July Show and Tell

Hello Cotton on Quilters and anyone else interested in our blog.
Our meeting on 3rd July was well attended. It was the day that our quilts for our "Choose a Charity" Auction were to be passed in. Keep watching our website for the complete catalogue of quilts which can be bidded for in a silent auction. I will keep you posted.

Update:

There were some great quilts and wall hangings shown at show and tell. The delay in getting the photos on to the web has been because the blog editor was having some technical difficulties. Now that these are put right I am sure you will enjoy viewing what's ahead.

Here are the photos. .

A feature of the photos this month is the large number of quilts that members have made for the "Choose a Charity" Silent Auction that will be a part of our exhibition March 2011. All the quilts that are being donated for the Choose a Carity Auction had to be in this month and so there are a number of quilts featured here. All together there were 37 quilts donated by members for the charity of their choice.

Carey and Donna spent a weekend at Loraine Richardson's retreat in Waverley and managed to complete their lovely star quilts begun at an earlier retreat. - Aren't they stars!

Good work girls. Great to see the results of your concentrated endeavours.

Donna's quilt.
This is Rosalie's quilted wallhanging "One of a Kind" for the Choose a Charity quilt Auction. Her quilt has a candlewicking centre and applique on the borders.

Doreen has made this stained glass window with butterfly. - A Choose a Charity quilt for auction.

This delightful little Noah's Ark quilt is Pat's contribution for Choose a Charity auction.



Kathleen has made these next two lovely quilts -
First this multi coloured Grandmothers Charm Squares;



and then this lovely Building Blocks in vibrant colours. You've been really busy Kath. What a lot of work.

Rosie has been busy with this large King Single Square within a Square for her son who has outgrown his last quilt.

Rose obtain this Blackl and White wall hanging as last year's Xmas Club quilt and has completed it for a gift for this coming Christmas for her brother and sister -in-law. What a delight it will be for them to receive this Rose. It is beautiful.



This lovely Sun Bonet Sue is Lynette's work in progress. The outside sashings is from pyjama flanelette of the 1960s. We look forward to seeing the completed quilt Lynette. It will be so lovely and warm - in more ways than one!



Lorraine has made this quilt of clowns for her Choose a Charity It's delightful Lorraine and makes me smile each time I look at it.

There are some quilts below and I am not sure who made them. I will add their names as soon as I know the artist.

I am not sure who made this kaleidescope quilt. Maybe the person who made it will let me know who she is soI can add her name to it. Another Choose a Charity quilt.





The colours in this picture quilt are beautiful. Again, I hope the person who made it will see it and let me know who she is. This is one of my favourites. There are a few that are among my favourites. Another for the Choose a Charity Auction.

Madeline chose this wild life theme for her lovely Choose a Charity Quilt. It has a very calm restful feel about it. The animals look so peaceful.



Another Quilt for the choose a charity Auction and I don't know who made it!





This picture quilt of Betty's is remniscent of Amish style. Note the quilt hanging on the line!
Another of my favourites! You can see that I will be casting a number of bids!








Janice made this beautiful picture quilt for her Choose a Charity Auction. It features a woven fabric background. Janice tells us it is reflective of the country area she lives in with hills and deep valleys, trees and lining the crest of the hills and the birdsong all around. Can you see the bird in the foliage?

June 2010 - show and tell

Hi there! After a month travelling in Europe, and relying on Helen to keep the Blog up to date, I am back on the computer.

It was a beautiful sunny day on Saturday but this did not stop the quilters from getting together for their monthly meeting. The hall was a hive of industry. We have been having some good demonstrations from Helen Pedersen on quilting basics as well. These sessions are most helpful to those of us who are still learning and some of the old hands like to keep an eye on the demos also.

This month's demo was on machine quilting. I would say that rhythm is important in developing even stitching and design. Maybe a little music would be helpful while quilting.

Now for Show and Tell.

Frances G. completed her Dresden Plate design and expressed her pleasure with the completed quilt. Yes Frances, it's beautiful.

