Kilmore Quilters Inc. Biennial Quilt Show

Saturday the 10th of October & Sunday 11th of October

10am - 4pm   $5.00 entry

Kilmore Memorial Hall, Sydney Street, Kilmore

Plenty of parking behind the hall.

Antique Blooms

Our theme for this years Quilt Show is Colours Of War, in commemoration of the 100 year Anniversary of the ANZAC landings.

We will be holding a challenge of the same name with the size to be a maximum of one square metre consisting of 3 layers quilted together.

Missouri Stars

Our ladies have also taken on another challenge put forward by one of our members to create a quilt named the Honour Quilt.  The quilt consists of 49 blocks with each block named in memory of a local fallen soldier listed on the local memorials.  


These quilts will be on display at this years quilt show along with many other quilts made by our members, every year we average approx. 100 quilts.

Our Quilt Raffle will feature a First and Second Prize.  With the winner choosing the quilt they prefer.  There will also be door prizes, our trade table and shop tables - Simpson and Scarlett, Canterbury Quilts and Creature Crafts.  You will also have the option to vote on both the challenge quilts and those quilts we have on display.

As we do every year we will have a stage display, this years display will depict the home front - to tie in with our Colours of War theme.

Once again the ladies will have home baked goodies available for morning and afternoon tea along with a variety of options for lunch.

Before we know it our Quilt Show will be happening......

With September flying by we find ourselves in preparations for our upcoming Quilt Show (10th & 11th October).  Entry forms are being gathered, bindings and rod pockets are being sewn onto quilts, cupboards are being raided for items for our Stage Display and last minute embellishments are being added to challenge entries - well this is what we hope is happening.

September was a funny old month for gatherings and our Sit n Sew.  Numbers were down on our evening gathering, while our day gathering was very well attended.

Day Gathering

Andrea's Stars

Sue C's Stitchery

   


The Sit n Sew was also well attended by a group of very enthusiastic members who were working on a variety of items.  Some worked on items for the trade table, while others were either finishing of projects or starting new ones.

Chocolate and Quilting, cannot do one without the other

Joan's Daughters Bali Quilt

Dellareece's latest project

Stop Press announcement...

We have just been told that the Patchworkers and Quilters Guild of Victoria has had to cancel its Quilt Exhibition on the 19th and 20th September.

Spring has almost sprung......

Well at least the plum trees think spring is almost here ..... most of them have started to blossom here in the valley where I'm writing this blog.  But it just doesn't feel like spring quite yet.  On most mornings and especially in the evenings it is still bitterly cold in our corner of the world.

However, that has not stopped our enthusiasm and our quest to churn out our quilts.

The quilt show is not far off now, our members are busy creating bits and bobs for the trade table,finishing off quilts ready for display and hopefully working on our challenge entries.




These gorgeous dolls will be available at our Trade Table if you are quick.  As will these Pedal Mats.

August was a quiet month however, a small group of ladies took on a workshop to learn Gillian Marshall's method for foundation piecing taught by Maureen from Rochester's Quilting Patch.

Sue C is continuing on with her stitchery

This class challenged a few of the ladies in choosing colours and using more fabric than they desired.  But all in all they thoroughly enjoyed the class.

There was plenty of show and tell, with a great turnout to both the evening and the day gatherings.    Some of the ladies have started their La Pascaglia quilts, while others were nearing the end of their Nearly Insane journey.

We were also shown some completed UFO's and some great progress made on stitcheries.

Wendy's Nearly Insane Blocks

Wendy has started La Pascaglia

  For more photos from our gatherings or classes have a look through our Flikr site

Jubilant July

What a busy month it has been for the ladies here at Kilmore Quilters.  

The month started out with a great little Mystery Quilt Workshop run by Rhonda Coates.  There was plenty of homework for the ladies prior to the workshop with lots of HSTs to prepare.  As the day progressed the quilt started to reveal itself, proving to once again be a quilt well worth doing.

