Two Quilts Finished

Marion's Churn Dash

At our July quilting weekend we completed two quilts. These have been drawn and the winners have both chosen to either give them to one of our members who is in love with them or to donate them to charity. I am still awaiting final decisions.

Sea Shells (donor of focus fabric unknown)

We had a small but productive group and are pleased with our achievements.

We drew another fabric this time (Helen Vette's blue flowers) but we also had a fat quarter of fabric given to us from the Quilters Guild (muted pink, green, navy colouring) because we entered our quilt in the recent quilt show. So there are two fabrics to work on. You might receive these soon but there is no rush as I have not written the instructions for Helen's block yet. These two blocks will be due in to me by the end of January.

The Quilters Guild fabric is to be included in a 12.5" 9-patch as follows - it should be trimmed to 4.5" and be placed at one corner of the 9-patch. The centre of the 9-patch block should use one of the colours in the fabric as a solid or tone-on-tone. The other squares should only use the colours in the focus fabric. We will be creating another hidden 9-patch quilt but please do not cut the final blocks this time just send it back as an uncut 12.5" 9-patch block. All pieces in this block will be 4.5" whole squares. Please email me if you need more help with this.

The instructions for Helen's block will be sent out later via email.

Using Polar Fleece Scraps

Here's an idea for using up all those polar fleece scraps that we are accumulating. Make a polar fleece patchwork blanket by using a skip stitch blade to punch holes around the edge then start creating from there... http://www.skipstitch.com/ideas.html

You could even use this method to join scraps to back a quilt top.

Our Sylvanvale Quilt

 

 The clients at the Sylvanvale Sutherland Activity Centre have just finished their first quilt and it looks stunning. Congratulations to all those who worked so well on this project.