Everyone's invited............

The Sewing Basket at 122 Brisbane Road, Mooloolaba, has opened its doors.
when I popped in this morning I was given this invitation to pass on to you all, to the Official Opening on Wednesday 15th April from 6.30p.m., how exciting!
Mary Glover has bought what was previously Michell's Patchwork and Sewing and is in the process of a revamp, and here are a couple of pics to show you some of what is on offer.
The ever so friendly Cath, pictured above with a very happy shopper, has a beautiful quilt on the classroom wall. I will take a pic for you on Friday. Yep I have enrolled in a class to do this........

Although the classroom is in the same space, it is now more open and the whole store seems to be roomier.
There is a wide range of classes available, from Beginners Stack-n-Slash to more advanced quilting as well as machine, overlocker and hand embroidery classes, all most reasonably priced.

See those pretty pastel flannels in the bottom right bay above, they are only $15 mtr. same as most of the other fabric in those bays, some are as low as $10 mtr., at those prices I guess we will still be quilting through the 'financial crises'.

Make yourself a cuppa and check these out.....

Free Motion Quilting on a Treadle Machine
This link was put up by a member of an online quilting group, shows a rather proficient quilter doing beautiful feathers on a treadle sewing machine. Scroll down to the 3rd video and turn your volume way down, it's a little loud.

http://2knitwits.blogspot.com/2008/09/toga-madness.html

Got a question? Need info on a technique or need a free pattern?
Sheila sent a link to QuiltBug Quilt Shop, which is also Quilt Bus and Hickory Hill Quilts, it's full of free patterns, tips, mystery quilt patterns, calculators etc. etc. all searchable, and well worth a visit. Scroll and click on 'Free Stuff' on the left, there is a Info search in the top right had corner.
http://quiltbug.com/

Enjoy

Free Motion Quilting Tutorial

Thinking of trying free motion quilting? Elizabeth from 'oh, fransson!'
http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/2009/03/quilt-along-14-freemotion-quilting.html
has this clear and easy to follow tutorial.
Enjoy!

Textile Art Festival - Class Bookings

Bookings for Classes are now open for the Textile Art Festival in Brisbane on May 29th to 31st.
go online to http://www.textileart.com.au/Brisbane2009/app/pages/view/welcome15727/
to check out the many and varied classes, costs and book your tickets.

'Just love Purple'.......

this was the comment from Elaine, the maker of this stunning purple quilt, when asked for her story at Show and Tell yesterday, it is destined for her own bedroom even though it means that the feature wall has to be repainted, no doubt a job for Hubby.

Elaine purchased the main fabrics, the three purples featured in the heart blocks in Tamworth, she then saw the quilt pattern on the cover of the quilting magazine, APQ, and the rest as they say is history.
Elaine has very kindly agreed to allow us to hang her quilt in our up coming Biennale Quilt Show later in the year.Thanks to Picasa, a closer view of the purple heart.

This quilt with the brighter pastel colours is for Lyn's very new little Granddaughter Dana. The nursery is decorated in mauves and this quilt will star very nicely.
Love this quilt to bits, such simple lines and beautiful fabrics combine to produced a stunning quilt.

What do you do with Selvedges??

Well, you could make a scarf, or maybe a bag, or go really off the planet and follow Jodie from Ric Rac, into the world of upholstery. Yep, she upholstered a chair.

This girl is so talented, go view her chair on http://vintagericrac.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-so-big-but-kinda-more-technical.html and while you are there check out the beautiful selvedge dress that she made for her daughter.

To keep an eye on what Jodie gets up to check out the link to 'Ric Rac' in the side bar under the section titled 'Blogs you may find interesting', scroll down to Ric Rac and click.

Off to post the rest of your pics from yesterday.
Enjoy!