Sonia is using a "quilt as you go" technique on her stack and whack. She still has the top border to attach. She hopes to finish it before our next meeting and so we would not get another chance to see it.

We might see the finished quilt yet!

Doreen always presents some amazing art work. These butterflies look as if they're ready for flight. Her work is always inspiring.

Yes you are seeing double! Alison has made a quilt for our "Choose a Charity" Auction. She liked it so much that she decided to make another the same for herself. The leaves are three dimensional. The Autumn colours fit in with the season.

Here are Dawn's stack and whack blocks. She has made two sets of blocks with the patterns in reverse direction. They are for the beds at a farm home stay. A pair of quilts on the old iron bedsteads -won't they be lovely.

Keitha is a new club member. This is one of the first peices of her work that we have seen.

A very cute angel is on duty. We could all do with one of those!

This is Heather's contribution for "Choose a Charity" auction.

Anita's cocks are crowing! Can you see which one is cock of the walk. She has chosen some very vivid colours for her quilt. Some of the colour combinations are quite daring.

May Show and Tell

Hi, the show and tell is late again 'cos it's me doing the pictures. Our new blog editor is tripping around somewhere overseas :-)

Lots for you to see this month. The club had a very successful stack and slice kaleidoscope class recently so first up is Veronica's blocks:

The fabric she used was a blue background floral - something my eye would have passed right over in the shop - but look at the stunning results:

The lovely Lone Star is also Veronica's. I've always wanted to make one of these but have never gotten around to it.

Next is Rose's pretty quilt. Look at the lovely orchid quilting:

Sonia also did the class and is quilting it in two halves. This is the first half:

 She also showed her grand child's quilt in progress - building blocks - very effective:

Joy made this denim square quilt, very useful for the cold weather we are having at the moment:

She is lucky enough to have a daughter living in London who sent her this lovely squishy package from the Victoria and Albert Museum shop:

Heather is making this bear block into a small quilt for our "Choose a Charity Quilt Auction which is to be held next year in conjunction with our exhibition in March of next year.

Heather's blocks from the class were set on a blue background:

Karen was sent fabric specially to make this quilt to go in a piano:

Rita has recently joined our club and is originally form England. She brought a couple of her early quilts. First up is a stained glass style quilt (1995):

There were lots of luscious fabrics in that. The next quilt (1998) belongs to Rita's husband and is hand quilted:

Margalite is the club's queen of "quilt as you go" and this one is stunning:

Janice recently purchased Anna Faustino's book. 'Simply Stunning Woven Quils I think is the title. Here are two pieces using the woven background technique. The first is for the Choose a Charity Quilt Auction and the second is for her grandson:

Very cool!

Lois made this very graphic quilt which has some cream fabric that has a self-shine circle pattern. It made for very interesting texture and contrast with the other cream fabric and the black. Very effective:

It is a very large bed quilt and we weren't tall enough to do it justice :-)

Donna also did the stack and whack class using a highly patterned floral that she has had in her stash for some time. This fabric has appeared in several quilt. I think she must have purchased the whole bolt!

This type of fabric produces really successful blocks. Donn has also made a quilt for her very good friend with a coffee theme

On the back are several quilty sayings

I made a quilt from the fabric I won in the raffle a few months ago. It is ready for quilting but has been sitting, waiting, waiting, waiting (and its club again on Saturday, yikes!) It looks very washed out her. In reality, it has quite a yellow tobacco tinge:

Audrey's result from the class made from a black background fabric with funky cats and dogs:

Again the use of a fabric with lots of different colours makes for stunning blocks. Audrey also showed us her wedding anniversary quilt with photo transfers in the border:

And this bright and breezy cut out style quilt

Carey made this 'black and white with a hint of red' quilt:

And lastly Frances' blocks form the class are going in a strippy style quilt, with the left over blocks appliqued as flowers on a vine, looks fab!

That's all folks - as the old cartoon character used to say.