Show & Tell Dec 09

Frances has made this sweet little fairy skirt and blue dress. I think it must be for someone special. They are so cute.

Show & Tell Dec 09

A delightful quilt made by Judy P. Lovely soft blues and pinks. She has made this for herself.

















Anne P has been very busy making a lovely quilt her grocery manager's new daughter.





















Madeline has made these fabulous quilts for her grandsons. There are spiders on the back...eeekk. The blue and black in made in the Pagoda Block.



















Doreen has made this delightful Christmas wall hanging. She says it is "a work in Progress". It has been emblellished as well.
















Maureen M has been sewing overtime. She has made some soft dolls and dresses for her granddaughters.



































Marie has made this quilt from a design she found in the Australian P & Q magazine. She of course has done her interpretation of it. Now she just needs help on how to quilt it.


















Betty has finished her blue and yellow ginger jars. She has done all the applique by machine and it's taken almost two years to complete. This is truly stunning to look at. A masterpiece.




















Rae has shown us this little quilt made from a postcard picture. Really cute.















Carol B made this cute reindeer in purple with spots. And a bag from a 20"square.



















Annette B has bought along some projects that have been finished. The jandals quilt is very bright. I think she got the idea from a Fons and Porter Magazine.
There is also our previous years Row by Row challenge. This is called 'Summer Holidays @ the Beach with mother'. This is such a fun quilt.
Then there is this years Round Robin. And a delightful cot quilt with flowers and hearts.






































Myra has done a small Christmas Runner.







Frances C has done this stunning Patridge in a Pear Tree. It has taken 3 years and it is all hand quilted. Another masterpiece. I admire anyone who does hand quilting.



















Barbara C has made a gift for her neighbour for Christmas. A lovely tablecloth that she made in two weeks. She also has finished her 'half nighter'. This was a do your own thing quilt. She had embellished it with all sorts of baubles and trinkets. Really cute.

Show & Tell Dec 09

Sorry these are late but I thought I had it all figured out but no not me. I have finally done it and if I have anything wrong I do apologise in advance. Here's hoping for a successful quilting year.

Test photo of this beautiful sampler by Doreen

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November Show & Tell

Just in time (it's the December meeting tomorrow - yikes!) I'm posting the November Show & Tell.

First up is a picture of what happens when someone brings fabric to fossick through :-)
Alison wanted one of Griet Lombard's one-of-kind handbags when we visited her on our Mystery Bus Trip recently. The one she wanted got sold before she could put her hand on it so she commissioned Griet to make her one in turquoise. The photo isn't so clear but the bag is lovely. Karen also showed her Griet bag but the photo disappeared into the ether.
This is my scrappy quilt called God's Eye (after the wool and stick weaving we did when we were kids)
And the horrifically bright ziz zag quilt finally got finished (it's alright for me to say this, it's my quilt - ha, ha)
I also made this bag - and I'm not a bag person
Donna demonstrated these Christmas tree ornaments
Maria showed us her lovely Double Wedding Ring quilt top which is being sent off to the quilters. We won't see it again - it's going to a wedding!
Margaret made this lovely stack 'n' whack
Frances G showed us her miniature house wall hanging
and her very cute teddy bear quilt
The applique on Myra's bag was lovely
Tracey made this ever-popular bug quilt
and this absolutely gorgeous rose wall hanging
Karen C showed us her country style sampler quilt
Illeen made this very simple but very sweet lap quilt from 4 1/2" squares. I love the fabric.
Rosalie was making good progress on her community quilt. It ended up a lot bigger than this and is now finished and distributed

Rose made a wonderful job of this Japanese Cranes quilt
Judith used a variety of techniques in this heart quilt
Lynette finished her row by row quilt with a Halloween theme
Brenda has finished her first quilt. It took while but she got there!
Heather showed the Tiki quilt made from a Kiwiquilts pattern
and she has finished quilting her Perfectly Imperfect quilt.Barbara finished her round robin quilt

And finishing with an animal theme Rae made this very cute dachshund wall hangingand Amy showed us her progress with the blocks from Griet Lombard's cat pattern. You goota love their expressions.

