Two More Busy Days at The Stitchers Cupboard in Camden

Classes are starting to wrap up for the year now.  It is great to see lots of work coming together (and new quilts being started as well).

Here is Christine's very pretty pink , green and purple version of "Meryton".  All the appliqué is finished, now it is just a matter of sewing it all together.

Julie has made a delightful Christmas Lucy Boston block into a wall hanging.

Jan started a new quilt, one of my jelly roll patterns called "Jelly Mosaic".  It comes together quickly as it is all just squares and rectangles cut from jelly roll strips. It is a great one for men as it has a masculine look.

This is Robyn's very beautiful "Pemberley".  She has done an awesome job of choosing colours.

Sharon has finished her bright "Lazy Daisy" placemats, an excercise in machine appliqué.  They look great.

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This is a block by Dot for her "Meryton".  Beautiful!

Kylie has been busy finishing the appliqué flower borders for her "Netherfield".  Lovely fussy cutting from William Morris fabrics.

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Here is Michelle's gorgeous "Netherfield" in autumnal colours.  Wow!

I hope you have enjoyed the show and tell.  Only one more class for me and then a break from teaching for a couple of weeks.  I hope to get lots of sewing done.

Last Jane Austen Class for the Year

I hold a number of classes each year where my students can do any of my older Jane Austen Quilt designs.  It is always very hectic for me, but at the end it is fabulous to see some amazing quilts coming together.

Today was the final Jane Austen class at The Stitchers Cupboard in Camden.  Here are some of the quilts on show in an amazing display of beautiful colours, fabrics and fussy cutting.

Firstly, Kerrie completed her stunning version of "Hunsford", which she thinks is very busy but I love that about it.  Wow, wow, wow!

Then a selection of beautiful "Netherfields".  The first one by Jennie:

The next one by Narelle:

This one is by Christine:

Here is a lovely "Meryton" centre, appliquéd beautifully by Dot.

My next series of Jane Austen classes commence mid-2016 at The Stitchers Cupboard.  The earlier part of the year will be busy with teaching "Lambton".

Another Huge Weekend!

I have had yet another very busy weekend.

On Saturday it was the final Saturday monthly class at Hobbysew Kings Park for this year.

Christine finished the dinosaur quilt for her grandson.  This quilt used my "Autumn Lily" quilt pattern which I taught in Summer School this year.  We did some crazy piecing around the dinosaurs to isolate each creature in a square and used lots of gorgeous batiks in a jelly roll and orange sashings to set it off.  It looks great.

Vicki has put together a set of four beautiful courthouse steps blocks for her "Bloomin Logs" quilt.  We got the stems on and we experimented and practiced the machine appliqué.

We always have a great day but I was so busy I did not get around to take more photos.  Class will resume the first Saturday in Februrary.

On Sunday The Richmond Stitchers held their annual Christmas Party at the Edmund Rice Conference Centre in Mulgoa.

We had a lovely present exchange

with some assistance from Santa's helper.

Jan brought in her two gorgeous versions of my "Marrakesh" whack and stack fan design.  She used very different fabrics in each and oriented the blocks in a different way.  They are both sensational!

See you next year ladies.

Beautiful Quilts at Hobbysew

I have had two busy days teaching at Hobbysew Kings Park.  I teach three monthly classes there in the first week of each month.

The Jane Austen class has been busy while I have been away.  We had a wonderful show and tell of "Pemberley" quilts.  This is still my favourite!

This is Lynne's quilt with the lovely blue wavy appliqué border now added.

This is Kerrie's quilt centre.  Gorgeous!

She has almost completed all of the outside blocks as well.  It will be finished soon!

This is Michelle's beautiful quilt centre.  Michelle has also completed all the outside blocks.  I am looking forward to seeing these finished and the girls can start a new quilt next year.

Lynne was working on the Dresden flower border:

Margaret was working on clamshells for her "Longbourne":

Ladies in my Wednesday class have also been busy.  Here is Wendy's version of the whack and stack star quilt called "Rococo":

This is Lesley's batik "Heartstrings":

Great work, ladies.