Cake and Candles = Birthday

Sheila visited the Thursday nighters and shared some quilting candy and a Birthday Pic. Thanks Sheila

Celebrating special lady Karen’s birthday. She works so hard as secretary of Patchwork & secretary of Craft Cottage.

Michelle’s friendship quilt is in progress

Ratna with amazing shasiko

Enjoy gals, Thanks Sheila

Another step toward our Quilt Exhibition...

Sheila has asked that everyone make their own Quilt Exhibition name badge, or indeed, nameless name badge or lanyard. It needs to be small enough to pin to your shirt in the usual place and has to be predominantly denim with the theme of 'recycle', of course, go nuts with any other decorations that take your fancy, whilst still remaining tasteful of course.
As an example, Sheila created this cute little lanyard using a toddlers jeans pocket and stitching a much loved button bought on her visit to Neuschwanstein Castle awhile back.
The badges or lanyards will be worn by the exhibition assistants on duty so that we are instantly recognisable

Betty always comes up with the cutest ideas for little works of crafty art has created these for our inspiration.

Remember Di's lovely box from last weeks show and tell?

Di has been asked the usual "where did you get it" questions by several people. It is a Rinske Stevens design, and was purchased at the Brisbane craft show. Di did a bit of sleuthing around the net and discovered a range available at Sewn and Quilted in Blackburn, Melb. No shipping charges easily visible on the site but found shipping of Di's box from Vic to Qld was around $14.50 for standard postage.
Thanks to Inge holding the box just so, here is a pic of front and back for you in case you too would love one of these lovlies for yourself or even as a gift.

Today, Di was working on more hexies,

actually saw her take a stitch or two between helping Courtney with her new table runner and admiring Sheila's new lanyard.

Courtney's table runner promises to be beautiful with such a lovely colour selection.

Karen had a beautiful tote stuffed full of stitchin' goodies, Turns out the tote was created by Inge. Karen cheerfully emptied the bag to show off all the pockets that Inge incorporated into her bag. Showcasing Shasiko embroidery created on an embroidery machine and teamed with some lovely fabrics, another example of Inge's popular beauties.

Sandy, who shared her lovely ribbon weave quilt last week was working on a sweet 'brights on white' medallion quilt, one of her 'bring along' pieces to work on at meetings.

Was too busy listening to the goss and got distracted from close ups of Sandy's quilt, a couple of closer snips from the above pic.

Today launched the Kaleidoscope workshop with Sue kindly being our tutor.
Lots of discussion, lots of measuring and very accurate pinning.

Looking forward to seeing the progress and finished results.
Thank you Sue for once again sharing your knowledge with us.

Now we all know that Wendy, apart from being a prolific quilter is also a curious little quilter. Show her a pattern that captures her imagination and she won't be happy until she has conquered it, so when she saw Marie & Sue's quilts she just couldn't wait, she had to make the Kaleidoscope quilt, she found a tutorial and sailed away creating a quilt everyone admired but Wendy was critical of it. Why? she thinks that the Kaleidoscope effect isn't as radical as she would have liked, that the overall quilt pattern is too close to the uncut fabric design. She agreed to send me a pic of her quilt as a point of discussion only.
However, reckon its still a great quilt.

Lorraine sacrificed and missed out on the workshop, she kindly took over the arvo tea duties for one of the gals who couldn't make the day, but not to miss out, she worked on her version of squares. Ham and Salad squares as it happens.

Some time back the group purchased a lockable book case for our library collection, no matter how many times Jackie our librarian culls we have books galore, so many, that as time marched on the shelves started to sag under the weight. Lorraine organised with her very helpful Darling to solve the problem.

brackets, real support without the hinderance of dividers, brilliant!
But wait there's more...(feel free to envision steak knife advert. at this point) Obviously all the books had to be removed for the work to take place, so Lorraine being Lorraine, totally organised, she sorted all the books so that they went back into the bookcase in perfect order. Now Keep It That Way err...um...hope it stays that way.
Doesn't it look brilliant? Thank you so much Geoff and Lorraine, the group really appreciates your work for us.

and yes,alright, I confess, I'm really bad at putting books back, really need to wear those glasses- actually finding the suckers would be a start.

Beryl, Lorraine L, and Marie V were busily chatting but stopped long enough to share their work with us.
Lorraine is working on some really intricate and tiny hand pieced blocks, she commented that they get a bit difficult to stitch in the middle of the block!

Beryl shared that she keeps an embroidery piece in the little square tin you see here, anytime she isn't working on a quilt she can simply pick up her box and tote it along for something to work on. Great Idea.

Marie was working on the binding on her scrappy quilt, all scraps, all tiny, beautiful quilt.