Mystery Bus Trip - an illustrated tour - Part One

A few weeks ago our club had their biennial Mystery Bus Trip. Now when you live in the lower half of the North Island it gets harder and harder to make things a "mystery" - or so I thought! I organised the last 2 but this one was in the very capable hands of Betty, Karen and Judy. I knew that the Dannevirke quilting group had their exhibition on and my guess was that we would visit that and then come back to Palmerston North, but no, I knew NOTHING! We went nowhere near Danevirke or Palmerston North. We went to Levin, and its evirons. First stop was Cherry Pie Quilt Patch. In the classroom the ladies are admiring Cheryl's latest patten, a very lovely Christmas quilt and checking out the notions for sale.
Examining the finer points of a quilt:
Carol and Alison in the tea area:
Next stop was at Toad Hall. Maureen was pleased to pick up this sample of fabric sushi.

Susan Claire (Mayfield) of Toad Hall - aka the Gourmet Quilter certainly knows how to make fabric tantalising.

Some finished shopping before others:
And there had to be a little bit of show and tell while waiting:
Finally, here we all are on the veranda outside Toad Hall
There were some pretty happy shoppers amongst that lot!!

(More next post)

October Show & Tell

For the October meeting we had a sewing morning working on our next raffle quilt. Helen had cut and prepared all the block pieces and the ladies sewed. We made good progress. The border blocks are diamonds:

And the centre is 54-40 or Fight blocks and Corral blocks. I must admit I have never seen the Corral block before and Icouldn't find it anywhere in EQ6 or my book of 500 blocks. I'd love to know where it came from:
The quilt was from Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine Vol 16 #8 and was designed by Frances Leate. We changed the centre block so it had the 54-40 or Fight star points, rather than the Ohio star points in the original design that were in the centre. We are looking forward to seeing the finishee quilt.

The past few months have been really busy for those of us involved in the Row by Row challenge and the Round Robin challenge. soem ladies wanted to do one and some wanted to do the other, so we rane it simultaneously. It made for a great Show & Tell since the ladies did not know who owned the set of blocks until they were displayed. this Row by Row was run slightly differently to the last one the club did. This time the blocks for the rows were not joined together so the owners could decide on a different arrangement of the blocks if they didn't want just rows. The owners made the first row and the other participants had free reign as long as the blocks added up to 48" wide. The fabric was supplied by each participant ( I think).

First up is the set of blocks owned by Heather. She chose a Christmas theme:
These belong to Susan. I think flowers were her theme and the flowere in the centre of the third row were fussy cut:
Then Margaret gets this set of blocks. I couldn't help making a comment about having seen those 54-40 or Fight blocks somewhere else recently!
Alison chose an Autumn theme and has these lovely blocks to play with:
We were all very interested in this halloween theme quilt. Lynette willhave agreat time putting these together for her grandchild. The bat row was very cleverly done with solid black appliqued onto a black and gray printed background and isn't the spider delightful! In fact the whole thing is very cute:
Annette wanted log cabins in bright colours and that is what she got! I can see this one growing into quite a big quilt:
Teresa loves country style quilts and these blocks will make up into a very nice quilt:
Then we moved onto the round robins. These tops were put together (of course) and had more detailed instructions for the participants to follow. All the fabric was supplied by the owner of the quilt. The first one is owned by Bernice:
This dramatic red, black and gray quilt is going to Veronica:
Rae did a very nice needle-turned block for thec entre of hers and whoever did the next row made a great j0b of the blue and white points:
Topsy-turvey for Myra. The third row had to incorporate setting the top on-point and log cabin together (not as easy as it sounds) and whoever did the stripes and tiny white triangle log cabin round was very clever:
Very pretty colours for Rosalie to go with her fushia centre:
Another dramatic combination of colours , this time for Maureen:
Annette chose blues and grays for her top:
Now we move on to the general Show & Tell and this is Annes community quilt finished:
And this is Rae's community quilt, also finished:
Another finished community quilt from Maureen. ( Don't I recognise those star points in the sashing rom somewhere??):
There are a few more quits form this months show & tell but we had some camera problems and didn't quite get all of them on. So we apologise to those members whose quilts didn't make it into this month's post - sorry :-(

