Table Runner

 I made this table runner using an Aboriginal style fabric I had in my stash. The block is a small tumbler.

I was a gift for a family relative who lives in the UK.

Top for the Gift Quilt program

I am back making gift quits to donate via my Quilt Guild Waverley Patchworkers.

These tops tend to be scrappy because we use our personal stash and is quite fun to come up with ideas to use them. I try to make them really simple and preferably a one block quilt and even better if we can use jelly rolls strips.

These 2 were fun to make, easy and quite fast. Deidre and I did them together.

Needle case holder

 I didn't have a chance to make a posting to show you a Xmas gift I made for my friend Deidre.

I made it using batiks and hand embroidered a little.

Another Gift Quilt

After my last quilt I made using the ruler called Hex 'n More created by Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts, I made another quilt top using the same ruler but a different setting when joining the blocks.

Still used batiks jelly roll strips with solid fabrics in the center and on the triangles. 

I donated the top to the Gift Quilt Program at my guild Waverley Patchworkers.com.au/

When I am in my studio sewing I often get visitors, here's one enjoying my pot plant.

 

 I had in my collection of quilting rulers, a ruler called Hex 'n More created by Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts

I don't remember buying it but a friend showed me a quilt she had made with this ruler and I was hooked. So I got a bunch of batiks from my big stash of batiks and made a quilt with that ruler.

The pieces are so easy to cut and very addictive to sew by machine.

I used jelly rolls for the pieces around the hexagon.

Gift Quilt - Citrus Punch

 I have been having a lot of fun creating gift quilts for my quilt Guild and enjoying working with batiks.  

I made this quilt top with batik jelly rolls (2.5" strips). Very easy and quick to make.

 

Gift Quilt top

 I made another gift quilt top to be donated to the Gift Quilt program at my guild.

I had these fabrics in my stash so why not make good use of them.

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 ...