Quay Quilters

Melinda's son's quilt home for a wash.

We had a good  Show & Tell last night

Avril's stunning version of the Letha's Fan block we did.

Bid's jelly roll quilt which she did with Margaret in our U3A class.

though I haven't photos of everything as there was quite a lot of whisking.

Going upstairs at the AGM

Everywhere one goes quilts are on display both by specialist groups, traders and teachers and as here by quilters from the region hosting the event. These were shown on the stairwell leading to the main hall.

I know the one on the left was made my Gwenfai Rees Griffiths who was a
busy at the event  as one of the Region 13 team in boater and stripy top.

Quilters Guild Conference

Lots of good things today. I loved Moira Neal's talk; she kept a good pace and it was all utterly joyful.  Maggi Relph of the African Fabric Shop reminded us of how good these fabrics look and it was touching to see her emotion at  the thought of all the friends she has made through the fabrics and the Guild. I took quite a few pictures of De-Anne Hartwell Jones' quilts. This lady doesn't own a sewing machine; she does everything by hand over papers though latterly she has resorted to having some of her  quilts long arm quilted. All my pictures are of her work.

Hexagons

1712 blocks made with the aid of Susan Briscoe's book.

Kaffe Fassett wanted this but he will have to make his own!!

A wool "Celtic" quilt using fabric from Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

I was intrigued how these striped effects were achieved - they're pieced.

Sewing with friends

Fran with quilt made from panel prints.

At Bonnie Quilters Fran had made a new quilt for her great grandson who is moving into a big bed.
Meanwhile at Lower Hardres some had been very busy,
Tomorrow I'm at the Quilters' Guild Conference here in Llandudno so should have more to show then.

Judi's samples for the Guild Abracadabra disappearing blocks workshop.

Tracy with her Liberty Stars

Colours not very true on this photo of Maggie's pinwheels - lots of sewing.

Ingrid's bright patches

Tracy's celebration of scraps

Last of the retreat

Last up taken on Sunday morning are Thelma's blocks of the month, Pat's blocks on point for a grandson and Jackie's QAYG log cabin.

Thelma's blocks

Jackie's log cabin

Pt's quilt for a grandson

Retreat Day 5

Izi's tessellated windmills

My LBD - the border took a long full day necessitating marking, amending
pressing directions etc.

Detail

Izi's batik tessellation

Retreat Fourth Day

Miriam made a sewing tidy to match her sewing machine cover
after seeing mine (below).

My set up with handy sewing mat.tidy pockets.

Kathy's stunning and precisely sewn stars using a variety of colours In Moda "Grunge".

Jacquie's jelly roll race quilt using a Jen Kingswell Gardenvale jelly roll - the same line  as I
used for the strippy quilts on Day 1. We all loved this and plan to hold a jelly roll
race day of our own

LBD inner top completed

LBD detail

Retreat Third Day

Checking my LBD units go together

At this stage projects start to appear thick and fast. Heather Hasthorpe had been binding quilts and now hung them up to photograph while Carrie had had quilts longarmed by Mandy. I got on with my LBD blocks. By midnight I had three rows sewn so I hope to have a the inner top done on Day 4 though we are going shopping too.

Heather's

Heather's - this one she quilted herself.

Another one of Heather's - the orange makes it pop.

Detail

Heather again

and a detail

Heather's quilt showing Mandy's quilting.

Mandy's completed purchased UFO with exquisite redwork.

Colette's using lovely classic Modas

Isabel's

Detail of  block using Jane Saasaman fabric

From Mandy combining modern low impact
fabrics with Liberty prints.

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Carrie's interesting workshop project - love the self coloured setting triangles

A huge completed piece from Carrie

Retreat Second Day

Popipes quilt for Judi

A reminder of top left block

On our second day we all got well stuck into our projects including me. I added an extra border to the poppy quilt and mitred the corners. When I get home I'll source a back. Thanks to my recent fabric sorting I know I have plenty of red yardage.

16 LBD blocks

Next I made a start on the Little Black Dress stack and whackery squares and setting units. This should be relatively straightforward as the time consuming cutting out of pieces was done earlier. Lots of chain piecing though. I  hope everything matches up.
And we all like to see and photograph the work of fellow participants.

Maggie's pinwheels; camera was on the wrong setting.

Julie's disappearing hourglass

Izi's tessallated pinwheels

Julie's t-shirt and babygro quilt detail

Julie's quilt for a baby - so much fun.