What Got Finished This Week

What got finished this week....

Ordered some threads from "Cotton On Creations"...mainly for an odd green for Leesa's quilt...

"Circle Meander" on this  quilt...

Keryn Emmerson's "Penny Royal" on this one..

Lisa Calle's "Rain Drops".....

The Junior Sewers met on Saturday at "All About Sewing" and we saw the completion of a few projects...

A quilt finished and well quilted ...just needs binding...

Lucinda and Charlotte finished their Block Keepers.....( nice "drop-in" from Beth...)

Have a great week

Jan

Home From Adelaide

This is the view from our room, which was just across the road from the Convention Centre where all the classes for the Australian Machine Quilting Festival were held.
Leanne, Clare and I flew down on Thursday and came home Tuesday....a fair amount of time to spend away.....couldn't have done it with two better roomies!

The first day was spent being entertained by Ricky Tims...an incredibly creative man...

For a while we didn't see much of Adelaide except for the inside of the Convention Centre...especially Leanne...who pretty much did classes back to back.

The classes I got the most out of would have to have been Megan Best...an American tutor...lots of background fills...

A class with Myrna .. dividing spaces up into quiltable sections....

 Lots of drawing....I can see a wholecloth in this...

and on the last day a wholecloth design class with aussie Michele Turner......best class EVER!!!!

The centre of Michele's beautiful wholecloth...

On the last day I got a bit of free time...... so went for a wander... lots of  churches....these two were really close to where we stayed..

I enjoyed the LONG weekend and loved catching up with people I don't see very often......It was great to meet fellow blogger Judy, if only briefly.....and great to meet some new friends.

Catch up time now....

Have a great week

Jan

AMQF

Getting excited as later this week Leanne, Clare and I are travelling to Adelaide together to attend the Australian Machine Quilting Festival.....booked into lots of classes with some wonderful tutors...can't wait...lots of photo's at the end..

This week saw me trying out a new pattern from Lorien Quilting called "Hollyhock"...really like it.

...and finishing a few E-2-E's...

Finished the block keeper for the Junior's class next Tuesday...

Had a quilting class at 'All About Sewing" on Friday....small class ...the girls went well...

 Finished the week by attending the Central Coast Modern Quilt Guild's September sit-n-sew...a great day...
Have a great week.
Jan

The best thing that happened this week came about thru' a chance meeting a few weeks ago......I met Naomi from "Stitches and Spice"..a local artisan who is into hand dyed fabric and threads.
I visited her at her shed...yes she works out of her shed too....and absolutely fell in love with her gorgeous fabric colours. We chose 4 colours...she is going to dye some fabric for me to make up into quilts.....SO hard to just choose 4 colours. Now I can't wait for them to be finished so that I can get cracking on the ideas I have to use up that wonderful colour...and who would have thought that she is so close to me...

www.stitchesandspice.com.au


I managed to finish Babettes beauty.....enjoyed working on this...

Ended the week spending a few hours at Wyong Hospital......due to a very fancy gymnastic move.....

Well done Missy Beth....

Have a great week
Jan

Learn't Lots

Got thru' a few E-2-E's this week...won't post all...here's two favourites from the week...

Love Anne Bright's "flutter byes" on this one...

Keryn Emmerson's "penny royal" on this one...

Ended the week by attending the NSW Quilters Guild Friday Showcase with Lois Cook displaying her quilts ...amazing...

In the afternoon I attended a "What Judges Are Looking For" workshop with Jenny Bacon......learnt SO much....came home with my head FULL of information and ideas......where does a girl start???

I need an extra day in the week...

Jan

Machine Quilting Workshop

On the first Saturday of the month we will be holding a machine quilting class at "All About Sewing" Charmhaven.
The idea is for you to bring along a quilt top of your own that needs quilting and and your lesson will be tailored to what you need to learn.
Yesterday, on the first day of spring, we held our first class.It was a great day...the girls were busy doing samples with their walking foot and free-motion foot.
There is SO much you can do with your walking foot...next time they will need to bring a quilt top of their own to work on.

Lola..walking foot quilting.

Erin..bottom left ....did really well...a first timer..

Ally..walking foot quilting.....looking at the idea of repetition and the patterns created by that repetition...

Lola and Erin..

Rhonda...

Close-up of walking foot block...love the circular pattern .....

Ally really wanted to work at perfecting a new backround fill for herself.....and she did....absolutely beautiful!!!

Di ...happy with her feather progress.....

Josie....concentrating hard...

Loved the day and can't wait for the next one ...which will be on the 6th October...."All About Sewing" Charmhaven. Call Jody at the shop on 43932200 to confirm your place in the class.

Have a great week

Jan

Bit Tired...

Bit tired this week after the Newcastle show....

I am nearly finished a custom...

Finished a couple of E-2-E's...this is a close up of one...love the colour...

 This one below one will be raffled for a local school....

Hope they sell lots of tickets.

The week ended with Miss Beth and I attending the Central Coast Modern Quilt Guilds' monthly sit n sew...a great day.

Have a good week

Jan

The week that was

The week that was.... started with the completion of  a couple of E-2-E quilts.

Both quilted with designs by my favourite pattern designer Irene Steele...love her work!

A semi-custom...

And NEARLY finishing a custom...only about an hour to go on it........

Saturday the "Junior" sewers met at "All About Sewing" Charmhaven...

Lara finished her quilt top...just needs a border....

Leah made a bag on her new machine....

Beth was  busy with  a new quilt. Charlotte completed a bag..

Paige and Tiarne were busy quilting their quilts....you can just see Tiarne's quilt in the right hand corner here...doing well.

This week I will be working at the Newcastle Sewing and Craft Show....on the "All About Sewing" stand.

We are stand D12. Hope to see some of you there.

Have a great week

Jan



Sewing With Friends

Looking forward to sewing with friends today after a busy week that saw me background fill 145 cranes and then quilt 88 motifs into this quilts border blocks.

I also finished a small "Wonky Donkey"

..and completed this semi-custom..

So today...on a beautiful sunny day....I'm going to take some time out for me and go sewing with friends....no vacuuming today!!!

Have a great week

Jan