My Boy Rocky wins

I entered "My Boy Rocky" in the Festival of Quilts show this year and was thrilled to receive a highly commended prize.

So exciting as have never entered a judged show before.

My Boy Rocky

On the 11th and 12th July I attended a WQC workshop with Melissa Burdon

Prior to the workshop we sent a photo to Melissa.

The original photo I sent through.

The picture I received back.

 The picture was printed in pieces to full size and taped together

 Then made a template on freezer paper

 The nose done

 At the end of 2 days

 All of the class

 Another weekend of working on Rocky

It definitely looks like my boy

Show and Tell at WQC July meeting

 Quilted front

and back

Christmas and stuff

There was a craft market at work on the 5th Dec and I decided to 

try my hand at selling some things.
I didn't have a lot made so got to work and made the following;

I sold one tablemat, the 2 Christmas stockings, 1 Christmas tree decoration, 

the little box and a wallhanging.  Not too bad.
It gave me some Christmas spending money.

 My "Through the Trees Wallhanging" sold to a good friend

and is now hanging on the wall in her office so I can see it still.

I made 3 boxes for my quilting mates and

 gave to them  full of goodies for Christmas.

 

Eastern Promise

I did a workshop back in June at WQC with Anna Williams.

Here is my quilt finally finished.

It has turned out very well.  A great class.

Festival of Quilts 2013

1st to the 3rd Nov was the Festival of Quilts at North Harbour Stadium.

Below are a few of the quilts that took my fancy.

Taupo Symposium

Four of us went to Rotorua for the weekend and went across to

Taupo on Saturday to check out the quilts.  I was impressed

at the variety of quilts on display.

Here some that took my eye.

This one by Anna Williams.  The quilting was beautiful.

I had a really great weekend away with my 3 quilting friends and 

we are already planning for the next Symposium.

Alice in Wonderland Challenge

At the WQC show in March a group called "The Mad 4"

was created.  This comprises of me and three quilting buddies.

It started off as a challenge where we would each provide a fat quarter of fabric

but grew into having a theme as well.

The theme is from "Alice in Wonderland"

Wendy supplied the first fat quarter which was actually 2 fat eights

and she also supplied the kiwiana fabric and specified that each of the 

four challenges must contain a noticeable piece of it.

I chose the Cheshire cat from the cartoon "Alice in Wonderland"

to make this.