2015 Challenge and Quilt Show Winners

Well what a fun lunch that was. 
Lots of lovely food,
Lots of yummy dessert
Gallons of punch.
Gossip galore.....who would have thought that there would be so much to chatter about since last week?

After feeding our faces  dining delicately on the delish chicken and salads, not to mention desert, we moved onto the business end of the day.........

Firstly there was the presentation to Najidah, our charity of choice for this quilt show, of a lovely cheque for $2,000.00 made up of the raffle proceeds, as well as the coin donations from the culled library books.

Got a good grip on that cheque there!,
We were then treated to an update of the vital work these gals do, as well as an amazing story of resilience and determination of one of their recent clients, a Mum who would not have been able to rescue herself and family without the intervention and help of Najidah.

Only time there was no chatter all day.

Then what everyone has been waiting for, finally the announcement of the challenge winners, both viewers choice and judged winners..........you have to provide your own drum roll here...just pick up a pencil and have at it!!
3rd Prize judged winner is Pat, can that smile get any bigger?

With her Mini Q.A.Y.G Challenge

2nd Prize judged winner is Susan, delightedly glancing at her certificate

Susan's winning challenge, a traditional design with some very nice hand quilting.

and finally
-grab those pencils again....
1st Prize judged winner for 2015 Lyn Ballinger Challenge is:

Pat!! Yep 1st and 3rd prizes going to the one gal, no we don't have a limit to how many times you can enter, as the challenges are used as lucky door prizes, the more the merrier!
Pat's 1st Prize winner.

Well done Pat and Susan and congratulations on your prizes, gift vouchers donated by our two quilt show merchants, Kim of Kimz Sewing and Patchwork and Penny of Patchwork Angel for use in their stores.

Viewers choice Challenge winners are Heather Tucker for this novel entry.

 Heather will be presented with the Lyn Ballinger perpetual trophy of a quilt stand when she returns from her holidays.
2nd Place viewers choice is Pat

3rd Place viewers choice is Deanne

Viewers choice winners for the 2015 Quilt Show are:
(pencils please!)
1st prize
Gwen with this amazingly beautiful white wholecloth quilt, made for a Grandson and his Lady.

Gwen wins the perpetual trophy donated by the bossy stitchers in memory of  Janet Smith  of a hand quilting frame.

2nd Prize Viewers choice winner is Fiona with her Hexagon quilt

3rd Prize viewers choice winner is
again
Fiona with her quilt, Jacks Chain.

 First time evah.....two gals winning two places in the one category!

Now, finally, all the challenge entries.

 

It was a great Quilt Show and Challenge, congratulations to all the winners, enjoy your hard earned prizes.

Thursday night..........

There was a whole lot of woolly stuff happening on Thursday night
Jane B and her hexagons...................

Fiona has a slight sock addiction................

.......................gorgeous yarn...........................

Michelle has begun embellishing her hexagon table runner............

All her threads at the ready.................

Debs' scarf............................ alpaca yarn............ delicious............

Letitia's hexagons................

Kites for Marlene.......................

Cream hexagons - Jackie................

Jenny was cutting up some scraps.................

SUPPER !!!!!

Till next week.

xx

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 #4 and Raffles collected

Such excitement at our meeting yesterday, chitter chatter on how the quilt show went, who sold what and folks dropping by to collect their raffle prizes.
Lainey had been at the Cottage through the morning but managed to snap a couple of pics of delighted winners in the arvo.

1st. Prize Raffle quilt was won by local patch-worker Debie who confessed she really had her heart set on winning 'Celestial Dream' and couldn't be happier.

We even had some Show and Tell, a stunning quilt made by Val for her Great Niece.

Starting off our #4 quilt exhibition post is a set of very special place mats.
Sheila
'Among my Souvenirs'

"These place mats feature purchased reproduced images of Tasmanian animals and plants: free motion stitched with image created using thread.  They featured in the award winning art quilt, 'My Island Home' by Cindy Watkins, Deloraine".

