Coming along nicely…

We often comment on how lucky we have been to have quilts to work on during the pandemic - a creative, enjoyable and useful occupation, that requires constant play with beautiful fabrics. Here are some recently finished quilt tops that we are looking forward to seeing finished.

 

Janet loves blue and white, and she loves the sea. 

She often finds quilt designs encompassing both.

Helen was a little concerned that her scrappy, mostly French 

General quilt top is ‘too red’. We all had a good long look, and 

the consensus was that it is just the right amount of red. 

Pat @bellamojo.95’s fabulous long term project is ready for 

quilting - she thought and worked long and hard 

on all those borders, to great effect.

Lyn’s appliqué William Morris style quilt is made 

from a mix of fabrics from her stash.

  

Summer stitching

It’s a cooler than usual, very wet summer here in Sydney, while we try to keep ourselves and each other as protected from the Omicron ‘wave’ as we can. Our regular meetings are back on Zoom, but the stitching hasn’t stopped although it has been a good time to slow down and/or catch up.

Pat used a quilt she made several years ago to make a very stylish,
on trend jacket. She has embellished the collar with
additional stitching.

We might have heard her say that ‘next time’ she would make up quilted fabric panels rather than cut up a quilt …

Janice’s Boro Rice Bag is finished after a couple of years.
Slowly chipping away at the ufos. It is lined iwith a natural linen.
A nice project from Cutting Cloth.

Aren’t those interior pockets an excellent inclusion?

Helen has been ‘playing around’ with some vintage scraps 

dyed with onion skins and avocado, making small 

but finished things like this sewing kit.

 

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 Quilters Exhibition 2012 (20): Blankets of Love

Like quilting groups and guilds across Australia, Fairholme Quilters contributes to the Blankets of Love initiative each year.  These little quilts are offered to families of babies who are stillborn, or who die soon after birth, to wrap the baby, or to be kept as a memento, as the parents wish. This a selection of the past year's collection, that was displayed at our exhibition in April 2012.

Thanks to Andrew Freelander for the photos.

Fairholme Quilters Exhibition 2012 (19): Mostly blue

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57 RAIL FENCE

This was a kit purchased from Reece Scannell. I like the cotton fabric he has created which has a look and feel of silk. I finished off the quilt with some machine stitching.

Jo-Ann Phillips

20 BLUE CABLE

A surprise for my husband’s 60th birthday – his favourite colour being blue and keeping the pattern simple I was able to finish the quilting at my daughter’s home while babysitting her girls.

Louise Church

18 OUT OF THE BLUE

One of my favourite quilt blogs to read is Quiltville Quips and Snips by Bonnie K. Hunter.Bonnie is great at using a traditional block pattern and tweaking it a little to give it just that little different look.This is my quilt using her "My Blue Heaven" pattern and I have changed the star block corners. My stash provided all the fabric for this quilt including the backing but unfortunately does not seem to have reduced it very much. Quilted by Donna Warren at Get it Quilted

Lynette Harvey

55 A TOUCH OF GREEN
Mixing a touch of green with the blue and white, as seen in nature. Also a ‘nature’ embroidery on reverse side. I hand-stitched circles on squares, then cut into quarters and machine pieced into position. Hand quilted.
Robyn Leek

Fairholme Quilters Exhibition 2012 (18): Warm earth tones

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49 ALICE DREAMING II
This quilt was inspired by one that I saw hanging at Patchwork and Coffee on Main at Boolaroo while on a Fairholme Quilters bus trip a few years ago. Most of the fabrics were bought on a family holiday trip to Central Australia in 2007.
Machine pieced, hand quilted.
Elaine Walton

23 EARTH COLOURS

Not my usual colours, started off with reds and blues as well as these ‘earth colours’, but it just looked like a mess. I used Batik fabric, most of which I purchased in Paducah last year. Inspired by a pattern in Down Under Quilts issue 147, called KaffeSquared2.

Loraine McIntosh

Thanks to Andrew Freelander for the photos.

Fairholme Quilters Exhibition 2012 (17): Pineapple log cabin class

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7 PINEAPPLE LOG CABIN

This quilt is a new twist on a traditional block design. It uses bright 30's style prints, it is finished with a wide scalloped border and the quilt is enhanced with big stitch quilting in perle thread. It is inspired by a Gwen Marston quilt but the final design is my own.

Robyn Tayler

75 KAIDEN’S QUILT
My niece was expecting twins, a girl and a boy, so I made this quilt using a pattern shown to us by Robyn Tayler, a member of Fairholme. I wanted to use some 1920s fabric, and fabric which I bought in Canada. I quilted this myself.
Marijke Arrowsmith

76 PIPER’S QUILT
My niece was expecting twins, a girl and a boy, so I made this quilt using a pattern shown to us by Robyn Tayler, a member of Fairholme. I wanted to use some 1920s fabric, and fabric which I bought in Canada. I quilted this myself.
Marijke Arrowsmith

Thanks to Andrew Freelander for the photos

Fairholme Quilters Exhibition 2012 (16):Houses, gardens and flowers

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69 COUNTRY HOUSES

This started with a charm pack of ‘country’ fabric which appealed to me and the desire to do some more hand piecing. Then I found the template set for the house block, and couldn’t resist it. Of course much more fabric followed, and more blocks, and it just grew. Once I had the centre and the flying geese in the outer border done, the Monday quilters from Fairholme gave me some great advice about colour placement in the solid borders. Entirely handpieced, and yes, I did enjoy it. Jo-Ann Phillips, Quiltwise, took my ‘non-fussy’ nature into account and machine quilted it beautifully. My second completed quilt (when do I stop counting?)

Sue Crowe

46 LOG CABIN & APPLIQUE

Traditional Log Cabin in country colours was inspired by a pattern in Patchwork & Quilting magazine designed by Tara Sniedze. The custom quilting was completed by Michele Turner of Pinetree Cottage Quilting.

Marilyn Abbey

Thanks to Andrew Freelander for the photographs.

Fairholme Quilters Exhibition 2012 (15):More medallion quilts

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10 ROYAL BLUE
I enjoy hand sewing; hence my quilts are all entirely hand made. Materials are my inspiration – ideas come from their patterns and my designs seem to grow from them.
Lorraine Kenchington

Thanks to Andrew Freelander for the photographs.

Fairholme Quilters Exhibition 2012 (14): for family

We do make quilts for family members other than grandchildren ...

8 PENNY’S SURPRISE SAMPLER

My introduction to patchworking resulted in some of these blocks 24 years ago when my youngest daughter was 8 years old. It became an UFO for many years then resurfaced as a challenge for me to complete. Mission accomplished! Made with love for my little girl, now 32 with two little boys of her own.

Elaine Bright

41 JOANNES’ RETRO REELS
In 2010 I decided to make quilts for all my family for Christmas only using fabric from my stash.
This is my daughters quilt from a design in Carrie Nelson’s book Schnibbles Times Two.
Quilted by Donna Warren at Get it Quilted.
Lynette Harvey