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| Laura’s By Annie collection so far: Ultimate Travel Bag 2.0 Easy Does It (free at ByAnnie.com under By Annie Basics ‘Stash and Dash’ (rolled organiser) |
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| ‘Easy Does it’ |
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| Interior of ‘Easy Does It’ |
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| Interior of ‘Stash and Dash’ |
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| Even Laura’s KitchenAid has a very stylish ‘In the Mix’ cover, a ByAnnie pattern made in Tula Pink fabric! |
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Timeless Textiles Fibre Arts Gallery |
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| A collection of fabrics from a single range generously donated to the community stash spoke to Susan Mack who sewed them into this beautifully whimsical quilt for a child. |
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| The backing fabric. |
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| Pieced backing. |
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| Also made by Susan Mack - another quilt that will appeal to a child. |
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| Miriam’s ‘Unallocated’ quilt (designed by Michelle McKillop) includes fabrics from many of Miriam’s previous quilts and some recent generous donations. |
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| Backing fabric also from the community stash. |
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| Elaine G’s crisp blue and white palette, is further enhanced by the addition of a green highlights. The almost triangular pieces are added to the centre squares by sewing another square over the top, and making four cuts from the centre to each corner along the diagonals - no triangles to cut, less fabric waste. |
We held a ‘Double Trouble’ workshop day for members at the weekend, with two bag making workshops led by members Susan and Susan. Others of us sat, sewed and cheered from the sidelines - a very enjoyable day. Thanks to Carol and Jim for finding us such a good venue, and for your help in setting up and packing up at the end of the day - very much appreciated.
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| Close attention being paid to Susan’s explanation of the magic to be wrought on the zip. |
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| A zipper magic close-up … |
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| There was quilting of the outer layers |
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| Hilary cleverly used pre-made blocks to produce a two colour pouch. |
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| Grace’s narive flower pouch |
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| Angelique’s pouch really is box shaped |
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| Alison was nervous about putting in the zip, but was first finished! |
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| Susan made an error with her first attempt, so started again, then corrected the first one so she ended up with two by Monday morning. |
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| Alison’s pouch, and Susan M’s second pouch. |
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| Pat quilted her cat print back panel along the lines in the print. |
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| Some very fancy zippers were added. |
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| Long continuous zips were cut, trimmed to size and secured. |
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| Elaine chose pinks, purples and blues, and a very jazzy zipper. Binding clips came in handy. |
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| Marilyn chose two beautiful blue and white prints. |
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| There was some careful cutting of foam stabilizer … |
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| Front and back panels of the four finished bags we saw on Monday - there are several more not quite done yet, These belong to Elaine, Pat, Jeni and Sharron |
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| Louise made this beautiful cool quilt for a friend undergoing chemotherapy. |
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| She sent it off with a matching bag so her friend can easily take it with her for the hospital appointments. |
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| Louise also made this one, for a baby boy. She pointed out that it was easy to put together (squares alternating with coordinated nine patches, set on point), but careful layout of the nine patch pieces is required to achieve the effect - a design wall is really useful! |
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| Hilary offered to put some donated clamshell pieces to use, and came up with a pair of appliqued cushions for the craft stall stock. |
