Gift Quilt

 

In the past two days the weather has been very windy and wet, so I picked up 2 jelly rolls (batiks and white tone on tone) and made this top.

This is going to Gift Quilt Program for my guild to distribute.

Bargello Style Quilt

 

Several years ago I cut up lots of my scraps in 2 1/2" strips and made this Bargello style quilt. It sat on a box but finally I decided to quilt it.

And my boy Billy approves ! 

 I actually like it more than I expected given that some of the fabrics were not my favorites  ! 

I had a bunch of test blocks, leftover blocks so joined then all together and used it as the backing.

I quilted on the Handi Quilter using a variegated thread.

Close up of some of the blocks at the back.

Visit Mill Rose Quilting

 

Yesterday I visited for the first time this beautiful quilt shop.

Set within Ballan’s  (Victoria) beautifully restored old Masonic Hall all, holds an enchanting feast of colour & fabric, from modern to reproduction styles, as far as the eye can see. Designer fabrics, Liberty of London, Kaffe Fassett, Sue Spargo hand dyed wool & threads, as well as a large collection of quilting books & patterns are available at Millrose.

The amount and variety of fabric, notions an quilts on display is overwhelming in a good way and you can easily spend a lot of time and money with such beautiful products.

I attended a class for the day and come back home very inspired and wanting to return in the not so distant future.

Craft and Quilt Show - Melbourne

 Last week I attended the Craft and Quilt Show.

I had a quick look at the vendors but the highlight was the magnificent quilt exhibition.

There were many quilts on show made by Australian quilters as well as international artists. They had various quilt categories as well as many styles of quilts on show. 

Here some of the many photos I took for inspiration.

 

Some of my projects

 There's never enough hours in the day to do patchwork and quilting ! I try many techniques, start new projects but don't always post my results.

For quite some time I have been after a pattern or a method to use up my small scraps, lots of varity and very little preparation before stitching.

I completed a Log Cabin quilt earlier in the year using mini blocks (4")  on foundation I thought I could do something similar using the Pineapple Block.

These blocks have been made with two different techniques:

Creative Grids ruler

And Foundation paper piecing.

Still haven't decided which technique I am going to use ...

More gift quilts

 Been helping out with the gift quilt program at my guild.

Everyone contributes in various stages of the project, some make up the kits, others piece, quilt and bind. I pretty much do all stages except binding.

Here are some I have worked on.

Still in progress;