Sunday 28 February 2016

This Week


Huge week....busy with lots of things.

We had Sew n Chat on Saturday and Anne had Show-n-tell from our "Strippy-string quilt-in-a-day"


Love the colour.......

Finished a few E-2-E's....



Quilted with Lorien Quilting's "Rainy Day" the above quilt will be our next Quilt-in-day held in May.


This quilt is so loud....love it. It has been quilted with "Embellish" from Lorien quilting.

Working on my Sydney Quilt show entry today....no pressure!
Jan



Sunday 21 February 2016

QuiltNSW General Meeting.


Travelled to Sydney yesterday to attend QuiltNSW General Meeting. An enjoyable day.
Merelyn Pearce was guest speaker.
She had some wonderful work to show us.



Kathy Doughty from Material  Obsession gave a demonstration on the use of rulers to make life easy when cutting hexagons, diamonds and more.....


"Block of the Quarter" was due....I entered 6 blocks.....but didn't win.....


Finished a few E-2-E's this week...


"Rain Drops"


"Pop Corn"


"Embellish"


"Escargot'


"Interlocking Feathers"

Another busy quilting week this week.
Jan


Sunday 14 February 2016

Quilt in a Day

 Once a term we have decided to pick an easy quilt design, bring some food to share and sew all day and have some fun.
Yesterday was our first Quilt in a Day for the year....we got rid of lots of scraps with a strippy, scrappy number.











Cant wait for the next one.....
Jan

Sunday 7 February 2016

Road Trip

On Saturday some like-minded sewing friends and I went on a road trip to Newcastle.
We were headed for the Cathy Jack Coupland Exhibition  at Timeless Textiles in Newcastle...we did eventually get there. Lovely colourful display of work.


We did however feel it was our duty to check out a few of the local patchwork shops along the way.....someone has to do it....On-Point in Waratah, Zig-Zag Sewing at Georgetown, and Quilt-Essentials at their new shop in Adamstown. Lovely lunch in Darby St. We had such a good time we will do it again later in the year.


Road trip booty

This beauty went home this week....



In the January holidays I attended a braiding workshop and I am pleased to say that I have managed to organise a braiding workshop here at Red Shed Quilting with Barb Travis to be held on the 9th and 10th July. Call me for more details if you are interested 0243940904.
It was one of the best workshops I have attended in a while.


Barb's braided rug 

The 52 Week Photography Challenge continues....trying to keep up now that I am back at work...
Week 5 Landscape: Black and White. Look for a scene with great contrast that will make a great black and white.


Housework catch up and a clarinet lesson today.....
Jan