September Show & Tell

Oh dear, I've been bit slack again, but only 2 months behind this time :-)
First up is two quilts by Donna and Carey made in the popular 'postcards' design.

Donna and Carey love working together on the same pattern and they repeated it with these two lovely quilts:
Helen has been busy and has just the binding to sew on this scrap quilt:

She has also made this top completely out of scraps with the design relying on the placement of light and dark fabrics only. No regard was given to colour at all. The little squares are 1" finished. The ladies thought she was mad when they saw her sewing them at club!
And this is Helen's contribution to the community quilt project:
Susan mad this bag from a $5 remnant. Very stylie!
Frances G finishe this delightful chook wall hanging:
Carol had a brother's wedding to go to and this is the quilt she made for the happy couple. Lovely freesia fabric:
Audrey made this table runner with beautiful appliqued flowers:
Marie is one of our newer members and this is her first quilt:
Heather is working on this heats and flowers quilts:
Glenys completed this very nice table runner in the stained glass style:
Amy is planning to teach an "orphan" block class next year. She put together these blocks to show what can be done:
(Should I let you in on the secret that she raided her mother's orphan blocks stash for this top?)

Is It August Already?

Since I have been such a slack blogger for quite some time you have 3 lots of show & tell to feast your eyes on today. I don't think I have ever made 3 posts in one day and may this teach me a lesson to do it straight after each meeting! Make sure you scroll down to get the June, July and August Show and Tell.

There were lots of quilts today. The first one is a strip-pieced hexagon spider web quilt by Susan:
Next are two Cathedral Window quilts by Rosemarie:

Joy has made 4 more scrap quilts. I'm only showing half of them because 'someone' was standing in front of the other half when the pictures were taken :-)



Anne is one of our senior members and is vision-impaired, but still she quilts!
Frances G made this ever-popular gollie pattern:
Not a 'quilt', in the sense that it has no batting, and it was not made by her, but Kath thought this piece of embellished embroidery from Thailand was worth taking a closer look at:
Judy made this scrap quilt for our community quilts project:
Veronica made this for her grand daughter:
Maureen is also a member of Rangitikei Quilters and won a prize at their recent exhibition with this very interesting piece:
Carol is sending this top off to the quilter on Monday. Lucky she noticed one of the borders is on upside down before she sent it!
Audrey did a workshop by Anna Williams. I think it is called Persian Carpet:
This was made by Rosalie for a new great niece:
The next two are cot quilts made by Rose for the community quilts project:

Ruth has finished stitching her sashiko piece started in Robyn Burgess' Symposium workshop:
Anita, who is the queen of the basting table, had been practising herf ree motion quilting on these two pieces:

This is Madeline's quilt for the community quilt project:
and this is Rae's donation:
Myra has finished the NZ fabric waistcoat for her husband. She says he is gooing to wear it to work next week. good on him!
She also made this quilt and used a walking foot for the first time:
A lesson from Frances on the perils of using wool batting. This is the very first quilt she made, for her grandson. Guess what happened when it got washed? He won't let her fix it up. He loves it the way it is, all wrinkly (like some of us are getting!)
As Frances showed her latest work, her daughter Amy was heard to say " she went through all my cupboards!". Amy was away on holiday and France 'pinched' this quilt so it could get to the finished stage. Amy started it for her first daughter Georgia (now 2 and a half) and Frances completed the quilting so Sienna, Amy's second daughter (who is now about 7 months old), can have a quilt too :-)

July Show & Tell

And moving right along we now have the show & Tell from July.

