Kilmore Quilt Show 2022...

The last languishing draft post...Kilmore Quilters held their show the weekend after Stawell...in a stroke of luck I was at the right house for each show...but again, lack of time so was only able to drop in for about an hour...and by the time I had lovely chats with those I rarely get to see anymore, it was a very quick run around the quilts...but it was soooo lovely to catch up with people, I just wished I'd had less competing demands on my time...

A couple of quilts that caught my eye that I managed to get a pic of...

I wanted to capture the quilting on this one for inspiration...

This one is just fun...

The Group's blog post can be found here...

Happy Stitching...

Stawell Quilters Show & Challenge 2022...

Oh look...another draft post!...The Stawell Quilt Show was a few months ago now being the weekend of Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October this year...it's still this year though so I'm calling that a win on this post...

I didn't get to spend very much time at the show as I didn't get there until about 3:30-4:00 o'clock on the Sunday...just in time for the announcement of category winners and help with pack-up (work prevents me from helping with set-up so I feel I should contribute to pull-down)...only got to do a quick run around and didn't get many photos in.

This is a quilt we made for one of our ladies 70th birthday quilt back in 2018...crazy patchwork, not my thing, at. all. but it turned out amazing...and won a ribbon at the Melbourne exhibition this year...it was entered as our Group Quilt...because of the pandemic and shows not being held it took an extra year or two to get to the Vic Quilters Show...

A little bit closer look at some of the blocks...I had to look really hard to remember which was the block I made...it's the blue one with the umbrellas on the inside row...this post is when I made it...

Another 70th birthday quilt made by the group...

If is amazing how cohesive the embroidery became even though it was all done by different people, some with limited embroidery experience...and yet...once all together became as one...

These ones I just liked...

Love a good star...

Just because...

 This pineapple block one was being worked on at Cave Hill...loved it...

I always like Dahlia quilts and this one played right into that sphere...

The Group always has a Challenge for the Quilt Show...and it's the only thing I put in...this year it was take a blue envelope and inside was a photo of a leaf...photos were all of different leaves from the same tree...the challenge was to make a textile item of any size, shape or materials as long as it had some visible quilting...the ideas that people came up with...such a creative group...

 

The display...

My attempt...the items were displayed with the photo inspiration...

As soon as I opened the blue envelope and saw the leaf I knew I wanted to make a felt leaf "bowl"...silly but then...after the show...I found a use for it!...

Holds English Paper Piecing "bits" nicely...so actually useful...

Happy Stitching...

Cave Hill Swap...

Oh look...a draft post!...oopsie...Early-mid September was Stawell Quilters bi-annual stitchy camp at Cave Hill Creek...a venue in the hills between Raglan and Elmhurst...I arrived after work only a couple of hours after most others...so didn't miss out on too much...and just in time for tea!...

We sew in a big common room and this is the view...not so shabby...the weather was less than clement so there were no walks around the lake/grounds, good weather for bunkering down indoors...

There is a swap during the weekend... I made a Birds of the Meadow fabric storage box by Melissa Grant of One Day in May...I made the smaller size...

While hand stitching down the binding I discovered...way too late to do anything about it of course...that a section of a side seam hadn't been caught..a small crochet "flower" appliqued over the offending missed part of the seam took care of that...it was an interesting construction and turned out quite a bit bigger than I imagined so was glad i had gone for the smaller size pattern.  I do like the embroidery panel, the little bird is a scrap of flannel, nice and soft. I wanted to make something useful and it turned out to be a more practical size that I thought it would (my idea of size and reality are not always in sync! ha ha ha)...

Happy Stitching...