A winner..........

Congratulations Pamela... Quilting withRosie@blogspot.com

Colour Riot by Pamela Jones

We had a great day at the Queensland Quilt n Craft Fair on Saturday. I feel  inspired from seeing so many beautiful quilts.......

There were too many to select one favorite, I'm a  bit of a traditionalist with hand applique and hand quilted quilts, but these days the art quilts are just amazing. So hard to vote for just one.....

I have a class tomorrow, a lot of the girls went down to the show. I'm looking forward to hear what was their favorite quilt and to see any new purchases.

Happy stitching

Cathy

A review of the last few weeks

How time fly's, our lives are so busy these days. One week blurrs into another and then it's three week since I have posted anything on my blogs. I bought and now set up the secondhand longarm in the shop. She is old but solid needed some new parts and polish. The parts ordered from America have arrived, just waiting for technician now. Hopefully by the end of October I will be practicing on the (beast) machine. It is so big a bit daunting but I'm sure we will create some beautiful quilts. 

Willing helpers

Master apprentice

Kim and myself looking forward to a bit of creative quilting

Most of the girls from the shop will be going down to Brisbane this week/weekend to see the Queensland Quilt Show. It's a great place to catch up with friends and be creatively inspired. There are always so many beautiful quilts to look at. If you are heading there say hello to Kim at the Bernina stand on Saturday...

Our friend Pamela who is a frequent visitor to the shop has two quilt in the show this year, and has won a prize. but we don't know any more than that. Both quilts are hexagons and machine quilted, we are all excited for Pamela, Congratulations..................... 

I will post photo's with Pamela's permission of course next week....

Another couple of quilts from the Trunk Show

Quilts from Pamela's cupboard

Another of Pamela's beautiful quilts

 

The girls in my class are busy with their projects.........

June's quilt. The pattern is my Sweethearts fly home quilt that I have been teaching since 2001

Pasty's apron

Patsy's dragonfly

Julie's quilt, love the cupcakes

Julie's camping quilt

Wendy is nearly finished her Sampler quilt top

Angela's beautiful baby quilt

This is June's beautiful applique quilt top from Kaffe's book. 

Susan and Lynne busy working on their projects

Patsy starting a new qayg quilt

These are some of blocks for the new Sampler Quilt in 2012

Trunk Show

Yesterday when we got to class there was an invitation to go the Buderim Quilters Night Group. They were having their monthly Trunk Show and their guest was Pamela Jones. Pamela teaches machine embroidery and patchwork occasionally at Kimz shop. The Trunk Show helps the Buderim girls raise money for Breast Cancer and last night and through out the year, with a gold coin or two entry and raffle tickets they have raised over $500.00. Well done girls.

Kim (Kimz Sewing Center), Julie, Angela, Helen and myself met up, and we caught up with Margret, Jenny (sewsocrazy.blogspot.com) and Jane other friends and the girls from the Angel.

Julie and Helen

Kim and Angela

Margret

Jenny and Margret

Debbie

What a night, Pamela has been doing patchwork since 1983 and although a few quilts are missing there were still nearly 45 quilts for us to see. Just amazing. Up until 1998 - 2000 most quilts were hand quilted, then Pamela ventured into machine quilting. Check out quiltingwithrosie.blogspot.com, next week as Pamela should have all the photos we took for her on her new blog site by then. 

Here are a couple of photos of her quilts that I took last night, these are my favourites.

Thanks for stopping by, I would love to hear any comments about my blog.
I hope you all have a great weekend

Cathy

Lunch with Jackie

Our little group is losing another friend, Jackie is hoisting her anchors and is returning to New Zealand to live after many years in Australia. 

Jackie really does has two huge anchors.

Jackie started with us wanting to make a sewing machine cover, just over 12 months ago. During that time also made many quilts and aprons as you will see in previous posts. After finishing all her other UFO's (lucky girl) it's back to working on the original sewing machine cover.

The crazy patch cover has become a focal point each week as the other girls also add/given pieces. Stella gave some hand made tatting, Lynne D drew an Owl for Jackie to embroider, laces, beads and buttons have also been shared. 

We all made a block to give to Jackie, to remember her time with us and gave them to her at  lunch. Not everyone could be there but we ...

Had a great time at Marcello's............

There is this fantastic little dress shop called Shevita in the same complex that we just had to check out. A couple of us made purchases.

We have two new ladies starting their first sampler quilt, here is Linda and Susan. Linda is hooked after two classes and is ready to do some hand work at night. So like many others a scrappy hexagon English paper piecing is her next challenge.

 Patsy is battling with this very big quilt as you go quilt, putting on the last of the tracks. Never again she says, it started out as a wall hanging.

Patsy and I designed this quilt using a Layer Cake, a Jellyroll, and a meter of the dragonfly fabric. It looks fantastic. I quilted it for her using a red thread to outline all the dragonflys. I also quilted outlines of dragonflys on the plainer blocks as well and then connected it all with a  loopy allover background filler.   We are both very happy with this quilt.

Just a few photos from the group,

Wendy has been making a apron for her
granddaughter

Helen with a parliament of owls

A few more photos from the last couple of weeks

Patsy's Dragonfly apron

Julie and Angela

Stella and Wendy

Maria visiting from Cairns

I have other photos from a beginners machine quilting workshop I taught last week but they are hiding, I will post them in the future.


Until next time


Happy stitching


Cathy

   

Photo Gallery

Just a few photos of the girls enjoying their classes. 

Last week we started making aprons,

Patsy

Pat

Julie

Pat

Jenny

Machine quilting beginners class is always  popular. 

On Thursday the class is a lot of fun, all the girls are working on the own individual projects.........

Lynne D is working on Kim's quilt from Kaffe's book. all hand appliqued and pieced

Angela making a baby's quilt 

Pat's project

Lynne D African quilt

June's priate quilt

Stella's scrapy quilt

June is my fussyist student

June selecting a piece for her Sweetheart quilt