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| Colette's baby top |
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| Colette's toiletries bag |
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| Mandy's magnificent spinning kaleidoscopes top |
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| My batik St Brigid's Crosses top now bordered |
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| Julie's Alice Caroline project block |
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| Maggie's wonderful One Block Wonder with Penny Jeffries' screen printed centre and using Penny's Blostma and Song range. |
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| Julie's fun Turtles quilt |
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| Belinda's dotty Drunkard's Paths |
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| Yvette's (EPP?) from "the cupboard". |
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| Kathy's graphic houses |
Four of us from Kent are lucky enough to be included on this retreat and a lot gets done and we are so pleased to enjoy each other's work.
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| Made in a Guild TQG class with Jackie Taylor of White Cottage Crafts |
First I settle into my room and put a quilt on my bed. This is a favourite made from a very unprepossessing jelly roll which made good when cut up.
We have Yvette a Linus coordinator and Jane her helper among us and Jackie who makes and collects quilts for her local Bluebells charity so lots of charity quilts crop up made by them plus some contibuted by members of the group. Useful designs get repeated. I'll put names of makers where I can.
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| Chandelier quilt top pieced by Yvette |
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| Half rectangle shapes from Jane |
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| Maggie's original design |
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| Donated quilt |
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| Useful pattern |
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| Another version |
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| Canterbury Cathedral |
The Quilters' Guild organised a day at the Cathedral where we looked at the magnificent C12th Cosmati Pavement and Liz Coleman's quilt using various elements taken from it.
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| Liz's quilt |
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| Detail of tiles |
Led by Liz we worked on our own paper pieced units and the three of us from Quay took ours in to show the group.
I made a simple mug rug thing from mine. Done & dusted!
It was a great day with fifteen attending and the presention of our cheque to Demelza - £6000 raised by seven people in two days with perhaps a bit more to come. I'm tucked in the middle.
We impressed our visitor with homemade cake and a great Show & Tell.
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| Judi's |
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| Maggie's |
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| Still Maggie |
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| Belinda's |
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| Mary's |
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| Also Mary's I think |
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| Lynne perhaps |
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| Tracy's |
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| Tracy's |
The Oast Showcase was beset by awful wet cold and windy weather but attendance wasn't too bad and I enjoyed all the exhibits. Unfortunately I had some strange setting on my camera so my photos weren't good.
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| This is Tansy's magnificent quilt a mixture of designs from Australian quiltmakers and her own ideas. |
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| I loved the way these poppies were pieced. Such intense impactful colours. |
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| This is my Sunny quilt |
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| Inger Milburn's Hever Maze was my favourite and won best quilting. |
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| This was a corner dedicated to Sue Jennings who makes amazing seven block wonders and also heirloom style machine quilting and upcycling. |
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| Going home morning |
The previous group I used to travel with decided to call it a day for reasons of cost, travel plans, age etc. So along with two newbies of my acquaintance we joined a group of five from the midlands. They were great, friendly and jolly and we all got along splendidly.
I worked on Gypsy Rose mostly with a respite from pernickty piecing provided by working on unearthed long ago block swap sets and joining completed blocks.
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| St Brigid Cross blocks awaiting a border |
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| !930's repro. blocks not quite joined as I need to swap out one of the centre yellow blocks. |
The others worked on jelly roll strip sets together plus individual projects
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| Jackie's first quilt |
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| Angela's Christmas stocking for the youngest (great?) grandson |
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| Gilly's Dresden plates, quite a feat with more done by the end. |
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| Strip sets sewn ready to be cut into squares and sliced. |
while my companions,both fine sewers worked on applique and hand quilting.