Top ready for borders

Great progress was made by those who did their preparation

Despite the bitter cold we are currently experiencing there was a great turnout to both gatherings this month with plenty of show and tell on offer.  



Perhaps due to the colder weather or just because it's fun some of the ladies have even picked up their crotchet needles.  This particular pattern is easy and fun to do.


For more photos from our July Gatherings go to our Flikr page.

Then there was the Vic Quilters Showcase at Jeffs Shed.  It was wonderful to see the Honour Quilts hanging there along with several entries by some of our members.  Along with some award winning Quilts by Wendy and Dellareece - for more information read our previous blog entry.

Jenny's Star of the Galaxy

Wendy's Rotherfield Greys Quilt

Fay's Honour Quilt

Raffle Tickets are now available for our Raffle Quilts - contact one of our members for a ticket if you would like a chance to win one of these wonderful quilts.  The Raffle will be drawn at our Quilt Show which is on the 10th & 11th of October.  For more information go to our Upcoming Events page.

First Prize

Second Prize

Congratulations to our ladies on their wins at Vic Quilters Showcase 2015

What magnificent quilts there were on show at Vic Quilters this weekend.   Amongst those quilts were entries by some of the ladies from Kilmore Quilters.  Congratulations to you all on your wonderful entries and a big hurrah to Dellareece, Wendy and Jenny on your wins.

Wendy's Dutch Treat

Wendy entered her Dutch Treat quilt in the Mainly Appliqué two person category.  She won first prize in this category (so in turn was also a win for Jenny for her Quilting work), Wendy also won the Excellence in Hand Appliqué award for the same quilt. 

Dellareece with her Honour Quilt

Dellareece is the youngest member of Kilmore Quilters.  Her quilt was entered in the Secondary School category at the show.  She won Runner up Secondary School Section AND the Bernina Student Encouragement Award winning a Bernina sewing machine!

Well done to all three ladies on your wins.  We are all very proud of you.

We were also very proud as a group to be one of the Profile groups at the show.  This gave us the opportunity to display a selection of the Honour Quilts.  There were fifteen quilts on show, which looked fantastic all hanging there together.  Despite each quilt containing the same blocks the approach taken in choice of colours, sashings, layouts and borders differed reflecting the personality of the quilter and the approach they took to creating the quilts.  These quilts along with the stories of the soldiers represented and the names on some of the quilts moved some of the viewers with plenty of wonderful feedback received by those representatives of Kilmore Quilters at the show.

Dianne's Quilt

To see more of our Honour Quilts, grab a cuppa and have a look at our Honour Quilt Flikr Album.

Chilly June

Winter is certainly upon us now.  The colder weather is certainly a wonderful excuse to dig out some hand sewing, knitting or crotchet and sit by the fire or heater.  Even better is having a quilt to hand bind, something to keep you warm while you are working.

Our quilt show is getting closer now, only three and half months left.  We usually have approximately 100 quilts to display in our show, along with our Challenge Quilts all of which can be voted on by the public.

First Prize Quilt

Second Prize Quilt

This year we once again have two wonderful quilts to win in our raffle.

Both quilts have been made by our members as a group effort.

Our First Prize Quilt is Corliss' Antique Applique Sampler

Our Second Prize quilt is a disappearing hour glass block from Missouri Star Quilt Company in Kaffe Fassett Fabrics.

Raffle tickets are currently available for purchase from our members.


For further information about our quilt show keep an eye on the Upcoming Events section of our Blog or on our Facebook Page

We are also very delighted to have been accepted as the Profile group of 2015 at the Victorian Quilters Show at Jeffs Shed.  We will be exhibiting 16 of our Honour Quilts at the Exhibition.

This month at our Sit n Sew we introduced a junior sewing session as an experiment.... which proved quite successful.  The girls thoroughly enjoyed the session and went home with completed placemat sized quilted mats.

For photos from our June Day gathering  or our Sit n Sew visit our Flikr page.