2015 Quilt Show and Sale #5

Lots more lovelies for you today, but first an apology to my dear friend Marguerite.
Dunno what I did but I sure did it well.

Marguerite
'Happy Days'

now some of the girls get a bit gun shy when I want to take a pic of their WIPs, but thank heaven for this WIP pic.

Marguerite's version of the 'Leanne's House' quilts that a group of girls created just for the Quilt Show, they are all stunning with such wonderful embroideries and each one has been subtly changed.

It's a fantastic idea to incorporate into a quilt show and creates a bit of a buzz as viewers reach the realisation that  'I saw that around the corner, but it was different', and they then re-track for a comparison look.
Marguerite named her quilt 'Happy Days' as it reminds her of time spent chatting and working with her friends at the cottage.
It is hand pieced and embroidered by Marguerite.

Have you noticed the other quilts throughout the posts of 'Leanne's House'?
Here is one more, this one is from

Stella
'Leanne's House'

"A group of us decided to do the same quilt for the Show.  When you find the others you will see how different they are.
The quilt was designed by Leanne Beasley
I hand pieced and hand quilted the quilt".

The original to our group was a darling version done by Marcia, who then decided to ask Leanne Beasley for permission to donate the patterns to our group's library and so the inspiration began.

Jules
'Retro Hexi'

 "This quilt was inspired by the Thursday night Buderim quilt group.  After seeing all the ladies beautiful hand pieced quilts I wanted to do one too.  I was inspired and coached by Jenny Clouston.  It took 18 months to do.  This is the first time I have EVER hand quilted.  Thanks Jenny for your guidance.
Hand pieced and hand quilted by ME.

Wendy
'Classic Cream'

"The quilt has candle wicking blocks alternated with 'crazy' patch blocks made of different laces and stitched fabrics.  It is a gift for my sister in law.
I used the quilt as you go method for this quilt".

Marie
'Jewels'

"A beautiful fabric.  The designs were cut out and attached to the black background with needle turn applique, with multi coloured cotton.
Hand needle turn applique and machine quilted by me".

Karen
'Charisma'

 Machine pieced H.S.T. construction and quilted by Karen.

Sheila
'Bright Good Morning'

"This is an original design.
The fabrics are 'Good Morning' from 'Me and My Sister' which I received as a special gift from our group 4 years ago.  I decided to have some fun with curved seams.
I machine pieced and machine quilted the quilt".

Michelle
'Welcome Lola Elizabeth'

 "I heard we were going to be grandparents for the first time as I was completing my first ever quilt, Linda my quilting teacher said "now you have to make a quilt for your new little one"
My daughter in law (the mother to be) said "not too pink" my daughter said "lots of pink".  I think this is a nice compromise.
As a very new patch worker I decided to stick with a traditional Four Patch.

It was machine pieced, it is machine quilted with elephants by Linda from Annapolis USA".

Marlene
'Scrappy Leesa'

"The quilt was made from excess purchases of Leesa Chandler Fabrics!
The quilt was machine pieced by me and quilted by Furball Farm Quilting

Val
'A Knights Tale'

"I am always looking for quilts for boys and there doesn't seem to be too many available.  Found this one in a 'Homespun' Magazine.
The quilt is a Claire Turpin design.
The quilt was machine pieced, appliqued by hand then machine quilted all by me".

Marcia
'Cat in the Cabin'

 "The 'Cat in the Hat' is a favourite of my family so could not resist the fabric.  Decided to put him in the centre of the log cabin style block and use all fabric from the family as logs.  It was machine pieced and quilted by me".

Lorraine L.
'Practice makes Perfect'

"This quilt was made from a pattern called 'Practice makes Perfect' by Kay Meale.
I hand and machine pieced the quilt and I machine quilted it".

Andrea
'Surf's Up'

'Made in a class at the recent Buderim Craft Cottage Winter School with tutor Neroli Henderson based on her piece 'The Churning'
The painted background is heavily quilted using machine embroidery stitches, the 'waves' are also painted, cut to shape and then fused over the background with straight line machine stitching.

Marcia
'Flowers for My Lady'

"I loved these pale floral coloured fabrics and thought they would be beautiful made into a knee quilt for a lovely lady.  They are from a range by Robyn Pandolph, one of my favourite fabric designers.
It was machine pieced and quilted by Carmen Brown.

Sheila
'Stitched With Love for Sheila'

Made by group members in appreciation of the work Sheila does as our group leader. Members supplied a square of fabric, everyone's name was then machine embroidered onto white logs, the blocks were then assembled and the quilt machine quilted by group members.

Inge
'Japanese Totes'

Inge created several of these tote's using Japanese print fabrics.  They were for sale as well as part of the quilt show.  Needless to say, they sold like hot cakes.

