Betty's Lovely Quilt

Kayly wondered if there was a chance of more pics of Betty's quilt, well Kayly here they are.  Betty very kindly popped the quilt over a bed for me to get a few more shots.
Hope you enjoy them.
The center medallion is based on a pattern in the quilt book 'Birds of a Feather' by Barb Adams and Alma Allen.

The quilt spread over a bed, showing the lovely deep borders and block layout.

A closer view of some of Betty's Kaleidoscope blocks.

Betty did mention yesterday that she is considering putting the quilt up for sale, so if anyone is in the market, leave a comment or shoot off an e-mail and we will put you in contact. (e-mail address is in the sidebar)

Happy Quilters and..........

the biggest quilt we've seen for awhile..........that was our lot yesterday, along with lots of excitement when Marguerite found this ........

a beautiful BOM in the mag 'Patchwork & Quilting' that she quite thought she would like to try, the interest and excitement mounted as others also thought they might like to give it a go..........perhaps it will turn into a group effort? ........time will tell.

The quilt is in lovely soft colours, softer than this pic and is a mixture of applique and pieced blocks, it is a Therese Hylton pattern of a couple of years ago named Flower Dell, perhaps someone out there has made this quilt? would love to hear from you if you have.

But enough of quilt dreams, on to the quilts that  made it to Show and Tell yesterday.





Firstly we had this lovely flimsey from Betty H.  Betty used a pattern from one of our new books by Kaffe Fasset, in Betty's words, a simple and easy pattern.  But such a pretty quilt

Wendy bought this wonderful quilt along, 'Girls Day Out', with all the places and things gals love to do when they get together for a day out.......notice how the patchwork shop with its window display of a quilt and a treadle sewing machine  is front and center........the fave place to visit.

Quite a number of Patchworkers are also Needleworkers, and ever so conviently Needlework meets in the a.m. making it a full day of busy and fun for some, Sadie had a framed piece for Needlework show and tell and asked if I could take a pic for her to send on to friends........well of course a bargain just had to be struck........piccie taken and I could put it here for you to enjoy..........

Beryl started this BOM with the Nowra quilters group and bought it along to show us, it is quite the largest quilt we have had for show and tell for awhile. Beryl ditch quilted this beauty herself!.

Beryl also had this rather cunning reversible, quilt as you go table runner, another group project from Nowra.

and of course...........the reverse

While all quilts get admired and closely examined, it's been awhile since a quilt has elicited such interest and excitement as this one from Sue, it is for her Grandson's imminent first Birthday and we all had a lot of fun finding the meaning behind, and discovering some of the hidden pics, little Grandie will love this quilt and spend many hours snuggling under and finding little secrets.

 assembled block by block in a QAYG style, Sue gave an impromptu QAYG lesson on just how she had created this quilt.

Sue created a lot of the 'I Spy' icons, trying to incorporate more that the usual 'I Spy' meanings and pics, Q is very innovative, -just love the little quilt,  T has 'tail', M has a Martian, and G has a cute little kitty wearing Glasses!

The lighthouse on an Island in I got a bit of conversation going, along with the Imp, E was a hit with the little teddies Eyes and Ears, but the all time fav was X with the little boy being X-Rayed, Sue had some skeleton fabric that you can see she used in the border to create the boy. All the letters were machine embroidered by Sue's sister.   Just a few stitches.........well a few hundred..... to finish the binding and this treasure will be zooming off to one lucky little Grandie.
Sue does have a couple of hints for us that she discovered while making this quilt though........... write the name of the store on the selvedge when you purchase fabric, this would take away the need for you  to traipse from one end of the coast to the other, begging store owners to think.........did you stock this?........did I buy it here?.......have you got just a tinsy bit more? and the other hint is, for heavens sake, if you have fabric put away for a project......leave it there!!, don't get all carried away thinking you have plenty and won't miss just that little bit..........or you will end up wishing you wrote the store name in the selvedge!

Janet's Kalidoscope, some really cute Bears ....

.........and a beautiful soft kiddies quilt were some of the lovelies to be drooled over yesterday at the Cottage.
This stunning quilt 'Midnight Garden' was made by Janet in a workshop with Fiona from the 'Quilting Fairy',
Janet tells us that it is made from one piece of fabric (4 meters of it) with some cunning cutting and very careful stitching.

The method is to line up your pattern repeats, pin carefully, cut into 6" strips and then cross cut at angels to form triangles. You know, real easy!


The blocks are formed as hexagons and then assembled, another easy step no doubt.

These two close ups show the quilting, done with a nice variegated thread.

Janet used a beautifully soft Moda wide fabric for the backing which really shows the quilting, beautifully done by Fiona from the 'Quilting Fairy".
Well done Janet, on this more than stunning quilt, its a keeper!

Betty was hard at work finishing the binding on this lovely kiddies quilt, destined for the sale table Betty tells me.

WOW! This is stunning!, when Heather bought these blocks along and did a test layout she decided that the fan and the tile was a bit bland, well she certainly fixed that.

Heather added the tiny hearts, the yellow dots and green teardrops to this one, it certainly has life now.
Heather kept mumbling about, 'Well they are all finished now', well girls we have all heard that one before, this quilt goes from fabulous to more fabulous-era. (Yeah, not a word but it should be in the quilting vocabulary) Yesterday the blocks were being squared up, so we will hopefully get to see it sandwiched in the near future.

How cute is this? and who made it? so pretty, so vibrant, I do hope, hope that I win. -- o.k. yeah, I know, that's selfish, but isn't it the cutest?, who wouldn't want to win!

A WIP from Heather, just to add some variety to her quilting and lampshade making life.

And who was so deeply in concentration on starting this long awaited project that she was late for a cuppa?, can't wait to see this work further along.