20th Anniversary sale at Craft Depot

Craft Depot at Pennant Hills is having an anniversary sale this month ...

Location details, catalogue and online sales:

www.craftdepot.com.au

Oz Quilt Network: Australia Wide Five online

Australia Wide Five is a travelling exhibition of 40 art quilts, each 40 x 40 cm, made by members of Oz Quilt Network.

You preview the quilts online and see the exhibition schedule here.

previous Australia Wide collections can be viewed online here.

Recent show and tell

At short notice, Lynette recently  took
herself off to Canberra for the day for a
workshop with Akiko Ike ...

... and this little pouch is one of the things she made !

These pieced sailing boats are perfect for a baby boy quilt, made 
by Lyn (not Lynette!) for her rehab physio.  She decided the 
navy sashing strips were a bit boring, so machine appliqued 
some of the motifs from the border fabric on them.

We had a machine piecing with templates workshop with
Catherine Butterworth  early in 2015. Dawn's top is now
finished, and the high contrast between her fabrics shows the
'curved piecing' illusion well. It will be finished in no time!
We have seen at least three Jolly Stars quilts finished,
but this is a reminder that some of us are lagging a little
in the completely finishing department ...

Dates for AQC 2017 and Sydney Quilt Show 2017

Australasian Quilt Convention 2017
20 - 23 April 

Royal Exhibition Centre

Melbourne

• Tutors have been announced here.
• Class schedule is here - bookings open on 27 October 2016

Sydney Quilt Show / Craft and Quilt Fair 2017

Darling Harbour 

22nd  - 25th June 2017 

Note: 2017 will be a 4 day show, not 5 as in the past few years

• QuiltNSW has published a comprehensive 'Introduction to new categories for 2017', along with relevant dates for quilt submissions here.

Wheel and Weft - Christmas sale

Friday 28th to Sunday 30th October 2016 

Thornleigh Community Centre

Quilts of Valour Australia visit and quilt donations

We enjoyed a visit from Sue and Stan fromthe NSW branch of  Quilts of Valour Australia recently. QOV makes quilts for soldiers / veterans wounded or suffering the effects of war and immediate families of fallen soldiers.

They brought some  QOV quilts to show us, and we donated two quilts from our community collection.

Sue with one of the quilts she brought alone, being admired by Julie

Lynette finished a disappearing four-patch quilt just in time to
donate to the QOV team, and Helen (our Convenor) presented
another one from our community collection 

Susan made the second donation quilt, a disappearing nine-patch.

• Quilt of Valour Australia on Facebook

2016 QuiltNSW Challenge Quilts online

Another online quilt gallery has been released.

The  41 QuiltNSW 2016 Challenge Quilts can be viewed in the online gallery here. The quilts are available to groups as a travelling suitcase exhibition.

The 2016 theme was 'Repurposed, Recycled, Reloved'. Congratulations to the award winners.

Details of the 2017 Challenge, 'Remember' are also on the webpage, along with links to ten years' of challenge galleries.

Queensland Quilters 2016 Quilt Show: award winning quilts

Queensland Quilters held their annual quilt show in Brisbane last weekend.

The quilts that won special awards, including the Bernina Best in Show can all be viewed online here.

November quilt shows

Plenty of dates for the quilt show diary in November, from Newcastle to the south coast:

Childrens Medical Research Institute

Annual Quilt and Craft Show

11 - 13 November 2016

Gerringong Town Hall

Contact Rhonda Bailey on 0429 951 452 

or Lorraine Peade on 0417 342 606 for entry forms/enquiries.

Novocastrian Quilters Show 2016

12 - 13 November 2016

PCYC Centre, cnr Young and Melbourne Rds

Broadmeadow

Flyer

Raffle quilt: – ‘The New Hexagon Millefiore Quilt’

Proceeds to Riding for the Disabled

Braidwood Airing of the Quilts 2016

26 - 27 November 2016

Modern Quilts Australia 2016

25 - 27 November 2016

Glebe Town Hall (Sydney)

Entries are now open via this website

Last show and tell for September

What a lovely collection of quilts to finish up September - click on an image for a larger view:

Julie outlined all the clothing folds in this panel
with machine stitching, and heavily embroidered
the gingko leaves with gold metallic thread. A stamp
on the back says the woman depicted is 'Barbara'.

Linda P's class sample for her upcoming beginners'
applique class at Hobby Sew at Top Ryde. She has used
the technique described here for cutting backing economically
several times, including in this quilt, and she is 
completely sold on it.

Nerida's niece will love this beautiful quilt for her 18th -
lots of gorgeous prints. Centre blocks designed by Katy Jones
@imagingermonkey editor of Quilt Now magazine (UK) .
And it's big. Hand quilting coming up.

Improv blocks, referencing an urban look have been on Pat's mind.
She designed the blocks herself, making adjustments as she went
along, with input from images online and in print and cloth. Isn't
it spectacular? So much to see - you could look at it for hours.
Quilting decisions must be made.

To mark turning 80, Robin W decided to learn a new, challenging
hand piecing technique - the Y seam. She is now an expert - as she is
with putting colours together, from her extensive stash of
Kaffe Fassett fabrics.

Sue B has been busy again, this time working colour and
design magic with jelly rolls! It's big too.

Quilt Show: Maitland

Friday 14 - Sunday 16 October 2016

10 am - 4 pm

Celebrating 30 years of quilting in the Maitland area

Great Hall, Tocal Agricultural College

185 Tocal Road, Tocal NSW

(180 km north of Sydney via the M1 (F3)

Community quilts

Very few weeks go by that someone doesn't hand over a quilt for our community collection. Here are the most recent beauties ...

The block centres are small nine patches

Julie took on the challenge of piecing a quilt from
donated sheeting cottons in pretty florals.

Elaine W used some Beatrix Potter prints, complemented small
scale prints and a community stash fabric border for this quilt.

A glimpse of their backing fabrics.

Catching up with show and tell ...

How clever is Sue B's log cabin variation that adds an
Irish chain to her beautiful mostly blues? 

Detail of Sue B's blocks

This little feathered star quilt is actually square - it's just the
angle of the photo. Sue H is a virtuoso piecer - this block is
notoriously difficult to keep flat and square. Notice those tiny
Ohio star corner stones?

Peggy recently demonstrated how to make a 3D English paper
pieced Christmas star decoration - just 60 diamonds and some
embellishments. Julie has taken up the challenge.

Antique quilt trunk show - Mona Vale

From Robyn Evans, from Patchwork on Pittwater, Mona Vale:

Robyn's Antique Quilt Show
6.00pm - 8.30pm Wednesday 12th October 2016 

Come and join us for fun evening whilst Robyn opens her trunks to show you her collection of beautiful antique quilts. 

Wine and nibbles will be served. 

Entry fee is $10.00 with all money going to the MS Society in honour of Robyn's friend Trish O'Brien who was a quilter. 

Please RSVP by 10th October 2016 - 9918 3990

Colour at the end of winter - this week at Fairholme

Beautiful blue nine-patches on point
- made by Elaine W for our community collection

Luscious pink quilt-as-you-go made by Julie
- for a local charity's fundraising event

Another quilt-as-you-go quilt made by Julie for charity
- gorgeous colours!

Val thought she's use up her scraps in these intricate, colourful
hexagons (there are many scraps left, surprisingly - that's
never happened before!) ....

... but look closely at the very fabulous Matisse print
fabric Val had tucked away for this quilt!

A whimsical African animal panel has bright complimentary
borders added by Lynette, and is a fully finished quilt.