Patchwork Day Success

 Wednesday May 15th found us at the Hall for a day of sewing, showing and catch up. Fay has been busy sewing her Mystery Jelly Roll quilt. Definately not what the Mystery Quilt designer had planned but Fay is very happy with this quilt.

 She also had time to make this aboriginal print themed quilt for her husband for his birthday the previous Monday. Amazing what this girl can accomplish amidst taking care of the property, cattle, horses and her family.

 Here Kerry is busy working away on her Jelly Roll Mystery, it certainly looks vastly different to Fay's quilt. Ooops, I forgot to take a photo of the works in progress.

 Fay is busy working on another curvy quilt for a granddaughter who loves Pink. Amazing how the addition of the contrast bias changes the entire quilt.
I think Sandra may have been inspired by this, she is on a scrap busting and WIP mission as she had pieces from years ago with her  in an attempt to jog her memory as to how to proceed. A quick lesson on half square triangles an easy way and we may see some further progress next patchwork day.

Ruth has finished her grandbaby quilt, ready in time for the due date in June.

A date to remember is the Bundaberg Quilters Competitive Quilt Show. Friday night 9 August is the Awards Night, Saturday 10 and 11 August is the show open to the public. If you wish to compete you must be a financial member of the Bundaberg Quilters. Contact Patty or Ruth for further details.
Next patchwork day is Wednesday 12 June. Hope to see you there. 
Ruth

A Pleasant Evening Out in Bundaberg

Fay and I had an evening out in Bundaberg at the Gloria Loughman Trunk Show hosted by the Bundaberg Quilters. She is teaching workshops there this weekend. Unfortunately, neither of us could attend a workshop but just viewing some of her landscape quilts was wonderful. Gloria is an internationally acclaimed quilter, author and teacher and told us quite a few stories about her teaching career.

 

A linear landscape quilt. Her stitching is so neat, and these are art quilts so they will never be washed, just vacuumed to remove the dust.

 A sample of some of her quilts that were on display. I asked for her permission for a photograph of her with her quilts for our blog and she was very happy for me to take them for you. Notice that her clothing is as vibrant as her quilts.

 This large quite was my personal favourite.

She has a new book published called Radiant Landscapes and this is the cover quilt. She also has a Craftsy Class called Linear Landscape Class which you can purchase anytime online. When she was in America filming those classes, she was told to "tone down " her wardrobe for the camera, glad she doesn't do that to her quilts. An evening well spent.  Faye, I did take a few more photoes for you also, and I hope you are enjoying your new books. Whilst, there I was also thrilled to find out that  Karen, a Bundaberg Quilters member enjoys reading our blog, so I hope you do too.
Some of us, are off to a social patchwork day at Childers, next week instead of our usual patchwork day. Mt Perry Show is on next weekend so I hope you are all busy finishing off your entries. Me, I am much too busy with all this socialising to get mine finished. See you all sometime next week, Ruth.

CANCELLATION

Please note that the April date for patchwork has been CANCELLED.

Our regular program should resume with the next patchwork day on Wednesday 15th May.

Kerry has been playing with the layout of her workshop quilt. (if I can find the photo)

Found it!

Hope everyone has found some time to sew over the Easter Break and also indulged in a little chocolate.

Anyone Home?

Kath and Narelle raced out the gate at lunch and up to the hall to find ...

Where is everyone?

 

Fay

The girls were next door admiring the art on exhibit by the locla Mt. Perry Art Group.

A return visit by Narelle in the afternoon revealed more beauties.  Would you believe the green/black/white quilt above and these two below started out life from the same instructions.

Kerry

Margaret

Margaret has also had her embroidery machine running hot on this stunning quilt.

Please check back for an April date as it could change due to Show commitments and a possible outing to Childers.

Patchwork Day Envy

Wednesday every 4 weeks is usually Patchwork Day somewhere in Mt Perry. Unfortunately for some of us, work commitments seem to block our paths to the door.This is what happened to me this week. I thought I'd give you a quick peek at what I had to play with instead of fabric today. These were just some of the agar plates I had to deal with today.

Here is what I  would have preferred to spend time with today. I am pleased to say that these 12 blocks have been stitched together and it is now ready to be put together as a quilt. The colours are a bit washed out in this photo and it does look far brighter than this suggests and this photo was taken 2 weeks ago.

Hope you all had a good day. I was certainly envious of you. I am looking forward to seeing what you all have been doing in April. Hope the Easter holidays means some quality sewing time for you. By the way, Why does it always seem to rain on our patchwork day? Catch you next time, Ruth

After the Floods - Patchwork Day

We missed you too Ruth :)  Here is a little of what the girls got up to.

Both Kath and I are working on Wednesdays this year so were out the back gate like a shot and popped in for a lunchtime visit and snapped some photos.

Kerry was busy at her machine sewing jelly roll strips together, pressing and then cutting into 4.5" squares.  This is from the workshop 5 of us attended in Bundaberg last Saturday.

Fay was also busy at her machine working on the same mystery quilt ... see the peak of the pattern?

Margaret and her gorgeous assistance Rachel were "playing" with layouts for the mystery quilt. I ducked in again in the afternoon as they were placing the last pieces of the puzzle. The second photo is Margaret's choice of design for the morning session at the workshop.

Not sure if Lyn had been working on her workshop quilt but I snapped this shot of her lovely applique/embroidery piece.

Anna and Noela were visiting the girls when we arrived and as we headed back to work, Patty also made a lunchtime call.  Never a dull moment on patchwork day ... plenty of chatter with a good dollop of laughter and yes they do get some sewing done as well. It was nice to be able to catch up if only for a short time and look forward to seeing what you're all up to next month ... hope Ruth is able to join us next time too.