The Show is over…..

and from the comments I received it was a great success. It was so good to get such positive comments from people who came to the Show, including a lot of Quilters who are Quilt Shows addicts. Saturday was a fine day, and we had good numbers through, but Sunday was even better, even though it poured with rain most of the day. Saturday’s tend to be family sport days or work days, and I did a bit of a groan to myself when I realised how bad the weather was going to be on Sunday, but as one visitor said – perfect day for going to a Quilt Show. We had a great home baking cafe, and it was lovely to see people, just relaxing and enjoying being there.

I hope you enjoy these photos and I haven’t doubled up on any. I will post some wall hanging,and the Challenge photos later. We have 30 members in our group, with a wide variety of styles. Fortunately we didn't have alot of quilts that were from a class, and were the same.

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Umm! where to start

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.   

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
Both the quilt above – Blue Rose and the quilt below  - Surfers Paradise were made by Ansa Breytenbach




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



 
Above - Indian Rhapsody made by Hazel Foot - (President of the Auckland Patchworkers and Quilters Guild)



   
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.

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Sue

So Busy….

The last week or so has been very busy, and will be for the next 3 weeks or so. I am on a couple of Quilt Show Committees. One of them - we are starting to organise a Quilt Show for July 2012, -  this is a relatively small show. The other is arguably the largest Quilt Show in NZ and this is the first weekend in November, so its all go. I have managed to quilt a couple of quilts in the last week, but I’ll tell you more about that later, and post some photos. This post is just to let you know that I am still in the land of the living.
Bye for now
Sue

On A Lovely Winters Day…

a couple of weekends ago a friend and I went to a Quilt Show of one of the many smaller groups in Auckland.
The Show was really lovely and the morning/afternoon tea, which was provided by the quilters was divine. There’s no doubt that quilters can also bake!
I took photos of some of the quilts, but sorry am not sure who made them. 
You’ll see some of the quilts look a bit elongated, as I couldn’t get far enough back to take the photos, so some of them are taken on a bit of an angle. Unfortunately I’ve also missed off a few borders, but you can get the general idea that they were lovely.
 


 

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I think these two cushions were part of a challenge.  







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