show and tell at club

As usual lots to see at club this week...

I thought this was very pretty...

and so was the backing.....

Very effective design...  all HST's placed differently to what you usually see...

a grouping of community quilts...

It was shared morning tea and there was a large spread....

.... much more than we needed...

I took these cheese and herb muffins, they were lovely just after cooking (we had to taste test them) but they were awful and dry the next day.... mustn't do that again....

I took this quilt in for Show and Tell... it is the 5th quilt I made using the Terra Australis fabrics.... all the shapes needle-turned and then stippling in between...

Righto, Gotto Go.... time for the second cup of coffee....

First week of February

I am going to try and continue regular weekly blog posts with the odd one in between... and using very unoriginal titles of which week we are in the month!

This week I went to quilt group..... as usual there was some show and tell... not many but some beauties...

This lovely little one had so much to look at....

some very delicate beautiful lace  with stitching and charms...

Some artistic baubles....

A fun Christmas quilt....

I did enjoy this fun pinwheel circles quilt ... I liked the little break in the border with the fine line

Another clever lap quilt... the background really shows up the blocks...

I took in my Puzzle Box quilt, a few people asked about the pattern as it is a good one for scraps and not too hard to make.... It is HERE 

I sat in between chats and glue basted a bunch of hexagons... I need to make 2 panels for Gossip in the Garden (if I had realised this I might not have opted to do the quilt!!!!)

I didn't have enough fabrics ready so I do need to do more but I have planned out one set to start stitching together.

Growing up at meals I was always taught to start with the food I least liked and then it was done... I am following that principal with this quilt!

As I mentioned it was de-stash day at quilt group...... I got these four 1 metre length pieces which I thought may come in use sometime... they were $5 each

then a set of fat 1/8ths that were 50c each....

I really should have a bit of a plan when I go and buy for a purpose rather than 'might be useful one day'

Some work has been done on the borders for Civil War Bride - there is still lots of leaves, flowers and birds to add....

- and still more vine on the top border (which I thought I had done) .

Righto, Gotto Go...... I need to dig into the pink scrap bucket to chop up for this month's RSC.

Tomorrow night is FNWF at Cheryll's.... I'll be there working on those hexagons

Have a lovely weekend....

Back to Club

Fun to get back to club today - and catch up with lots of different people.

We had a destash day - if there are 5 Tuesdays in a destash on the 5th - This month however we have our Christmas party on the 5th Tuesday so destash was early.

Members can bring in their goodies to sell, usually quilting related but not strictly.

Today there was (sadly) two deceased quilters stashes.... and there was a lot of fabric to choose from.  A really lot.

I chose some metreage of plain colours ($6/metre) as they are great to have to add in for backgrounds.  And a couple of bags of neutral light scraps (50c a bag).   There was so much more that I would have liked at very good prices.

Bargains for us, but sad for lost quilters - however the amount of fabrics that were there has made me resolved to use the lovely fabrics I have ....

Once I had finished shopping I sewed down these pies onto background fabric.  (The two packs of scraps were to find additional backgrounds for this quilt)

As usual there was show and tell....

This one is so clever with the use of colour 

This was a fun mat ....

She used cat fabrics to make up the strips...

Simple 4 patch placed on point with sashing and cornerstones.... lovely

I took my circles.... quite a lot of interest as it is simple but effective...

I would never have chosen turquoise to go with the brown... but how good does it look?

The pattern is a free on from Fat Quarter Shop.... found HERE - I think I will add this to my want to make list.

Sweet baby quilt...

Effective use of colours... that yellow really cheers  it up...

And a group of little quilts....

All in all a pleasant day.... I am looking forward to our Christmas lunch.  Usually we have an ornament swap but that is not happening this year.  Apparently too many people were taking gifts when they hadn't brought one in.  Seems a shame to me as I think it would be easy to just hand tokens to people as they handed in a gift to make sure that doesn't happen.  However, I am pleased to have the pressure of making something taken away this year.

Take care....