Guest speaker: Maree Gebhardt

Tuesday 28th September 7.45 pm

Maree will address:

• quilt valuation
• labels
• cataloguing your quilts 
• reason for cataloguing

Both groups are very welcome.  If you would like to come along, please let either Dina,  Janet or Elaine Bright know.

Our thanks to Jo Phillips for her recent talks on preparing our quilts for professional long-arm quilting - yougave us a great insight into how to achieve the result we want by working with the quilter.

Do you have a topic you would like to be addressed by a guest speaker, or do you have a particular guest speaker to suggest?  Contact Dina or Lyn, or leave a message in the Communication Book. 

Very quick pinwheels - video tutorial

Here's a short video tutorial on a very quick way to make pinwheels four at a time. The tutor is Jenny, from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.  It was mentioned on Southern Cross Quilters earlier this week, and Jenny Bowker suggested (very sensibly) that if you cut the squares on the bias to begin with, you will end up with the straight-of-grain on the block edges, and a useful little pile of triangles for something else:



Of course, some of you will have been making them like this forever .... others of us  are just catching on.

Sarah Fielke designs fabric

Sydney based quilter, teacher, writer, blogger and now fabric designer Sarah Fielke (co-author of the Material Obsession books) has designed a fabric line called 'Little Things', for Lecien that will be released later in the year in Australia.  She has posted a preview and a give-away on the blog, The Last Piece.

Where has September gone?

Where has September gone  - can it really be the 18th already?

Here are some photos from Tuesday night group, over the last couple of weeks.

Pam's one fabric quilt is almost finished, in rich, earthy tones with a flash of scarlet.  Detail of Pam's hand quilted leaves below:

Elle learned to dye silk at school, and produced this lustrous colour mix.

We had another productive Community Quilts Day last Thursday - a small, but dedicated team continued to work on the One Step Beyond quilt tops, adding borders, making backings and bindings, cutting batting and finishing off the cutting and restitching of the blocks for the second quilt to be made from the "oceans" colours.  Five quilt tops have emerged from Jane's plan for one .... a real team effort, from both Monday and Tuesday groups. 

And good progress was made on two I-spy tops.

Photos next time when the camera actually comes out of the bag!

Community Quilts

Heather used a quilt-as-you-go technique to complete this quilt from a donated panel - she cut it into blocks, sashed, quilted and re-joined it.  A bigger job that it seemed at first ....

And here are the other two One Step Beyond quilts made by Monday members, with floral and oriental fabrics, that will have their border added at the next Community Quilts day (16th September):

And one Ocean top, made from blocks contributed by Tuesday evening members .... there are enough blocks remaining to make another quilt:

Bonnets for "Roses from the Heart"

Bonnets made by Tuesday evening members for the Christina Henri's Roses from the Heart project.  Thanks Heather, for organising us, and sending our bonnets on to Christina.

Read about Roses from the Heart here.

Hunters Hill Quilters and Epping Quilters exhibitions

Kathy has provided a great "wrap" of the recent Hunter's Hill Quilters exhibition on her Material Obsession blog.  Lots of photos of the quilts to enjoy if you couldn't make it, or to enjoy again if you did.

Epping Quilters On Show will be at Thornleigh Community Centre on Friday and Saturday 10th - 11th September.

Folklore/Penrith Patchwork September sale

HUGE FABRIC SALE STARTS NOW!
2 weeks only till  Saturday 11th September

20% to 50% off all Fabrics, jelly rolls, layer cakes, kits, etc.

Fat Quarters 3 for $10.00

Fat eights 5 for $10.00

10% off all waddings and pellons

penpatch@optusnet.com.au

Fat Quarterly Quilt Along: September

This might be fun ..... a virtual quilt-along with e-zine Fat Quarterly's blog.

Instructions will be issued weekly from 6th - 27th September.  You work at your own pace, or keep up with the virtual group.  You'll need a jelly roll (how many of those are sitting in stashes not yet used?) or 21 different fat quarters to give a good variety of fabrics ..... if you don't have 21 fat quarters, most of us would probably be able to dig up enough fabric from the depths of the stash(es) since it is obviously going to be scrappy.

Check in here for more details:  Fat Quarterly

Might be a good project for community quilts .....

Community quilting day (19th August)

We had enough floral and oriental "One Step Beyond" blocks from the Monday group to make three quilt tops! Dawn came up with this layout that we used for all three tops, this one with a blue centre section, one with a red centre and one with a yellow centre. All three tops were finished to this stage on the day. Next they will each have a complimentary border added, then quilting and binding opportunities will be on offer.

The block layout is quite straightforward, but we had to really concentrate to keep the four pieces correctly aligned .... a little "reverse sewing" was required from time to time.

The next Community Quilts day will be on Thursday 16th September, at the Leisure and Learning Centre in Warne St, Pennant Hills, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm.  Come for as long as you can, for a fun day of sewing.

Tuesday night show and tell (17th August)

Noelle has finished her "Bordered Squares" community quilt - the spotty background fabric works beautifully, and the gorgeous pieced backing makes it totally reversible!

Springwood High School Community Quilt Show 2011

The Springwood Community Quilters are very organised - they've started a blog about their preparations for the 2011 show, including the making of what promises to be a spectacular raffle quilt.

Springwood High School Community Quilt Show 2011:
Welcome everyone to the first of many posts about the Springwood High School Community Quilt Show for 2011. How exciting to be up and running in blogland!
This is where you'll come to find out the latest news on what's happening in the lead-up to next year's show to be held over three days from 29th April to 1st May 2011.

Too good a sneak-peak to pass up!

Hunters Hill Quilters 2010 Quilt Show

 13 - 15th August 2010

All details are here

Tuesday night show and tell .... catching up

Here are some photos that have been "stuck" in the camera for a little while .....

Dina's batik - machine pieced using a circular tool she picked up in the US (most of the fabrics are US purchases too).  Very pretty!

Robyn's liberated quilt!

Marijke's quilt-as-you-go is for her granddaughter ....

... who will like her completely reversible quilt

Jane' s panel is quilted with some trapunto to highlight the girl's features.  She did it to show that she can finish a quilt very quickly.  (We already knew that!)

 

Then Jane got back to something a little more complicated.  She is experimenting with one fabric quilts - the original fabric is in the border - a gorgeous Laurel Burch print.

Yes, this is sheep fabric.  Jane wanted to see what she could come with, using one-fabric techniques.  Who else would have thought of using this idiosyncratic print?

And who would ever have guessed that it would yield this diverse and richly patterned top? It really is a "one-block wonder".

(There was a black and white beauty too, but the batteries died ... another time.)

Now for some sanity ... Louise has blended blues and greens against crisp white for this mint-fresh Hugs and Kisses design, for a lucky 21 yr old.

We couldn't all go to Paducah, so Paducah came to us on Dina's laptop!

Camden Country Quilters Exhibition: A Quilter's Paradise

9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday and Sunday
7 and 8 August 2010

AH &I Hall, Argyle Street, CAMDEN.

Admission: $6

Raffle quilt - craft table - stalls - antique quilts - cafe

Jump on the M5/M7 and take the Narellan/Camden exit

For more information, call Wendy 0400 390 322