After 5 x 12hour days – 2 spent helping set up the Show and the other 3 attending and packing down, I feel I could sleep for a week, but life won’t let me! The annual quilt show – Calico Christmas 2011 was a great success once again. I have managed to take photos of a few of the 269 quilts we had on display.
I have a lot of catching up to do quilt wise. My 2 or 3 on-line projects, the wedding quilt which should have been finished 3 months ago, and the 2 x 16th birthday Grandies quilts that are needed for 2012.
Firstly though I need to catch up on some sleep, so I can tackle the wonderful weekend retreat that I am off to this coming weekend. I feel its just what the doctor ordered.![smile smile](//lh5.ggpht.com/-JbcRIvR7aFU/TscCDyzmPSI/AAAAAAAABu8/-vvI3ERcjRQ/smile_thumb.gif?imgmax=800)
7 days later……….Back to some sort of normality now, although at the moment we have family staying from Albany WA. I haven’t done any sewing apart from my weekend away, so soon I’ll be having withdrawal symptoms.
Here are some photos of the show that caught my eye. Unfortunately I don’t have names for all the quiltmakers.
Best of Show – made by Colleen Burr
All Doilied Up made by Jocelyn Atkinson
![IMG_2700 IMG_2700](//lh6.ggpht.com/-6p_MdfIg3VM/TscCZghYmGI/AAAAAAAABvs/4Sc0cSjjMU8/IMG_2700_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
Both the quilt above – Blue Rose and the quilt below - Surfers Paradise were made by Ansa Breytenbach
![IMG_2695 IMG_2695](//lh6.ggpht.com/-jMRhfiDCJnU/TscCwjT4stI/AAAAAAAABwc/3gozP-o0VMw/IMG_2695_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
This quilt ‘Lost Worlds’ was made by Ansa Breytenbach
Below ‘Kitchen Blues’ was made by Chris Behersing
Below – ‘A Wedding Ring at Last’ made by Donna Cumming
![IMG_2721 IMG_2721](//lh4.ggpht.com/-kMixiSqg-Fo/TscDzRdnh2I/AAAAAAAABys/d1IVAeIz2rE/IMG_2721_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
Above - Indian Rhapsody made by Hazel Foot - (President of the Auckland Patchworkers and Quilters Guild)
![IMG_2708 IMG_2708](//lh4.ggpht.com/-QnC5NJstynQ/TscEPanTl7I/AAAAAAAABzo/iKZqrQu_QqI/IMG_2708_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2710 IMG_2710](//lh5.ggpht.com/-Ch8vqzASK8E/TscEV5IWIBI/AAAAAAAABz8/FE0IbfbFcbA/IMG_2710_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
This quilt was made by the members of the APQG as a raffle quilt. I have had to crop the photo as there was a chair in front of the quilt, but the quilt was a queen size. We sold out of the raffle tickets early Sunday morning.
Thanks for dropping by
Sue
I have a lot of catching up to do quilt wise. My 2 or 3 on-line projects, the wedding quilt which should have been finished 3 months ago, and the 2 x 16th birthday Grandies quilts that are needed for 2012.
Firstly though I need to catch up on some sleep, so I can tackle the wonderful weekend retreat that I am off to this coming weekend. I feel its just what the doctor ordered.
![smile smile](http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JbcRIvR7aFU/TscCDyzmPSI/AAAAAAAABu8/-vvI3ERcjRQ/smile_thumb.gif?imgmax=800)
7 days later……….Back to some sort of normality now, although at the moment we have family staying from Albany WA. I haven’t done any sewing apart from my weekend away, so soon I’ll be having withdrawal symptoms.
Here are some photos of the show that caught my eye. Unfortunately I don’t have names for all the quiltmakers.
Best of Show – made by Colleen Burr
![IMG_2728 IMG_2728](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ZdUPjaPXTqw/TscCMzrsw_I/AAAAAAAABvM/E9K3Z2wcbgY/IMG_2728_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
All Doilied Up made by Jocelyn Atkinson
![IMG_2704 IMG_2704](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-0R4wBFDrLaM/TscCR5kTndI/AAAAAAAABvc/bZ1ai2JFZ_Q/IMG_2704_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2700 IMG_2700](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6p_MdfIg3VM/TscCZghYmGI/AAAAAAAABvs/4Sc0cSjjMU8/IMG_2700_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
Both the quilt above – Blue Rose and the quilt below - Surfers Paradise were made by Ansa Breytenbach
![IMG_2706 IMG_2706](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jvWOnIYYVKk/TscChENClGI/AAAAAAAABv8/jFfikb21ZPY/IMG_2706_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2690 IMG_2690](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2aLIi46D8mw/TscCqcPNQkI/AAAAAAAABwM/A_suikCHakQ/IMG_2690_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2695 IMG_2695](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jMRhfiDCJnU/TscCwjT4stI/AAAAAAAABwc/3gozP-o0VMw/IMG_2695_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
This quilt ‘Lost Worlds’ was made by Ansa Breytenbach
![IMG_2705 IMG_2705](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-F87f_sj_uEM/TscC3dNHBXI/AAAAAAAABws/HGN--ix7V9E/IMG_2705_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2698 IMG_2698](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uarEZFms6R4/TscDFb3naVI/AAAAAAAABw8/LG2QflaZ-OM/IMG_2698_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
Below ‘Kitchen Blues’ was made by Chris Behersing
Below – ‘A Wedding Ring at Last’ made by Donna Cumming
![IMG_2725 IMG_2725](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-U7XMuGqvOPA/TscDryXEkdI/AAAAAAAAByc/qLLdh9_xOL4/IMG_2725_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2721 IMG_2721](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-kMixiSqg-Fo/TscDzRdnh2I/AAAAAAAABys/d1IVAeIz2rE/IMG_2721_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2707 IMG_2707](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-5bwVUnU9GR0/TscD7ieSSVI/AAAAAAAABy8/P2PvAztX49o/IMG_2707_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
Above - Indian Rhapsody made by Hazel Foot - (President of the Auckland Patchworkers and Quilters Guild)
![IMG_2693 IMG_2693](http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6MzijWn-Nfc/TscEDG2pcoI/AAAAAAAABzM/2xPyJFya5Ag/IMG_2693_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2696 IMG_2696](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-mxURZzh2sA0/TscEJ8v9fPI/AAAAAAAABzc/VDLi8uX7tYQ/IMG_2696_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2708 IMG_2708](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QnC5NJstynQ/TscEPanTl7I/AAAAAAAABzo/iKZqrQu_QqI/IMG_2708_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2710 IMG_2710](http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Ch8vqzASK8E/TscEV5IWIBI/AAAAAAAABz8/FE0IbfbFcbA/IMG_2710_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2726 IMG_2726](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-atz2SAqNnfI/TscEfvAV1eI/AAAAAAAAB0M/HsVGMCZ6z5c/IMG_2726_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
![IMG_2688 IMG_2688](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-V-DavF3KG5g/TscEr8lrTlI/AAAAAAAAB0c/b1X7J08mH2A/IMG_2688_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
This quilt was made by the members of the APQG as a raffle quilt. I have had to crop the photo as there was a chair in front of the quilt, but the quilt was a queen size. We sold out of the raffle tickets early Sunday morning.
Thanks for dropping by
Sue