Fabric Challenge.

This was the winner of the fabric Challenge. ( Sandra ). The swatch of the fabric that had to be used is there below her butterfly. The butterfly was 3 dimensional and that is where she used the fabric.

 Some of the entries.

Jill had never entered a challenge before.Very well done Jill

                                                                 *************

 Christine Bargello quilt was intriguing

We had to do the simple catering ourselves this time as no group would take it on for 3 days. I think it was quite profitable, as we didn't charge much and people were happy to buy. We only had tea, coffee cakes, sandwiches and hot savouries. I think people enjoyed being able to sit down take a break and chat. I haven't heard yet if it was all financially successful, I think it will have been.

Wall Hangings and Quilts.

 Sandra's stained glass dragonflies were fabulous.

 Very cleverly done . Dorothy's turtle had a 3D flipper out the front.

 This cityscape is the same pattern as the blue one in the last post. The different colour way makes an amazing difference. I liked the pattern!

Jenni did this in felt.

Julie's Lighthouses.

D and J sitting at the entrance table taking the money ( only $3 each ). I spent many hours over the weekend sitting here.

 Our Baby Sales table was overflowing with articles made by the members. Some lovely knitting and toys and sewing- feeders and wipes  and blankets and small quilts.

 My quilt was in a favourable place clearly visible from the tea tables at the end of a line.

 On the next post I will show the Challenge results.

The Baltimore to the Bay was made by our last year's Committee. Each members designed a block. It was just a starting point ;many ladies changed elements in it to make a point of difference.

Quilts from Our Exhibition.

Here are some of the quilts I liked from our Exhibition last weekend.

 Shirley's aqua palette was quite delicate.

 Karen's modern quilt stood out ( Its on its side for some reason -sorry ) 

 Gail's Postage stamp quit entailed a lot of tiny squares.

 Helen's striking blue.

 Nan's doilies quilt was hand sewn and quilted.

I loved Trish's cityscape.

Mine looked okay.

 Two Baltimore to the Bay quilts done as a month by month by some of the members.

I loved it on black. (Sorry please turn your head )

 An overview of part of the viewers. Tomorrow I'll show some of the wall hangings.

 I'll also try and sort out why I cant turn some photos The right way up.

Quilt Exhibition.

Quilts ,Garden and Orchard.

What a slack blogger I have been these past few weeks. The good news is I finished my Sew Many Flowers ( hexagon ) quilt in time to take for show and tell at Patchwork last Friday.  As yet I don't have a photo of it hanging so will wait to show you that. It is labelled too.
 Here are some other quilts that I liked. We had so much show and tell ( everybody finishing things in time for our Exhibition soon ) that these photos are of quilts just draped in piles .

 Lovely colours in a simple quilt as you go, strip quilt.

 More lovely colours.

 This is the bottom 2 rows of Shirley T's row by row quilt. She swapped the suggested ordinary houses for fairy houses as her Grand daughter wanted pink and mauve and purple and fairies and unicorns on her quilt.

 I really liked Denise's wall hanging. Only small but very modern.

 ********

 This morning I helped R finish putting the netting on my (2nd ) new strawberry frame. So Hopefully that will mean lots of berries for us and Grandson in the Summer months.

 For the last 2 weeks I have been back working on the kiwifruit vines every afternoon. I have been rained off several times - our weather has been so wet. I shouldn't complain I guess - Makes me think of you Molly. I really hope you don't come back ( to Florida  ) to find too much damage on your property.

 I am thrilled with these.  Not many ready yet,  but lots of flowers coming on.