Pat was stitching away on her machine, doing duty as Atrium sales staffer and patchworker combined. Seeing a crumb quilt on one of her fave blogs she set out to create her own version of this 4" block log cabin, with 2 large bags of scraps, she has lots to choose from, the only rule is to start each block with the red center, the 'hearth of the home'. The fireplace was used for cooking food, keeping warm and providing light in log cabins. So the traditional red square represents this source of warmth for gathering around.
Using 4 of the 4" blocks to create one 8" sq block Pat will assemble the those blocks in a 10 x 10 block grid.

A Winter's Day in the Summertime...

We have been having some blisteringly hot and humid weather the past few weeks, today was just the opposite, dull, dreary and drizzling, had an impact on our meeting numbers but those who braved the rain had a great time, not to mention a super arvo tea.

Wendy had her own little sweat shop on the go, she and Karen were busily stitching down the binding on a quilt, looked a little like that old cartoon of Lady and the Tramp and the spaghetti string (yeah, I know, really showing my age here)

while across the table Marie was busily stitching away on one of Wendy's millefiori blocks.

Marion was also working on binding, on a place mat, a gift for a lucky Sydneysider, yes, Marion and her Darling are off to Sydney to catch up with family and friends.

Karen Da. has discovered applique, and is having a ball with a wonderful free B.O.M. from the talented Esther Aliu. Karen recently bought herself a new sewing machine and needed a project to take to machine lessons with Kim of Kimz Sewing and Patchwork. While sharing her blocks with us Karren laughingly told of how she was so caught up in the stitching that when she finally surfaced it was two hours after her lesson was supposed to finish, she was amazed that Kym didn't pull her up and say 'over'. Those who know how generous Kim is, just smiled.

Kim also put Karen onto using a stabiliser under her stitching, makes a world of difference, so much so, that Karen is considering redoing her first block as the stitching sits so much nicer on the stabilised block. Either that or Karen is just having too much fun with these blocks.

Marlene had a quilt to share, via phone pics, made for a lucky family member.

Our Librarian, Jackie challenged the group to all take home a book or two and to read them over the christmas break, mind you, some cheeky sausages said they would take but not read or even open, tch tch.

Marlene chose 'Jelly Roll Inspirations' by Pam Lintott and found a great pattern for a 'boy' quilt, perfect design to lay either across or lengthwise on a bed.

Jackie is working on another had pieced quilt that she drafted the pattern for, saw the design and just up and drafted it out.

We have a new addition to our Library, WALK, the Jacquie Gering book on Machine quilting with your walking foot.
Jackie is considering using one of the designs to quilt her new lovely.

As we all know, East Coast Fabrics are closing down on the Sunshine Coast. Perhaps this is the reason why.
Spotlight to open in Dalton Drive.
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How to Beat the Heat...

...simple really, flick the switch and activate the Air Con. Boy are we ever so grateful that one room of our Cottage is airconditioned, its a smaller room but with a little organisation we can all fit!

Karen presented a tutorial to the group on making cute pouches, with a clear plastic front and a zippered opening, these cuties can be made at any size to fit your needs. Just the thing for stacking and carrying 'take along projects'. Karen has made a few of these for our various Fairs as well as accepting the odd commission for gifts

Cheryl shared her version of the pattern Wendy presented a couple of weeks back, using a different layout for another stunning quilt.

U.F.O. UPDATES
Di sent pics for us to share of some of her U.F.O.s, missing is a pic of a lovely blouse she finally finished.
First pic showing Di's Hexi cushions using a lovely soft pallet is courtesy of Penny of Patchwork Angel, thanks Penny.

Di's U.F.O. Show and Share was of a beautiful Shashiko wall quilt.

Using non traditional colours makes this a georgeous addition to Di's home.

2017 Quilt Exhibition - Part Five

Our Cottage is holding the Annual Buderim Winter School this week, so no Patchwork meeting for us--sob sob.
To help us all over the disappointment, here are the last of the Exhibition quilts, but before we zoom down the lines of lusciousness, there are more Very Very Big THANK YOU's to Sue Andrew and her team of helpers for the splendid job they did setting up the exhibition and Wendy Tame and her team of helpers for their equally splendid job running the kitchen and suppyling the delicious eats, without these hard workers the Exhibition would not be the success it was.


Sandy King
'Paris Meets St. Kilda'
I made this quilt in a class conducted by Ann Ferguson. I love the design and have since made another one for a friend.
Pattern design by Ann Ferguson
Quilted by Liz Traynor

Karen Wikman
'Teddies At Play'
Everyone loves Teddies! I really enjoyed doing the embroidery blocks. Then add Lynette Anderson fabrics and what more can you ask for!
Inspired by love of embroidery!
I love the result and hope you do too!
Pattern Design by Libby Richardson
Quilted by Karen Wikman

a closer peek and two of Karen's beautifully stitched blocks.

