Seachange Quilt Show

The Quilt show has been on this weekend, and it has been busy with lots of duty and helping out.
Not many photos as I was told I was not allowed to , but I managed to sneak some!!

this was the traffic queue to get to Barwon Heads this morning, it was the Festival of the Sea and it was busy!!! 

but it is a beautiful beach day!

my hexie quilt is on display, beautifully  quilted by Leeanne of quiltmekiwi

the Christmas Row by Row is done and hanging with the others, there were some beautiful row by row quilts 

two sneaky views

and look who I found in the kitchen!!! Karen (our President) was doing kitchen duty....looks beautiful despite not wearing her lippy!!

The show went well, we had lots of visitors and now it is all done until next year!

Happy sewing.

Thursday already!

My goodness the week has flown by this week.
I have nearly finished another star

is half way you might say!!

Another row has been announced at the Bellarine Quilters and this month is pinwheel blocks. I had some half square triangles in a box so got them out and sewed away, they are not perfect and one might get pulled out to be done again, we shall see.

I had to take hubby in to the train this morning so called in a Lincraft and picked up some fabric for an Aussie Hero quilt and some bits and bobs for the Christmas row by row

It is a hot afternoon here so I am off to put on the bathers and go over the road for a swim.

Happy sewing.

Monday

That means a meeting of the Bellarine Quilters at Portarlington and some great company and show and tell.

Judy is working on a twisted nine patch for her son in law who is soon to turn 60

Tracy had made a beautiful owl quilt

Lynda had made 3 bags, this was one that was going to one of  her grandchildren for Easter

This was a quilt made by Magda at a class with two pieces of fabric, she added the cat.

Magda also made this wall hanging for her niece, little bits of everything in her life,

the tram lady is finished  and has been delivered, I just have to follow up with her paper work which I forgot to take!!

I brought back a little raku type kiwi from NZ, it is now in it's new home

and the pukeko is happily in the front garden

and finally today after 5 attempts I have the binding on the Christmas row by row quilt. I need to get it finished as it is entered in the Seachange Quilters quilt show in two weekends time!!

I had a great time in NZ but it is also wonderful to be back home.

Happy sewing.

Sewing and unsewing

I have had a lovely two days of attending sewing groups, Monday at Bellarine Quilters and today at Seachange.....others were sewing, I was unsewing as I had stretched the quilting row and had to go back to square one!!

But the ladies at Bellarine Quilters had a wonderful show and tell

(watch out here come the photos!!)

But first this was the sunrise

Christine has made this quilt for her sister

and repaired this quilt for a lady who appeared one day and asked if anyone could do repairs...the top left kangaroo had frayed out, this quilt was a gift after bush fires 25 years ago and is much loved. Christine replaced the block.

Sue's beautiful row by row quilt...we have a row by row challenge at the Bellarine group this year and our first block is a nine patch.

This is a quilt Angela made from scraps and Leslie quilted for her. This was  put together on Saturday, quilted on Sunday and on Monday was ready for binding!!

Magda showed us her finished quilt, she did a tutorial on this a few weekends ago.

She also showed a watercolour quilt that was made a while ago

and a string quilt....

and some little picture quilts made for a niece..aren't they lovely!!

Sue was working on her Block of the month, the binding was going on on Saturday, hand sewing on the weekend.

Leslie with her Christmas tree, made using small squares, this quilt and the following quilts came in after a conversation on the previous week..

Angela's beautiful Cassowary , made with 2 inch squares

a Queensland quilt

and pansies...there are half inch pieces in here!!!

All the sewing on the brown row has gone, now I need to pin it into submission and have another go, but before I do that I am going to try and give the tram lady her knitting needles!!

Happy sewing.

FNWF happenings

I had a busy evening along with many other virtual sewers..

a little more work was done on the tram lady

the background is done and the palm tree, the tram is just placed not sewn on as yet, I had to make sure I had covered the background properly and then as the football was on the TV....(it is only Feb for goodness sake!!!!!)...I retired to the sewing room again and made

binding for the Christmas row by row quilt.

I have been sewing today at Portarlington with a few of the Bellarine ladies, I had hoped to get the quilting and binding on the quilt but that was not to be

the quilting went well until I did the brown section (not to be seen here) and I stretched it, so i will be unsewing later on!!

Leslie had put together this top from using scraps cut into three inch squares!!

Angela was working on a QFO and had it finished by the end of the day

I stopped on the way home to enjoy the sun and the beach, this dog was having a great time digging under the water and barking like mad at the clouds of sand!

Such a beautiful afternoon.

I am off to do some unsewing and maybe some sewing too and to put the roast on...silly meal for today, when you think about it,  as it is about 32 deg C here !! I hope the forecast cool change gets here soon.

 your can see what other FNWF'ers got up to over here at Cherylls. 

Bye Bye Eddie

Eddie has had his back surgery,

watched some tele

he even had the power button (heavily contested in this house!!)

and now he has gone to his new home.

Yesterday afternoon was spent at the beach

Hard work but someone had to do it!! lol!!

Today I have been off learning to paint on fabric

One of the Bellarine Quilter ladies helped me in her studio...I think I even learned something!!

Back at home hubby decided to paint the tram that goes with the conductor

Looks pretty good, much better than I could do!! Next week I have to get on to quilting and then embellishing and mounting it on a 20 x16 canvas for a display in Geelong later in the year. Exciting!!

I have tried to do some quilting on my Christmas Row by Row

The reindeer are done

now I am trying small stipple..it is hard work!!! Now I need to take a break for dinner cooking!

I am off to visit a friend over the other side of Melbourne tomorrow, so also need to pack some clothes and sewing things.

Happy sewing.