Friendship Quilt

This Friendship Quilt was started in 2005 when all my ladies at my patchwork/craft group" Crafty Chicks"  all made blocks and then we swapped .... now time has passed and its 2013...
The quilt has been now been finished with help from Professional Long Arm Machine Quilter
Sue Olma from SO She Quilts.... www.soshequilts.com.au

who did a lovely job customising each block and the borders with a great designs..

                                                 The Label with all the info about this quilt...

 

Here are close up photo's of some of the quilted blocks..

 

So one more UFO down 30+ more to go!!!!!!!!! hehehe......................

UFO Finished

One more UFO finished. This nine block sampler quilt top was made to use as a teaching quilt for the new ladies at my Wednesday Craft/Patchwork Group who want to learn quilting.
The colours are darker and brighter then the photo as always happens.

My DS 2 is holding up the top for me to take this photo.

Block from my sampler quilt

It's been some time since my last post. Life has just been busy. Over the time I have finished a nine block sampler top as a teaching tool. Almost finished the hand sewing on a 3D quilt that I started years ago with Amanda Daley when I was doing classes at Hobbysew.

Here are some of the Sampler Blocks I did in her on going class.

The technique used in these block was foundation piecing with interfacing.





The star block is my 6 hour block as it took me six hours to make!!!!!!hehe
It was just one block that I was going to get right!!!!

Here is the back of two blocks to show how the interfacing has been used.

I Spy Blocks

I had fun at the last craft show buying most of these fabrics to make these block.
Four blocks made 44 to go.
I do have to get more boy theme fabrics.
The blocks are so easy to make it's the cutting that has taken time.

Snowball Cat Quilt

This is another project I am working on at the moment. My friend who is a cat lover too has been swapping squares with me so I can make myself a cat quilt. I have had all this cat fabric sitting in a box so its time to be used.

When all the snowballs are made I am going to add stashing between the blocks. Maybe put four blocks together or stashing around each block still thinking.

Christmas to my dear Friend

My dear Friend of 20 years received her Christmas present on Monday and here it is A 9 Patch Pizzazz Quilt. This Christmas present was talked about in one of my earlier posts but I could not show it.

Quilts

Its been sometime since I have blogged been busy with life!!!!!

As always there is housework, looking after the Males in my life and the furry ones to.

I have been finishing UFO's and I have finished piecing a Christmas Present that is now at Hobbysew waiting to be quilted.

So looking good.

The UFO I finished is a lap quilt made with log cabin blocks and I unpicked the block and rearranged them so now there is no need to do any applique in the centre of each block.

Here is the what the block started as (This block is from a completely different quilt but its shows how I changed the pattern) and now here is the finished quilt. The last photo shows the quilting close up. I pick a lovely paisley pattern using blue thread.

Mum's Quilt

This is a quilt that my MIL made with the fabric that she was given as a present from me. The reason I have this quilt is Mum and Dad were in a car accident the day before Mothers Day. Mum now has a broken knee and sternum but they are both ok now. Mum will take a little while to heal.

The quilt landed at my place to be finished off and taken to the local patchwork shop to be quilted and the blinding sewed on and the label made. The label was fun as i used my embroidery machine.

The fabric use was "Fig and Plum" jelly roll, charm pack and a few metres of fabric for the borders.
Here is a photo of the back of the quilt that shows the lovely rose pattern of the quilting.

The Quilt pattern is called "Spring is in the Air" by Maree StClair from Australian Patchwork & Quilting magazine Vo. 17 no.3

Blocks for Quilts for Keep part 2

The applique blocks are slowly arriving at our group from the ladies for our Childrens Hospital Quilt we are making.

The blocks are looking great and go together well.
We are hoping to make two quilts when all the block are finshed.

Blocks for Quilts for Keeps

This time I am first to finish the project for Crafty Chicks Patchwork group.
Last week we were told that we could start our block using any background fabric for the Quilts for Keeps, Westmead Childrens Hospital quilt.
I found a lovely cream with very small dots of lemon for my background and then looked in my stash for pastel fabrics to make this block as its going to be for a girl. The next quilt the group is making will be for a boy.
The lovely block is designed by Pamela Davis from her quilt pattern Pretty Whimsies from Australian Country craft and Decorating mag
Vol 19 N010.
The block pictured shows four blocks together with the different applique
pieces that make up each small block. The quilt has a total of 64 small blocks which are finished 7 1/2ins.The quilt will be a very scrappy.

Blankets of Love.

My Wednesday patchwork/craft group have started making "Blankets of Love" for our local hospital.

The first 16 quilts were hand deliver to the hospital last week on the 1oth September and yesterday we hand deliver 21 more quilts.

Here are two I have made.

We hope to make some of these quilts each month for the hospital.

Roses Quilt.

This quilt is made with yummy flannelet FQ's that I purchase at Darling Harbour Show and later purchase fabric to finish the quilt from Penrith Patchwork.

The front is made of 6" squares cut from the 10 FQ. The Finished size is 69" X 65".

As always my little helper Darcy has got into the photo. The hands belong to my two DS's as they are tall enough to hold it up.

The back of the quilt has lovely fossil fern flannelet as well as bits of fabric from the front.

The quilt was machine quilted by Rosemary at Hobbysew.

Landscape Quilt.

I made this quilt in class September 2006 and now it hangs in my sewing room.The quilt is only a small wallhanging 19 1/2" x 14 1/2" and was taken from a photo that I took about 25 years ago when my DH and I were on holidays somewhere in Aussie.

Memory Quilt is now Finished!!!!!!!!

Finally have had time to update my blog.

Mum and Dad's Memory Quilt is finally finished on the 18th July. Mum so loves the quilt and has showed the quilt off to all her friends. All her lady friends wanted to know how I did the photo's and put them in the quilt, that was the easy part.Now it is Mum who has to find the right spot to hang her quilt. Darcy the helper loves to help me pin Mum's quilt.

Baby's Quilt.

I have finally been able to have time to take photos to post to my blog. Here is the photo of the baby quilt I have made for my neighbours Daughter's baby which is due anytime.

The pattern for this quilt was in a Patchwork and Stitching mag. One of my favourite mags.