Doreen is a couple of years the 'wrong' side of 80 and is a fairly recent convert to quilting. These table runners are her latest pieces. Isn't she doing well?
Pat made this very popular Bugs pattern:
and this scrap cot quilt:
Lyn made this retro apron. I remember my mother wearing these "cover-all's"Susan fussy-cut every single hexagon on this I Spy quilt. It was fantastic:and the Disney characters she embroidered on this quilt are very sweet:
A new member, Ann, was brave enough to bring some show & tell to her first meeting. She showed us this sampler quilt with lovely soft colourings:
and this popular pattern, from Grandmother's Garden I think:
The ladies liked the bag Ann used to carry her quilts in:
This is a scrap piece made by moi. I was given several, well lots (make that hundreds!) of pre-cut 1 1/2" squares and I couldn't bear to ditch them (the ladies thought I was nuts sewing such small squares together) so I am teaming them up with half-square triangles in this Jacob's ladder variation. I kinda like it:
This quilt was made using the very beautiful Nancy Halverson fabrics and the photo does not really do it justice. Made by 'I don't know who' since I can't find itwritten on the list I was given:
Roesmary made this scrap quilt using quarter-square triangles:
Lesley's pieced hearts quilt was very cheery:
Madeline did a 'piece and cut' type workshop at Symposium (sorry, I don't know who the tutor was. She made the resulting blocks into this bag:


Frances is doing the very lovely Susan Claire block of the month. This is one of the borders:

June Meeting?

Actually, today is the August Meeting. I got the message today that I haven't done the club blog since May! Woe is me, where does the time go??

So here is the Show & Tell from June"

First up, Myra has done a lovely landscape of Mt Ruapehu and has finished her Happy Villages quilt:
She also showed us an early piece, tied rather than quilted:
Joy is the scrap quilt extraordinaire. She has such a great collection of bright scraps that her quilts are always lovely. Here are two of the latest :

Heather has done this lovely scrap quilt using very tiny pieces. Those little squares are cut at 1 1/2"!
Jean did a fantastic postcard workshop at Symposium. I love the reflection in the land(water?)scape. The leaf is pretty cool too:
Alison finished her Mary Transom 'Autumn Harvest' quilt from the workshop we had a while ago:
This is the results of the printing and dying class Betty did at Symposium. A very nice effect on commercial fabric:
Tracey made this wall hanging:
Lorraine did Gloria Loughman's 'Escape to the Rainforest' workshop at Symposium and this piece is still in progress. I can't wait to see it finished.
She did this quilt at our recent half-nighter:
Rose embroidered the birds on this wall hanging very beautifully:
Trish made a couple of bags:
Madeline made this very nice scrap quilt. I like the sashing and cornerstones around the squares:
Heather made this lovely fused applique I Spy quilt.
Amy is quilting her Cloth Shop Saturday Sampler by the Quilt-As-You-Go method. The colours are too dark in the photo but the fabric is gorgeous:
Three of our members did a Round Robin simultaneously with a group of ladies from England. There were supposed to be 4 of us but one had to pull out because of a bereavement. This is Barbara's
This is Helen's
And this is Annette's:
Lastly, remember that saying "I'd rather be 40 than pregnant"? Well, Rosie discovered she was pregnant at the beginning of the year (much to her 15 year old daughter's disgust who felt she needed to have a 'birds and bees' talk with her father!) This is a quick quilt I made for the coming baby:

May's Show & Tell

We had a cosy meeting today as some of our members decamped for Tote & Gloat in Palmerston North. I hope they had a great time.

First up is Rae's very cute light weight travel iron. It does steam! I think she got it from Briscoes. I will have to pay them a visit.

