Monday 26 May 2014

  
Monday, 26 May 2014

Well lets see what the Caverswall Quilters were up to on Wednesday,


Today Wendy brought with her this beautiful Bargelo Quilt :) 

 
 Cathy has been working very hard on her Lone Star (getting all the seams to match up!!) but as you can see she has done very, very well. she is now in the process of joining them all together :)
 

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Irene has been working on her beautiful rag quilt, she has got a few more blocks to make before she commits to where everything will go, but I think its looking fantastic at this stage.

This is a close up of the blocks, she is making each block, quilting it, then apartment quilting them together with the seam allowance peeping out to give the rag effect :)


Aunty Beryl is making yet another beautiful linus Quilt, at the moment she is adding her binding.


Wendy is still Quilting her fabulous Wedding Ring Quilt, doing a mix of stencil quilting and free motion quilting.
 
 
Maggie joined us today, she is still making her Katharine Guerrier scrap quilt blocks, I cant wait to see it finished :)

 
Today I was informed by my 6 year old daughter that I was making her a bag for her new I pod so    ta dar!!!
 
Also Wendy brought me a little project to, I mentioned I wanted to learn to crochet, so she kindly brought with her some wool a crochet hook and a book, she showed me the basics and some encouraging words form her and Aunty Beryl and I was off!! Well I didn't get far but I did crochet a fabulous bracelet!! :)
 
 

Sunday 18 May 2014

Sunday, 18 May 2014


The Simon Henry Workshop

Well on Wednesday we had two very special visitors we had our dear friend Angie and Simon Henry another Quilting expert!

 
This is Simon showing us all how to create this beautiful piece below named "Angie's flower" which Simon created for our workshop to involve curved piecing, trapunto and free motion quilting,

 
We will be learning how to quilt "Clam shell" shown in the bottom brown section, "Inca tiles" shown in the light blue, "Spiral in spiral out" shown in the top brown section and "French brocade" shown in the cream section at the top.
 
  Lets see how we got on...

 
This is Lacy Ann's beautiful piece notice no baggy edges of puckers

 
This is Lacy Ann's fabulous trapunto can you see how the flower looks 3d


 
This is Wendy's Stunning piece using very bold colours

 
This quilting is called French Brocade, Simon showed us all how to easily do this pattern.

 
This is Kate's wonderful piece, which she is planning to turn in to a bag!!!

 
You can see the trapunto really well here,
 
 
And this is mine with the crazy lady bugs on :)

 
This is another example of the French Brocade, there were lots of other pictures but the lovely ladies wanted to wait till they were finished

Tuesday 13 May 2014

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Simon Henry Workshop Reminder
Wednesday 14th May is our Simon Henry Workshop (places are all taken) He will be looking at curved piecing, trapunto and free motion quilting.
If you are joining us here is a quick reminder of what you will need, 

Fabric in four contrasting colours of your choice. About a fat quarter of each will be more than enough.

About 20 inches square or so of medium weight wadding

About a 20 inch square of backing fabric,

Mid tone piecing thread 

Quilting thread 
 
A sewing machine that has drop down feet and a foot for free motion work.

An open toe foot (not essential)

 A small hot iron 

Spray starch 

 A medium sized artist paint brush 

Fabric glue

About a meter off a roll of freezer paper

A black pen for tracing your pattern 

Fine pins

Scissors 

Large eye sewing needle

A hard pressing board , MDF covered in cotton wadding then in cotton fabric will be fine. 


I'm really excited to do this workshop and can't wait to take lots of photos to share

Wednesday 7 May 2014


 


Well today we have all had a group discussion and decided that from now on we will be open every Wednesday, because we all love going so much!

Lets see what else we have been doing, Wendy brought a little friend with her today which she made at home from buttons! She is very creative!


She also brought along the beautiful wedding ring quilt with her to quilt,


Wendy brought a new toy with her today, which we were all very eager to look at, it is a stencil and a chalk pad which helps you mark out where you would like to quilt,


  This is the quilt with the chalk on

Then its quilting time, note that Wendy is wearing gardening gloves for added grip,

Then this is her end result a beautiful touch to this fabulous quilt.



 Marilla has made another fabulous Dresden plate block and added Prairie Points to give it more depth, Marilla can't decide weather to make this in to a small quilt or another cushion.


And me well I had princess party bags to make, the first one took its time but once I got the hang off it I managed to make all seven! (with a little help from my surrogate nanny)


 There isn't many photos today because one I was a tad busy making party bags and because lots of people are half way thought project and not ready for their photos yet, I promise next week there will be lots more exciting ones because we are doing our Simon Henry workshop including free motion quilting, trapunto and curved piecing!!