Showing posts with label quilting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilting. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The Festival of Quilts

We were so lucky to have two days at the Quilt show. You need at least 2 days to see most of it. It was wonderful to see the Tentmakers of Cairo and their wonderful, vibrant quilts.






 The miniatures at the show were amazing. These quilts were so tiny!






 This stitching is all machined.




 The quilts on display were so varied. This is a beautiful memory quilt.
 These gorgeous quilts were by a French quilter and they were just amazing!



 Then there were lots of modern quilts too.



 It was exciting to see quite a few Australian quilts.


 These stitched and appliqued jumpers really caught my eye.







 This was another favourite with cross stitch, crochet and embroidered motifs added to a wonderful quilt.




 There were other designers too and Penny and I especially enjoyed one of the weaving stalls.
We did 2 classes which Penny chose! Both involved free motion quilting which is not one of my strong points. I should have taken pictures of Penny's samples as mine are not so good! Still it was fun to try a few new things. The first was a screen printed fern and then we quilted around it. 
 The second class was using special fabric that shrinks up after your stitch and iron it. The funny part of that class is that we have had that fabric at hobbysew for ages! Looks quite effective when quilted even by me! The shrinking hides the quilting a bit.

Friday, December 21, 2012

My town, a beautiful quilt and parties

Karen brought in her gorgeous My Town quilt to show us now that it has been quilted. It is absolutely beautiful and Robyn has done a wonderful job of the quilting. Feeling a bit motivated to get my blocks out again! There are some closeups below of the lovely blocks and the quilting. Can you see Karen peaking around the side of the quilt?




 Moonbi (really Najelle sneaked it over) showed us this wonderful quilt she has made with her friendship group.
 It has been a busy week of parties this week and the Wednesday night class girls got together, on Wednesday, and had a lovely time at Carol's house. Thanks Carol. I wish I had taken some photos of her gorgeous decorations. Here are just some of the lovely gifts that Secret Santa brought. We were all very blessed.




Yesterday was another busy day of parties but I forgot to take any photos! Now I need to stop celebrating and finish some stitching, cook some goodies, and get ready for Christmas!