Marlene Hogan
'Poppies'
I had no plans for more poppies until I saw this fabric in spotlight. I saw half of this pattern in an advertisment on Facebook. I took a photo and then did lots of sums
It proved a good exercise for the grey matter.
Pattern design by Marlene Hogan
Quilted by Fiona - 'The Quilting Fairy'

Jackie Swan
'Blue Star'
This quilt looked easy when I saw it on "Pinterest". The best part - I had all the fabric in my stash!
Pattern design by Pinterest
Quilted by Letitica Turner

Lorraine Irvine
'Chain Reaction'
I was reading McCalls Quick Quilts and this one just jumped out at me. I just had to make it
Designed by Audrey Wright
Machine pieced and Quilted by me
Quilted by Lorraine Irvine

Fabric Art, Surface Design, Paper and Fibre Group
The girls from Fibre Art have an exhibition every second year, same as we do, but as the exhibitions are on alternate years the Fiber Arts gals display our annual Lyn Ballinger Challenge at their exhibition and we display their Group Challenge at our exhibition, a great system that suits us all, mind you, over the years these talented ladies have increased the types of mediums they work with and so of course their group's name has also had to expand, encompasing all their many talents

2017 Group Challenge
This year the groups challenge was to contribute to an instillation based on the theme'Seasons'.
Each member had to create leaves or flowers in their chosen medium. These were then used to construct a work which could be used as a window pelment or wall hanging.
The finished work is a credit to the 30 members who contributed. All materials were hand dyed and handmade. Mediums used include, felt, silk, cotton and paper.

Our Mystery Quilt.
On a visit to a local sister quilting group's exhibition many of our members were taken with the display of a mystery quilt the Mooloolah Valley quilters had done, they proudly displayed their quilts on stage showing off the many variations derived from the one pattern. Our members present promptly elected Wendy to co-ordinate and organise a quilt for our group to create, luckily she agreed, mind you, we did get her to say the words 'I agree' before we fessed up to what she had agreed to. Wendy did a stirling job, from a rough sketch of a block given to her by a 'Pinterest' surfing group member she wrote the assembly directions and even gave us a couple of block layout options and quilt sizes. Wendy also decided to make the directions 2.5" strip friendly for those of us wanting to use a jelly roll as well as being easy for those who wanted to do a scrappy quilt. These are the amazing results, we all had a ball creating our quilts. Thank You Wendy, for all of your hard work.

Marion Dempsey
Mystery Quilt
A number of members of the patchwork group at the Craft Cottage were given directions over several weeks by Wendy Tame (Workshop Coordinator) to make a quilt - without seeing the complete design. This is one of them!
Quilted by Marion Dempsey

Yvonne Palmer
Mystery Quilt
This was a fun mystery quilt project by members of the patchwork group under the guidance of one of our enthusiastic members.
I chose Japanese fabrics for this.

Karen Wikman
Mystery Quilt
This was a Mystery Quilt organised by one of our members for the group. It created a lot of interest amongst our ladies.
Portions of the instructions were released at 2 week intervals
A lot of the members participated and we had a lot of fun
Quilted by Karen Wikman

Susan Webb
Mystery Quilt
Along with several others in the group - I followed the instructions given for the Mystery Quilt. I followed the same colour theme throughout and I love the result.
This is a gift for my husband to stay warm during the winter months
Quilted by Karen Doyle

Di Stark
Mystery Quilt
This was a group project that we made over a few weeks
Quilted by Di Stark

Sandy King
The Mystery of Scraps
This quilt was made as a project in our Patchwork Group. I used fabrics I had for the entire quilt and didn't make much of a dent on my stash
Quilted by Karen Doyle

Marlene Hogan
Batik Mystery Quilt
This was a group exercise organised by Wendy Tame over 4 months.
Lots of fun talking and bonding. Thank you Wendy
Quilted by Fiona - 'The Quilting Fairy'

Lyn Solomon
Mystery Quilt
A purely scrappy quilt.
I followed the directions of the mystery quilt challenge.
Quilted by Lyn Solomon

Beryl Darby
Out Of The Stash
Myster quilt from our own Patchwork Group
Helping empty the qulting fabric drawers
Quilted by Beryl Darby

Lorraine Irvine
Mystery for a Service Person
Wendy created a mystery quilt for us to tackle. I found this bundle of gorgeous fabrics from the same fabric range in my cupboard. They had been there for awhile and there was no pattern, no notes or no picture of what they were for.
Because of the different amounts of each fabric with several of the fabrics being the same amount it looked as though I had bought it for a purpose. Well, life gets in the way sometimes and the purpose of these fabrics is long gone. I decided to use them for the mystery quilt then made extra blocks. It will be sent to a person serving somewhere overseas for Australia under the Aussie Hero Quilt program. I hope that someone gets good use from it and knows that they are thought of for the work they are doing for me and everyone else. There is also a matching laundry bag to go with the quilt so it will be easy to find their clean clothes when they come back on the trailer.
Quilted by Lorraine Irvine

Wendy Tame
Mystery Quilt
This is my mystery quilt done with our group in 2016
Quilted by Wendy Tame