Quilt West 2013

Showing some of the beautiful quilts entered in the Quilt West Sow

in Perth Western Australia 2013

Papa

Thats it for today - I will put up some more tomorrow.

Now I am back to my sewing

Whole Cloth Quilt,

I won a first!

My Whole Cloth Quilt "Avec Amour" won first in the Traditional Ameteau Section!

Now I think I have moved up to Professional status!

I was so very happy.   

This quilt has been a gift for my Eldest Daughter...and she has been so patient, as it took me quite a while.This shows my trademark Ladybug.  I try to put one of these in each quilt,  in varying sizes.

I am so glad I took the trouble to redo the binding :)

I will put up more photos of the quilts I took some photos of very soon.

hopefully it wont be so long between posts.

Designs and whole Cloth quilt.

Managed to get some drawings done!

Not much happening here, but I managed to do these drawings yesterday.

Obviously I love heart feathers.. and I practised some filler designs

As I ran out of white ink - I went back to the pencil.

This is one eighth of the WCQ design...and as you can see I am still working at this one.  

Maybe I could do a formal quilt centre and FMQ the rest.  I have no idea how to actually print a large design, and the printer here where I live cant print as big as I would like.  So I am still thinking about that!

This is what it looks like in the mirror... so this will take more time as I take out what I  don't like.

So more of this later I think.

FMQ and playing,

FMQ and playing, - Sunday 24th March.

I have done some trapunto - and some FMQ over that last week...with many many interuptions.

Its far from perfect but I have really had fun.

I had huge problems with tensions - tried a few different threads

and many fillers.

The gold metallic I used around the outer part of the main design - was terrible - I had persevered for over half of the outline, and just had to puddle on.  Changed needles - altered tension - all to no avail.

Different fillers - some I had done before - some I improvised on.

I was happy with the trapunto, but hated the puffy wadding I used.  I will stick to wool... and use the puffy just for the trapunto I think

THe back was not good, but that's OK.  This piece is just for me... and it was great to practise.

Thats it for me - work again tomorrow...so I am off to the lane of nod 

:)

In the Mail Today,Free motion Quilt Challenge 2012,

Just received this wonderful box of goodies in the mail :)

This was quite a large box, and for a while

I was not really sure what it was.

However ... I was so overwhelmed when I opened it up.

There are so many stencils here.  

I won one of the prizes from SEWCALGAL'S

Free Motion Quilt Challenge 2012.
 WOW

I have been so very fortunate here.

Thank you so much to SewCalGal for hosting the Challenge, and a very large thank you to
 The Stencil Company
 for giving me all these wonderful stencils... These stencils will be so treasured and well used!

FMQ , Home

FMQ, Home

Well its been an interesting start to the week.

I have managed to get a very small bit of quilting done.  I was trying some trapunto...second piece I have done.

I must admit to having the design WAY too large for the fabric piece, but I have enjoyed...at times...  playing with it.

I tried out a vase - made a few bungles on it...but thats OK..

I did the trapunto outline with Vanish thread by Superior threads...and had no problems with it...but it did stand out on the quilt...thats the white thread of course.

I started the feathers with Invisifil, a brownish colour, which was gifted to me by Joanne Threadhead...(loved the colours I received :)

Unfortunately the thread on the top kept breaking, so I changed after a while to YLI 100 silk...which worked wonderfully. Wasn't keen on my colour choice though.

Then I tried the outline with a gold metalic thread, and had breakage problems again.

I am still persevering with that and trying different things.

However Andrea has been ill with a Migraine for the last 3 days, and today I took her into school for about half an hour and then to ER for some treatment as she was just not improving  ( took about 5 hours till we got back home again)  Fortunately she did improve some, however she still has a few problems.  SO I only got to my machine at times.

Fingers crossed for school tomorrow.  Its been a bad few days for her, especially as she had a wonderful time at the School Ball in the weekend,  and sadly this has put her back a bit.

If I am fortunate I may get to work on this tomorrow ... even though I am not pleased with it.

Off to keep Andrea company for a while,  then its off to get some sleep.

