November 2011 Vianočné gule - falošný patchwork piatok 25.11.2011 od 16.00 - 19.00 ...
Bonjour, Alors moi quand je participe à des crops (ou devrais-je plutôt dire participais – allez on garde espoir), j’aime avoir ma propre tasse et du coup quand je la transporte dans me…
I've been missing in action! With no real excuse! Other than busy, busy, busy! Did you miss me? Life has a habit of plowing along at full steam, even when sometimes we just want to stop and smell the roses. Its been a full year, as well as a difficult year. Just after my last post we lost my Father-in-law, then followed a week later with the passing of my 18yr old nephew. One could say that took the wind out of my sails for a bit. And blogging was the last thing on my list of important stuff to do. I've had an email or 2 asking if we are having our quilt exhibition this year, and l guess that's been the prompt I've needed to get back on here and get writing and sharing again. Of course, no blog post from me is not complete without photos, so l am sharing a few close ups from this years raffle quilt. The quilt has been designed and made by Jenny Bear, with all Jo Morton fabrics, then machine quilted by Debbie Burville ( Quilts From Nana's Trunk) The fussy cutting by Jenny has to be seen to be believed, and so as you can see by the photos I'm sharing, its a truly stunning quilt, and both ladies have gone above and beyond my expectations with this quilt. Their collaboration on this quilt has been amazing! The full quilt will be revealed soon! Promise! Our flyer is currently under construction, so will share that as soon as possible. l can however give you the dates so you can put them in your diary. This years exhibit will take place on the 27th, 28th and 29th November 2015. Usual place, usual times, hopefully the usual people! Our special guest this year is Jo Morton. Many of you may have visited us back in 2011 when Jo was our special guest then. She loved her time here with you Aussie girls so much, she jumped at the chance to make a return visit. And this time we are planning some workshops with her. Details will be released at the end of the week. However, please feel free to contact me to put your name on a wait list. The classes, which will be hand piecing, will take place the weekend of 21st and 22nd November. They will be 1 day classes, and I believe Jo will be teaching different things on each day. Details are being firmed up this week. Didn't l tell you! The fussy cutting! The quilting!! Raffle tickets coming soon! Mary Koval will also be here again this year, with bags full of lovely antique quilts and goodies to tempt us! The Quilted Crow will also be here again, and she is planning on having lots of lovely Jo fabrics available for sale!! All Jo's fabrics play so well together. So hopefully by having all these lovely photos to look at, you have forgiven my absence. And l plan on posting more regularly again. Thanks for visiting. Linda. You can find me and the other girls over on instagram for more regular updates. @quiltsinthebarn @joquilts @quiltsfromnanastrunk @bearjl Hope to see you there!
Block 2 from Fraktur Quilt therabbitfactory.com
Hello! I hope you all had a great weekend!! We definitely did, it involved lots of friends, the making of Apple Butter, beautiful fall wea...
For a long while now I’ve been coveting feathered stars. . . Is that not absolutely gorgeous? This quilt, entitled “Buckskin”, was made by Marla Yeager of Ava, Missouri. It was fe…
I continue to work on the pattern testing for Missie of Traditional Primitives. I'll share pictures when she gives me the okay! I you like English paper piecing and the Dear Jane quilt then you'll be interested in Missie's quilt pattern! It isn't a large quilt - I think it will finish at about 65" which is a nice manageable size! Last night I stitched together a block for my Lozagons quilt. You can read about the original quilt here. The turquoise you see will act as the background fabric. I've made hexagon rosettes and I'll stitch one rosette at each spot where there is a turquoise hexagon on the block. The result will be that the block will appear to have spokes as you can see in the picture of the original quilt below. That's one block down and thirty to go! You can see my box of "noodles" which are the hexagons stitched into rounds. They are waiting to be turned into larger pieces! My brother turns wood on a lathe and has made some really lovely seam rippers which he sold at the Quilt Show. He made these for Mom and me for Christmas. The seam ripper part comes out and gets tucked inside the wood handle when not in use. Well I love the woods me uses and so he me made me a lovely pen made of buckeye burl. A burl is a round growth on a tree. The grain is very different from the trunk and it is full of eyes and swirls. Here's a close-up of the burl in the seam ripper above. Pretty, isn't it? You can see more pictures of his seam rippers here. And here is the pen he made for me. I love the colour of the wood, creamy gold and slate grey! There were some small voids in the burl so he filled them with turquoise inlay. It is a tiny little detail and the kind of thing that makes the pens a little extra special! I love my pen! Tomorrow I'll share more pictures from the quilt show! Until then happy sewing. Karen H
Bonjour, Alors moi quand je participe à des crops (ou devrais-je plutôt dire participais – allez on garde espoir), j’aime avoir ma propre tasse et du coup quand je la transporte dans me…
ETA: I have had many inquiries regarding a pattern for this quilt from those who have found it via Pinterest. I am NOT the author of this pattern. It was from a quilt along hosted by Lori at Humble…
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I had the honour of quilting this very special quilt this week. It was pieced by Adele who was a local guild members that passed away in December. Adele had an amazing ability to create quilts from her scraps that looked fabulous. Her eye for color was admired by all her friends and I was always drawn to her quilts at every quilt show. I would study them and try to figure out how she could combine fabrics that I would never think to put together and make them look great! She also was very skilled at hand appliqué and hand quilted most of her quilts. She was a very modest lady who didn’t understand why we would fuss over her quilts, a true sweetheart to all that knew her. Her presences is greatly missed at our meeting. Adele had not completed the appliqué on this top so her good friend Marg finished the remaining work so Adele’s children could have another heirloom quilt from their mother. I quilted free hand 3’s and E’s in the center across the stars and the CC’d the HSTs. I then SID around the appliqué and stippled the background. We woke up to more snow today just after all Sundays snow melted. This would be a pretty picture if it wasn't April.
Une petite merveille de Claudine :
