Wonderful Finished Quilts

I love it when my students come back to show me the quilts they have finished since attending my classes.

Recently I have had some wonderful Show and Tells.

The first quilt belongs to Leanne.  She started "Florentine" some time ago at The Patchwork Heart and has just recently completed it in class at Pioneer Patchwork since The Heart closed.

Here it is. It is so soft with its shades of pink, red and green.

Here are some close ups.

Here is Kerrie with her absolutely fabulous completed "Pemberley". Kerrie started this in The Jane Austen Finishing School in January this year and says she loved making the quilt.  Her favourite colour?  You guessed it: green!  It is quite a stunner!! Well done, Kerrie, I love it too. Leanne is going to quilt it for her.

I hope you have had a good weekend where ever you are.  As for me, I have worked the whole time. Am looking forward to getting my hair done tomorrow!

Katrina x

Lots of Class Action

I have been flat out teaching lots of classes this week.

My girls have been very busy working on their various quilts.

Here are some highlights:

This is Natalie's clam shell border for her stunning Bollywood version of "Longbourne".  She 

has a row of green and then some beautiful striped fussy cuts.  Keep going, Nat!

Here are a couple of blocks Dawn is working on for her whack and stack "Rococo" quilt.  Each Le Moyne star block has turned out completely different with different colours dominating.

Then I have lots of photos of the most gorgeous "Rosings" centres from yesterday's class.  The first is Birgit's in lovely pink and green on a stunning red background.

The next one was made by Dot in rich reds and browns.

This one is by Elaine.  She is using a cream background. I am looking forward to seeing her appliqué as it will look quite different to the dark backgrounds.

This one belongs to Kerrie.  She has done a lot of fussy cutting.  She made four different versions of her urn yesterday.  At last here is the approved version. It looks amazing.

Here is Leanne's centre and then her wonderful pot and vines in very rich red colours. One more handle to come, of course!

This is made by Sue.  I love her combination of acid green and grey/blue.  Her appliqué will be on a black background. Wow!

This is Margaret's version.  She decided to make a very soft muted version with this lovely green for the background and some William Morris prints.  It is really beautiful.

This is the glorious "Pemberley" centre being made by Chris. Her darker background is a lovely soft peach colour and her scallops are a very pretty green. Chris always puts a lot of time and effort into her beautiful quilts and she is very prolific. I love it Chris. Cannot wait to see the rest.

I hope you have enjoyed these photos. I am very proud of all of my students.

Camden Quilt Show

The Camden Country Quilters Guild held their Annual Quilt Show this weekend.  We were lucky with the weather : gorgeous sunshine even if a bit cold.

Lots of my dear friends and students had beautiful quilts on display in the Show and several won prizes.

Here is Colleen with her spectacular "Pemberley" in stunning soft pastel fabrics.  Just quilted by Veronica it looked absolutely beautiful.

This is the lovely Michelle's "Farmer's Wife" quilt made in lots of reproduction fabrics.  She won First place in the Bed Quilt category.  Go Michelle!

Here is Veronica with her stunning "Emerald Forest" quilt.  She won Second Place in the Bed Quilt Category.

Here is Tracey's version of one of my designs "The Way Ahead" in a different setting.  She also won a prize.

Here is gorgeous Cindy who was very excited to have won a prize in the Hand Quilted category for her quilt "Sakura" made in class at Pioneer.  It is a reversible quilt as you go log cabin with some sashiko stitching.  Congrats Cindy.  This was only the second quilt Cindy made, she picks some challenges!

This is the front:

And this is the back:

Here is my "Bunbury" which won Veronica First Place for Longarm Quilting. I found out tonight it also won Viewer's Choice.

Here is V with the ribbon!

Here is my "Hunsford" hanging at the Show.

Here is Ingrid amongst all the goodies for sale from Pioneer Patchwork. Lots of temptations! She is a master at displaying all that merchandise in a tiny space!

Lots of hard work but also great fun at the Show, as always!

Beautiful foundation piecing

I had my second foundation piecing class at Lyn's Fine Needlework at Baulkham Hills on Saturday.

The ladies have done a great job working on their quilts.

Lesley and Hanne are making my quilt called "The Way Ahead".  This design has nine pieced compass blocks, the centre block with surrounding points and the others with circles of flying geese.

Here are some of their gorgeous compass blocks...Bathe first few are Hanne's.  She has made them in lovely colours from her vast collection of Nancy Halverson fabrics.

The next few are Lesley's made in gorgeous William Morris fabrics.

They are so fabulous.  Here are their selected centre blocks with their "sunray" point surrounds finished in class:

Then there were the "Spikes and Specks" quilts.  Glenda is making the most spectacular red, black and white version.  I know a lot of you are waiting to see these blocks. Glenda has done a magnificent job with these.  Some have alternating red and black spikes and she says she has made a ying to every yang!

Here are a couples of blocks after we pieced the rings together and set them in a square.

Wow, they are so great.  I cannot wait to see the finished quilt.

Here are a couple of Dru's blocks. We ended up mixing all the rings up so that the colours are more varied. Lots of "auditioning" took place.

Yay! Great class girls! Happy stitching.