FMQ and playing,

A quick play tonight

playing with tiny feathers

The back - lots of BAD tension - will sort that tomorrow.

I have'nt done any quilting for a while and really felt the need...........

Have a lovely day all - I am off to sleep!

Tablet design with Carla Barrett 2013,

I have had a day to myself today - so I have been working on my tablet classes

( doing some sewing too)

I drew this design from some wonderful fabric I have from designer Peggy Toole - which I have used in the past for fussy cutting my POTC blocks.

This is the beautiful fabric...I copied and pasted each of the little pieces th..till it filled up the circle/  Took me a while!

Then I put my drawing onto a new layer,  and cleaned it up a bit - that took me longer :)

Another exercise was to straighten up the photo of a quilt...and as this is what I am up to...

I took a photo of my progress...

.....and straightened it.

Then I had to make an end to end pantograph design . and as I had no designs I could use...

I drew two sets of feathers...and must admit I did do them a bit too quickly, but was pleased with them anyway.

...and this is what I ended up with.

I am so happy to be doing Carla's classes again 

So a good day today - and I am off to work out some more of my sewing while I can.

I hope you all have a nice day/evening. 

Tablet design with Carla Barrett 2013,

I have drawn a couple of Zen hearts tonight.

The first one was a bit difficult...its all about learning how to draw again.

This one was actually a bit easier, as I have worked out how to use my pen a little
more confidently.

Now I am up to lesson 6...

and also finished some binding on a quilt... and sewed together some more blocks.

Off for a break till tomorrow.

There is a severe Cyclone (Rusty) Category 4 - and I think its has been downgraded to a 3...hitting the North west coastal towns as I type.  with winds up to 

200 kms an hour and flooding too.  

I hope the people keep safe.

Here the weather continues hot with strong Easterly winds here...and more heat tomorrow.

There are some nasty fires in and around Perth.

Tablet design with Carla Barrett February 2013

Tablet design with Carla Barrett February 2013

Yes!  I am again doing this class - I enjoyed it so much and I need to learn it again.

 This was with Carla's instructions and is done in sections.  

I have drawn them in Photoshop Elements 10...

I just love Carl's classes - she is a great teacher and such a lovely person too.

It takes me ages... I think this has taken me a couple of days.  It still need some cleaning up, but so far it will do as my hand gets a bit of an ache.  I can see lots of spots that will annoy me.

I am also putting together another quilt... cant show you that yet as I am just wanting to piece it all.

House and Family

ALL IS WELL AGAIN

After this :-
taken as the fire really began to take hold before the planes and helicopters got there!

Thankfully all quiet on the home front - this has all been sorted!!

Thank God for the Firefightsers and the Volunteers,

Had a wonderful quick chat to our Four Corner Skype Group - in the early hours of the morning for me.  

We had a great tme and lots of laughs!

Off to work now

Bush Fire alert today..scary!

Al the neighbours received a pone text to tell us of the fire and to prepare to evacuate, as there was some danger to life and homes   The fire was 6 kms from us, and there were 2 fixed wing yellow water bombers and two large water bombing helicopters flying through the dense smoke - flying really low above the trees,  as it was out of control for a while.  the highway near us was diverted for a while, and we just watched and tried to work out what we would do.

We were all notified on our mobiles of the danger and told what we should do if the fires remained out of control.

I did get some photos of about an hour after is began, and the smoke was really dense and black ...but my battery in the camera was low and it didn't work out

The situation now is that the fire is contained, but the fie fighters will patrol the area tonight,

A few people were evacuated along Marriott Road, and between there and  Treasure road ...and close to Dunn Road.  Cars were diverted from the highway for a while, and some roads  were closed and people were not allowed in.  There was an evacuation area ready at the Leschenault Leisure Centre... just in case.

Fortunately for us, it was just on the other sire of the highway, so all the neighbours gathered in our street to observe the fires.  There are planes still flying over at times - I guess they are keeping an eye on the fire, as there is still some bush in the centre of the containment that needs to be watched.

We are off to bed now.. with phones close just in case.

Its still really hot in the house.