Exhibition 2

I managed to get a few more photos towards the end of the day at the Exhibition.

The Sisters were on show

General views

beautiful wall hangings

Lots of wonderful quilts.

I am off to Boronia to help Eves son sort her clothes, not sure if I have internet or not, but I will be back home Thursday evening.

Happy stitching.

Exhibition

This past week has been super busy with driving back and forth to West Geelong, takes me about 45 minutes depending on the traffic, calling at the Guild storage unit, the printers and post office. I tried to help set up a slide show and failed until one of the Guild members mentioned her hubby was out having a walk to fill in time, so he came in and helped and all was good, slide show up and working!
I have taken a few photos, we have been told not to put photos of others quilts on social media, but the quilts will be on line when the newsletter is published so I am just getting in a little early with a sneak peek.

two general views

My Doing the Rounds

and the Nosy Neighbour applique

another general view, I have just realised as I go through the photos I didn't take a photo of the International Sisters! I will do that tomorrow. I like that the black sheets were not put up this year where the big quilts are, it seems much lighter and you get all kind of interesting views through the exhibition.

Back home one more star has been finished

today I have been in and out of the sewing room, the Supervisor is confused, when will she stay in one place he is thinking!!

I have sewn the binding onto a quilt that is going to the SJOG hospital while listening to the Bee Gees.

At the last Guild meeting we had the Go Cutter out so I had a play with a few fabrics and cut some birds, yesterday I found some fine braid which I have sewn onto the background and then ironed the birds in place. The yellow looking birds are actually orange. I need to cut a few more birds so this project will go back on the shelf for a while.

I have another quilt to bind so had better make a move and get it started, the afternoon is getting away on me!

Happy stitching.

Yesterday

was my last day of duty at the Bellarine Quilt exhibition...it was a wild and windy day yesterday, the sea was pounding in

I stopped to take these photos coming through Indented Head

we tied the mini quilts on the front fence and were ready for visitors 

the Mill is in a lovely setting

and is a beautiful  old building.

Is sit and sew at Port today so best get myself ready.

Happy sewing.

Quilt Exhibition

Today I have been at the exhibition for the Bellarine Quilters at Port Arlington, we didn't have a lot of people through with it being Grand Final day but it was worth being open. A few of the quilts

Linda's beautiful wolf quilt

and another with fabric purchased in Canada while on a trip there

Jill's sensational quilt which sold last night.

this lovely quilt was made by Liane, she asked people what kind of things made them happy and then cut them out of felt and put them on the quilt....this was made while Liane was undergoing treatment for breast cancer - sadly she passed away last Monday. I have only known her a short while but she will be sadly missed by the group

this beautiful smile was always on her face regardless of how she was feeling.

a walk way of quilts, mine on this end

Rae made this quilt, her impression of the view from Clifton Springs looking to the You Yangs.

Chris made this lovely quilt

Barbara made this sensational quilt for her grandson.

I had a little time to sew rows of clammies together.

Another day of duty tomorrow

Happy sewing.

PS. For some reason yesterday my list of Blogs I follow vanished.....there one day gone the next...so I am slowly rebuilding.

Thursday

was spent at the Mill in Port Arlington, helping to set up for the Bellarine Quilters Bi-annual quilt exhibition. The Mill is a very old building looked after by the National Trust, so no nails can be put in walls!! We had the official opening last night..I took a few photos but it was a bit dark, I will take some more today...I have duty today and tomorrow.

here are Chris and  Margaret with the raffle quilt

Jill talking about her beautiful quilt behind her...I think one lady made the comment "Imagine how much rubbish TV and red wine you could have enjoyed instead of sewing all these bits of fabric together!!"

I made this many years ago as part of a challenge from Donna at the Gisborne group, the challenge was BBQ...it had to be a tryptic, use black and a batik. The patterns for the birds were from the NZ Quilter magazine.

I made this bear one day with  Margaret...we had a sewing day together, Marg had made bears before and was a great instructor for me!

a walk way of quilts

not so good in the evening, the colours do not show up well

Mary's beautiful star quilt 

Jill's again...I think daylight might show it off better.

I had better get ready and report for duty!

Happy sewing.