Like water dripping on a stone...

eventually you get there.  Well, that's what Michelle likened it to.
Many moons ago, when Michelle first moved to the Coast, she tried to enroll in Jenny's crazy class at the Angel, after many requests she was told that basically you had to wait for someone to die to get a place.......well, guess what? you don't!! no, the answer was obvious, Jenny just needed to run more classes!

Michelle is so happy and is working away on some really beautiful squares, as well as embellishing an advent calendar,

oh, and don't forget those cute bow tie blocks she recently started, as soon as they are together, the plan is to learn hand quilting from our lovely expert, Gwen.  Not planning on running out of projects in the near future is Michell.

Lyn's gift to her friend of the 'Elephant' quilt went over really well, Sonia was thrilled that the quilt tied in so well with a previous gift of a cushion, which also featured - of course- and elephant!
Back in the August 28th post, there is a lovely scrappy blue star quilt that Lyn bought along to share with us, well as it happens, there were blue stars left over, and not being one to waste a star, specially not a scrappy one, Lyn created this lovely for her Daughter.

The sailboat backing works a treat, but, and there is always a but, the fabric was a little coarser woven than normal and proved a challenge to quilt.  Lyn quilted circles over the star blocks and squares along the borders.

Estelle is one of the many who brings her own mug along to meetings, and why wouldn't you with a show piece mug bag like this one?

Estelle collects notions from various events she attends and pins them to her bag, as you can see, there is quite the history on this little wonder.

Helen has been busily stitching motifs to create this lovely pastel quilt for her Grandaughter.  Quilted on the diagonal with an embroidered angel in each corner.

Spotted Julie showing a couple of the gals this piece, not a flimsey, no, just part of a flimsey.  

Julie explained that she has another piece at home, slightly larger that will eventually be joined to this piece, there will then be a border, another row of pieced blocks and then it will be a flimsey!  Next step with be to hand quilt it!

Of course there were more Charity quilts making an appearance, yes, its just fantastic isn't it.
Some with their creators and some flying solo.
The Cats quilt was created from panels by Marie, she also used a cat as part of the backing.

 Wendy had two offerings, and although we have mountains of donated fabric, Wendy still used some of her own fabric, such as the girly garden panel.

This very striking red and white Q.A.Y.G was I think stitched by Lorraine C.  now if I am wrong I humbly apologise, it's beautifully stitched and will be a lovely quilt to snuggle under.

Arvo Tea was all about Chocolate!, scrummy!

Sashiko, knitted Teddy and a vibrant beauty...

...just some of the lovely items for you this week.
Courtney has been bitten by the knitting bug, she is working on an all in one knitted teddy, just beginning to take shape.

Wendy had Pizazz to share, yep, and a quilt named 'Pizazz' as well, spotted at a recent local quilt show Wendy just couldn't resist, a rather intriguing arrangement using 9 patch, 1 patch, logs and extra large one patch to showcase some really special fabric.  This pattern would be just the ant's pants for one of those fabrics that are just too lovely to cut or, as Wendy has used, a large scale print.

Wendy followed through with the 9 patches design by using 2.5" squares for one of the borders.

A dear friend of Lyn's. who is on the move, not just out of town but out of the state, is also having a birthday next week, two jolly good reasons to make her a remembrance quilt.  Sonia is very fond of elephants and has quite the collection, now with an elephant quilt in her favourite colours for her to treasure.

Lyn was thrilled to find this cute elephant print for the backing.

Lots of work continuing with the Charity quilts, and although what looks like a small mountain of fabric walks out the door and returns as quilts, I can tell you there doesn't seem to be much of a dent made in the overall stash.
Val, Debbie and 'she who is hiding behind Val', were hard at work measuring out the wadding for completed flimseys that will then go home to return as finished quilts.

June, who has found some extra time in her life said "Pick out some purples, mauves and some reds that will work together and I will make one".  Well, Beryl did just that, sending off a great collection of fabrics that resulted in these, 2 stunning flimseys and a W.I.P.

same simple design, different fabrics and colour placement gives a different look

Square Triangles, a new block pattern that looks remarkably like a H.S.T.block, sashed for a different layout for this promising beauty.  June reckoned she had just the right fabric for the sashing, it's just that for the moment she has misplaced the rest of it....

Good thing she has a bit of a full calendar and those flimsys to quilt, takes the pressure off the search, 'cause we all know about searching the stash for that fabric we just know we have tucked away somewhere!

Two strip pieced charity quilts from Val, on with ric-rac over the joining seams to add some visual interest and the second, also strip pieced with a silhouette giraffe appliqued to the quilt.

Finally finished with the batting measuring and cutting, Val took her seat to settle down to hand quilting what promises to be another stunning quilt.  Purchased 2 years ago at a quilt show, Val finished off the Sashiko embroidery in double quick time, but then came the laying out of the blocks, a totally different story, Val reckons she needed to be a maths genius, well it may have taken time but from the looks of things, success was hers.

Looking forward to seeing this one out of the hoop!

Christine was also busily stitching a Sashiko design.  The kit, also bought at a quilt show, and again, also a few years ago, was the result of one of those 'brain fever frenzies' that have been know to take hold of we quilters when we get quilt show sensory overload.  Christine reckons that it was a bit of a surprise to open her packet of loveliness and discover what really lay within.

Lorraine's Grandie has moved into her very own room, for which she has chosen a purple theme, Lorraine knew she had just the thing and resurrected (not to mention, completed)  this great wall hanging for her lucky Grandie. 

The wall hanging is all about 'My Garden',  choc full of interesting snippets and eye candy, a cute poem and a clever array of 3-D flowers.

Lorraine gave a brief 'how to' on those amazingly tactile flowers with the button centers.  Mind you, no maths was offered, so just try it and adjust as desired... b.t.w....don't you love that word 'desired', as in 'quilt as desired', cut to 'desired length' etc. etc.

After you cut the length of fabric, as long as you think will be necessary to form a circle flower, fold the length of fabric in half lengthwise, cut edges together.  Cut from the folded edge in toward the cut edges at 1/8th to 1/4" gaps,  making sure to leave at generous 1/4" seam allowance along the cut edges.  When length is snipped, use a running stitch to stitch a straight line end to end, just inside the seam allowance, pull up the thread and the fabric will curl into a circle, forming a flower, take a securing stitch on back of flower.  Stitch to quilt and then stitch a button into the center.  Cute huh??

Last pic to share, Lorraine and Gwen holding up this pillow sham.....starting to get an idea of what is in store for the Quilt Show raffle quilts??? To to delicious, just take a peek at that hand quilting!