Sewing, Gardenind & Family

                                             Toowoomba Flower Festival Parade

I really like the colours & movement in this photo.

Had the morning at the markets.
All the Ken Dolls were lined up so neat

waiting to be sold.

 

While in Toowoomba I stayed with my Anuty Mary & Uncle Allan, Mum was also staying plus cousin Jan was with us.We all love plants & gardens.

Mary is in the Geranium club, they had a big display & sale on over the weekend. Mum & I went along to help. I think the best help we done was to buy boxes full of Geraniums. I didnt know there were so many different kinds.( well I have a good variety now )

Went of to see the Champion Garden.It was stunning, absolutely beautifull.So many flowers,colour & the perfume. No words to describe it.You had lots to look at. They also had mosaics through out the garden. Another of my favourite things

Mum & Mary in the back ground. Dont you love the lines in this picture. The straigt & curved lines work so well together. Wonderful idea for a quilt.

Its off to Precious Times for a Sue Ross workshop. Sue is a wonderful lady We had a very busy few days.

Sue had lots of inspiration ideas to show us how to use the arcs we made.

To add little bits & pieces makes a big difference to your quilt.

Lisa & Majella spoilt us. They had Yummy food for morning tea , afternoon tea &  lunch.

Thank you girls it was great.

My quilt , still working on it. I am happy with the light blue background but not with the pink in the centre of the arcs.Will try a few new colours, thinking yellow.

Sues quilt

On the road home.Bev took a short cut. Did I say that I went to Toowoomba with Bev. She done 2 workshops at Precious Times while I was out & about looking at gardens. We both done Sues ''Pickle Dish'" workshop.

The short cut took us on a dirt road. It was a pretty drive ,how much shorter I dont know.Its still a long drive (about 9 hours)

Spring Flowers

The Trumpet tree is flowering Its just stunning. The flowers start out a rick cream, as it ages it changes to a lovely Apricot-Pink. It realy beautiful. Flowers about 3 or 4 times a year.

Sorry this one is on its side.Its late & I cant seem to work out how to fix it.

Show & Tell Afternoon

On Saturday  Bev & I put on a Show & Tell afternoon.

One of the hard things about closing the shop  is, we don't get to see every ones quilts. It was lovely to see what people had started or finished.

My house was open to any of our old customers for show & tell plus afternoon tea. It was great to see every ones work.




Ruth holding Bevs work

 

Jeans Roundroben Block of the month

Laurene's  hand work quilt



Pretty Maids in a Row



This is a quick post - I've got a few ladies coming for Afternoon Tea today and wanted to share these quilts before I forget!

Until earlier this year, I owned a patchwork shop with my friend Bev. We closed it at the end of March, and I made this quilt while we were still operating to try out the Dresden Plate templates we had for sale.  I was planning to make it into a class for the shop - may still happen yet.  Although I've been teaching patchwork and quilting classes locally for many years now, last year I completed my Teacher Accreditation with Queensland Quilters.  I particularly love teaching although it can at times be challenging to develop a class, sharing skills and ideas with others is certainly very rewarding and to be honest I get not just satisfaction myself but most classes I'm inspired by what the partcipants create or bring along to share.



Quilting Detail



I quilted it myself - I particularly love free motion quilting! _ I'm a much better quilter than blogger as I'm finding it #$%^^&* difficult to get these photos to go where I want them.  I'm giving up and will work with blogger. 

I have quite a few books and have been particularly inspired by the work of some wonderful artists and patchworks.  Particularly Nancy Crowe, Jean Wells, Gwen Marsden, Katie Pasquini and many others.  So this next quilt came about when I was given fabrics from the "Sugar Snap" range by Melissa Averinos for Free Spirit Fabrics and wanted to do something that showcased the lovely fabrics.  This is what I came up with, again quilted by myself because I wanted to play with my walking foot. Anyway enough for today - I've got tea to prepare.