Community quilts (1 of 2)

Robin B’s quilt features many fun prints that a child will love.

Robin w’s ‘Flutterby’ designed by Jen Kingwell, works very well
in saturated colours on a low volume background.
Quilted by Laura, bound by Lynette in a team effort.

The design uses only squares and half rectangle triangles
to create more complex shapes and movement
through careful use of colour and tone. 

Julie trimmed the many donated flying geese, and sewed
them together. Helen donated the floral border print from
deep in her stash, and Laura quilted the finished top.

Dawn selected fabric from a large donation, and from the
community stash, and drafted her own design.
Quilted by Laura, bound by Helen.

A typically vibrant colour palette by Robyn W,
quilted by Laura, bound by Lynette.

A message from the Sewing Basket

Save your donations for when things have settled down in 2022. If you don’t have donations you can shop and help make room.

Everything you need to know about The Sewing Basket is here

 

‘She Stitched the Stars’ - new book

A new book, recommended for children aged 4 - 9 has been published, just a few weeks ago. It is listed by booksellers Angus and Robertson and Booktopia in Australia, and seems to be widely available.

She Stitched the Stars
A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt
By Jennifer Harris, illustrated by Louise Pigott

In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, an Iowa storekeeper’s wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today, the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This lyrical story imagines the creation of the quilt from the perspective of Ellen’s daughters, who, like their mother, lived in a time when girls and women were expected to limit their pursuit of knowledge, and who may have been inspired to dream bigger and look farther.  … Albert Whitman and Company (publisher)

The Smithsonian’s web page on the 1876 Solar System quilt:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_556183

Bags, hats, a jacket

Nerida’s hand-stitched ‘Bessie’ bag

Daphne’s zippered pouches

Sharron’s zippered pouches for a rose-lover friend

Pat’s crocheted jacket

Yvette’s Liberty project bag has a transparent front panel

Sharron’s knitted hats for her grandchildren, including
a newborn, and a zippered pouch for his Mum.

Community quilts photo shoot

 A sparkling October day in Sydney, a beautiful spring garden, and a dozen quilts to be photographed for our records … 

These community quilts were gathered at our first sewing day since May, a few were handed in earlier, but had not yet been photographed. Individual quilt photos will be posted soon. Thank you to all who have made them through lockdown.

Works in progress

 Zoom meetings have been a quiet hive of industry, with lots of English paper piecing, and other hand sewing keeping our hands occupied while we participate.

Helen has been spending time with some English paper piecing projects.
At left she is joining large fussy cut blocks into a quilt top; at top
right are a growing collection of smaller blue fussy cut stars for
another project; bottom right, rows of elongated hexagons will
be a border around an appliqued medallion.

Daphne is piecing scrappy blocks, with a very thin insert 

highlighting how many different scraps she’s using, aiming 

for no repeats in a single block.

Secondary design emerging.

Sue not only hosts our Zooming, but she has finished 

some older projects and pieced all these lovely parts 

for a future quilt. Zoom in for the fussy cutting.

Nerida is ready to start hand quilting her version 

of ‘Dear Jen’, designed by Jen Kingwell, made in 

a beautiful collection of prints.

Fairholme members’ quilts at Sydney Quilt Show

Quilt NSW has generously allowed sharing of  quilt photos from the Sydney Quilt Show 2021 Online, with appropriate credits.

You can visit the whole online gallery and vote for your Viewers Choice at www.quultnsw.com

Congratulations Jenn Davis @pennypoppleton on having 

your quilt hung in the Sydney Quilt Show 2021 Online

#sydneyquiltshow2021online !

Quilt label (the number can be used for Viewers Choice, 

until Sunday night, 31 October):

174 Jennifer Davis
‘Home Learning’
Category: Pieced Quilt – Amateur
Design Source: Mandolin Quilt – Tales of Cloth

Congratulations Stephanie @craftypinkcreates on having
your quilt hung in the Sydney Quilt Show 2021 Online
  #sydneyquiltshow2021online !

Quilt label (the number can be used for Viewers Choice
 until Sunday night, 31 October):

172 Stephanie Morrison
‘The Pink 100’
Category: Entrant’s Quilt Top, Quilted by Another – Amateur

Design Source: Kinship 100 Block Fusion Sampler
by Angie Wilson and Bec Proschogo
Quilted by Birgit Hoffman, Black Sheep Quilting

Sydney Quilt 2021 online

The Sydney Quilt Show awards were presented online  - if you missed it, you can watch it at 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsG8qnQ870c

A link to the online gallery of all 258 quilts entered is below. 

From Quilt NSW on 28 October 2021:

Rose Dream

Floral appliqué quilt in the medallion style using a grey ombre fabric for the background. I chose a softer colour palette to enhance the use of the grey background and added embroidery embellishment and trapunto in the quilting.

Design Source: Inspired by medallion style quilt setting used with permission from Toyoko Nakijima. All other elements of the design are my own.

Congratulations to Janet Treen who received 3 awards:

 - BERNINA Best of Show

- Excellence in Quilting: Hand Quilting Open Award

- First Prize: Applique (Professional)

Celebrate Creativity! View ALL of the entries and vote for your Viewers' Choice at www.sydneyquiltshow.com.au

Sewing day!

