Lullingstone

 Lots of lovely quilts at Lullingstone.These caught my eye:

Molly Ward: Bring Me Sunshine

Vivian Hopkins: Pink Spiders' Web

Lesley Mariner: Elongated Hexagons handpiced scrap quilt
This was this visitor's choice.

Victoria Sluka: Ishtar
On a large scale and based on the lion gate of Babylon.

Jacquie Cotterill: Practice Piece
Started in a Jo Avery workshop where Jacquie tried "mad curves" and tried out her Sweet Sixteen machine works.

Not sure who made this one but
I am interested in the setting,

Anothe large graphic piece by Victoria Sluka,
this one called "Lavenham".

Something vintage, something new

 At Lower Hardres we had a splendid Show and Tell. Judi had brought well made special quilts back from her US visit.

State Flowers

and Belinda from Nantes.

Maggie had two quilts to show us 

Detail

Sper hexagons

and Mary brought the quilt she had made for her son's wedding. The design was chosen by the couple but instead of a print for one of the fabrics she did exquisite broderie perse and embroidery.

I took my Blues garden, quilted by Maggie to accord with the piecing.

Smaller items

 Led by Maggie, the Queen Beez had a bag day. She designed a very handy tote which doesn't take up too much room. We made two at once.

And Bonnies made cushions using tessalated stars. I made mine for my kitchen chairs in Cherrywood fabrics to fit in with all the others.

I completed a few Zip Up Pouches for the Guild FOQ tombola and the bags will do as well because they have zip up pockets inside.

Mine are on the left, black and chrysanthemum and green grass.

I also attended a rather arcane Guild workshop with Cas Holmes making small meaningful objects. My heart wasn't really in it and thought I should go along to make up the numbers and support the Guild. This wasn't necessary as various people turned up from a wide range to learn from such a distinguished teacher.The objects were encased first in crumpled paper then various fabrics and extensively stitched. I didn't quite get the idea and ended up with something like an untidy pass the parcel but others did much better.

Cas's table displaying her work and that of her students.

Fortunately I had to dive off shortly after lunch to attend an eightieth birthday party along the road so didn't have to expose my shortcomings.

Recent Finishes

 I have finished several things all at once but just one keeper. The others will be sold or donated.

It was very unprepossessing free jelly roll.

I finished the workshop Two Strip Mix Up jelly roll quilt by machining the facing.

The second one used just three fabrics, the batiks bought in Malaysia 24 years ago. I more to come.

The last one is a keeper. I decided to finish my sample four patch rotary stack quilt as I don't think I will be demonstrating it again. The colours are very calming and the quilt is lightweight.

Oast Quilters

 Janet Clare and her husband came to Oast. Janet's talk about how she came to design fabrics for Moda and the whole process from concept to purchaser was fascinating.

She showed quilts made to showcase her fabrics  all in soft blues, greys, greens except her latest which represents a departure..

Meanwhile I have assembled my Blues Garden blocks. Adding white sashing with grey motifs made all the difference.

Off and on the bed

 Off the bed: Sunny

And currently On the bed: Frieda's Cafe Curtains 

Made with Carolyn Frielander fabrics

This has has a different look according to the line of vision. The lines are straight but the Cafe Walls Illusion makes them appear angled.

The effect is more marked from a distance

What did I do?

 Well I was quite pleased with what I got done especially as I took a morning off to go shopping in Beccles.

Made with a free jelly roll which was quite
hard to work with.

Detail

Made with Malaysian batiks

Detail

I sewed Two Strip Mix Up blocks from workshops with Valerie Nesbit of Creative Quilting and assembled a couple of tops.

I bound the blue and yellow quilt Maggie quilted for me.

Made to use up a long held bundle from a friend's stash sale. Very old fashioned.

I prefer the back

It was  chance to hang up the Region 2 raffle quilt and sell some tickets.

Made with Tilda fabrics and quilted by Maggie.

On the last day I sewed lots of fabric fusion blocks from my sample fussy cut repeats but was disappointed with them. A couple of members encouraged me to go on and continued at home adding sashing ( white with a grey ouline flower print) which made all the difference. Now I'm pleased.

Yet more

This one is Heather's, a calm low impact piece.

This was shown at Festival of Quilts. Heather, a former regular, joined usas a vistor.

Kathy makes lovely quilts.

• And a couple from Colette

Chatm squares?

These were made by Yvette who is a Linus coordinator.

The Carpenters'  Star type ones were made from a huge HST quilt which just didn't look good. Now the blocks have been reordered and resized into two pleasing quilts.

A twister quilt which started with 10" squares
. We at Bonnies are making Twister cushions.

The second Carpnter's Star quilt

 

And here we all are in the impresive medieval barn restaurant.
(I'm in yellow on the keft)

More from the retreat

 Carrie:

A beautiful variety of blue scraps

Jackie:

One of many charity quilts Jackie has made.

Debbie:

Lovely subtle colours

Baby quilt

Child's quilt

This is a baby gro quilt made on request.