Saturday Night Sewing

The first Saturday night is our friendship night. ( afternoon & night for some girls!)

This past night saw Sandra finish this gorgeous quilt made from friendship 9 patches of browns and shirtings from another group she belongs to.

 



Sorry about 2 different colours, 2 pics from my phone and 2 from Lou's.

The alternating  blocks of bird fabric is just lovely, and she paid special attention to have all birds up the right way.

This treasure may go to Sandra's daughter, lucky girl!!!

And don't you love how at a stitch in night, we all gather to discuss options over sashings, colours, placements etc........

There was a big group discussion to help Val choose a sashing width for this lovely quilt....

That's what we love about our groups, the inspiration and support from friends is in-valuable.

It really is like mental health!!

You can't get much better than great company with like minded friends.

Now it's only 12 more sleeps till we fly off on our interstate adventure also with 4 other beautiful friends. Getting very exciting now.

Do any of you Brisbane girls have a "must visit shop" to take our travel buddies too???

Have a great week.

Lisa & Lou

 

Lou's Autumn Stars

We have been busy behind the scenes.  We had a day of creative planning on Saturday.  New projects are on the go for workshop days that are planned for later in the year and early 2014, and also for a magazine.  We have a workshop day booked at Magic Patch Quilting in Tyabb on June 8th.  We believe there are still limited spaces available....
You may remember that I started my own version of Lisa's Autumn Stars from our Autumn in the Valley pattern. I decided to hand quilt it.  My hand quilting is naive.  I really haven't hand quilted much at all.  I always thought it was too much trouble.  But I have to say I have done my naive hand quilting on a few small quilts lately and I'm really enjoying it.

At the Australasian Quilt Convention in April we both bought this beautiful linen thread from L'uccello.

This is what I have used for hand quilting in my Autumn Stars quilt and it is wonderful to stitch with...(once I bought needles with a bigger eye that is!) 

So back to cutting and sewing of our magazine quilt.....deadlines are looming..... 

Have we told you how well we work to a deadline!!

PS the countdown is on.  23 sleeps until Sydney and Brisbane......

Can't wait......

Until next time

Lou & Lisa

Catalogs from the International Quilt Study Centre Nebraska

The postman delivered an exciting parcel on Thursday,

catalogs from the International Quilt Study centre Nebraska.

These catalogs are part of the collections from centre's over 2300 quilts,

which is the largest public collection in the world!!

We received the

Elegant Geometry

American and British Mosaic Patchwork

which includes the following gorgeous quilts and info..

and also

Chintz Applique

from Imitation to Icon

WOW!!!!! amazing quilts.
Also take a look at their on line exhibitions for us who are too far away!

If you love hexagons or broderie perse you will love these catalogs,

they are very detailed with lots of information on the quilts and techniques also.

Thanks Joy from the Museum for your help and great communication.

Click the link above to visit the Quilt Study Centers website.

Adding this to the dreams list of places to visit!!!

Lisa & Lou

WE REMEMBER

Today we remember the Men and Women from past and present who helped make our country the amazing place it is to live in.

We remember our family members who fought for us all.

We thank the current members who are still fighting for us.

The dawn service in our town had the most amazing turnout this morning.

LEST WE FORGET

Lisa & Lou

ps the above photo's are Lisa's grandfather.

Australian Quilt Convention.

Saturday saw us spend the day at the Quilt Convention, and what a lovely day we had.

It was at the beautiful Exhibition Building in Carlton. The architecture of this grand old building is just stunning!! Lucky it is, as although we took lots of quilt photo's we don't have any permission to use them on our blog from their makers so..........

But we can show you our purchases!!!

Lou

Lisa

So now the brains are doing overtime.

We are very excited that Quilters Companion have asked us if we would like to make a quilt for their gorgeous magazine!!

And of course we said "Yes"

So the paper and pencils are out and a new quilt is coming together. Sorry as much as we hate these secret post's we really can't show you as it's a scribble in progress. So you will have to wait to the project is released.

       But we hope you will love it!!!

If you went to the show we hope you enjoyed it.

Our next trip is to the Sydney Quilt Show in June and then onto Brisbane for the

"QUILTS 1700-1945"

exhibition at the Queensland Art gallery.

These quilts are from the V&A in London.

It will also show the Rajah quilt from the National Gallery of Australia.

We are all booked to go and very excited.

If you are a lover of Antique Quilts you will not want to miss this!!

We thank everyone who supports our little quilting venture.

Lisa & Lou

A Lovely day Today!!!

Today was our Autumn Stitch in Day.

We had a wonderful day with a great group of ladies. It was so great we forgot to get the camera out till nearly the end!!! It's always great to see our patterns in many different colours.

Sue & Cheryl were both working on the Monogram Quilt...

As was Joanie....

Maureen's melons for her Monogram quilt....

and then some lovely scrappy colours for this Monogram Quilt..

Here are some pictures of Autumn Stars and Autumn Rings...

And at our Spring day a few months back Sue and Cheryl both did clam shells and are busy hand quilting them......

The ladies were all very productive and had a lovely time with lots and lots of yummy food.

Isn't it funny how stitching and food seem to go hand in hand!!!

Thank you to June for all your hard work organising the day.

You did a wonderful job again.

Thank you to all who came today and we hope to see you again soon.

Lisa & Lou







Autumnal Folly is this Saturday April 13th

Lilly Patches' Autumnal Folly workshop is on this Saturday.

We think we're organised (fingers crossed). 

We're looking forward to seeing new and old friends.

Limited places are still available, so if you have nothing planned for Saturday, give June a call and come and spend a day sewing with us. 
(Phone: 03 9761 2088)

If you came to Spring Fling and we are seeing you again on Saturday, please bring your quilts (both PHD's and finished mini quilts) for us to see.

I just couldn't resist making a second version of Lisa's Autumn Stars.  Not loving hand piecing as much as Lisa does, I machine pieced it and am very happy with the result.  

It's not quilted yet....I can't decide how to quilt it????

This is Lisa's version.

As I've been on holidays this week, I also had the chance to finish "Abundance".  

This sweet little quilt was a give away on Lori from Humble Quilts' blog.   She is a lovely quilter, so have look at her wonderful blog.

We have had some positive feedback from two shops, Mrs Martin's Quilt Shop in VIC and Quintessential Quilts in WA and we are posting them some patterns this week.  Thank you Karen & Sue.

If you're in Victoria, the AQC is coming up. It's held at Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building from April 18-21.  Don't miss Needles and Pins stall while you're there.  Kaye will have Lisa's Tessellate quilt for you to see as well as our patterns on sale.

She'll also have a stunning new quilt from our friend

 Veronique of Wattlebird Designs.

As always, we hope you get some time to enjoy your sewing

Lisa & Lou