Illeen did June Nixey's class at Symposium. She thought it would be a nice relaxing way to use up some of her large stash of 5" squares. I think June had them working hard judging by all the samples Illeen showed us:
Illeen also did Vicki Pignatelli's curves class. I love the fabric she used:
And just in case she didn't have enough to keep her busy Illeen did a third class with Paula Nadelstern. This was the complete opposite of the curves class. Everything had to be precise:
This is the quilt Donna made for her daughter's 21st birthday.
It has lovely bumblebee quilting which you can see on the reverse:
Donna is on a roll. This quilt is for her grandson and she made it in 3 days! I think the way Donna has used the Hungry Caterpillar print is much nicer than the arrangements the american magazines have been showing:
And the reverse is cool too:
Heather has finished her table runner using a 'big block' from our newsletter series last year:
This large quilt was made by Teresa in the 'quilt as you go' method. Teresa usually works in country colours and wanted a change. A very pretty quilt:
More from symposium classes. This is Sue's class sample from Libby Lehman's thread play. The thick decorative thread was used in the bobbin:
And in this class, taught by Anne Jolly, Sue was only allowed to take 3 fabrics. She found that a challenge and sneaked some extras in:
And now for a change of pace; this quilt is made from totally recycled material. I'll bet you would never guess it is made from old pillow slips. I didn't realise when you unstitched them that they have so much fabric in them. There are no joins in the strips. Totally cool! Well done, Audrey!Colleen showed us the first quilt she ever made, which was for her grandson (who is a bit older now). Only Colleen is allowed to wash the quilts given to members of this family which is why it was temporarily back in her possession:
Judy has nearly finished this lovely quilt, a design by Bronwyn Hayes I think. It was well applauded. I think everyone would have liked to take it home:
Amy is doing the Cloth Shop Saturday Sampler and is trying different fabric combinations. It is amazing what a difference value and colour placement makes to the look of a block.
Frances took the Images of Science class taught by Jenny Bowker at Symposium. These are not flowers, they are microscopic protozoa. I love the 'lip' of light blue at the top:
Finally, I took two classes at Symposium. The first was Layer by Layer Landscapes by Gloria Loughman. Most of the students did a variation on one of the patterns provided, but I tried my hand at an 'original' so I didn't get very far. It is still in pieces:
And this is what I made in Dena Crain's Darned Quilts class. It was total fun. Both of my tutors were excellent and well worth the investment.
Frances has just reminded me of the hilarious merriment I caused today when I was trying to explain how we cut the circles out and swapped them over. I went on to explain that you could do three circles, putting the "A" circle in the "B" hole, the "B" circle in the "C" hole and the "C" circle in (yep, you guessed it) the "A" hole! Now I know why Dena, the tutor, explained it as A to B, B to C, C to A. I bet she has 'been there, done that'!

April Show & Tell

The club meeting was busy today with the start of the new club Row by Row and Round Robin Challenges. Participants took home their paper bags and we look forward to finding out how they start off their rows/blocks.

One of our members, Kath, gave us a lively techniques training on using Dynaflow.

Our guest speakers were from the Cancer Society talking about the dangers of skin cancers. Often overlooked as 'just skin cancer' it was a timely reminder to us all about keeping a regular check on our bodies and knowing what is 'normal' so we can tell when it is not, so we can get a check done early.

Here is the show and tell from today:

