2015 Quilt Show and Sale #3

Ready for some more loveliness??
The third batch of wonderful quilts with a few other interesting pieces for you.

One of the colourful floral arrangements supplied by Betty and Inge from their gardens.

Lorraine I.
'Jessica's Horses'

"Last year my Great Niece stated she had grown out of her baby quilt and could she have a new quilt made out of horses, but I decided to go with fabric instead.
The large horse panels are cushion cover panels, the smaller pieces are from the 'running wild' fabric range and the background horseshoe printed fabric was sourced for me by Brian of Brian's Fabrics".

Marlene
'5 Minute Purple'

This quilt was made at a Buderim Craft Cottage workshop with June Sulzberger in 2011.  The workshop was on 5 minute blocks with Fat Quarters.
The quilt was machine pieced by me and quilted by Fiona of the Quilting Fairy".

Sheila
'Scotia's Top Five'

"This is granddaughter Scotia's 13th birthday quilt.  She loves ballet, cups of tea, books, guitars and hugs.
This is an original design using a guitar image by Prairie Queen on the internet.  The fabric is from my stash.
The quilt was machine pieced and machine quilted by me".

Janice
'Oriental Dreams'

From my large stash of Oriental print fabrics.

Ailsa
'Christmas Wall Hanging'

This is an Indigo Niche design which I hand embroidered and machine quilted.

Karen
'Country Romance'

Machine pieced and appliqued lap quilt, bag and matching cushion.

Michelle
'A Walk in the Park'

"I thought this design would make a lovely wedding quilt for my daughter.
I finally finished the quilt in February this year.
This is a Missouri Star Quilt Company design and was taught at the Patchwork Angel in 2013.
It was machine pieced, the machine quilting was done by Fiona, the Quilting Fairy.

Fiona
'Jack's Chain'

 "The quilt was started in a class with Leesa Siegel last year.  My aim was to conquer 'set in' seams on a machine.  The block is a Hexagon surrounded by 9 patches and Triangles with every seam being a 'set in' seam.  I am planning on making another one!
The design is by Leesa Siegel.
The quilt is all machine pieced and quilted by me, the Quilting Fairy".

Jackie
'Red Delight'

"This is my first hexagon quilt.  I just love the colour.
Machine quilted by Judy Davidson of Furball Farm Quilting."

Lorraine I.
'Blocks of Aqua'

 "This quilt featured on the front cover of Quilters Companion and was designed by Michelle Marvig.
I was in need of a new quilt for my bed and made it up but a lot bigger and with large borders to hang over the sides of the king sized mattress.  I followed Michelle's directions and made it quilt as you go, much kinder on old, damaged shoulders.
I love this quilt, making it and looking at it, until I put it on the bed and found the green tones of aqua I chose didn't go at all well in the blueish coloured aqua bedroom.  So I took off the large borders, took off one row of blocks and bound it to become my bed quilt for going away on quilting retreats.  I will eventually join up the sides and row of blocks into another quilt.
The quilt is my design.  I machine pieced and quilted it.

Janice
'Japanese Stepping Stones'

"Wanting to make a modern quilt and loved these fabrics with a white background.  The pattern is my design.  Machine pieced and professionally quilted by Judy at Furball Farm.

 Pat
 'Takayama'

"This qult is a tribute to the wonderful people of Japan and their traditions, culture and food.
Purchasing the red, white and black kimono fabric at the Kyoto Kimono Museum brought back the memories of the previous week during our Japanese holiday when my husband and I stayed at a ryokan (traditional Japanese Inn) in Takayama.
Our personal host, Hanna (who was on call for 24 hours a day during our entire stay) told me I must wear traditional Japanese clothes for meals and patiently assisted me into my beautiful navy and red kimono.  It took awhile for her to explain the correct way to fold the kimono around me and then tie a perfect cummerbund bow behind me to hold it all in place.  I admit I did feel rather special wearing the kimono, but the cummerbund was pretty uncomfortable.
The red and black cotton fabric is of Japanese origin, purchased in Australia.  I used my domestic Janome to free motion quilt the various sashiko patterns, all of which have traditional meaning from mountains to fishing nets to the wind and trees.  The straight quilting lines represent the many people traveling en masse each day but never colliding.