Jane
'Tessalations'

"The Brigette Giblin pattern 'Tessalations' was my first experience into fussy cutting.  I love the bright and interesting combinations of fabric provided by Material Obsession as a block of the month project.  I added my own choice of fabric for the borders.
I hand and machined pieced the quilt and the machine quilting was done by Fiona, the Quilting Fairy".

Wendy
'Inside Squares'

"This was my first 'modern quilt' and I realised how many more blocks you have to do when there is no border!
The fabric is 'Home School' range by L.B.Krueger.  The design is 'Growing up Modern' by Allison Harris.  I machine pieced and machine quilted the quilt.

Diane
'Sashiko Cushions'

"I wanted to do some hand sewing and given my lack of skills at embroidery I tried my hand at Sashiko.  I bought a panel from BeBeBold at the recent quilt show in Brisbane and turned it into six cushions.  Ideal for my outdoor table setting".

 Gwenyth
'OMG Not More Stars, but Moons Too'

"I found a star from a pattern called 'Shooting Stars' that I had made, I needed something to do on our 'Bossies'' week end away.  I started the quilt and have only just finished it.
I machine pieced and hand quilted the quilt".

Karen
'Country Romance'

"With not a lot of quilting experience I purchased this pattern and kit to have a go at a country theme.  I was surprised how easily this came together.  I used the quilt as you go method to put the blocks together but hand quilted the rest.  I also wanted to break my habit of always choosing pink and floral fabric.
The pattern was designed by T.Hylton for Patchwork Pumpkin".

Fiona
' White House Hexagons'

"I have made this quilt with 1" hexagons.  English Paper Pieced, taking 2 years to complete, I first started basting the 'hexies' while traveling and watching my son Kart Race.  The layout is called Honeycomb Mosaic.  It was inspired by a quilt made by Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur C1830, first daughter to be married in the White House.  Maria's quilt never was finished.  The quilt was hand pieced and machine quilted by me, the Quilting Fairy".

Susan W.
'Floral Fantasy'

"From the book 'Country Best' by Deborah Kitching.  Using bright fabrics, hand appliqued by me machine quilted by Esther Strelen".

Pat
'Petit Fours'

"I really enjoyed making this quilt.  Using a Jaybird Quilts Hex'n' More ruler and my basket of quilt scraps.  The ruler allowed me to use various pattern pieces to come up with this design.  My husband said it looked like petit fours on a plate waiting to be nibbled.  Hence the name.
I used my domestic Janome to heavily free motion quilt each piece of the wall quilt".

Susan W.
'Strawberry Thief'

 "This wall hanging is based on a design by Michele Hill, inspired by a William Morris pattern created in 1883.
The all-cotton fabrics have been hand appliqued and hand quilted by me".

Wendy
'Home is where your chickens come to roost'

"I started this quilt when all my children had left home and was suffering the empty nest syndrome.  It has been a UFO for some years and now finally finished.  The pattern is a Patchwork Pumpkin design.  

The quilt was hand embroidered and then machine quilted by me". 

Gwenyth

'Thank You Mary Ellen'

"I just love black and white and checks.  I had the outer borders for many years, they are a Mary Ellen Hopins design.
I used a template package for stars and decided on the colour design.
The quilt is mostly hand pieced and hand quilted".

Marguerite
'Hexy'

"Nothing exciting here!  Simply using some of my stash collection.  Have, however, very much enjoyed the process and I am very happy with the result.
The quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted.

Diane
'Pleasures Found'

"I attended some classes in the 1990's but put the quilt aside for some years when I went back to work full time.  As I have now retired and with the encouragement of my sister I finished the quilt this year.  I loved doing the hand quilting but was glad when it was all sewn up and finished.  I could then start lots of new projects".

Was ever so taken with this cute little box of pink, yep, pink bobbins from Kim, one of the merchants at our Show, but just bowled over by the generosity of Inge who, when she spotted me sitting patting and playing with said bobbins, offered to fill them for me!  yeah! really!

Quilters really are the bestest folks!.  Thanks Inge, and when I finish these blog posts, guess what I will be spending time playing with .