Quilt In Bacchus Marsh

Yesterday I went up to The Marsh with Jill from here, and met up with Donna and Tracee and some of Donna's friends and attended the Quilt In. There were stalls with goodies to buy, I tried to resist, but came home with 2m of purple fabric @ $6 per m it was a bargain, and I was charged for 1.5m, double bargain. The speaker was Margaret Mew, originally a Kiwi, but had been here since 1985 I think. She has a huge interest in history and the history of quilts and so makes her versions of some of the old quilts she has studied. It was interesting to see her quilting style develop over the making of her quilts. Lots of photos, so here we go

You can see Margaret likes the old worn style of quilts, this last one is her current  quilt that needs to be finished in 5 weeks for teaching in the Netherlands, the middle hexies are the top border, the left hand hexies will go on the side...all hand stitched. Many beautiful quilts.

We had some show and tell, I didn't take many photos

the old 10 minute block, that never is for me!!

made with wool, love the tartan stars

Donna's friend Chris showed her beautiful art quilts, this one based on a photo she had printed on fabric, then free motioned a lot of details on to, a stunning quilt.

a slightly fuzzy closer look at the free motion stitching

another of Chris's quilts, the fabric chosen were beautiful and the quilting stunning. There were sparkly "jewels" around the elephant.

Here are my fabric treasures that came home with me

this  will combine with the green left over from the purple and green quilt I made at retreat earlier this week. Perfect and a bargain.

Margaret Mew had these fat eighths for sale at $3.00 each, so these came home to be made into stars.

I had some happy mail

the last package for Doing the Rounds 

beautiful fabrics for the final circle round. I am three behind now but slowly getting there.

Happy sewing.