Glacier Star

 I have finished my Glacier Star quilt. This is the one I started in Judy Nemeryer workshop at Melbourne. Once all our house guests left I got very busy in the sewing room until I finished this quilt. I only had the "flying geese" to make & join it all together. I am really pleased with the end result.

 It was a never ending job to remove all the paper, I found it better to remove it as I was building the quilt. I had paper from one end of the sewing room to the other. What a mess!

 Almost to the end of all the "flying geese" blocks.




Walking around the garden I noticed the fire ball was out in flower. It is a stunning flower. You forget you have it in the garden until it flowers. Dies down in the winter & then the next thing you see is the ball starting to open up. I don't know it real name.
 But the colours are beautiful.

 Up early to go walking & the sun was a bright orange ball coming up. It looked so good. I had to run back inside to get my camera, the geese were even posing for me.

The fire ball just starting to open up.

At the craft fair with Mum....
Went off to help mum set up for the craft fair. She had some wonderful gear this year. A lot of the art work that she makes is from recycled  junk.
 Most of it is garden art.

 Lizards, cows, possums, hats, bags & frogs all made from old tin.

 Bird house, wreaths, chooks, birds & butterfly's made from wire.

 Lots & lots of stunning things.

 She also works in clay & dabbles in mosaics. There's no end to what she will have a go at.
My garden is like a big gallery displaying all mums art work Plus a lot of my sister's work. My sister Kay is a welding artist.

And last but not lest the few cushions I had for sale.

I had a fantastic week at Melbourne. Spent 4 days at Vic Textiles doing a Judy Niemeyer Certified workshop. I had the best time and left with so much crammed in to my tiny little mind, (luckily I took lots of notes) .Plus Judy's information booklets are very easy to understand and follow.
We had 4 days to make the "Glacier Star",  plus learn how to teach it in our own workshops.
Doing the certified class gives me the rights to now teach it my self. You wont  get this pattern from any one but a certified shop or teacher. Peter Taylor's Sewing centre should have the patterns and fabric in stock any time soon, plus lots more of Judy's patterns. Next year 2013 I will be teaching lots of Judy's patterns.
We will start with the table runners" and yes, beginners will be able to handle these patterns. So I hope to see you all in my classes.

 I have all my units made, I just have to put it all together now.

 All busy in class. Vic Textiles had a stunning set up for us. A big ''Thank you" to all the staff  at Vic textiles for looking after us so well.

  Judy and I.
I can't wait for Judy to come back to Australia so I can go to the next workshop.

After the workshop, waiting 2 hours for a taxi & finding my way around the train stations, I finaly got out to Castlemaine to have a few days with my lovely friends Sally & Pat. Didn't see much of Pat because he had to go in to hospital for a small op. (Hopefully he is figthing fit & ready to go now)
Sally & I had a great time. We did  over most of the Op-shops, second hand & antique shops.

 This house was down the road from Castlemaine & it was unreal, I loved all the Art work he had every where around his yard. There was so much to look at. Metal art, wood, sticks, wire & lots of old stuff. If you are ever down that way I recommend you go to have a look.

Just a few flowers I liked. Looked so pretty.

 Once I got back home I had time to give the house a quick clean and then Mum & Doug's mum, Jean, arrived. Mum has come up for the craft fair.  That will be a big week end. I even have a few things to sell this year. Had better go and get busy.

Time For Blocks

 My friend Bev invited me around for a play date. She had a few blocks to cut out and thought I'd like to help her or cut a few out for myself. In the end I didn't have the right fabric, so I just watched and did a lot of taking. Once I got home I pulled out all my fabric. Finding the right ones to make my block took a little while. It all went together so well that I made a 2nd one Sorry no photo of that one. Will have to go over to play with Bev more often, she got me inspired to do a heap of other blocks. Working on a new idea for a beginners quilt with mixed size blocks.

 The Cat in the Hat....... I just loved Dr Seuss books when I was a kid. Megan was pretty keen on them too but Doug hated them. When it was time for bed time story's they were one book he would not read to her. Didn't like all the rhyming, drove him mad. Funny because thats what I liked.
The fabric has been out for a while but I didn't really know what to do with it.
 A few weeks ago I made a quilt for a class where we had a panel that I cut up and added borders to each  of the blocks and then put them back together. I used that same idea with this Cat in the Hat panel.
Made this little quilt for Jack. He should arrive in this world any day soon.

