November 2011

Just some random photos from our get together this week....and to show we do sometimes do more than chat and eat!

Marianne's Frog Mini Quilt - great free motion quilting - you wouldn't believe she is a 'beginner'!!

and some of her Artist Trading Cards

Melissa has been working on these tiny blocks - about 3-4" square - for an online swap

The first one is "Frodo's Cottage"

and the second pic are the "Trojan Horses" complete with little flap which lifts up to reveal 2 tiny soldiers. The attention to detail is stunning - a real tail and mane - and we all wanted to be in the swap!

Kallie has finished her pinwheels top, which is going to be quilted for her friend's wedding shortly.

Elizabeth's block is made up of tiny hexagons and is part of a Block of the Month. There are a few of these BOMs in progress within the group - all a bit different and very exciting to see the progress.

Alison raided her stash for pink fabrics and put together this quilt using 2.5" strips for a new baby girl just born this week.

We all love new gadgets don't we? These are the latest cute and colourful clips just perfect for holding tiny hexagons together or stitching down your bindings

April Show & Tell

Debbie had just finished hand-piecing this quilt in a Beginner’s Class and is now hand-quilting it. It looks super!

Debbie has also finished the lovely baby quilt

and a close-up of the gorgeous applique bees and flowers

Kathy has been busy making a “Tortilla Warmer” – what a great idea

…and she has also made a cute baby quilt

Marianne has been busy hand-dying lots of lovely fabrics and making these wonderful fabric postcards

Some of our members have been making quilts for the Japan to help with the Tsunami Disaster, at one of our local quilt shops.  These are two they helped quilt

…and a close-up of the machine-quilting by Sandra

As we hadn’t done a Show & Tell for a while, Elizabeth showed us her stunning hand-pieced quilt – a Karen Cunningham (from Australia) design.  This one is quite breathtaking “in the flesh” and was way too big for any of us to hold up off the dirty floor!

and a couple of close-ups. 

Elizabeth had the quilt machine-quilted in Oz by (I forget!)

Her fussy cutting was exquisite

Show & Tell November 2010

A good few things to show off this month…

Tiiu’s fabric dish which a friend made for her

Debbie’s hand-pieced and appliqued quilt from a jelly-roll – her first quilt (I stand to be corrected though!).  It looks fabulous

Tiiu’s challenge mini quilt; the challenge from her group in Perth.  The fish block is copied from the Group’s badge

Tiiu’s made from left-over fabric from the one above

Kate’s BOM quilt from a Sue Ross design. It looks awesome!

Kate’s “Red Centre” – for one of her boys. It is a pattern from Material Obsession

Kate’s baby quilt – a work in progress, but hopefully it will be finished and off to it’s new owner before the next Show & Tell. Forgotten the name of the block – a Gwen Marston design?  Skillfully uses Kate’s stash of beautiful Liberty fabrics.

Tiiu’s really expensive bag-to-be, made in a class at Rosie’s with a visiting Japanese tutor (name?)

Show & Tell October

The group has been busy….

1. Marianne – hand dyed fabrics; machine applique

 

2. Tiiu – Australian aboriginal fabrics; disappearing nine patch design; appliqued Australian animals

3. Tiiu – appliqued and free-motion quilting on sewing machine cover

4. Kate – pattern from Material Obssession; machine pieced, hand-quilted and HUGE!

5. Kate – closeup of the lovely hand quilting

6. Melissa – appliqued and machine quilted sewing machine cover

7. Mayumi – Her first “quilt” a lovely bag

Show & Tell September

Some recent projects made by our group

1. Made by Angeles

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3. Marianne has made this with her own hand-dyed fabrics and the circle attachment on her machine(correct me if I’m wrong)

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August Show & Tell

Vicki's quilt  - a stunner with embroidered blocks

August Show & Tell

Show & Tell July 2010

Thanks to Kallie for her hospitality – she can be assured her oven works very well and the sour-dough bread, quiche and cake were very well received.

There were lots of hexagons around today, a few bindings being stitched down and a few baby quilts on the go.  At next month’s show & tell, we’ll hopefully have a new quilting baby to show off.

Angeles made this beautiful bag from batiks in one of her last classes before leaving Shanghai. Hopefully she will do some classes for us later in the year.

Ellen hand-pieced the cathedral windows, then joined together with a variegated thread by machine and machine quilted. This is for her grandchildren.

Melissa has finished her lovely baby quilt in a blue/green/gray colourway. Machine pieced and hopefully her baby will be here any day now to enjoy it!

Kathy Q made this stunning Row By Month quilt in the US – each row represents a different month/season on the calendar.  There are 3D bunny ears and turkey feathers – it looks amazing. The shop supplied the fabrics and Kathy chose the borders herself.  We all agreed it would be too much to quilt this monster on her own and she will probably have it professionally machine quilted.

  Alison was still stitching down the binding on this cushion, made with a spiderweb block pattern sourced from a Blog.

As well as working on a baby quilt, Kathy I is making yo-yos/suffolk puffs from Kaffe Fassett fabrics. There were lots of ideas to put these to good use.

Kathy Q made this table runner from fabrics bought in Singapore and has used a sarong for some of the fabrics – very clever.

Lastly, Melissa made this cute little spectacle case for Tiiu using 1.5” squares which were leftovers from her baby quilt shown above.  She used a technique where the squares are pressed onto fusible web before the seams are stitched, which is a very accurate method for such small pieces.