Ros's virtual show and tell

I am sending some photos of my finished projects over the past 3 months. A wall hanging, a new quilt for the lounge room, a table runner, a child quilt for my  youngest grandchild. The project bag is for my stitching projects. The red one was for St George hospital palliative care ward.

Liz's latest show and tell

Liz has now been home and out of lockdown in NZ for a few weeks. She has finished this fabulous quilt top (flimsy). I love it!

Amazing!

Elaine's Show and Tell

Elaine and I had a little time together at mine yesterday for a catch up and a show and tell. Here is one of Elaine's finished tops. I love it! Stunning!

Elaine used up lots of her 2" leader and ender squares for this one.

Jenny's Cats

Having heard about the cats Jenny was making on our Zoom meeting she has sent me a photo. She says...

I have had a productive time and finished the grand nieces cats. Thought you might like to see the finished product.

Still working on their clothes and of course a little quilt.

Orphan Blocks a-plenty

I have a folder full of orphan blocks of all shapes and sizes so this week I have sorted them into colour themes and started putting them together. You might even recognise your own block amongst them. I get them from everywhere, some from our group when there is an odd block left over, some from my own practice blocks and others inherited or donated from other quilters over the years.

First the Green and Cream Quilt

I decided that all these 9 blocks went together and would all be the same size if I just added calico borders of various sizes to some of them. Some needed minute borders while those for others were quite wide.

I have now added a narrow dark green border around it and chosen the next 6" border but am waiting for my polar fleece order from Spotlight to arrive so that I know exactly what width I have to work to.

Second was the Aqua Blue Allsorts

This time I decided to experiment with a haphazard layout rather than trying to make the blocks all the same size. And I even decided not to measure anything except the 1.5" frames that appear in places. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo when the blocks were just scattered on the design wall but here are a few shots.

Here it is waiting for trimming both sides then adding borders and backing of some sort. I think I would like a strong aqua border first to frame it then after that who knows.

I have lots of other blocks and am just going to keep going with different colour schemes. I am also using some of my cut squares to fill spaces where necessary so am using up lots of scraps.

I think each time we have a new block to try it would be fun to choose a colour scheme so that all the orphan blocks resulting from my experimenting could eventually be put together as a "sampler" quilt.

Jenny's Show and Tell

After some days of flaky internet I am now able to post Jenny's lovely show and tell photos. I relate well to the pussy photo. I also had cats and they loved to lie on top of half done jig saw puzzles and flick pieces with the spare paw.

Thanks Jenny for your inspiration.

All Done!

Betty's latest show and tell is a finished quilt, quilted, bound, labelled and photographed in time for the virtual birthday celebrations.

I love the back too.

Karen W's Show and Tell

I saw a picture in a magazine of a bag made of on-point squares and decided to work out how to make one. After some drafting on graph paper and resorting to sticking together paper squares(!) to get the sequence right, I made the smaller (4 " squares) bag. That looks OK but it is only big enough for a paperback book and has no 'gusset' for expansion space. Then I did a bit of browsing and found various patterns online (of course!) so I made the second, larger bag, using 5" squares and adding an extra row of squares. That is still not a lot bigger but definitely able to accommodate more bulk thanks to the gusseted sides. 

During the Zoom meeting I also showed my current hexagon project, and some handy tools. The LED light is great for working in the evening, while the beewax candle makes it a lot easier to thread needles when the thread is dragged across the beewax. The takeway cup holds my reel of thread with the end coming out the spout (arrowed) - no more runaway reels. 

Betty's Show and Tell

Well after a lot of work in the chook yard, a long shower and a well deserved rest I headed upstairs to finish off my first Covid quilt top.

In an earlier post I put up the beginnings but once I knew who the finished quilt was to be for it has all gone together quickly. Upstairs now to sandwich bind and quilt it. It has to be finished for next weekend.

Show and Tell from our Zoom gathering

Today's Zoom gathering was great. Thank you to all those who joined. I think we are now learning about how to iron out glitches on the run.

People had a lot of show and tell so here are a few...

Jeanette (WA) has made some bags.

She and Graham went out to their front gate for Anzac morning with a candle and flag.

Christine (Noosa) is progressing with her clam shell blocks, many of them embellished in some way.

Karen G (Woolongong) has been experimenting with folded stars.

While Rosalind (her daughter) has been making some Eye of God hangings.

We were also treated to Karen W's bags and other partial projects, Elaine's  hand work, Jenny's dressed cats and more. I hope to have pictures of them all soon.

I was having difficulties actually adding pictures to my blogs but have now found a way around the problem so send in your Lockdown project pictures for us all to be inspired by.