Gemmie Quilters Doily Workshop

 I went out to the Gem Fields on Tuesday to teach my Doily Runner Class.We all had an enjoyable day. Most of the Lady's almost completed there runners, which was really good.

                                   Some doily's  waiting to be made into a creative art piece

 This is the quilt, the Gemmie Quilters Club have made for their next raffle quilt. We will all have to make sure we get tickets. I must say it's a lovely little quilt.

       These are some of the lady's that were in the class, with their almost finished projects. They can all be very proud of what they accomplished in one day, they did really well.

Brisbane Weekend

 I just had four days in Brisbane. Went down with my friend Bev. We went to the Queensland Quilt show & Stitchers & Craft. The quilts were wonderfull. You really need a good day to look at them all. I did take lots of photos, but I only put my quilt "Afican Beauty", up for you to look at. (With the copy rights I thought I had better not put any others on my blog) I come home with lots of insperasion.

 Also meet up with one of the ladys from our old sewing group, Helen. It was really good to catch up.
Bev, Helen & I went off to lunch, we had lots to talk about. Its been years since I saw Helen but it only felt like yesturday. There were 7 of us in our sewing group. As time has gone on & people move away there is only 2 of us now (Sylvia & I are hanging in there).


On the way home we stopped of at  Eagle Farm Markets. Bevs lovely son Chris run us to the markets on the way to the Airport. Great little market. So much food & lots more to look at. Just a pity we could'nt  fit any more in our bags.

 Took photos of the grandstand. Wonderfull quilting designs & piecing ideas.All the lines would make a stunning quilt. More ideas & designs to work on.

                                                       Its never ending the ideas we see around us.

    Walking around the markets you see so much colour. More insperasion for quilts.

 The flower stall was to die for, and they had them set out in colour shades red, pink, yellow & so on.

 Walking back to the car I saw a few Fig trees.The branches were all interlocked, twisted & meshed together. Very interesting, took more photos but his one with the bits sticking out the side really took my fancy.

  I have a feeling Chris thought I was quite mad, taking random photos of trees, the skyline and the market place.

 Well our time in Brisbane is over. It's back on the plane to Emerald and home sweet home.

Jo's Quilt

                                          My lovely daugther Megan.
She will be 21 in January.We have both been busy making the invitations. My sewing room had been taken over with writing matrials and pens. All finished & in the post now, thank heavens.

 In the last post I had all the fabrics picked ready for the next quilt I wanted to make. Jo's Quilt. After a few days of cutting & sewing I end up with Log Cabin blocks.  All Green & Pink. The blocks are all up on the design wall waiting to see what happens next. I'm not sure if I like it, but I showed it to Jo & she said it was lovely. Which is all that matters really.

 Stitched the blocks together and added 2 small borders. I made up more blocks, some different ones this time.
I must say this quilt is not my colours at all, but it is slowly starting to grow on me.

 When I was working on the samples for the first step in my No Rules No Rulers class, I got a bit carryed away with the amount of blocks I made . They were lots of fun to make & I was finaly using my own hand dyed fabric. It just seem to grow & grow.    
                                          Doug, my very patient husband holding up my quilt.

 I had a pile of quilt tops ready to be quilted. They had growen so much it was scary, I just did'nt know were to start. In the end it got the better of me & I sent 3 off to my friend  Evol to quilt. She is a lovely lady, and not just because she did the quilts for me.
She's also great at giving me plant cuttings from her garden, I do love this and her of course.

These are a couple of close ups the quilts Evol quilted for me. Lovely work she's done with them. I really think that the circle patterned quilting goes well with the squares of the fabric.

Well I'm off to the quilt show in Brisbane tomorrow morning, very exciting. Bev and I are going for a few days to check out all the stunning quilts that are on display this year. I'm sure there'll also be a rather large dent in our purses after we hit the Stiches and Craft fair, can't wait!!

Works in process

                                                        This is the quilt I started in Toomoowba.
The Sue Ross, "Pickle Dish" workshop at Precious Times. I have all my blocks together & one border on, Second border will be wedges of the fabric used in the quilt .

All the blocks in this quilt have been made useing the "Marti Michell' templates. There

are so many blocks you can make with this template set. The fun is how to put them together.

This is a class I am working on for next year.

            Fabrics for the next project. Not all of those fabrics will be used. It is to be a pink, green, & brown quilt. Still looking for a few more pieces to add to this pile. Looking at the photo now I can  see that I will have to take out the green fabric with the pink  melons. Different colour range for me to be working with, but a friend asked for a quilt in those colours. Can't wait to see what I end up with.