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.

July Gatherings

This is a very, very photo heavy post, while the gatherings were smaller due to it being mid-winter, the show'n'tell was wonderful and there was lots of it.

Starting with a border for a "Rotherfields Grey" quilt...

Followed closely by S working on her "Rotherfields Grey" centre panel...

The hexagon flowers pictured in the tin below are being appliqued onto the border strip for part of C's "Rotherfields Grey" quilt.


The photos of this quilt do not quite do it justice.  Such a wonderful use of blues and browns, combined with light tone backgrounds to make a wonderful scrap buster.

 


As always, W, is doing stunning hand applique, here is one of her "Caswell" quilt blocks....

Another quilt from W, we have seen this in progress for the past few months, and it has also turned out stunning.

 


And, of course no gathering is complete without many more hexagons being paper pieced. 

Hand pieced hexagons, no papers.....

Now for the knitting!  M purchased a ball of wool at our day in Maldon and has knitted up a very nice slouch hat, followed by C who is knitting with a mix of commercial and hand spun wool.  A very nice tactile piece.

Now, for some more completed quilts and quilt tops...

Lots of little triangles.... and..... Some blocks of "Patchwork of the Crosses"

To finish off, some truly lovely embroidery and embellishing....

Thank you for stopping by our blog.  We hope to 'see' you again next month! xxx