March Super Saturday!

Once again we were able to get-together for a wonderful day filled with 12 hours of sewing and friendship bliss - a 10-10 Super Saturday.

It was a very productive day with quite a few quilt finishes and a good lot of progress made on other quilts....

JB completed this very soft and delicate quilt for a baby.  

BH continued on her Dear Jane Quilt.  A project which was stared and has continued to run since 2016 as a "block of the month" within our group.  All participants had to purchase their own copy of the book.  Unfortunately the photo does not do the "WOW" factor of the colours justice.

JD attached the binding to her fun and funky Dr Seuss Quilt, also intended for a little one.

And... while JD was at it, she completed this quilt top from snowball and 9 Patch blocks for another little one.

ML continued to assemble very large clamshells together and then added the lovely grey border to complete the quilt top.  

The newest member of our group came along to learn how to make patchwork, and under the guidance of another member, she had completed this quit as you go log cabin piece and then turned it into a cushion cover.  Awesome for a "first timer"....

And to finish up....  Do you smile at a crocodile?  JG was busily completing the stitching around her animal applique blocks.

 That's all for now folks!  See you in April!!! 

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.