Some of these quilt tops were pin basted at our recent sewing day - the first since May. We were masked and shortened the time to two hours, which was just long enough for what we needed to do. It was good to be working together again, and catching up in person. Some of the quilting of these ones has already started, so we might be seeing some finishes soon.

Noelle’s very pretty, spring version of Lucy Kingwell
Carson’s ‘Florence’ design.  Noelle hand pieced the
flowers and machine pieced the trellis blocks, which have
fussy cut centres. The colour changes across the trellis
is a brilliant design element.

Susan pieced this clever design that integrates the
single-piece counter panes into the blocks.

Elaine had made some of these appliqued and pieced blocks
some years ago. Lockdown wax an opportunity to devise
the setting triangles and finish the top.

The border fabric was also serendipitously
found in Elaine’s stash.

And there some blocks left over for a second, smaller quilt!

‘Wonky Little Women’ is Jill’s improv version
of Miriam’s very popular design.

Susan chose the fabrics for this four patch-snowballs 

variation in the community stash several months ago.

The pattern is Play Ball, designed by Emily Bailey, 

published by Quilting Daily. It can be 

purchased as a .pdf download here  for approximately $A5.

Houston 2021

International Quilt Festival (Houston) Judged Show Winners 2021 - Quilts

Click in the quilt images for a larger view.

https://www.quilts.com/judged-show-winners-2021/

HandiQuilter Best of Show Award

Rondo, by Sachiko Chiba, Japan

Quilt NSW Ruby Challenge 2021

Congratulations to Quilt NSW on leading and celebrating the NSW quilting community for 40 years, especially these last two difficult pandemic years. We are looking forward to seeing the virtual 2021 Sydney Quilt Show later this week, and the ‘in person’ event in 2022. 

From today’s Quilt NSW meeting, here is the link to view the online gallery of 2021 Ruby challenge quilts and winners:

https://quiltnsw.com/exhibitions/challenge

Congratulations to the prize winners. First prize is a BERNINA sewing machine sponsored by Bernina Australia .

FIRST PRIZE: Star Ruby by Judith Docksey
SECOND PRIZE: Wishful Thinking by Wendy Nutt
THIRD PRIZE: About Ruby by Suzanne Aubrun
VIEWERS CHOICE: Untitled by Grace Widders
JUDGES’ COMMENDATION: Ruby Resilience by Di Jobbins

At today's Zoom meeting, the committee announced the challenge theme for 2022 - Celebrate!

Sydney Quilt Show 2021 online

‘Mark your calendars! Plan a party! Celebrate creativity and join us for livestreaming of the awards ceremony for the Sydney Quilt Show 2021 Online at 7.30pm’

https://youtu.be/ZsG8qnQ870c

Yvette’s quilts

Yvette is usually kept busy long-arm quilting for our members and her other customers, but she used some time during lockdown to catch up with her own quilt making and finishing, including long-arm quilting for herself. 

Yvette is an experienced quilter, but this is her
first ever hexagon quilt. The baptist fan quilting
 pattern suits it well.

This one is a gift, also with Baptist fan quilting.

One of Yvette’s many interests is gee-keeping, and she
has a hive in her garden. The quilt she made for
herself is all about the bees and their hive.

The bee blocks are an Elizabeth Hartman design,
and the modern hexagon quilting design is a nod to
1a honeycomb. Yvette’s signature quilted bee is in there too.

More news on shops re-opening after lockdown

More news on shops re-opening after lockdown, a new shop opening, and sadly, one closing. Remember to QR Code, have your vaccination certificate with you and you might need to comply with limits on customer number and/or make an appointment, and wear a mask.

Fabric Garden, at Neutral Bay

Re-opened from 13 October.

‘You will need to be double vaxxed, wear a mask and QR code to gain entry. 

A buzzer will be installed - so I can control the numbers of people in the store at any one time!

I will be closed Monday and Tuesdays. Open Wed - Fri 11am - 4pm. Sat 10am - 1pm until things settle down.

Click and collect is still available.’

Lyn’s Fine Needlework at Baulkham Hills 

Re-opening from Monday 11 October:

Sew Can I at Werrington

Open for classes and shopping from 11 October.

Patchwork Plus at Blackheath

Open for classes and shopping from 11 October.

Patchwork on Pittwater at Mona Vale:

Open from Monday 11 October, by appointment, phone: 9999 6159 

Logan’s Patchwork at Leichhardt

‘ We are very pleased to announce that we are open to the public again. After a long period of mail order only, we are welcoming in-store shoppers 😀. Our hours are 10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday and 9am - 4pm Saturday. If you are in need of a fabric-fix, matching colours or just a thread... please visit us.’

Picklemouse Corner at Leura

‘We are excited to announce that our store will re-open on Monday 18th October. Until then click and collect or local delivery will continue. Just call 0448 470 684 to place your order.

Fresh fudge will be available again in November. See you soon!’

Quilting Queen at Penrith

A new shop, opening on 23 October, at the previous location of Penrith Patchwork - Folklore.

Cottage Quiltworks, at Warriewood:

‘We are very excited to let you know that we are going to reopen on Monday 25 October by appointment only. With a heavy heart we are also letting you know that the shop will sadly close early December but we will be GOING ON SALE SO BOOK IN NOW!!! Cannot wait to see you all after this looong lockdown.’