Monday, August 7, 2023

August Show N Tell 2023

This lovely wall hanging is by Carol Burgess, the pattern was purchased on line from America and of course when she saw it she just had to buy it and make it. A real cat lover Carol.

A lovely pink and cream log cabin by Beverly Casey and she did it as a quilt as you go.  This is  her first quilt made in early 1990's while she was a member of the Pineneedles Patchwork and quilting club in Tokoroa.

 
 


 This lovely quilt is called "Fly High" and was made by Maureen for her Grandson who choose this quilt top for his 21st.  He recently qualified as a pilot hence the name.

Another by Beverly called Mum's Quilt and it is a lap quilt that she made for her Mum during one of her visits to her in Wanganui when she was living in Costa Rica and hand quilted it the next time she visited.

This is a beautiful quilt and is by Rosie Neilson and is a Tula Pink creation.  It took her 3 weeks to make and the worst part was all the cutting out.  It is going to be for her Grandaughter in Perth  and John Nielson quilted it.


Another by Rosie and this one is a Sue Spargo pattern and is called Home Grown.  It has taken her about 2 years to make and she stitched it in her Woolie Quilting group with Jenny's help.  Is has been quilted by Jacqui Karl.


sorry these came out in the wrong order.... This is the back of Maureen's quilt and is a lovely wide backing'


And it goes with this quilt called Cottage Treasure.  Was started at a fun day with Luchielle and Jenny and we could use the shop, Foxes Cottage, scrap bin.
 

This is a cot quilt called "Safari" and was made by Bep and quilted by John Nielson.  Bep made it for her third Great Grandson and she was so excited because he was born that morning when we had our club day on Saturday.

This very large quilt, could not quite get it all in the photo, is called Town N Country and was a block a day for a year pattern by Susan Claire from Gourmet quilter.  It was made by Judy P. and she purchased the kit off a friend who had started it, only about 3 rounds, and she machine stitched it over a number of years at retreats she attended

A quilt called "Cone star" and is by Belinda.

and this months raffle was won by Veronica.
 
This month we were asked to bring along  a hobby that we do that was not quilt making.
 


These are a selection of machine embroidery that Gail Jory does on her machine.
 

These creations are by Veronica Davidson.
 


Colleen O'Neill made the patchwork elephant about 15 years ago and made the teddy bear because she never had one as a child and always wanted one.  It was made in the early 90's 
 
another teddy bear and this one was made by Donna. She bought the kit at the first symposium she attended in 1997 and was hand sewn
 

A Christmas Heirloom Santa made by Lesley over 20years ago at a class by Christine Barrington.


.These are a couple of pottery houses by Pauline Walton.


A reversible bag made at a retreat Belinda attended and some black work that she has stitched on 14ct Aida.







Monday, July 3, 2023

July Show n Tell

 We had a very good turn out for this months meeting. lots of chatter, a wonderful guest speaker and lots of sewing accomplished.  A wonderful number of quilts for show n tell, you might need to make a cuppa first...

First up was a lovely quilt by Bep, called Fantasy with magic 9 patch.  She had it quilted by John Nielson and she was busy stitching the binding down at club day.

This is another by Bep and is made with Batiks.  She saw something similar years ago in Taupo but made her version smaller.
 

A scrappy quilt by Lesley McFarlane.  It is made with scraps cut into 4.5 blocks.  It was an idea from Griet Lombard.  Lesley said that her scrap drawer is still full.  I think we can all say that...

Flower Garden by Veronica.  Pattern is by Sue Spargo and is celebrating her 20th Anniversary of her business and was stitched over 20 days, on line, with a new flower each day.

Twisted Ribbon block.  This is by Beverly Casey.  We were asked to bring along a UFO and this one was started in Tokoroa in the 1990's.

This quilt is called Moda Block heads 4.  By Sue Elliot and used William Morris fabric.
 

Perfect Form - Mannequin, pattern by Laura Heine and was put together by Jenny Harris in a class at Cottage Flair in Rotorua.

Woodland, pattern source is Sharon Keightley and stitched by Jenny Harris and she attended a class by Sharon to learn invisible machine applique.


A Double Wedding Ring large quilt and was pieced about 25 years ago and has been quilted by John Neilsen.  Still needs to be bound and is someones UFO. Unfortunately they forgot to add their name to the paper label....

"Some Of My Favourite Florals" by Trish Souness and was quilted by John Neilsen.

This stunning quilt is by Julie Pratt and was hand stitched and took a year to complete.

"Kinky Korus" and is by Marie Greggains.  It is for her 9yr old Grandaughter who enjoys her Maori Culture Studies.

Another colourful quilt by Frances H, called Circular Rainbow.  The original idea came from a Laundry Basket Mystery Quilt 2022 and she added more blocks and graduated the colours to make it more rainbow like.  These are 4 in blocks and Frances worked out using an old school graph book and some colour pencils.

A UFO of US Civil War Blocks by Rosalie Conder.  She originally began making this quilt for her sister who passed away in 2016.  She wanted to do a quilt in 3 colours and had been using EPP.

Another UFO by Rosalie Conder called My Town.  There are other blocks completed.  It was a BOM 2012 in a Home Spun Magazine and are applique all worked by hand.  Rosalie only has a couple of blocks and the corner blocks to complete.
 

A mesh bag made by Carol B.  It was a pattern in the newsletter.

This is a UFO from Carol B. and is called Edwardian Garden.  It was started at a Arahina
Retreat and will be a wall hanging.  She asked for advice on a border.  


This is called Emily's 21st Quilt and was put together by Rosie Neilson.  Emily picked the colours when Rosie was in Perth with her and she also added a couple more to it.  She is very pleased with it and put most of it together at our spring retreat.

Pauline Walton put this together using a Jelly Roll

Maureen has called this quilt Sun Bonnet Sue and used random blocks from Heather's stash.
 

This stunning quilt is by Maureen and was made using orphan blocks to make something useful.

"Coffee n Cream" another by Maureen and was a 2022 club challenge pattern, but this time all her own work!

A UFO from Maria and she has used her French General Pieces.

Maria made this table runner, in fact she made two.

Donna Bradley made this large quilt, called Crumbs, for her Daughter and her Boyfriend.  Never again she said, did not like using scraps.  Looks wonderful.


 



This stunning quilt is called "Sparkling Gem" and is by Linda Snelling Berg.   It was started for her Nephew when he was 5yrs old, he is now 17years old and was from jelly rolls.
 


I pretty sure these are by Diane Hays and are her UFO item.  They are all hand stitched in red work.

This months raffle was won by our President Donna but unfortunately i forgot to take a photo.