A Quilty Solid - app

A Quilty Solid is a mobile app designed for quilters, by a quilter, Steph Skardal, 2018 winner of Best of Show at QuiltCon. As a software engineer, Steph has developed a number of tools for visualising and matching colours that are brought together in the app. It allows you to match solid colours of quilters’ fabrics and threads, develop and store colour palettes, extract solid colours and palettes from an image, match fabric and thread colours to Pantone colours, and compare solid colours between commercial fabric ranges for your preferred match. More manufacturers products are being added with each release, but there is already a good range. A very handy tool for quilters that will become more useful as you become familiar with its features, and generously made freely available via the App Store and for Android.

 

New community quilts

 One recently finished, others well on the way, all welcome.

Made by Julie, a pattern using fat quarters.

Helen originally made this one with borders she was
unhappy with - she likes it better now.

Blocks left over from one she is currently hand quilting
were the start of Noelle’s community quilt. 

Nerida is the queen of scrappy log cabins -
aren’t these blues hotgeous? The blocks are 15”.

Robin started her cobblestones quilt during lockdowns,
and now they are a quilt top for the community collection.

April events

Deniliquin, NSW 

‘Australia's modern quilters are some of the most exciting and adventurous artists working in the medium today. With a bold and playful approach, they are pushing the boundaries of traditional quilting and creating works of art that hold their own on the world stage.

Direct from the US, ‘To there and back’ is a celebration of the Australian artists who were juried into Quiltcon 2023 and includes a work from each, shown in Atlanta this year.’

Stitch and Yarn, 24 March 2023

Sit and sew

A full day of sewing with others, away from home where the distractions are fewer, is a productive monthly treat. Our meeting venue houses our community stash, so some of the sewing is on quilts that go to our community collection, and some is for our own sewing. There are lots of opportunities for cooperation and collaboration, and just for catching up with each other. And on the first day of a four day heat wave (in March!!), we really appreciated the air conditioning.

Marg volunteered to sew labels on finished community quilts.

Elaine W was sewing blocks for a new community quilt.
She is always well organised.

Susan Mack loves flying geese and was making hers very
 efficiently with the ‘no waste - four at a time’ method.

We pin basted this pretty blue community quilt
 for Julie to quilt.

Elaine B had this community quilt ready for basting,
 then launched straight into quilting it.

Susan K has finished one community quilt top in these
gorgeous fabrics, and sewed up the scraps into the
beginning of another one.

Susan M  (we had four Susans in the room!) cut backing
and batting ready for this one to be long-arm quilted.

Noelle finished a quilt top with just two corner blocks
to add to one border - it used a fantastic mix of prints.

Miriam has sewn enough star blocks for one quilt top and
has cut out enough for a second.

Miriam gave us a demonstration of her new Slotted Trimmer

 ruler for making perfect half square triangles. 

Susan K quickly organised A group order for those of us 

who need one, and submitted it online!

https://www.ozquilts.com.au/clearly-perfect-slotted-trimmer-b2-5-to-10-sizes-new-leaf-stitches-cpst-b2-ozquilts.html

Jill cut out a whole community quilt - 100 red squares, and
100 unmeasured triangles for an organic look
for simple graphic blocks

Bags!

We’ve had some impressive bag ‘show and tell’ lately, some of them required some impressive problem solving skills:

Susan Mack can make and quilt anything!
This one is a large and very beautiful tote bag.

Even the bottom is quilted.

Pat made this one from heavy weight fabric
bought from IKEA several years ago

Susan K can also make anything, and has made two
versions of the cross-body traveller pouch
designed by @kandoucrafts 

Reverse of the cross body traveller’s pouch.

Jenny didn’t make her bag, but she cleverly spotted
it at a market in Italy (as you do) and it
makes an excellent sewing tote.

Recent finishes

Four spectacular quilts from recent ‘show and tell’ sessions

 Elaine W made this quilt for her sister-in-law

She machine quilted it with flowing ripples,
guided by wavy Westalee ruler.

Pat planned her quilt around some fish shaped blocks left
over from her Pickled Fish quilt,  made  after a class
with Chris Jurd in 2018

she added embroidered felt elements …

… melon shapes, flying geese and other pieced borders.

It’s an early call, but this just might be the cutest,
most fun quilt we’ll see this year.
Julie’s version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’ designed by
Megs and Me. Machined appliqué, quilted by Laura.

Nerida’s version of a Chris Jurd pattern using
striped hexagons , saturated bright colours and vibrant prints.
The border is an Anna Maria Horner large scale print.