Karen with
'Leanne's House'

At end of exhibition Penny from Patchwork Angel decided to raffle off a lovely box of DMC threads.
In Penny's words.

The prize was awarded to The Patchwork Angel’s pick of the show. As it was a box of hand embroidery threads we used hand embroidery as the criteria for our selection. The winner was Karen for her Gingham Girls quilt designed by Red Brolly. Have attached a pic for you although I am sure you have taken one too.

There was even a congratulations from Bronwyn Hayes of Red Brolly for Karen on Patchwork Angel’s  Facebook

 Thanks for the pic Penny.

 Congratulations Karen, as we can see, those threads will not lay around collecting dust in your thread stash.

2015 Quilt Show and Sale #2

More lovely quilts for you to enjoy with a few little extras thrown in for fun!

Janice
'Snowball Oddball'

 "Just loved these fabrics when I saw them at various quilt shops over the past years.  I machine pieced them with a traditional snowball pattern with an odd block included.  Professionally quilted by my friend Judy from Furball Farm quilting.

Lorraine L.
'Grandmothers Fan'

"Having collected Pansy Fabric for sometime I decided it was time to use it!
I hand and machine pieced the quilt and it was machine quilted by Carmen Brown."

Wendy
'Sampler Quilt'

"This quilt was done under instruction of one of our master quilters, Gwen.  I learned about designing and drafting blocks, hand piecing and hand quilted.
Thank You Gwen"

Karen
'Hush'

Made for a beautiful little new addition to our family.  Baby quilt and nappy carry bag.

 Deanne
'Old Timer - Rusty Truck'

"I came upon this old truck on a trip to Ravensworth, a mining town west of Townsville.  We had a Ford truck like this on our farm in Tasmania many years ago.  It brought back many happy memories of my young family loading hay on a sunny day.
The rusting truck stood in the dappled shade from a tall tree.  The bright sunlight on top of the cab and the bushland beyond made such a pleasing contrast.  I was so pleased I had my camera.
My background fabric was dyed, (sky and foreground). Then I used an electric tracer to enlarge the image of the grill onto the background fabric, the rest of the truck was drawn on.  I worked from the top down.  The green bushland, then I traced the truck.  As I worked on each piece of the truck it was cut from the tracing paper and the fabric was appliqued by fusing.
I have 'sun dyed' the greens, browns and orange fabric.
Blue net was used for shading.  Fusing was used on all parts of the truck.  The quilting was done on a domestic machine by myself.  The fabrics are all cotton."

Our 2015 Lyn Ballinger Challenge.  'Table Runner, using two hues adjacent on the colour spectrum, no larger than 50 x 25cm'.

Challenge judged winners as well as the winner of 'Viewers Choice'  will be announced at the Lyn Ballinger Luncheon in 3 weeks.  The challenge pieces were used as Lucky Door prizes for our Show visitors and the winners are currently being advised of their wins.

Andrea
'Time Rich - Fabric Free' - a Megan Null inspired crumb quilt via Ami Simms' challenge.

Ami Simms posted a video of the amazing young lady she met in class.
Megan Null saves every tiny scrap from her quilts, piecing them all together into squares, logs or triangles to create 'crumb' quilts.  An almost free quilt!
When our group ran an in-house Jelly Roll Race, just for fun I collected all the little scraps to give Megans's idea a go.
With some scraps of my own this is the result
Machine pieced and quilted by Andrea.

Sandy
'Last Tango in Houston'

"Every day I was at the Houston Quilt Festival I walked past this quilt kit and finally I bought it on the last day.  The colours and pattern were so striking that I just had to have it (along with many others),
The pattern 'Two to Tango' is by Deb Mosa
I machine pieced the quilt and it was machine quilted by Yankee Doodle Quilting".

Susan W
'Kimono Kokeshi'

 "A small wall hanging designed by Sindy Rodenmayer, Texas U.S.A.
The hanging is inspired by traditional Japanese Kokeshi Dolls
Hand appliqued and quilted by me".

2015 Fabric Art and Surface Design Group's Challenge.  'Create an art piece with textiles 150cm x 30cm
Use only 2 complimentary colours'.

It's always a pleasure to have the Fabric Arts girls Challenge feature in our Quilt Show.
Both groups have a yearly challenge but a biennial exhibition and so we each feature the other groups challenge an each exhibition.  Just one of the many benefits of belonging to the Cottage.

