Raffle Quilt, the borders are on!

I went to Fiona's this morning, and we put the borders on the raffle quilt. Above is the quilt top with 1st border cream, and 2 sides of light brown border.

Below is the finished top with a 3rd border of dark brown. It's on Fiona's king size bed, so it's going to be a large quilt. We are happy with the way it has turned out, the blue and brown look really good together.

Now all I have to do, is cover the library books for tomorrow's meeting, and wrap the raffle prizes! See you all at Hurupaki School tomorrow.

Creative Fibre Festival, National Exhibition

               

This is like our Quilting Symposium but for spinners, weavers, knitters, felters etc. They are having their conference here in Whangarei. 

Read more at their websitehere: www.creativefibre.org.nz

The Exhibition is on Friday (tomorrow) til Sunday, upstairs at Kensington Stadium. Downstairs they have merchants selling all sorts, from alpaca fleece to dyes. Entry is $8 for Adults, Children are free.

I'm going but not till Sunday, so thought I'd let you all know in case you haven't seen ad's. I'll take photos if its allowed & post them on the blog later. 

Hibiscus Quilt

I thought I would share this quilt from my work. It hangs as a curtain in the school library, behind my desk. It was made by children in the school several years ago. Each child stitched a flower by hand. The stitches are large and mostly done with contrasting thread.

 

The mother who co-ordinated this quilt, wrote each child's name on their blocks, then hand pieced the blocks and sashing together, and backed with calico. Unfortunately the quilt has no label, and teachers come and go, so no one can remember who she was, and when exactly it was made. 

The children at school say to me they like the way the light shines though it. Makes it seem like stained glass.

It just goes to show what children can achieve with a little guidance. Remember there is a Childrens Section at our Quilt Show in July. So if you have school age kids in your family encourage them to enter.

Raffle Quilt

Today Fiona and I started putting together one of the raffle quilts, for our club's quilt show. Is cream on cream, with brown and blue. I can't remember the block name, but this is what the blocks looked like on my lounge floor. It was so sunny I had to pull the curtains to take this photo. Then it was too hot so I opened the large sliding door behind the curtains, big mistake, half the blocks were blown out of place by a gust of wind!

So we started again, as anyone who has done a scrap quilt like this knows, it takes a while to make sure the same fabrics are not touching each other, and then to try and balance the colours over the quilt. Oscar came to help, I think he wants to move these blocks to a different place? 

No, he was just checking the feel of it before he sat down! I think he likes it. Later in the day he wasn't so happy as he didn't get his tea until we had sewn most of the blocks together. Fiona left to get takeaways for her family's dinner, and my husband made ours!