Expertise Events, the people who give us the Craft & Quilt Fair, AQC etc. with the Support of ATASDA - Australian Textile Arts and Surface Design Assoc. are having a Textile Art Festival at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre, South Bank from Friday May 29th to Sunday 31st.
They are calling for exhibitors of wearable art, surface decoration, knitting, crochet, embroidery, etc. etc.
http://www.textileart.com.au/Brisbane2009/app/pages/view/welcome15727/
follow the link for more information, it would be great to see exhibited some of the lovely work you talented ladies do.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Charity Quilts & Birthday
Having been tied up with family commitments for the last few weeks, it was good to get back to the group's Wednesday meeting. Lots going on and lots of lovely work - either WIP's, or the finished product.
Lyn Solomon managed to pick up a length of fabric on one of her overseas trips with these great horses and flowers printed on it.
Lyn is using the Broderie Perse method of applique to create a table cloth with a ponies border and a table runner for the center piece. How versatile!
Lyn showing her WIP, the table runner.
Birthday Girl Gwen was rather tickled by a card from her neighbour, here she is showing us and a couple of pics of the card.
After a good giggle there was a bit of a rush to put on 'lippy' to brighten the face. Well...........you have gotta keep your end up as the saying goes.
Gwen and Janet did some rather hard work over the past couple of weeks, Bloomhill, one of our local cancer respite centers had an unfinished quilt given to them. They decided to ask our group to finish the quilt so that they could raffle it as part of their 'Mothers Day' fundraiser.
It's never easy to pick up someone else's work and finish it off, and this quilt had a few problems that the girls overcame. Gwen did a great job of machine quilting it and Janet then had the challenge of using the cut off fabric from around the edges to bind the quilt, she tells us that she had about 6" of fabric left over.
Here they are showing off their great work.
The group recently purchased some handy dandy clips to hold the sandwich layers together prior to pinning. Maureen and Sadie decided to try them out today on Sadie's quilt
So much easier than bulldog clips or masking tape.
A closer view of Sadies quilt, she is making it for one very lucky young man, her Grandson.
In a recent class, Julie made this quilt top from 2 jelly rolls for her teenage grandson, don't these Grandies do rather well from their Grandmothers? - and don't we just love making them quilts.
Another quilt from Julie, soft florals for her Sis's 60th Birthday, the quilt is machine quilted by one of our Thursday night group members,Fiona, aka the 'Quilting Fairy', Fiona can be contacted through Patchwork Angel and she will quilt an allover design for you starting from $3.35 per square foot.
Lyn Solomon managed to pick up a length of fabric on one of her overseas trips with these great horses and flowers printed on it.
Lyn is using the Broderie Perse method of applique to create a table cloth with a ponies border and a table runner for the center piece. How versatile!
Lyn showing her WIP, the table runner.Birthday Girl Gwen was rather tickled by a card from her neighbour, here she is showing us and a couple of pics of the card.
After a good giggle there was a bit of a rush to put on 'lippy' to brighten the face. Well...........you have gotta keep your end up as the saying goes.Gwen and Janet did some rather hard work over the past couple of weeks, Bloomhill, one of our local cancer respite centers had an unfinished quilt given to them. They decided to ask our group to finish the quilt so that they could raffle it as part of their 'Mothers Day' fundraiser.
It's never easy to pick up someone else's work and finish it off, and this quilt had a few problems that the girls overcame. Gwen did a great job of machine quilting it and Janet then had the challenge of using the cut off fabric from around the edges to bind the quilt, she tells us that she had about 6" of fabric left over.
Here they are showing off their great work.
The group recently purchased some handy dandy clips to hold the sandwich layers together prior to pinning. Maureen and Sadie decided to try them out today on Sadie's quilt
So much easier than bulldog clips or masking tape.
A closer view of Sadies quilt, she is making it for one very lucky young man, her Grandson.In a recent class, Julie made this quilt top from 2 jelly rolls for her teenage grandson, don't these Grandies do rather well from their Grandmothers? - and don't we just love making them quilts.
Another quilt from Julie, soft florals for her Sis's 60th Birthday, the quilt is machine quilted by one of our Thursday night group members,Fiona, aka the 'Quilting Fairy', Fiona can be contacted through Patchwork Angel and she will quilt an allover design for you starting from $3.35 per square foot.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Batik Dyeing & Elmers Glue
Having read an interesting article a little while ago at this site, fabric dyeing 101,
http://fabricdyeing101.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-make-batik-like-fabrics-with.html
about using Elmer's Gel Glue as a resist to dyeing batik fabrics I ordered some from the ever so helpful Catherine at Catherines Place, http://www.catherinesplace.com.au/
an online store over in W.A., and it arrived this arvo. Yay!
Guess who will be playing with water, dye and glue next week. - I'll be the one down the back with all the colour splodges on my hands.
Bye the Bye, Catherine has a selection of really nice F.Q.'s for as little as $1.50 up to $3.50.
pop on over and check them out.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Tag Galaxy
Some of you may already know of this site, it's a great way to use up some of your day, like we all need that - not.
go to http://taggalaxy.de/ and type in quilt, spin the globe to view over 108 thousand quilts, maybe one of yours will pop up!
The link was sent by Janet Davies, a New Zealand quilter and needleworker who also finds time to write pattern books, pop on over and check out her site, she has tutorials and freebie patterns.
http://www.jmddesigns.co.nz/INDEX.HTM
go to http://taggalaxy.de/ and type in quilt, spin the globe to view over 108 thousand quilts, maybe one of yours will pop up!
The link was sent by Janet Davies, a New Zealand quilter and needleworker who also finds time to write pattern books, pop on over and check out her site, she has tutorials and freebie patterns.
http://www.jmddesigns.co.nz/INDEX.HTM
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Down Under Quilts - Free Online Magazine Offer
Creative Living Media, is offering 6 months free online magazine subscriptions, not only to Down Under Quilts but also to magazines for Beading, Cardmaking, Scrapbooking, and Machine Embroidery.
Follow this link to subscribe. http://subscriptions.creativelivingmedia.com.au
Follow this link to subscribe. http://subscriptions.creativelivingmedia.com.au
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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
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.
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.comand 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.
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