February 2025 Show & Tell

  Welcome back everyone to another year of quilting. We had a very full and lively meeting today with a big thanks to Aroha Quilts for coming to us with their pop-up shop.

First up today is a gorgeous stuffed penguin called Rockhopper Penguin made by Diane Harries. It was inspired by seeing a larger doorstop penguin in a recent Inspirations magazine. 

Side view first (not such a good photo but it does give you the relative size)

The front view.

 

The next two photos show some coloured strips Diane has made for a friend to put on a panel quilt (4 made in total.) Diane came up with a unique technique to construct these strips using a technique she is calling Overlap Appliqué. It is a type of foundation piecing but very free form. The pieces are applied to overlap the previous piece, then machine stitched down. I have not seen it done this way before. You can see how the pieces are machine appliquéd in the second picture.

Here is a beautiful Sue Spargo wall hanging made by Glenys F. I love the charcoal backgrounds. It was machine quilted by Dot Galloway.

This lovely quilt was gifted to Jo C in celebration of reaching her retirement age. It has exquisite hand quilting.

Jo had this bag custom made for her by Sandra, using Jo’s fabrics. We all love how bright and cheery it is.

This bag was also custom made by Sandra for Diana J. I think is is a By Annie pattern.

While we are on the subject of bags, the next item is a Hemmingway pouch made by Beverly C. It is one of four she made for Christmas presents. The recipient loves elephants.

Next up is a very special quilt called “Love Cooper Quilt”. It was made for a very loved boy who recently tragically lost his dad. I am sure it will provide some comfort for him. The backing is a light polar fleece so it will be very cuddly. Made by Rosie N.

Bunny Tales was made by Morag O for her niece’s baby who was born on Christmas Day.

The next quilt was also made by Morag. It is called “A day in an Eight” and was made for a friend who tried rowing alongside Morag. Apparently on their first day of rowing they put in a very swirly unbalanced Eight!

Next up is a cross stitch piece by Carol B It’s a pattern called Cats Rule by Peter Underhill.

Carol is also making great progress on the quilt she started at the Cambridge Symposium in a Donna Ward class. I love how the centre circles have both spikes and flying geese. One border is still to be added.

Four of our ladies did the Christmas Mystery Quilt at Aimee’s Homestead Quilts towards the end of last year. Pauline, Veronica, Lesley and Diana had great fun in the class. I’m not totally sure I have got the quilts in the same order as the ladies names but I am sure they will let me know if I need to make a correction.

Six other club members are working on the recent Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt. We thought it would be fun to show each of our colour ways. From top to bottom is Marj, Mary, Frances, Jenny, Helen and Donna.  We think the mixture of colour ways could go into a quilt all of its own ;-)

Lastly, the first four quilts of the year for the Te Awhina Quilt Project.

This (at the time) uncompleted double wedding ring top was given to me (Helen) by a club member quite a few years ago. Diane Harries very kindly took all the pieces and completed the 24 rings. I added the border to make it the required size and quilted it. 

From memory, the centre of this and four flower appliqué strips were donated by Liz M (if my memory serves me well - not guaranteed these days! I put two of the flower appliqués on the top and bottom to make it rectangular then added the border and quilted it.

The next top started out as a long table runner made by Beverly C when she first started at the club but she couldn’t remember who she gave it to. The fabrics are from Costa Rica. After a period of time the (adjusted) top made its way to me via Mary who thought it had come from our late member Heather’s stash. I had it on my quilting frame when Beverly visited me and she was thrilled to see the top finished and being donated to The Te Awhina Quilt Project.

Lastly is a quilt made from leftovers of two king size quilt tops donated by Rosie N. I had to unpick some of the two tops to get them to a suitable size. This is the second quilt from this fabric and I have sufficient fabric remaining to make a third quilt.

Happy Quilting, everyone.