Monday 9 May 2016

Lang Lang Quilt Show 2016 Winners and Highlights


Mini Tour!

Winning Entries


Winning Quilt and Owner by 1 Vote!
this was amazing

Winning All Sort entry and Owner!
Quilt Raffle Winner!
Winning Challenge Block!

 
















My Quilts at Show

Bushman's City Visits
dedicated to my dad

 














Hey Grub! Let's fly a Kite
childhood memory quilt of mine

Girly Whirly News
another of my quilts hanging





Bastille Day Celebrations
Art Quilt I had hanging







Challenge blocks





Other fun Quilts!

partial to a compass block

dynamic

superb quilting

loved the elephants
As you can see it was a fun time had by all.  I came home and managed to start quilting on my newest quilt to go on the frame.  I will be linking to Kathys Slow Stitching Sunday.  I hope you enjoy the few magic moments on this Mothers day and also the few stitches I can show you.   If you would like to see more quilts I have made the album public for everyone to see all of the quilts in the Quilt show on my Face book page with the Album Lang Lang Quilt show 2016 I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

So I will leave you with the photo of my Hand quilting on Lollipop drops with Aurifil 12 wt thread and using John James Shashiko Needles.  Until next time happy Quilting or Creating and keep smiling


Wendy


Sunday 8 May 2016

Happy Mothers Day and May BOM!

Happy Mother's Day to all!

I hope you are all having a lovely day.  I am going to take my mum to our local quilt show.  I will be taking photos and do a blog post tomorrow with lots of the quilts and the winners for you.

Now down to the nitty gritty for those following with my Block of the Month this months block is Puss in Corner.  This block evokes memories of playing this game in the shelter sheds at school before the fire burnt them down.

For this month we need 3 fabrics, this is what I have chosen!

But then I changed my mind for the hand piece block and have chosen these.

From your dark fabric you will need to cut 1 X 4.5" square and. 12 X 1 7/8" squares
From your light you will need to cut 4 rectangles 3 1/4" X 4.5" and 8 X 1 7/8" squares
From your medium you will need to cut 4 rectangles  1 7/8" X 4.5"  and 8 rectangles at 1 7/8" X 3 1/4"

We then lay it out like this.

I then place the four patch parts together the outer square and the rectangle to finish the 9 patch variation and then the middle section of rectangles.  Remember to shorten your stitch length as these squares are a lot smaller and you don't want the seams to undo.

We then press the seams to the dark side!

Then we add the medium smaller rectangles to the edge of our four patch like this.

I pressed this to the outside so no seams back on themselves.  I then line the other piece we previously did and sew them to each block and this forms a variation of a 9 patch.

I then sew the middle sections to each other to give 3 rows to make the block


I have pressed the top and bottom seam sections to the centre and the middle section to the outer area of our block.  This all helps in nesting of seams to make a neat matched up block.

And TA DA! One puss in the corner block is complete!  I will do the hand pieced one over the next couple of days.

Here are all of the machined blocks so far together, don't they look great.  

I have loaded a new quilt on to my frame and will start quilting on that one.  I hope I can show you a couple of snippets but unfortunately I will not be able to show you entirely until July.   

I truly hope you have a fabulous Mother's Day and that you enjoy it no matter what you are doing.  Now it is almost time for me to go to the quilt show and see what else I can find and take some good photos.

Until tomorrow's post have a great day.

Wendy