Old Courthouse 1890

We are so very happy to be able to show you our newest design.
Old Courthouse is our newest quilt measuring approx 51" square. Super easy to make bigger by making more blocks. The maths for the setting triangles stays the same.
We love it and hope you do too!  We had great feedback from quilters at the Everything Patchwork and Quilting show at Gembrook on Saturday.  Thanks so much to all of you for popping over and chatting too.  
Oh and did we mention ......there is NO CURVED PIECING involved.

  
Our photo shoot was at the site of the original Healesville Courthouse at 42 Harker Street, Healesville which was built 1889 to 1890.

New Patterns - Greenhills, Olive Bank and Monda

We are very pleased to present our three newest quilts including to first two of our "Small Treasures" collection.

Greenhills

This patterns includes a wall handing, mini quilt and table runner.

I really love seeing this in my dining room.... might have to make another to keep....

& our new "Small Treasures"

Monda:

A wonderful table runner.  A great combination of EPP and appliqué.

Olive Bank:

Designed as a table topper or lap quilt. 

Lisa had some fun with these shapes and choose some brighter fabrics. 

We hope you like them...
AS always, thanks for your support.
Happy stitching,
Lisa & Lou

We were so excited to see our Quilt "Allambee" on the cover of Quilters Companion this month. This is Lisa's colourway.  It has photographed beautifully.

This is Lou's version. I took a photo of the magazine, please forgive the quality!

And this is the two together

This fantastic graphic is from Lilly Patches.  Thanks heaps.

So head down to your local quilt shop or newsagent for your copy! Full pattern is in the magazine.

Happy Stitching 

(& Happy mothers day for all the Aussie mum's for Sunday).

Lou & Lisa

Braeside - New pattern

We have launched 4 new patterns over the weekend.  We will do a few posts this week with all the new designs and some up close and personal shots of each project.
WE cannot thank you all enough for the support and encouragement we receive for our designs.
A HUGE thank you to the 63 ladies who joined us for Summer School yesterday. WE LOVED IT and  we saw some amazing work being done.
So here is a very 'picture heavy' post of Braeside.

 Braeside has two patterns.
A large English paper pieced and appliquéd quilt....

This is Lisa's before and after quilting.

This is Lou's:

 And here is the Braeside Birds mini quilt. Lou's on the left & Lisa's on the right:

We've included this one to show you what a difference quilting makes.

Lisa hand quilted hers and Lou's is machine quilted.  Lou's was 'sucked in' over a 1/4" once quilted.

Lisa's is much more relaxed with the soft hand quilting.

and some close ups:

 Before and after being stitched and pressed...

Patterns are available now at Lilly Patches and Mrs Martin's Quilt Shop.

Mandy at The Fabric Parcel will have her patterns by the end of the week (fingers crossed) with other shops to be not to far behind....

Hope you all find some time for stitching,

Lou & Lisa

Summer School

Oh what a day. We taught a workshop today for our two new patterns 

Airlie 

And Cranbrook

With Mrs Martin's Quilt Shop. 

Karen (aka Mrs Martin) spent all week preparing the hall and baking (yes, in 44 degree heat)!  

It looked amazing. 

We will apologise for the green tinge in the photos.  The light was good in the hall, but it casts a green glow in photos... Odd....

We had a great bunch of ladies, 63 in all. Including some wonderful friends, ladies we have taught before and some new ladies. 

One lovely lady told us of a quilting tour/ trip to the USA she had last year. She said that because they all came with a common interest that they all got along instantly. This group was the same. It seemed as though everyone had a wonderful time and we had a blast. 

Here are some photos of what everyone was working on: 

Thanks so much for a great day everyone who came and to Karen for organising a very successful Summer School!

We look forward to seeing some PhD's and completed quilts soon.

Lou & Lisa

PS. We are in issue 99 of Quiltmania which is being delivered now.  We shall give you a sneak pic in the next couple of days.