It's April Already !

What are we up to in April ?

No classes - but we have a Pizza Night Sit n Sew and there are at least two wonderful shows to attend

Pizza Night Sit n Sew: Friday 4th at 6pm

5th & 6th April AQA Members’ Exhibition
Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill
With the first public viewing of Elizabeth’s Legacy Quilt Project
Enquiries: 98734371 or www.australianquiltersassociation.com

10th - 13th April Australasian Quilt Convention
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens
10am - 4:30pm daily
Adults $17, Seniors $15
Buy tickets at the door or online at www.aqc.com.au (before April 8)

Night Gathering : Wednesday, 16th at 7pm

Day Gathering : Tuesday, 22nd at 9am

March proved to be a great month for Show and Tell, with the ladies who were doing the Dutch Treat Quilt showing off their very close to finished quilt tops, among the other show and tell we had, we saw an example of the handquilting the ladies learned in the workshop they had earlier in March and got a sneak peek at what can be achieved out of the One Block Wonder workshop we will be holding later in the year.

Alisons Quilt

Robyn on the left and Wendy on the Right

Jude on the left and Robyn on the right

One Block wonder - this is our July workshop

Liz's work from our Handquilting workshop

Jenny's mystery quilt

Jodie's Bargello

Today Kilmore Quilters hosted Vic Quilters Summer Gathering

On Saturday the 29th of March, Kilmore Quilters hosted the Vic Quilters Summer Gathering.

We had approx 120 ladies plus Barry come to the gathering. 

Once again our ladies put on a great spread of Morning and Afternoon Tea

Our guests were also able to purchase a wonderful baked potato for lunch.

We had some great traders, some wonderful guest speakers from whom we learnt a lot about Kilmore's History and the need for Bras in Fiji. We collected over 300 bras for the Uplift Fiji project, raised over $300 for charity through raffling a quilt kindly donated by Wendy.

We also got to enjoy lots of wonderful show and tell . 

Heather won the Raffle quilt kindly donated by Wendy. All in all a great day out.

Victorian Quilters Inc. Summer Gathering

On Saturday the 29th of March, Kilmore Quilters will be hosting the
Summer Gathering of Victorian Quilters Inc.

Time: 10.00am  to 4.00pm

Entry:  $5.00

Location: Memorial Hall, Sydney Street, Kilmore

Guest Speakers:  Liz Baker - Rotary Australia,  Liz will speak about Uplift Fiji
                              Jim Lowden - Kilmore Historical Society

Lunch:  BYO lunch and mug essential.  We will be offering a limited number of filled baked potatoes.     These can be pre-ordered by email or by phoning Fay Murphy.  Contact details are below.

Please note that the venue is required to be nut free by the Mitchell Shire Council.

Morning and afternoon tea will be provided by the ladies from Kilmore Quilters Inc.



Join Us:  Bring your hand sewing, sit and chat with old and new friends

Booby Prize:  Bring along old or new bras in good condition and receive a ticket for each bra to be in the running to win a great prize.
Bras will be donated to the Uplift Fiji project.  The bigger the better!

Shopping:  Jemima's Quilting, Craft Gate
and Patch n Quilt

Show & Tell:  Don't forget to bring Show & Tell to share with the Gathering


How to get there: Vicroads Directory 640 F4  Next to the library.  Parking available at the rear of the hall.

Further enquiries:   kilmorequilters@live.com

Patch N quilt

Patch n Quilt in Gisborne has moved around the corner to a new shop.

So, if you can't wait until the Summer Gathering when they will be attending as one of our traders, the new address is here:

http://patchnquilt.com.au/about/

Castlemaine Applique Group Quilt Exhibition

Castlemaine, in Central Victoria, will this month host the first ever exhibition of quilts by the Castlemaine Appliqué Group. With 120 members from all over Victoria, this group boasts some of the state’s best quilters.

Around 100 Appliqué Quilts will be on display, including quilts by three members of our own quilting group - Wendy, Jude and Rhonda.

