October Gatherings

This month has certainly shown that there is diversity within our group!  Looking through the eye candy below, one can see a small snippet of the wide variety of things people work on....

B has begun foundation piecing many, many Noah's Ark blocks...

D has recently purchased a long arm quilting machine and said "I just decided to have a go!"  WOW!  This is her first practice piece!!

In between times, D is hand-piecing these gorgeous little cranes...

J is making hexagons to surround an embroidered centre.

K has made this quilt using up all of her bits of blue left over pieces.  She has designed this to be a modern quilt.

It was completed using Quilt As You Go quilting which K stitched with her walking foot, thus quilting each block individually.  It's truly stunning.

Oh dear, this picture is sideways - not sure why that happened - but M is making a vase of roses from left over pieces of curtain fabric, which are made in the log cabin style and have some lovely free-motion stitching on them.

The other M has stated a new project with new fabric - ooohhhh ...

S has hand-knitted these dresses to fit Barbie Dolls and they are divine.

The same S has also been working quite diligently for some time now on hexagons.  She says that the assembled part is now wide enough, it needs to grow some more to become long enough.

Our newest member, S, has pulled out a 20 year old cross-stitch project and is keen to keep progressing on it as her grand-daughter has requested it when done.  A beautiful gift for sure.

V has been using english paper piecing for this mini-quilt.  I think it's about 12in square with all of those bits in it...

And to finish off this month, W, is hand appliqueing a block from the quilt "Celebrating Mary Brown".

May Gathering & AGM Night

During May, not only is there our normal monthly gatherings, plus the upcoming Retreat and the 10-10 Sewing Day, we had some very prolific members too.........

Starting with an update on Dear Jane:

J is making Quilted Diamonds, from the book by Linda Franz.  Essentially, it is Dear Jane blocks put into a diamond shape.

The next two photos are updates of blocks by B and W.... 

S, who joined the group this year brought along her hand pieced Dear Jane which wowed all of us.

Then R was taking it easy with some sashiko...

 And, what would a blog post be without hexagons?  Hexagons abound in this group!

Here is Pele Mele by H.  Pele Mele really can be anything you like.   The shear variety we are seeing each month since the class back in March from our members is astonishing.

J was a 'tutor helper' at AQC and she really liked what the tutor was showing with the embellishment of clothing and has re-purposed an old denim jacket to make something fun and modern.

C brought along her three little girls to embroider their faces on.  They are so cute!

AGM
Our AGM was held at the night gathering.  All Committee Office Bearer positions have remained the same with some changes to the General Committee.  Details have been updated and circulated to Members.

A New Year - February 2019!

Despite the extremely hot weather, our group members were not deterred from their crafts!  This month there is an huge amount of show'n'tell.  Not many words - but lots and lots of eye candy!  Enjoy scrolling through these beautiful pictures.

A block for 'patchwork of the crosses'

Getting prepared for winter, this is the first piece of a mid-thigh length jacket.  Knitting in this heat has to be admired!

The first panel for a knitted jacket

Next up is some lovely, funky modern applique.

Very beautiful applique

applique detail

I believe these brightly coloured blocks are from a block of the month, where you receive the stitchery and instructions for the 'sun rays'.  This is a very pretty quilt.

Another, very pretty quilt is this one with the orange flowers. 

 A trip around the world block.  This is one of many and we have been seeing them in progress over the past few months.

A 'rose window' applique.

Who doesn't love a curved log cabin?  The piecing in this is fantastic as is the colour play.

Now we move onto Scrappy Quilts, starting with this post and rail variation

to be followed by hexagons.  If you think back some 12 months or so ago, this box was very, very full of hexagons.  Slowly, but surely they are being pieced into 'flowers' and put into a top.

 


Here is a detail picture of K's srappy quilt.  She takes all our strips and strings that we would normally discard and turns them into fantastic quilts for charity.

The full quilt is a riot of log cabin blocks with wonky stars thrown in for good measure.

A more planned and controlled scrappy quilt is this very modern looking sampler.

More hexagons... and some hexagons with stars...

 


And not be missed, a medallion quilt or two...

A sunburst centre, surrounded by clever borders.

Started with a gifted panel, W, adapted a pattern to make it fit and to really show off the panel.

Full quilt showing gifted panel.

Details of the applique petals and quilting.

 To finish off, some paper pieced tumbling blocks.

That's it for this month, try to stay cool and see you next month!  Happy sewing.

November Gatherings

What a productive month we've had!  This is a very photo heavy blog post for November, with many, many pieces of show'n'tell.  

First up are these very interesting applique blocks...

A very pretty variation on the double wedding ring block.... 

Applique medallions for some quilt centres.... so gorgeous, can't wait to see what will surround them.

 


Ever so slowly progressing, is our Dear Jane project [working from the book Dear Jane by Brenda Papadakis], which at 4 blocks per month is set to run for another couple of years.  Several of us started the project, but these 3 ladies are very consistent with completing the blocks each  month.  One is doing the diamond version (Quilted Diamonds by Linda Franz) 

And, now for some super cuteness - dollies and their beds and quilts... 

 


Attention to detail really does take projects to a whole new level, such as the embroidery on the sewing cover, the foundation pieced Mariners Compass centre in the same shot and work on the Patchwork of the Crosses piece... 

 

At our last 10-10 Super Saturday Sewing day, one of our members taught others how to line a cane basket with fabric, you have to agree they are really lovely.

 

We also had delicious eye candy with a few complete quilts

Bears Paw

'Friendship Star' from a class run by one of our members

Garden Trellis

'Seasonal Changes' also from a class run by one of our members.

'Sunbonnet Sue' a true classic

The Egyptian Quilt is still progressing, B is slowly hand appliqueing his way around the motifs.

Here are two completed quilt tops, such bright colours, they'll certainly bring a smile...

To finish off, here is someone starting their Rotherfields Greys journey.  Many of our group are making these quilts, which we hope to be able to show off during the 2nd half of 2019.  It is a great exercise when we are all given the same pattern, but each person puts their own colour choice and preferred techniques into the quilt, to see what comes out.

We hope that you have enjoyed reading this blog post and the super eye candy from the pictures.