Our April Gathering

 We were six people who gathered last weekend for our April patchwork gathering. I spent most of the day quilting one of the blue friendship star quilts and I hope to get the next one done today. The binding is on the first one now waiting for someone to adopt the handsewing bit.

We were able to add borders to the green star quilt and to the flower top (seen in the photo above).

Then the joy of arranging Jeanette's Briar Rose blocks which are now on the design wall awaiting trimming and joining. No sashing required for this top.

One of the jobs I did during all this rain was to do a big tidy of all the junk that had littered our space upstairs for years and I also changed the cover on the bed to be more in keeping with the new curtains and cushion covers. This will stay until I finish the Peaches and Cream doily quilt I am making.

From a friend near Lismore

 She writes: "yesterday we went to Kyogle (since poor Lismore is still recovering) to get supplies and went to the small art gallery there. We were delighted to see some amazing quilts, and I thought you'd be interested in seeing some of them. I didn't have a camera with me so couldn't capture the whole range - some traditional geometric ones and some more radical. Here's a webpage with the whole set of panels - there were only two at the exhibition, really stunning close-up. 

It is worth looking at the Roxy Gallery Facebook page too.

https://www.duckcreekmountainquilting.com/blog/2021/3/3/dawntodusk "

Two of Christine's latest quilts

Christine showed us these on Zoom last weekend but in case you missed them she has sent me pictures as well..

Christine writes ... "photographs of the quilts I showed you, one was using up my orphans and if you look closely you will see several Rainbow Quilter blocks, I like you idea about using the same fabrics and then putting together as a quilt.

The second one still needs quilting and a binding but the effect can be seen in the unfinished product, it also was inspired using a trial block for BOM but I did have sufficient fabric to create a whole quilt."

 

Elaine's latest I spy quilt

 Yesterday Elaine sent me this photo of her latest very colourful quilt.