Marlene
'My Memories of Kashmir'

"I like Leesa Chandler of Melbourne fabrics and these reminded me of my visit to India in 1986,
The pattern was adapted from a pattern from Patchwork and Quilting January 2009.
I machine pieced the quilt in 2012 then handed it over to Fiona, the Quilting Fairy for machine quilting in 2012

A tower of 3 quilts,
Beryl
'Get Around to it'
Some things take a while to 'get around to it'.  About 18 years this one has waited! A lovely class at Ulladulla N.S.W. with a guest teacher Glenys Mann.
I machine pieced quilted the quilt".

The bottom 2 quilts are by
Val and have been featured on the blog previously.
'Serengeti'
"My very first raw edge applique piece of 67 pieces.  It did however give me the incentive to finish a Lorraine Carther piece which was started many years ago. 
The quilt is a Toni Whitney design.
I machine appliqued and machine quilted the quilt".

Donated from Pat
This quilt is one of Pat's donated fabrics.  The squares were made and numbered in rows ready to put together which I did and then put the borders on.
The qult will be donated to 'Sunny Kids'
The quuilt was machine pieced and machine quilted all by me.

Andrea
'North'

Based on a quilt spotted on Pinterest, unfortunately no links to who created the original.  I altered the design to feature 'Flying Geese' blocks all flying...North".

Marlene
'Pinwheels Spinning Either Way'

"I like the fabrics in the Jelly Rolls but some friends prefer the reverse side! 
The design is a variation of a pattern in an old issue of Patchwork and Quilting.
I machine pieced the quilt and it was machine quilted by Carmen Brown".

Denise
'Dot's Friends'

"I remember a book from my childhood titled 'Dot and the Kangaroo'.  It was very special to me because it had belonged to my mother (no longer with us) and that book would have been first read by my mother 85 years ago.
The panel I chanced upon in Townsville 30 years past.  Now I have 2 little granddaughters to whom many stories can be narrated over the coming years emanating from the quilted panels.
the quilt is machine pieced and hand and machine quilted".

Beryl
'I Was Young Once'

"I love the fabric and used the slash and whack method.
The quilt was machine pieced and quilted by me".


Val
'Blast Off'

Two more of the many vintage machines and sewing boxes/kits that were on display at the Show.

Betty
'Pink for Girls 2'

"This quilt was made for another of my granddaughters.
The quilt was machine pieced and quilted by me".

Wendy
'Wind in the Whiskers'

"This was a block of the month quilt that my husband gave to me as a birthday gift.  (Probably because he likes cats!)
The quilt is a McKenna Ryan design and was machine quilted by me.

Sandy
'Pure Opulence'

"This is my first effort at hand piecing.  I intend to make 12 blocks but decided if I was ever going to finish it five blocks would do!  I only used four fabrics on the quilt top with the border print providing the different designs.
The pattern was designed by Sampler Quilts.
I hand pieced the quilt and it was machine quilted by Liz Traynor".

Christmas is in the Air

...with lots of Show and Tell of a Christmas theme, but first I'd like to share this pic of the Grandie with you. 
He loved visiting the Cottage at our recent mini retreat and taking pics of the girls working on the mystery project, a wall hanging with an innovative way of displaying your Christmas Cards (slip paperclips over bright small buttons - Cool huh?!) 
As soon as we got home he raided the stash, choose his fabrics and asked, 'Grandma - show me how'.  Little did we know that a couple of days later he was to break his wrist, so here he is, in his black plaster showing off his wall-hanging.

 

Entrance to the Cottage is through the Atrium where we have a lovely glass display cabinet that all the groups take it in turn of filling and displaying their craft, this month it is the Patchwork groups turn and as Christmas is just around the corner we decided on a Christmas theme for our display.  

Lorraine bought in these lovely tree decorations, prairie points folded from wire edged ribbon.

 Janice bought along more of her Suffolk Puff tree decorations.

Christmas stockings that we have seen previously, but they are so cute another viewing won't go astray, we even unearthed a fourth one at the other end of the table - Thanks Ailsa.

Sets of Hexagon placemats with contrasting backing, some with matching coasters from Janice.

Sue has another take on her machine assembled Hexagons, these coasters with a cute star being formed in the center.

The bags have been finished from Sue's workshop, Louise and Ailsa helped display them for the pics - Thanks girls.

Helen bought her latest flimsey in to share, Crossed Canoes blocks that form several secondary designs of propellers and circles. 

Sue shared this really cute little quilt, in fact it was so cute we were all standing around, gooing and ga-ing over it so much, we made Susie go all cutsie.

Sadly, laughter and photography don't really go together all that well, the pic is a bit blurry, and its the best of the bunch!

Sue found the designs on Vicki's blog, Tozz's Corner,  as a freebie BOM.  Thanks Vicki, its a lovely design.

 

Went to thank Louise for her help and found her with this.....

 

a pretty in Louise's stitching world.

given to Louise as a gift many years ago but still in use.