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| Top left is a large quilt top, beautifully made from gorgeous fabrics - we have decided to finish it as a raffle quilt for our next Biggest Morning Tea to support the Cancer Council. The other three blocks are made from a Chris Jurd patten, Squaredance, again from lovely fabrics, and beautifully made by foundation paper piecing. No final decision on their future yet, but ideas are percolating. |
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| A small selection if the many, many blocks donated by a friend of a friend who teaches patchwork in Andamooka in outback South Australia, and sometimes has samples and offcuts leftover, and cannot bear to just throw them out. They've nearly all found a new maker, and are well on their way to being quilts, mostly of a scrappy variety. |
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| Nine blocks joined together, whose maker ran out of puff with it - she generously included some fabric that might be a border as well. Julie is onto it. |
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| Daphne is well on the way to a complete lap-quilt top, having joined together the border blocks from a another project that drove its original maker to distraction. |
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| Susan gathered up some community stash fabrics to add borders to the centre of the same quilt whose border blocks Daphne rescued. That indistinct chartreuse fabric is one of the most useful 'neutrals' in our stash - we always try to keep a similar one on hand. |
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| And a couple of days later Susan had already replaced four fabric pieces that just didn't look comfortable with the other, and added to borders for a a second lap-sized quilt rescue. |
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| Hilary ran this modern top up during the break, and will machine quilt it herself. It provided Pat's stretching exercise for the day. |
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| Julie made some pretty pink 'In a Whirl' blocks from Miriam's online tutorial. The rogue block that sewed itself together without consulting the pattern is staying there as is. |
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| Margaret K makes children's quilt tops faster than we can finish them, and they are all fantastic. We eventually get there. |
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| Hilary's 2017 end-of-year challenge quilt appeared for basting on the Thursday sewing day, and she was seen to be sewing the binding down the following Tuesday, setting the bar quite high! |
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| Sue C came prepared to piece the back for her 'Plus' quilt, as her task for the day. She made a very precisely measured ladder to compliment the fire chief fabric. |
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| All the + signs. |
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| No-one does Liberty and linen like Janice - and perfect little clamshells. |
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| Robyn B was a bit hesitant about the fabrics she'd brought at the start of our SewMiriam workshop ... |
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| ... but they went together beautifully, and positively glow. |
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| Robyn L has made some of her magic crochet bags for the craft stall at our Quilt Show - it folds into a little pouch at the base to take up no room at all in your pocket or handbag. And they are in beautiful colours. |
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| Jenn's clever Inside-Outside pouch, made from Aneela Hooey's pattern intrigued. The pattern is available to buy individually, and there are several more in Stitched Sewing Organisers, published by C and T in 2017. |
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| Spots are very popular with quilters - our local quilt shop has two large shelves of bolts of spots right at their large cutting counters - and they pretty much all go together. Lynette found a pile of spotty squares from the community stash and added to it from her own considerable supplies, including the fresh white background, to make this fun zingy community quilt top that is going to make someone very happy. |
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| Julie started early on a quilt for a grea grandchild expected last year - she didn't know if it would be boy or a girl, but she took a punt on pink, and planned to donate it to community quilts and start again if it was a little boy. When Sophie arrived, great-grandma won the bet! |
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| Detail of baby Sophie's quilt, beautifully long-arm quilted by Yvette |
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| Yvette delivered three quilts last week, prompting lots of binding activity this week. This one is for Jill's son who asked for 'toucans and circles' - Yvette quilted in circles and loops. |
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| Yvette's third delivery was for Pat, whose sister gave her a large bundle of oriental fabrics that she didn't think she would use. Pat made log cabins (one of her favourite blocks), and is planning to give the quilt back to her sister. |
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| Elaine W took the few left-over blocks from another 'finishing for someone else' project, and put them together for her 2017 end-of-year challenge. An unintentional secondary diagonal pattern has emerged from her serendipitous placement of the darker pieces. Lovely to see it finished for our 2018 community collection. |
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| Lynette has been in 'finishing off' mode for s few weeks (there will be some more to see in our next community quilts post). A collection of loose blocks came to us via Janet, and was obviously made some time ago. Lynette has set half of them against a background of a fresh navy spot on white, breathing new life into them. Late last year Lynette made the first quilt from the original set of 18 blocks, already in use by a resident of a dementia care centre. |
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| 'Whimsy' is a Judy Newman design, hand pieced by Nerida. The soft turquoise background fabric ties it all together, anchored by the whimsical stripey block corners. |
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| So many lovely fabrics and vintage linens. Nerida plans to hand quilt this beauty over the winter, so we hope to see a lot more of it then. |
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| Jenn is ignoring summer, and hand-quilting her 'Meadow' quilt, made during and after a 2015 workshop with designer Lizzie House. Such gorgeous colours. The pattern can only be purchased as part of the class. |
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| Hilary made this bright, geometric quilt top over the summer, and is planning to machine quilt it herself. |
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| Daphne brought in her red and white blocks so we could check on progress - they are just 6" ! She might have had a buy a little red fabric, and the white is shorting left from a wedding outfit she made for her grandson. |
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| Yvette's red and white version of the 'Farmers Wife' quilt, seen here, was Daphne's inspiration, and she immediately bought the book. |
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| Linda teaches beginners' patchwork classes at a quilt shop, and is just about finished a new sample quilt in blues and greens. |
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| She has free-motion-quilted it with a simple design of wavy vertical lines, broken up with clusters of 'pebbles' |
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| Miriam nearly always has a large quilt in the making, and this summer was no exception. 'Just a few scraps' made into hour glass blocks round a Dresden medallion ... the pattern is 'Into the Woods', by Judy Newman. |
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| Nerida gifted the pretty pink cross stitch print used as the background and outer border. Just gorgeous! |
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| More pink - Sue H has three 'I Spy' quillows to finish off that didn't quite make their Christmas deadlines. |
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| Their three year old owners won't mind - they'll be too busy trying to find everything. |
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| Dawn 1: Miriam's tutorial for her 'In a Whirl' quilt has been very popular, and as a keeper and user of scraps, Dawn has been one of its early adopters. This is her third version, all finished. |
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| Dawn 2: A classic Irish chain, made from fabrics cut by a quilter who is now in aged care, and to be returned to her as a finished quilt - a living instance of #thekindnessofquilters |
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| Dawn 3: All sorts of building and electrical prints from the community stash - quilted by Yvette. |
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| Dawn 4: More from the community stash, including a lovely big panel to delight someone who like diggers and trucks and big building. Also quilted by Yvette. |
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| Dawn 5: Much of this subtly rich fabric came from Georgie's pre-moving de stash, put to excellent use. |
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| Dragonflies and deep blues for Julie's grandson's 30th birthday. |
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| Julie's fresh, crisp machine appliqued and embroidered quilt. The yellow border and the blue striped sashing are on point for a summery feel. |
