Progress on Theresa's "Pemberley"

Here are some action shots on progress made today on Theresa's "Pemberley":

Here is her centre medallion appliqued to the background.  She has used a lot of wonderful William Morris fabrics.

Here is a closeup - she has played a little with the fabrics on her urn:

Here it is later in the day cut into the oval, with pink piping and scallops in place.  Looks fabulous!

Jan's Show and Tell

Jan surprised me today with TWO finished quilts: her "Rosings" and her Block of the Month quilt.

Here is her "Rosings" all finished.  Jan always intended to put a beautiful floral with a black background (used in centre circle) as her final border but when she sewed it on she was disappointed and felt it detracted from all the lovely applique so she unpicked it and replaced it with two plainer borders - a black and a soft pink.  Looks great!

Here is the centre:

Here is Jan's completed black and white version of the Block of the Month I designed for Pioneer Patchwork in 2012.  Jan has set her blocks like my reproduction setting but omitted the sashings between blocks and made a brick work border in the leftovers.  It is huge and gorgy.  Congrats, Jan.

She is laughing here, relieved to be finished?

More "Gorgy" Applique

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Here are some photographs of the "Rosings" work the very gentle and beautiful Glenda has been doing on her "Rosings" quilt.  The first photos show the cute and "gorgy" fussy cut half inch hexagons she has made.  I never get tired of seeing the different versions of these little rosettes.  Then there is a photo of one quarter of her applique on "Rosings" where the hexies will be placed.

Here is a photo of the centre of Cheryl's "Pemberley" in soft colours of pink, mauve, blue, green and brown.  Cheryl loves the pastel look and this is really looking lovely.

Until next time, happy stitching!  K x

Some of My Favourites at the 2013 Quilt Show

I love looking at all the different quilts at the NSW Quilters' Guild Darling Harbour Quilt Show.

This year was no exception, with lots of fabulous quilts.  The following are photos of some that caught my eye:

The first one was made by my lovely friend, Deborah Louie.  Called "Last Night's Leftovers", it won 1st prize in the New Traditions from Old Favourites Category.  The quilting, as usual, was awesome, especially on that black border!  







Here is Michelle Marvig with her "1850s Revisited" which won  2nd prize in the Commercially Machine Quilted Category.  Quilted by Michele Turner...  Congratulations!

Here is a stunning quilt by Catherine Butterworth, called "Sisterhood".  Made of the Seven Sisters block, every diamond in the stars was "fussy cut" from a different fabric and each hexagon block was a different colour.  As if that was not enough, Catherine appliqued 510 circles in the sashings.  Amazing!

Here is a really beautiful hand appliqued and hand quilted Baltimore Album quilt by Margo Hardie called "Gorsuch Family Quilt c1840 Revisited".  It won a 3rd place ribbon in the Professional Applique Category.

I took a photo of this one to show the lovely Michele Hill.  It is  called "Morning Glory" by Christine Snerling and is one of the designs from Michele's book "More William Morris Applique".  It is really beautifully made.

This quilt was called "Big Blue" by Joanne Barraclough.  It won a 1st place ribbon in the Traditional (Machine Quilted) Amateur Category.  I thought it was really beautiful.  

Of course hexagons are always among my favourites.  This one was called "First Daughter's Quilt" by Deborah Laurie.  It was inspired by an antique quilt featured in the book "Quilts of Virginia 1607 - 1899" (page 50).  They are superb!

This quilt is by Rhonda Pearce of Post Office Patchwork. I always love her quilts using reproduction fabrics.  This one is called "Civil War Journey".  Love the applique and the churn dash block is one of my favourites too!

The last one was made by the lovely ladies at Epping Quilters Inc and is called "Dahlia Daze".  It won a 2nd place ribbon in the Group/Collaborative Quilt Category.    I enjoyed teaching the ladies one of my quilt designs earlier this year and I know they are working hard towards their own exhibition. Well done, ladies!

I hope you have enjoyed my mini tour of this year's Show! If you have time over the next three days, it is most worthwhile to visit.

My New Quilts At 2013 Darling Harbour Quilt Show

It is always great (even though a little nerve wracking) to see your own work hanging at the NSW Quilters' Guild Darling Harbour Quilt Show.

Here are some photos of my two entries.  The first is "Bunbury" which is paper foundation pieced on the machine and machine appliqued and the second is "Hunsford", fifth in the Jane Austen Quilt Collection, all hand applique.

Both quilts were magnificently quilted by Veronica Appleyard.  I am very pleased with both of them.  They will be the basis of my teaching quilts for 2014.

Will post more later as I have had a very big day today...

Veronica's Win

It was lovely to accompany my dear friend Veronica Appleyard today when she won 2nd prize in the Professional (Predominantly Applique) Category at the NSW Quilters' Guild 2013 Darling Harbour Quilt Show.

Her quilt "Emerald Forest" is just glorious with its stunning applique in beautiful bright coloured fabrics and fabulous free motion machine quilting. Veronica greatly deserves her win as she always puts in her best quilting whether on her own or other people's quilts, luckily including mine!

Here are some pics of the happy girl and her quilt ...  Congratulations V!

Another Round of "Rosings"

I started a new class of ladies on "Rosings" yesterday.  We had a lovely day playing with fabric and constructing the rings for the centre Georgetown Circle block on the quilt.

Here are some of the results laid out on the table:

The first shows Debbie's first two rings.  She is using rich reds, golds, black and a tealy blue.  The centre will also be her border fabric.

This one belongs to Birgit.  She is using a selection of French General fabrics in gorgeous pinks, greens and a grey/brown.  Great "fussy cutting" in the third ring.

This one belongs to Leanne and yes, she did get some pink in there, along with deep reds and browns.  Looks great.

The last one belongs to Kerry.  She even pieced some of her fourth ring!  Kerry is using a wonderful fabric for her border with beautiful Florentine-like flowers on a red background.  She has "fussy cut" some for the third ring and the centre circle of the block.  Really beautiful!

I am looking forward to seeing them finished next class.