First up from Tracey, a new member. Tracey's husband saw this Mckenna Ryan pattern and told her she had to make it. Thing is, it is her first quilt. Tracey's husband made the frame. Pretty good, huh?
Next is a Sudoko quilt by Margaret S. Beautiful fabrics in this one:
I finished the binding on my scrappy, strippy quilt. This is going to Australia to the bushfire quilts appeal.
This is called Leftover Tabasco Sauce. I made it using all the leftover blocks from our club banner. There were exactly enough to make this 9 rows by 14 columns arrangement.
The following has a little story attached. Frances and I went to Wellington a couple of weeks ago to see the Monet paintings. Of course, a visit to Wellington is incomplete without a stop at Minerva bookshop. Anne Scott told me about this wall hanging that Rosemary McLeod had brought in to the shop, saying Anne could give it a better home than she. Apparently Rosemary had bought a piece of furniture from Dunbar Soan auction house and this piece was inside it. The label on the bottom says it is a 'Pot Pourri Challenge' made by 5 Cotton On Quilter members in 2001. I wasn't a member of the club then, so I took it along to see if I could jog some memories. It was a colour challenge and each person had to make 5 blocks with a given colour theme and they were shared around. This is what Mary Gullery, a long-standing former member did with her blocks. Sadly, Mary died over a year ago and some of her collectables and furniture went to Wellington to be autioned. Voila! What goes around comes around :-)
Next up is Frances G's black redwork sampler. The pictures are all about life in the garden:
Margaret made this cool Beatles fabric quilt for her 16 year old son. I love the fabric:
Rosalie made a sewing bag in a class at the Home Sewing Centre. Of course, it is hard to stop at just one!
Karen A is making this lovely bright childs quilt:
Rose is embroidering Australian motifs which will end up in a quilt:
Doreen made this kitchen wall hanging from fabric she won in a club raffle last year:
Carol is making this wall hanging to take with her to America. She leaves in a couple of weeks. I wish I could fit into her suitcase. She is meeting up with quilters and attending a quilting retreat.
The fish are biting in Audrey's quilt:

I wish I had a better picture of this quilt made by Jenny using fabrics she got in France. She has hand quilted it beautifully and has done a no-binding finish. Lovely!

March Show and Tell

I want to say congratulations to our new president, Frances, and myself. We both had quits accepted for Symposium. Only 5 weeks to go. Now, where did I put that class needs list??

Now, aren't I a good girl? Club was today and here I am getting the Show and tell photos up on the same day. I couldn't stay for the afternoon meeting so I get to see them just as you do, digitally.

The club has a good number of activities planned for this year and they are proving to be very popular. Thirty women signed up for the Mystery Bus Trip later in the year. Full already! And plenty of time to save up some cash to flash (that is assuming I have any left to save after Symposium.)

First up we have Alison's Flower Block quilt:
Alison also made this Trip Around the World for the daughter of a friend. Lovely colours:
Sonia made this delightful quilt for Keaten:
Veronica hasn't been doing much quilting as such lately, but she has made these lovely bolster cushions:
Susan has nearly completed her Row by Row from last year. Susan was the envy of many at club today as she was using her embroidery machine to quilt in sections. We were very interested!
Ruth used a strip piecing technique to make this graphic quilt top:
Rosie G is making this quiolt form NZ fabrics. I think it is for her brother. She is looking for ideas on how to make it bigger:
Riane has been working on her Bow Tie quilt made form the charity fundraiser CanTeen head scarves:
This is Rosemarie's Log Cabin Disaster. The star points were supposed to be 6o degree triangles but the pattern was printed incorrectly and they wouldn't fit together. Much fudging ensued!
Lois' daughter is being married in Ireland soon and this quilt is to celebrate that happy event. If my memory serves me correctly this is a Cloth Shop pattern. We wish Lois a safe and happy trip.
Madeline has been working on these very cute cats:
Lynette made this flower quilt based on a picture her grandchild drew. Very nice!
Heather has finished her NZ Postcards quilt. I'm not sure what Veronica was doing with the camera at the time :-)
Carol, queen bag maker, has made these two:

Judith has made this table runner from NZ fabric:
and this is her version of the NZ Postcard quilt:
Lyne is working on this Gollie quilt. There are a lot of pieces to applique!
Kathleen has been having fun with squares of cloth and Dynaflow dyes. Very pretty.
Maureen attended Anna Williams' Print Magic workshop (I have done one of these as well. Unfortunately it is still a WIP):
That's all folks. Come back next month!