Castlemaine Market Building, 

44 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine 

Saturday 15 March & Sunday 16 March 

9am-4pm.

The Group anticipates between 500 and 800 visitors through their doors with quilters from all over Australia and even as far away as Norway and England coming to Castlemaine to see the Group’s finest quilts on show.

All proceeds from the Exhibition will be used to buy a new Day Chair for the Oncology Department at Northeast Health, Wangaratta Hospital. Patients use these purpose built chairs when they receive chemotherapy. The Castlemaine Appliqué Group wants to buy a new chair for this regional hospital to support the care of cancer patients in their regional area and is hoping to raise $3,500 from the weekend.
Amongst the Group’s members are quilters from all walks of life and all corners of the State; published authors of quilt books, international prize winning designers and machine quilters, quilting teachers, through to relative newcomers to patchwork and appliqué. All are valued members of the Group and share their love of appliqué quilts.

Further Enquires may be directed to Megan Carroll or Corliss Searcey on 03 5472 1881.

What we got up to this February.

We had great attendance to both our gatherings and our sit n sew this month with lots of great show and tell. The Salinda / Nearly Insane girls are making great progress on their blocks. Thank you to the nine ladies who made it along to our Sit n Sew today. Before lunch we managed to make over 24 Scissor pouches for the Nurses in Fiji, we also managed to make great progress on our own projects after lunch.

Bridget showed us the progress on her Robyn Falloon Quilt

Nine ladies attended our Sit n Sew

Liz showed us the quilt she made out of the
butterfly blocks she purchased off Maureen at our trade table

We made 24 Scissor pouches at our Sit n Sew 

Some of our ladies showed off their summer
 homework on their Salinda Quilts

Jude showed us the progress she has made
 so far on her hand-pieced Lucy Boston quilt

Our Flikr account has been updated with some more photos from Show and Tell.

Welcome Back

It's been an interesting summer, hopefully some of you managed to get some sewing done.

Wednesday the 19th of February marks the first gathering of the year for Kilmore Quilters.  The committee have been busy firming up plans for the events scheduled for the first quarter of the year. The calendar has been updated with the current schedule of classes along with dates for several exhibitions they have been notified of.

February dates to note are as follows :

Night Gathering : Wednesday, 19th at 7pm 
Sissor Keep for Fiji / Sit n Sew : Sunday, 22nd at 9am
Day Gathering : Tuesday, 25th at 9am

This month also marks the beginning of a new project for Kilmore Quilters - the Honour Quilt designed by Maree.  We will be progressing through this quilt at 4 blocks a month.  Maree will be at both the night and day gathering this month to give us our blocks.

The ladies who were working on Dutch Treat should have finished their blocks over summer, we look forward to perhaps seeing their completed quilt tops in March.

And lets not forget our Salinda ladies - we look forward to seeing your progress too.

Coming up in March Kilmore Quilters will be hosting the Victorian Quilters Summer Gathering.  The committee has organised two guest speakers, three traders and plenty of prizes to be one.  All they ask is that you bring along a bra or two to donate to the Uplift Fiji Project, your hand sewing and $5 entry.  We will be selling baked potatoes for lunch for $5 but you will need to pre-order.

This past weekend our district and several other parts of Victoria experienced some terrible bush and grass fires.  Our hearts go out to those who have lost their homes and those who experienced the stress of evacuation.  We hope that all our members got through this event unscathed and safely.  Our deepest thanks goes out to all the brave volunteers who fought the fires day and night and who are still out there fighting the ongoing fires in Gippsland and continuing to put out hotspots and flare ups around us.

Rhonda has asked, "If anyone becomes aware of any of our community who have lost their homes in the recent fires could you let me know so that as a group we may be able to coordinate the gift of a quilt. If you have any quilts that you feel that you may be able to pass on could you let me know as well so that I can get an inventory started. A variety is always good as often quilts for males are not very plentiful."