Our quilt club night had rolled around again, and a bunch of happy quilters met in the hall. I handed in the blocks I had made for the charity quilt, and the other blocks for the raffle quilt. The charity quilts are an ongoing project and block patterns were handed out for another easy pattern to stitch up this month. Raffles were drawn – and sadly, my numbers were once again not called out. Perhaps one of these months I’ll finally win a raffle prize.
Show and Tell is always interesting. Heather showed her quilt made from Japanese inspired fabric panels given to her by her daughter. She added extra fabrics and embellishments and the end result is this stunning quilt.
Heather’s quilt started life as panels
Kathryn’s Celtic quilt was started in Symposium – and what a beauty it is. All that intricate Celtic swirling binding carefully stitched down is certainly a work of art.
Kathryn’s Celtic quilt
The kits for these cute little make-up bags were purchased as kits during an Australian holiday. I didn’t quite catch the name of who made these.
Little make-up bags with stitchery panels
Our speaker for the evening was Liz from Angels in Gumboots quilt shop, in Ashhurst. Liz started her working life as a trained scientist working at DSIR – and in a complete turn around, is now a partner in her shop Angels in Gumboots. Cross stitching was her first love, then she told us about her quilting journey.
Liz from Angels in Gumboots
Liz is still very fond of one of her early quilts, foundation pieced pine trees. And I rather liked the purple and green bed quilt with stitchery panels
Pine trees quilt
Pretty stitcheries on this quilt
An extra special quilt was the cat quilt made for her daughter as a graduation gift. Liz’s daughter has brown Burmese cats, rather like these happy little critters.
Graduation cat quilt
When the meeting had concluded the ladies flocked around the stall which Liz had set up with goodies from her shop. There were patterns, fat quarters, and jelly rolls galore. I left them to their bargain hunting and went and had a cuppa.
Looking for a bargain or two
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