Silent Auction

The silent auction item was kindly donated, and is a quilt top made up of the same design as the raffle quilt (spiders web) of a similar era.

 



 

 

 

I believe that the stitching is good with little wear in the overall top.

I havn't seen the top at this point, I am just the messenger (so to speak) passing along this information along to you in good faith from members of the Avalon Quilt Group whom I know.

Hope you can all come along and have a wonderful day.

Carol

American Antique Quilt Show

If you are looking for something to do during March then take a drive to Avalon on Sydney's Northern Beaches and take a peek at the "American Antique Quilt Show".

 

This exhibition hosted by Avalon Quilters will be dislaying the rarely seen collections of Annette Gero and Trish Bloomfield.

 

This I think might be an exhibition not to be missed.....I will certainly be going to take a peek!

 

All of the details to find this event are on the flyer above.

 

Now  you might be wondering about the spiders web blocks shown on the flyer.

 

Well this is the raffle quilt.!

 

 

This quilt, known as the "Frances Wheeler" Quilt was made by Frances Wheeler using 1940's -50's feed sack and dress fabrics.

Frances was aged 96 when she moved to assisted living and thus many of her wonderful quilt tops and finished quilts were sold. This one along with 100 other tops and 75-80 finished quilts were offered for sale.

Trish bought this quilt top, along with others, and has kindly donated this top to the Avalon Quilters, which they then set about quilting and finishing the top to raffle.

 

Money raised from this event will go to the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.

 

Hope to see you there!

Carol

 

 

SALE, SALE, SALE

 

Hop on into the shop on

Tuesday 5th and Thursday 7th of Febuary and save 15% on your purchases.

(Full price merchandise only).

 

Lots of new fabrics available plus all of the beautiful regulars will be here.

Paper piecing products, great book titles, patterns and wonderful fabrics.

 

Personal Shoppers only .....

(not available online)

Trading Hours

10.00 am - 3.30 pm

Tuesday and Thursday

37 Howes Rd

Somersby NSW 2250

La Belle Fluer fabric by French General

Welcome,

What a lovely surprise today to find the latest French General fabric by Moda.....

"La Belle Fleur" perched on my doorstep.

Opening the box with much enthusiasm I wasn't disappointed at the beautiful teal, french blue and reds just wishing me to get started on another project. Wonderfull birds and florals for quilt centres or border prints to fussy cut.....something to tempt all who looks upon them.

Alas I have nothing in mind for this fabric at the moment but you possibly might when you take a peek!

Click here to purchase

 

 

Miss Elizabeth update.

For those of you asking about the pattern for Miss Elizabeth it is progressing well and will soon be available. The quilting has begun..wooo hoooo....and I am working diligently to get it finished for you.

Lots of new pre cut papers have been added to the website and are available now for purchase. There will soon be a starter pack available for Miss Elizabeth.

Click here to see more.

 

New books have also arrived...but more about that next week.

 

All personal shoppers

next week (Feb 5th and 7th only) will receive a 15% discount on their purchases,

so come along and see what takes your fancy.

 

Shop Hours

My little shop is now open every Tuesday and Thursday.

10.00 am - 3.30 pm.

Classes only 9.30 am - 2.30 pm.

 

Happy stitching

Carol

Dancing in the Rain

Welcome,

Here we are and it is already midway through January. I hope the rest of the year doesn't disappear so quickly as I have so much to do!

Last week we had a terribly hot day ( I hate the heat) here and to put a smile on my face the delivery man knocked on my door and left me a box of lovely new fabrics from Moda.

Now these fabrics were meant to be here in December and I do apologise to those ladies who pre-ordered fabric but somethings are just beyond my control.

Anyway they are here now and these fabrics are just as lovely as I thought they would be!

"Dancing in the Rain" by Laundry Basket Quilts provides a selection of old world fabrics in blue, cream, butterscotch and a lovely terracotta with just a tinge of pink to it....I can't wait to use these.

"Old Glory Gatherings" by Primitive Gatherings are two fabrics that just fit perfectly with "Dancing in the Rain". You couldn't have asked for 10 more lovely fabrics.

All of these fabrics are now available so click here to purchase.

Special Offer.

Buy the combined fat 1/8th pack of "Dancing in the Rain" and "Old Glory Gatherings" and save 20%.

There are only 20 packs available so be quick.

Click here to purchase

 

The Shop re-opens Tomorrow.

 

Shop Hours

My little shop is now open every Tuesday and Thursday.

10.00 am - 3.30 pm.

Classes only 9.30 am - 2.30 pm.

Happy stitching

Carol

Hi Everyone,

I thought I would just share with you a personal achievment of my children.

My daughter, Shelley has been saving for her own home sinse she was 15 and her brother Ethan joined the band wagon some 3 years ago.

Sister and brother, they have shared many "barnies" with each other, have supported each other through their sporting carees in Karate and I think deep down are the best of buddies. They will always "Look out" for each other and whilst they like to party hard they also work hard.

They have both travelled much of this country and the world and at such young ages of 23 and 21 they are well on the way to a finacially secure future

(I Hope!).

This leads me on to say how happy and proud as parents we are of all their achievments because this week they took possesion of the keys to their first home together.

They are currently busy down there washing and painting walls and have such big ideas for their older home on a quarter acre.

My underlying message would be....support your children in everything they do. It may be the good times of achievment and the not so good times of trouble, the 3am pickup and drop offs or the 6 extra bodies on the floor that were not there when you went to bed! Tell them everyday that you love them and ultimately when they do grow up, and you can see that all those sleepless nights have been worth it.

 

We love them both.

 

Carol and Martin

Miss Elizabeth

I thought I would keep everyone upto date with the new quilt on the block....."Miss Elizabeth".
She and I have been patiently getting ourselves together....524 hexagons of various size, 82 honeycomb shapes and 279 various 6 pointed star diamonds and of course there was lots and lots of fussy cutting.

Miss Elizabeth

 

Throughout the process of the quilt I made myself use mostly fabrics that I had stashed away (and there was lots) and to also view some of those fabrics differently when looking to fussy cut them. It was also quite demanding to use fabric that I didn't have a great fondness for and also to only use fabrics once in each row.

I think this may be my favourite

Or is it this one!

 

As usual I can't seem to stay away from those lovely cherry pink colours so I definitely don't think my son will be asking for this labour of love.
Being that it has just taken me 4 hours to write the pattern, and that is just the first draft as I always check my patterns several times before printing, and no diagrams are yet in place, the whole process from devising the product, making the quilt and then getting the pattern out to you is like watching a slow growing tree giving its all!

Oh yes and then there is the hand quilting to come!

So hopefully, "Miss Elizabeth" will be out there for all to enjoy in the next 8 weeks or so.....fingers crossed.

Carol