Quilters' Guild Show at Lullingstone

 We picked my daughter, Miriam, up on the way and went for a a lovely Sunday roast at The Plough in Eynsford. It was right by the river where it runs clear and shallow and there were lots of families with small children paddling and splashing. Miriam and I dipped in our feet to cool down.

Raffle quilt: the Quilt Show BOM made by me in a block swap with Judi, Belinda, Tracy and Valerie

Eventually we went round the show. Miriam loved the group raffle quilt I had made so we bought ten more tickets. The raffle was drawn while Alan and she were going round the garden and amazingly she won! Strangely I assumed this would be the case, In fact we all won something: a fabric fairy for me to watch over my sewing machine and lovely hand painted coasters for Alan and I also collected a bag fixing on behalf of Trish.

Winnings

Here is a select selection:

Pam Bowles: Flourishes

Anne Smith Jewels of the Universe

I think this is Jean Watson: Civil war Bride, a BOM

I think this is Sandra Wren's "Celebration Quilt" in honour of her 30th wedding anniversary.

Quilters' Guild Region 2 Show

 This last weekend was the time of the annual Region 2 Showcase, one of my favourite outings. The weather was fantastic not too searingly hot and a cool breeze came off the lake and the quilt display tent was in the shade.

I went on Thursday to take in my quilts and offer some help with setting up in the morning while Alan went round the grounds. There is a World Garden planned by Adam Hart-Davis when he was held captive by terrorists while on a plant related expedition in South America.  Fortunately he escaped.

One of the traders' tents

My Celestial Timepiece

Setting up

The quilt marquee in front of the house

There is even a church in the grounds now
with traders' marquees in front

How about this for an entrance? I assume this is whythe house is a castle. The figure is my husband.

Queen Beez

 The three Queen Beez enjoyed a lovely day of sewing and lovely food at Maggie's today (Friday) and lunched and stitched outside. Mary and I were sewing bindings, Mary's in readiness for the Oast Quilters' Showcase coming up next week. Maggie was stitching more pieces to her complex 60 degree mosaic quilt.

I started sewing down the binding on this Sarong quilt . .

after finishing the "Crossed" quilt 74" square. Check out Maggie's quilting.

Maggie's colourful chevron quilt

Maggie's first chevron quilt with varied strip widths and including broderie anglaise.

Mary's beautiful Liberty basket quilt.

My quilts at Lullingstone

 My quilts were all together in a good place at the end of a row.

Celestial Timepiece

Sunny

Log Cabin Interrupted

Lullingstone

Set up day for the Quilters' Guild Region 2 show at Lullingstone Castletoday. Weather just gorgeous, sunny, hot but a slight breeze.I helped with setting up in the morning and lunched by the lake before leaving by which tie quilts were going up. I had been helping with the sheets behind.

Traders setting up

The show marquee

The house and cedar tree

traders marquees and church

The gatehouse

 

Hello & Goodbye

 to a couple of quilts.

I have been somewhat absent lately preoccupied with various short term health issues, mostly tests proving nothing much wrong!

Now we are having a lovely lazy time staying with my son in London.  This was a chance to dispose of a couple of lockdown quilts to a Guild member nearby who is supplying quilts to Afghan refugees. These were too big and/or unsuitable for young person quilts.

I photographed them on my son's bed before they went to their new homes:

Roman Crosses

Lockdown Logs

Lockdown Logs reflected

I have had lots of sitting and sewing time here partly watching Wimbledon matches and in the evening watching later episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm not available on our home set up. These always leave me delirious with laughter. So I have finished the binding and label on Appley Dapply.

Appley Dapply on our bed here: "Appley Dapply was a little brown mouse/ who went to the cupboard in somebody's house" (Beatrix Potter).

Pieced back of Appley Dapply

Now two more remain for binding but my shoulder is twinging after this one so I'll give it time to recover before sewing down the next one.

Now off to buy a paper as there is lots of news on the political front.

Turbulent times. What next!!

More doings from our retreat

Heather's taken off her bed here

Yvette's modern style quilt

Carrie's charity quilt

Yvette's strip braid star

Yvette's Disappearing Nine Patch

Stephanie's fussy cut EPP

Mandy's magnificent hourglass quilt

Stephanie's baby quilt commission

Judy (on left) testing out her arrangement of strip pieced hexagons

 

Retreating

These are the left over pieces from a challenge 
(top right) which used fussy cut four patches

This was the other triangle challenge a complete
botch on the back as I experimented with a
method of machine binding.

 

I spent the last week on a regular quilt retreat working on mini TQG challenge pieces for Festival, the Bonnies' mystery quilt stint and binding four quilts which I am very pleased about.

An enjoyable aspect is looking at what everyone else is doing especially as four of the people we Kent folk  only meet up with at these gatherings.

Here is a first sample batch:

This is Yvette's group's Sunflower quilt
destined for a Ukrainian refugee.

Stephanie with her lovely Tula Pink 100 blocks
quilt.

Mandy with bright disappearing nine patch

and with an I-Spy

Carrie with her super Elizabeth Hartman dinosaur quilt

Carrie again with a beautiful blue and white quilt

Rag bag

  

I had to take a photo of Give & Take in order to fill in my entry form so up it went on the shed and I put up the Fibonacci "Fib" Quilt at the same time. How I love this quilt, a workshop piece (as was G & T) and a nice surprise.

Fibonacci facing

Fibonacci back

Fibonacci on the front

I have had the keeping of Margaret Harrison's quilt these last two years and here it is photographed in preparation for its being the Oast Quilters' raffle quilt at the Showcase next month.

I am lucky to have kind and clever friends and Mary gave me this for my birthday started in a workshop with Anne Kelly. It incorporates applique, broderie perse, printing, painting and embellishment and is carefully outline quilted. It goes on my doll bed.

And I have been arranging a second set of Laurel Burch swap blocks but am undecided as to how to set them.