Our New Home

We had our first meeting today in the 'Pig Pen' at Chijmes - lovely, airconditioned room, waiters to serve us coffee, lunch in the courtyard and no cleaning up to do!

Here's our next raffle quilt all finished

August Show & Tell

Vicki's quilt  - a stunner with embroidered blocks

August Show & Tell

Singapore Quilters Challenge 2010

For our newer members and a reminder for the oldies, the quilters of Singapore Challenge 2010 is themed "Curves & Circles"  
Please ask if you would like a registration form

Quilters in Singapore Challenge - Wednesday 3 November 2010

Curves and Circles
Actual and Illusionary

Curves and circles make for a very interesting and pleasing design whether by machine or hand piecing, or through appliqué. Some quilt blocks give an optical illusion of curves and movement even if they
are comprised of straight seams e.g. the storm at sea. All the infinite variations on this theme may be displayed.

Quilt challenge rules:
- Choose carefully a design that demonstrates circles and curves – they must be clearly shown for your entry to be judged in the competition.

- Any quilted item will be accepted e.g. clothing, soft furnishings, quilts etc.

- An unfinished item may be considered for judging depending on the circumstances.

- Please keep in mind that there is a limited display and we will be unable to accept any entry that exceeds 60" by 60".
- Each entry must be able to be hung. Quilts should have a sleeve (2"– 4" opening depending on the size of your piece) attached in a way that will not show when the quilt is hanging. Other items may be hung with large pegs or pinned to boards.

- A normal quilt label may be attached in the usual way but must not be visible during the Exhibition.

- Please securely attach a paper label to your entry containing your full name and address as it appears on your application form to ensure its safe return.

- The entries submitted for the Challenge Exhibition will be handled many times during the set-up of the displays. While great care is taken to protect the items in the collection as much as possible, breakable embellishments and other breakable props may become damaged. When designing your entry these factors should be taken into consideration so that entries are not overly fragile. Entries must be foldable to a manageable size.

- Your entry form must be received by the 19th of October 2009. No late entries will be accepted. Finished items must be available for hanging at the venue one full day before the Challenge Lunch and will be returned as soon after the Exhibition as possible.

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.