The geese have grown heaps. In this photo they still have baby feathers, but now there all gone. All they do is eat and poo. Every day we have a big mess to clean up, Which I had better go and do. Sewing girls will be here tomorrow so I can't have then wading through geese poo.

Helen's home Exhibition

 I've just had 3 wonderful days in Brisbane. Went down for the Stitches & Craft show. I met up with Sylvia, Helen, Judy & Janette. There was so much to see & do. Also caught up with Leone. She is still a very busy lady.

While looking at all the quilts I ran into Bev. We both had quilts on display at the quilt show.

This is the quilt I made for Terri, my niece. Her 21st quilt. Terri designed the applique as a tattoo originally but we decided to make into a quilt, this way its something we both designed and enjoy. This is the first quilt I have on display in the show.

 This is a close up of the quilting. Took me weeks to quilt this quilt but it's finally done.

The 2nd quilt I have on display in the show. 

 This is a close up of Bev's quilt. You will have to go to her blog to get a better look at it. It's a lovely quilt and she has done so much quilting on it. If I knew how to make a link I would as I'm very impressed and you REALLY should have a look at it.

 The red and white quilts on display. And guess what - our quilt is front and bottom centre. With the mistake and all.

 All of us out to lunch before we have our second go at the shops and another look at the quilts.

We said goodbye Bev and then we all headed off the Helen's at Bribie Island for the next few days.
 After a lovely day of Helen driving us all over the place, from the Glass House Mountains to Montville checking out every patchwork shop we could find along the way, it was back home to Helen's to relax and have a drink...or two. Plus we had show and tell.

Sylvia made this lovely quilt for Judy. Many years ago Judy let Sylvia raid her fabric stash and Sylvia has never forgotten her generosity, so as a thank you gift she made Judy this quilt.

 Then we had show and tell with all of Helen's quilts. Most of them are ready to be quilted, a few are finished and a couple are almost done.

 This is one we all made our own versions of a few years ago. Everyone's quilt looks completely different. Helen chose to do hand applique on hers.

 This is another hand worked quilt.

 This one is for one of her lovely granddaughters.

 This is another quilt that we have all made our own versions of. Helen's done hand applique again on this one. ( I even did mine by hand.)

 Helen is still working on this one, she does lovely hand work.

 Just a close up of her hand quilting.

 The second quilt she has been working on. She hand quilted it over the winter.

And finally this is a hand applique AND hand pieced blocks that Helen had been working on.

Well now that I'm home I'd better get busy and finish a few mine that need doing.

More Wedge cushions

 We had another class making the wedge cushions. The tassel's looks really good around this cushion

 Ula was very impressed with her self. All finished in one day. She done a happy dance at the end of the class & I got a lovely big hug.

 Cute small kids quilt. This is the class for next month.

  On Wednesday we had sewing at Evol's .   Bev, Daph, Evol & I.
We were all very busy making a quilt to be given away. Each month one of us gets the job to pick a quilt to make & the rest of us are there to help put it together, then Evol gets to give them away.
This is the start of the next quilt.

Well its time for bed. Big day tomorrow, I go off to Brisban for the quilt show.

Spring Colour

 Walking around the garden and you see colour every were. All the flowers are out and looking so pretty. It sure to put a spring in your step and creative ideas in your mind.

 The happy family out and about. Dad still hasn't come home. (I really hope he is down on the river)
 We now have 7 baby's, so cute. But does any one know how to tell the sex of a gosling ?
My brother is going to take 3 but he would like 2 girls and 1 boy. I think it will just be pot luck with what ever he gets.

Second class with the Wedge ruler. More fabulous cushions were made. Carol showing of her cushion, she said a 2nd one is on the way.

 Lyn hiding behind her almost finished cushion. This is going to be a extra large pillow for the CAT to sleep on. (inside joke)

  And Lauraine with her stunning master piece. All the girls got their cushions made in the day and they are all lovely.

 Now I had better get busy and Start on a new quilt, Or quilt one from the pile or finish a UFO. Choices, What to do.