Bags, bags ....

Elle had a textiles assignment involving tie-dyeing that evovled into a nifty bag .....

  ..... with great lining!

Jo S whipped up this trapuntoed bag from a panel she picked up from the $5 table in the Craft Depot November sale, lined with fabric from the same table.

What a great bargain.

Quilters Newsletter contest supporting Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative - vote online until 3rd December

If you have a connaction with someone who has Alzheimer's disease, you might be interested in this quilt contest being run by Quilters Newsletters magazine.  You can vote until 3rd December for your three favourites (that probably gives us here in Australia until 4th December).

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) is a US program that raises awareness and funds research through art.

Events

Dr Annette Gero will be at the Quilters Guild of NSW on Saturday 4th December - details here

Do you like red and white quilts?  Will you be in New york between 25th and 30th March 2011?  Then you might want to pencil in the free exhibition presented by the American Folk Art Museum of 650 red and white quilts from a single private historical collection - details here.

Registration for the 2011 Be Creative by the Sea retreat at Coffs Harbour, 1 - 7 May 2011 are open from 1st December. 

Show and tell - for some lucky grandchildren

Pam's alphabet quilt will live at her house, for Lily to use when she visits.  Love the backing and binding fabric (below).

 

Georgie's granddaughter also has a new quilt - pretty summery colours for a little girl.

Aren't quilting Grandmas fabulous?

Houston winners

Prize winning quilts from the 2010 International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas this week are now available for viewing online:

www.quilts.org/winners.html

A number of Australian quilters are amongst them. 

Very enjoyable bus trip ...

Thanks Robyn for organising such an enjoyable day in the beautiful Southern Highlands today - John and Kerry  (On Course Tours) were excellent tour operators, a great selection of shops, and beautiful surroundings.  It certainly looked as though everyone found something to their liking to bring home.  We should do it again sometime ......

P.S. Did anyone take any photos they'd care to share on the blog?  A little fabric flaunting, perhaps?

Index of Antique Geomteric Quilt Blocks: free online

The quilt section of the Early Women Masters website offers

• 130 Free Antique Geometric Quilt Designs and Sample Patchwork Blocks
• Quilt Notes, History, Vintage Patterns
• Ideas for Fabric Choices
• Grid Sizing, Full Quilt Tiling
• Background Tiles
• Free Downloads
• Links to More Illustrations

There are several sections to the site, each related to women as artists or as the subjects of various artforms, including this one about quilts. The site home page describes www.earlywomenmasters.net  as a non-profit, educational website.

Exhibitions and a new shop opening in December

 Ozquilt Network Inc.'s travelling exhibition Australia Wide Two will be launched at the at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery 22 October to 5 December 2010 and will travel to the following venues:

• 14 to 17 April 2011: Australasian Quilt Convention and Expo, Melbourne VIC
• 22 April to 1 May 2011: Artisans Trail – Stawell VIC
• 6 to 28 August 2011: Gallery 159, Brisbane QLD
• 3 to 27 September 2011: Cooee Heritage Cottage, Gilgandra NSW

The Gerringong Quilt Show is on 12 - 14th November, at Gerringong Town Hall.

Calico and Ivy is a well known quilt and handcrafts shop in Western Australia.  They have just announced that they are opening a Sydney branch in Balmain in early December. An excursion for the New Year?  It's not far from Logans .... that could be an afternoon usefully filled.

Houston; Fall Quilt Bloggers Festival

The Fall Quilters Market and International Quilt Festival are now on in Houston, Texas.  A number of bloggers are filing frequent reports, includng quilt and fabric historian Barbara Brackman, and several Australians, such as Lisa Walton and Sarah Fielke.

The Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Fall 2010 allows blogging quilters (or is that quilting bloggers?) to have their own international "show and tell".  You might see some familiar names there too.  There are certainly plenty of quilts to see.

No blogging, but there has been sewing

Sometimes life gets in the way of blogging, and October was one of those times. Who can believe it is November already? Time to buy next year's diary .....

Thanks to Sue Crowe for photos - good to have you back!

Marilyn's bag 1

Marilyn's bag 2 - reversible, loop handles closed ....

 ...... and open

Jo S's little quilt top - those hand-pieced blocks are just 4 inches!

Stephanie's bag

Janet's crazy-patched back-pack 1.  We have seen No 2, but it does not appear to have taken a picture of itself.

There are meant to be pictures of Noelle's stunning hand appliqued beauty quilted by Jo P, but the ones taken recently do not do the quilt justice - we'll get better ones soon. 

St Ives Quilters 2010 Exhibition

Friday 8th and Saturday 9th October 2010

10.00 am - 4.00 pm each day

St Ives Community Church Hall
32 Horace Street ( Link Road)
St Ives
Featured quilter, the late Narelle Grieve

Craft stall and 2 quilt shops, refrshments

Bus trip - 6th November, Southern Highlands

The cost will be $35 per person. There are 35 places available on the bus. So it will be a case of first in, best dressed (which means you get a seat!)

Payments will be accepted at meetings starting 27 September until all seats are filled or 12 October.

 

Itinerary for Saturday, 6th November 2010

8 am: Coach will pick up participants at Beecroft Railway Station. Beecroft station has carparks on both sides and parking on Saturdays is readily available, especially in the east side carpark.

Travel via M2 and M7 to Southern Highlands.

10 ish:  Arrive in Berrima. Morning tea will be provided.

Visit Berrima Patchwork and/or Peppergreen.

11.30: Depart from Berrima and head to Bowral for lunch and shopping in My Place.

Participants will provide or buy their own lunch.

1 pm:  Depart from Bowral for Mittagong. Coach will park centrally in shopping area and participants can visit Village Quilt and Patchwork Shop, and/or Timeless Threads.

2.30 pm: Depart Mittagong shopping area for Japanache.

3.15 pm: Departure time for return trip. Expected arrival time back at Beecroft is 5 – 5.30pm.

Berrima Patchwork
21 Old Hume Hwy, Berrima
open 10am – 4pm
02 4877 1382
www.berrimapatchwork.com.au

Village Quilt and Patchwork Shop
5 Station St, Mittagong
open 9am – 5pm

02 4871 1929

Timeless Threads

107 Main Street, Mittagong

02 4872 4770

www.TimelessThreads.com.au

Japanache

Unit 2, 6-8 Cavendish St, Mittagong

02 4871 1388

www.japanache.com.au

My Place

19 Boolwey St, Bowral

02 4862 2196

www.myplacebowral.com.au

Cherrybrook Quilters exhibition this weekend

Cherrybrook Quilters Inc are holding their exhibition

'Warm Hearts - Cool Quilts'
25th and 26th September
10 am - 4 pm both days.

Cherrybrook Uniting Church, New Line Road Cherrybrook (opposite Cherrybrook public school).

Entry $6.00 - proceeds go to The Kolling Institute for Ovarian Cancer Research.

Quiltsmith - antique quilt show and tell, and more ....

If you like antique quilts and are free on 31st October, you might be interested in the afternoon of antique quilt show and tell that Quiltsmith is having.  Check out the details here:
http://quiltsmith--australia.blogspot.com

And if you like hexagons, you should check out the post immediately before, dated 12th September.

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.