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.

Merry Christmas!

Our end to the club year was perfect.

Beautifully decorated tables and hall.

Lunch cooked by a Caterer.

Fun Kris Kringle gifts.

Hand sewing /  knitting / embroidery being done all day long.

A room full of people with common interests and heart felt friendship.

This is the true spirit of Christmas in a group. 

Merry Christmas

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.

October Gatherings

October was certainly a busy month, no wonder it has come and gone so quickly!

Apart from our Quilt In we were profiled in a booklet all about Kilmore.  A number of community groups were chosen to host the local MP, be interviewed by her and then have some photos taken.  It was on the 6th Oct, that a few of us went to the launch of this booklet.  We had a lovely morning tea, watched a short presentation and enjoyed each other's company as well as that of the other community groups.

The article in this book is a good representation of what we are about.  It is indeed an honour to be part of the fabric of Kilmore.

More information about  Spotlight on Kilmore can be found here.




The very stormy weather certainly put a huge damper on our night gathering, but the day gathering was well attended and once again, the Show'n'Tell was wonderful.

English Paper Piecing and Fussy Cutting seem to be the "flavour of the month" at the moment, as the pics below will show.....

 

 




W and S were both showing us how beautiful hand applique and hand embroidery can be.

Scrappy Quilting, ie:  using your scraps in a controlled manner, with a common element in each block can make for some stunning quilts.  P is making stars by hand and K was trimming up some blocks for another charity quilt.

     

Then, S was using up her scraps for her hexagon quilt.  You may remember a couple of months ago when we posted a much smaller hexagon piece with a photo of the box of prepared hexies - the quilt top is growing while the box is emptying!

 And, on the right, J is working on the embroidered piece.  Such perfect, even stitches. 

After such a busy October, we hope to see many of you at our November Gatherings and at the 10-10 Super Saturday Sew-In on Sat 17th Nov.