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...

Stawell Quilters Exhibition Challenge...Circling Parrots

The Stawell Quilters Bienniel Exhibition was held in October and the member's challenge was ܏set - a green batik or, when the Craft Shop ran out of the green and there wasn't more to be sourced, a purple alternative, the theme: circles and a couple of technical parameters. Mmmm...from the fabric my mind went to Gariwerd/The Grampians and that led to birds and circles to looking out windows and the end result doesn't convey any of that - ha ha, an art quilter I am not!... At the last minute (like when my friend was collecting it from me at work to kindly take to the venue the morning of set-up) it needed a name so quickly we came up with "Circling Parrots". 

I played about with different things on this small quilt...crayon colouring of the birds then back stitching the outlines which I really enjoyed...hand and machine applique (consistently not flash at the machine applique so that became a design element in itself I decided - yep, artistic licence of the broadest variety, he he he) and a bit of machine quilting because the hand quilting wasn't working so it got frogged...

When I rocked up to the Exhibition on the Saturday I was told to "go look at the Challenges" ... huh? what? ... surely that is a mistake! a blue card pinned on my quilt - third place ... I'm still a bit flummoxed as to why but I'll take it and say thank you ...there it is hanging on the top right hand side...how fabulous are all the little quilts...

It was a fun Challenge...

Happy Stitching...

Quilt Show This Weekend...

Tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday...our biennial show...

Lovely quilts on display...raffle quilt (pictured)...shop stalls...refreshments...only $5.00...come along, you don't want to have to wait another two years before the next opportunity!!!!

😀

 

 

Coming Soon...

Interested in planning a trip to the Grampians/Wimmera in October?...as well as all the other things on offer in the region the weekend of 12-14 October 2018 includes a Quilt Show!

The quilt is the raffle quilt...Stawell Quilters hosted a lovely day for the VicQuilters Autumn Gathering a couple of weeks ago and it was displayed - the first time I'd seen it put together and an opportunity to snap a photo...typically a photo doesn't do justice...

Each flower is one that is found in the Grampians...35 in all...a snapshot of the region's flora.

Raffle tickets will be available closer to the date and, of course, at the Show...just sayin'...

Happy stitchin...