Brown Quilt finished

Today Elaine and I finished hemming the binding on the brown quilt. It looks amazing. Stephanie quilted it beautifully and added 8 Australian animal shapes in her quilting (kookaburra, kangaroo, wombat, gecko, cockatoo, lyrebird, echidna, emu). She remarked that it is one of the straightest, squarest quilts she has done! Now it is all ready for David and Carlos to collect next time they are in Australia and take home to London in time for autumn maybe.

 This is a sideways image because it is a queen sized quilt. The block design is a disappearing 6-patch designed by Stephanie and I and used for our colour wash quilts.

July Quilting Day

 Last Saturday we were a small and very busy group. Just Stephanie, Karen and I with help from Pernilla. We decided that we really needed to finish off some of our UFOs before starting another piece of fabric but pulled Lynette's to give us lots of time to consider our options.

We put the blue flowers up on the board but as we need two more applique blocks we went no further with that one.

We added another border of brown blocks and now that one is a Queen Bed topper. I think it should have an unpieced border added (say 3") and then a binding before we can consider it finished. It is looking really good with its contrasting corners.

Jeanette sent along a photo of her latest quilting efforts and the quilt will hang in their show soon.

Karen brought her progress to show and tell of a BOM modern quilt she is making. 

Zoom was a very small group - just us and Sue - but we were able to have a great catch up.

My news is that I am preparing to have a major kitchen reno (starting August I hope) so stay tuned to your email for changes of dates and venues until that is over.

See you all next time, somewhere.