quilters Guild to represent the Best of the Best from our state. I am so pleased to be part of this event.

The quilt has also been featured in the latest issue of Quilt Mania - pics were taken when they were at Darling Harbour this year. There is a write up on the Castlemaine Applique Group and Linda from Quilts in the Barn. It is a lovely issue and shows that Australia is keeping up or even surpassing the rest of the quilting world. Well done.

Recipe for a quilt

Take some of this.....

Mix in fabric to get this.....

 Add some of this....

and voila! you have a quilt top.

Couldn't help showing you this from my garden.

Finishes

When the weather's as bad as it was over the weekend what's there to do but get in and sew!

I had a lot of UFO's (still do) sitting around so I got stuck in and finished these.

This was started at camp 3? years ago and didn't take long at all to make up.

Very graphic design isn't it.

Playing around with my favourite doilies again.

I also spent a bit of time on ebay looking at and bidding on feedsacks and feedsack fabric - didn't win one item!

This is the centre block from the doily quilt with lovely little hexagons surrounding the basket.

I have a collection of completed circle blocks and this was one of them.

Didn't take long to complete the design and all the fabric was in the stash.

It feels so good to use up fabric that's been sitting there for too long.

Just needs a centre circle.