Butterfly

Septembers' 12x12 Challenge for WQC

was "Butterfly"

I decided to do some trapunto and practice the

great free motion quilting skills recently learnt.

A Sewing Weekend

Last weekend I headed up North to Russell with 3 of my quilting friends.

We stopped off in Whangarei on the way up to check out the Whangarei Quilters Show.

A really good show.

For some photos check out http://quiltwhangarei.blogspot.co.nz/

 We stayed in this great B & B

The house was moved to Matauwhi Bay in 1990 and lovingly restored

by Marilyn and her late husband Allan.

Matauwhi Bay Saturday morning.

The breakfast menu on Saturday.

After breakfast we moved to the large room Marilyn has set up for sewing.

As a quilter herself, she enjoys having groups of like minded people stay.

 Wendy talked Annette into a jellyroll race.

Annette's on the left and Wendy's on the right.

 At their machines ready to start.

 Wendy is winning so far.

 Annette trying to catch up

 Still smiling event though she is losing by miles.

And the winner is Wendy

Annette's finished.

My Sudoku quilt

 In the evening we had this lovely fire to keep us warm.

My room.  All the rooms had lovely quilts on the bed.

We had dinner out each night and all up had a wonderful time.

Celtic Alphabet

I finished quilting my celtic alphabet wall hanging at the weekend.

Just for Anna, I tried a different quilt design around the letter
and cross hatch quilted the border.

Play on Your Name 12x12 Challenge

This month's WQC 12x12 challenge was

"Play on Your Name"

Claire means clear,bright so I decided to use this piece of

fabric which shows the bright moon on a clear night and

framed it as if looking through a window.

For some of the others see Western Quilters Circle

DG mystery quilt, July

I have caught up on this mystery quilt.

All ready for show and tell at Dream Girls on Friday.

DG mystery quilt so far

I am a month behind on this project so tried to catch up yesterday.

This is the month before done.  I have made the blocks for this month
but haven't quite finished them.

WQC Tui class

 On Sat 14th July WQC had Dianne Fussell come and 

teach her technique for making this beautiful Tui wallhanging.

"Theres tuis in my garden 2" by Dianne Fussell.

It is usually a 2 day class but we only had one day.

We spent the day free motion sewing beautiful rayon threads

 over a colour photo of the big tui.

This is me stitching away

My finished tui.  Only 2 more to go plus the background.

The feet get stitched once the tui is attached to the wallhanging.