Ongoing

I have attached the sashing to my Modernish sampler but am still thinking about borders. Unfortunately I have no more of the red sashing post fabric. I even had to piece the last 2" square. I'll piece some square in a squares for a posssible solution.

On the bed is an early 20th/late 19th century quilt from a Bristol attic. It's nice and thin, just right for the warmer weather.

Anothet Sweet Tea block and I have the pieces prepped for a second one.

 

Photo Shoot

As I will be disposing of recent quilts eventually, either to sell, donate or give I did a photoshoot of them pinned to the side of my shed. I like to have a photographic record of my quilts though some 

fall through the cracks.

The one that's already been taken is the Bondoon quilt bought by the Pat Man.

Gary with his purchase

Wayward Tildas to sell or for Linus

The back

Short Cuts for the Hospice

The back

Fish Quilt made to a friend's request

The back

Millennium Time For Q4Cl (Quilts for Care Leavers) 

The back

Makower Crosses also for Q4CL

The back

 

Modernish sampler and sewing day

 

Mary

Nine of us  had a lovely sewing day at Lower Hardres Village Hall today. Mary finished binding a quilt for a baby and Jenny completed a disappearing ninepatch quilt top.

Jenny's top

At home I've laid out my sampler blocks from some time ago and am determined to finish them but the sashing is throwing up problems.

On a small scale

 

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Old and replacement peg bags made with decorator fabric.
I made three so I will will have 2 more years off doing this annual task .
My peg bag hangs outside.so ends up very weathered.
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Latest Sweet Tea & Green Beans block, applique block 5 very like applique block 2 except there are 6 blooms not 5.

Quay Quilters

 New member Roz brought a quilt to show us. It's her version of the Rajah quilt which is lodged in the Australian National Museum in Canberra where it is rarely on display though it was sent here for the V&A exhibition some years ago. Quaker Elizabeth Fry worked with women prisoners and along with her ladies gathered materials and fabric along with a young instructor  for those being deported to Australia on the ship "Rajah" to learn the rudiments of sewing and patchwork. The Rajah quilt was the result.

Roz's impressive and meaningful version uses aboriginal designed fabric and includes quotes about aboriginal rights front and back.

Roz's quilt

Melinda at left retrieved this wedding quilt from her son. It was made some years ago and was soiled with use. Melinda has washed it and the quilt, all expertly hand pieced and quilted, has stood up well with a beautifully soft handle. I think it will be in our July Show.

Melinda's quilt

The Pat Man cometh

 

Gareth here came to test my machines arrayed on the spare room cupboards plus iron and extension lead. He was very taken by the quilts piled on the bed, this one destined to find a new home eventually but not immediately. However I couldn't resist his enthusiasm and wish to purchase this one so I gave in and he carried it off labelless and nameless. It will go on his reading chair and was only sold on condition he called it a quilt not a rug. Hopefully in its new environment it will alert more people to the presence of quilts and their appeal.

The back showing the Australian Bondoon fabric which was rotary fussy cut into four oatches to make the blocks.

On the bed

 

Carolyn Forster's BOM pattern quilt. It's called Cosmos after Dan Bennet's fabric line which largely features. Every few days I'm giving it a quarter turn so I see different blocks close up.

May doings 1

The 10th was our Chartham Hatch sewing day and here is Tracy with the top she made on her recent retreat, I love all the ginghams.

I was first there to set open up and this chap gave me a bit of a turn when I turned round.

His Majesty

Maggie made this lovely quilt in Liberty
Riviera cottons.

Tracy's, I think, as she has been
teaching DNP

Maggie,y lovely work made for her student daughter's flat mate

Meanwhile I was working on my Sweet Tea and Green Beans, applique block two,

 

Coronation

 

Craft sale

Best dressed?

Morris Men

In the hall

The Coronation weekend was very enjoyable and at times moving. We watched the ceremony on TV followed by a buffet lunch for two. Saturday was the concert and on Monday our residents and a neighbouring association celebrated by a tea. Lots of delicious cake plus a bric a brac and paperback sale to raise funds for four local charities. The Morris Dancers emerged from the pub to put on a good display and the almshouse rear garden was open, usually a secret enclosed space. There was a tour of our historic church while I went on a churchyard tour with two very knowledgeable parishioners partly looking at graves in including four war graves as well learning about others buried here whose stories involve an insight into the past.

Springtime Quilts

 First up I put Sunny on the bed. This was a quilt where I didn't have enough of a framing fabric so had to substitute and the result is all the better for it. 

Detail

It's another of my rotary fussy cut four patch quilts. This year I've added the Fish Quilt and Bondoon to the total.

I originally planned to use cross blocks as setting squares for Bondoon but they proved too overwhelming  so they are in a quilt all to themselves and I took various self indulgent photographs among the primroses in our back garden.

On a higher level on our Queen Beez day Maggie showed us her transformed mystery WIP now unrecognisably different from the original version.

And at Quay we saw Vanessa's latest which will go in our show.

Short cuts

 I decided to face rather than bind the Short Cuts quilt so I attached the single thickness fabric strips to the top on all four sides.

I folded under a hem and 

turned the facing through 

to the back side and 

machine stitched it down

 with the serpentine stitch.

                                         Here is the line of stitching seen on the front.

And here the finished quilt which I took short cuts to make.

Moving Forward

I have completed over days the outer row of large petals on the medallion centre. We meet next Friday to decide on the next stage.

Front Binding

Back Binding

 

Also I have sewn down the binding on the Kasbah quilt the other way round to what I intended as the patterned side didn't suit the fron as well as I expected.

Thanks to fabric choices and Mandy's clever pattern (the units are oblong not square) this is, I feel, a very successful quilt.

The back with leftover pieces included.