Show n Tell March 2014

It was only a small show n tell on Saturday, as it was also the day to hand in quilts, for our Quilt Show. Details of the Show are just to the right on the side of the blog.
If you are anywhere near Whangarei make sure you come and have a look, it's always a large show and there are Merchants too. If you see me come and say Hi too, I don't bite (much!)


Kim Bodman made the amazing quilt "Lattice" from a magazine at club.
I think this only her second quilt!
She has taken to quilting like a duck to water.


Shelia Ujdur made this sweet baby quilt form one of our new library books.
Close up below so you can see the ric-rac Shelia added over the seams.




Rikki Going is back from sailing the seas, and bought in these table runners and placemats for show n tell.
The top set are a Bargello design, and below is the set she made for a friend who wanted a pink and green..

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Gaye Miller made these two beautiful cushions for her brother who is in London.
She is hoping they will cheer him up after all the terrible weather they have been having over there.

 

Where did February go?

Can't believe it's March already! February has been busy, lots of stuff going on from a quick holiday in Tauranga (which was lovely). Very busy at work with a large increase of the school roll (there's a promise of more hours, but we will see). Mum has finally got a placement at a Resthome, lots more to do now with clearing her house and putting on the market, one step at a time everyone keeps telling me.... & Brad has returned to Hamilton, to a new flat, glad all that moving/buying/planning is now done, though I will have to take more stuff down to him as everything didn't fit into the car!


Trying to keep sane I did a little bit of sewing. I made the blue square border for my Split Nine Patch Quilt, and now it is in the "Top" pile.


I also pin tacked my red and white quilt top that I made in 2012 (looked back on the blog to find that out!) It doesn't seem nearly two years since I made it. I pinned it at a UFO class at Northland Sewing Centre (Bernina). I really need to do some quilting now so when I go back this month I have something to show!

Just Another 48…

Last year at our Retreat I sewed my split nine patch blocks together. At the time I decided it was a bit small and I needed to make more blocks.
The problem with small blocks is they take just as much work as large blocks, but of course you need heaps more! Because the blocks are only 6 inches finished I had to make another 48 to get to the size I was happy with.


So over the last week I have finally made the last 48 blocks. If you look hard at the photo you can see that the last four rows (48 blocks) are not sewn together. It took a couple of hours moving blocks about till I was happy that no two fabrics were touching (unless diagonally). This was not the final arrangement so if you see anything wrong don't tell me!
I sewed the extras together last night while watching the encore screening of the Downton Abbey Xmas Special.


Here it is hanging on the line this morning, so I could get a photo. As you can see there's a breeze today!


The back with all the seams showing.


And the front, I think that's as good as I'm going to get with the wind today. Never mind it's sunny and warm.
Hope you've had a chance to do some sewing too this week.

Keri Keri Quilt Show

I had a lovely day out with Friends on Friday. We went to the Keri Keri Quilt Show and then had lunch and a look around the Keri Keri shops.
Here’s a few photos from the show for you to enjoy too.

This 'Star' Log Cabin was my favourite at the show. As you can see from it's label below it was made using floral fabrics.



I haven't made a Log Cabin quilt but have wanted too for a while, maybe this year? We will see, as my Mother used it say......



This large Log Cabin 'Barn Raising' was the first prize in the raffle. I took a couple, fingers crossed.


I have so many black and white fabrics I should make a version of this.



The hand embroidery on this quilt is just gorgeous.

Here's a couple of close ups of the hand embroidery.




I really like how this simple block shows off the floral fabrics. I might get out my floral fabrics and see if I have enough to make a similar quilt.



Love how the feathers are quilted on this wallhanging.