Jane
'French Dresdens'

"I love this range of French General fabrics which lent itself to becoming Dresden Plates.
The pattern was designed by Majella at Kookaburra Cottage and inspired by Kookaburra Cottage - Carnival Star.
I hand and machine pieced the quilt and the machine quilting was done by Fiona, the Quilting Fairy 

Sue
Tote Bags

 Three of Sue's Totes, all with feature pockets on the front of the bags.  The totes were offered for sale as well as being part of the exhibition.

Tessa
'Needleturn Sampler'

Helping Victorian Bushfire Victims

There are many groups and individuals organising and working to help the Victorian Bushfire Victims and the Queensland Flood Victims, including some of our Thursday night girls as announced by Sheila yesterday.

For those of us who may want to do something on a more personal level there are a few avenues listed here at the bottom of the post for you to become involved in if you desire. Why the bottom?, well the pics always load to the top of the post and its a pip to move too many too far. BG (big grin).


Heather is so happy that she has finished this block, she now only has a little embroidery left on a few blocks and then we will see the finished top. Can't wait Heather. The blocks are beautiful and the work is fab.

Meg joined us yesterday with silk applique, I got distracted and forgot to ask what the finished item will be. Meg was a member of the Fabric Artists group and as such as some beautiful hand dyed silks, some of them are in this piece. I will let you know and post a pic of the finished article as soon as I can.
Tessa very kindly showing off her W.I.P., bordered stitcheries, its going to be stunning Tessa.
Heather recently did a quilting design workshop with Judy Bellingham, and here are her W.I.P's from that class, The scenery block and the fruit from the second block has been free machine quilted, a first try for Heather and its great, gives a realistic texture to the blocks.


Gwen's latest quilt, such beautiful work and great colours.


LENDING A HELPING HAND TO THE VICTORIAN BUSHFIRE RELIEF EFFORTS

Iddybiddy Designs in Proserpine, an online store that I can wholeheartedly recommend, always includes a little gift for you in their orders, I was chatting to Wendy about an order this morning and she was rather excited about her new idea.

Wendy has a contact who was part of a quilting group in Marysville, and in future, when you place an order with Iddybiddy you will receive a calico bag with a donated stitchery, 2 fat quarters, one a blender/background and the second one that you may swap with one from your stash if you would like to.

You will then be able to add a little greeting card and any other hand work supplies you want, and then post it off to the Marysville Group.

Wendy suggested supplies you happen to have two of, pincushions, pins, marking pencils, pens, lengths of floss for the stitchery, whatever................for full details, go sign up for the Iddybiddy newsletter which is due out around the end of the month at

http://www.iddybiddydesigns.com
and if you don't need to order a fattie for your stash, just contact Wendy, and she will be happy to let you have a bag to fill and send on.

Jan Macfadyen, and others from the on line quilting groups, Southern Cross Quilters and Down Under Quilts

The following link is to Jan Macfadyen's blog. Jan has been making and donating quilts both here and overseas for many a year. Her donations are always anonymous, with maybe just a little heart surrounding her alias, Janmac.
You can donate as little as just a couple of blocks done in the QAYG method. Check out Jan's blog here, with the QAYG tutorial and instructions.
http://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com

Jan has also set up a blog 'Oz Comfort Quilts - Victorian Bushfire Quilts' to chart the efforts of Australian and Overseas quilters in their effort to make, gather and distribute 5000 quilts for the victims. Just follow this link.
http://ozcomfortquilts.blogspot.com


'Ruth in the Blue Mountains', Quilt Writer and Designer, posted this to the Scquilters Group.
The blog 'Meet Me at Mikes' has been involved in setting up the 'Handmade Help' blog to co-ordinate all sorts of craft-based assistance to those affected by the fires, including a request for recipes.

So pop on over to http://handmadehelpsout.blogspot.com/
and donate your fave recipe, or have a look at the links to see if there is something that appeals to you.