October is over and there are only 53 days until Christmas

October is now over, after all the hard work we managed to have a successful, well attended Quilt Show with a great variety of wonderful quilts on show.  With the show over we all drew a big sigh of relief and have moved on with our lives.   As those who have been involved in organising an event such as a Quilt Show it tends to dominate your life and the lives of those around you especially in the weeks and days leading up to and after the show.   Now we have a small amount of time to rest and recuperate before the lead up to that yearly dominating time in our lives - Christmas!!

We have posted many, many photos from our show on our Flikr account and on our Facebook page for those of you who may still be interested in viewing them.

Quilt Show
Stage Display
Viewers Choice
Challenge Entries - Colours of War                       
Avenue of Honour



This month our gatherings were well attended. Our day gathering in particular is becoming increasingly popular and at this one we met 3 potential new members. 

The ladies brought along some great show and tell.

Some of the ladies have started the La Pascaglia Quilt

  

Nancy made this quilt of OS Vistitors

Judy H made great use of various Rose fabric from her stash

 

Jo's Aussie Hero Quilt

Jo told us about the great cause - Aussie Hero Quilts, she has started making quilts for, she showed us three quilts she had made.  The blue one to the left is one of them.
Rather than make an anonymous quilt for the boys and girls serving, she chooses to make them a little bit special by subscribing to the request list.
For more information about Aussie Hero Quilts see:  http://aussieheroquilts.blogspot.com.au/

For more pictures from Octobers Show and Tell have a look at our Flikr Album for October.

Thank you for making this years Quilt Show a great Success

So much work goes into setting up a quilt show, there is months of planning behind the scenes leading up to a show - applying for grants, booking traders, arranging rosters, registering entries, typing up the stories that go on the quilts, making our new magnetic pins, planning the stage layout, making items for the trade table, planning menus and so much more.

It was great to see so many men come along with their wives and partners to our show this year.

Thank you to all our volunteers - both members, spouses, sons, daughters and friends for helping us put together a very successful Quilt show.

Challenge Entries

Thank you to those of you who came and helped set up the stands, accept and label the entries, hang the quilts, set up the dining room and entry, preparing the kitchen and those of who loaned items to the stage display.

Stage Display

Thank you to those of you who volunteered throughout the weekend to sell raffle tickets, man the front door, don white gloves, work the trade table and the kitchen.

Thank you to those who helped pack down in record time.

Thank you to all our visitors for coming to our show and thank you for your wonderful feedback.



And most of all thank you to the committee for all your hard work in the background leading up to the show, for your time and efforts during the show and for the continued work you do after the show.

Winner Viewers Choice Mainly Applique - Wendy

Winner Viewers Choice Mainly Stitchery - Joan N

Winner Viewers Choice Mainly Pieced - Shirley

Presidents Choice - Charlene

For more pictures from our quilt show 2015 please visit our Flikr Albums through one of the links below:

Quilt Show
Stage Display
Viewers Choice
Challenge Entries - Colours of War
Avenue of Honour

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