Photos

Class action. In front here is Anita sewing on the first of two borders.

This is the same action from the opposite side of the table. Ines in the front with Ana in the middle making the backing for her project.

This is Alda with Baby Bargello strips and Rosalia working on her patchwork bag.


Anita measuring for the second border.

Ines trying her hand at architecture!


Sofie hand stitching her binding.

Blue Lady (Rosalia) using Sofia's machine to attach her binding.

Sofia chose lovely fabrics to make the Square Dance quilt and the Stained Glass Window one.

Blue lady's table runner, hand quilted.


Alda's strips sewn together for the Baby Bargello quilt.





Thank you Paula and Rosalia for sending the photos to me!!!!

Quilt Class?

We had 7 ladies today. It was a very industrious morning too.... guess who thought she had forgotten her camera? ME!!
There were so many things to take photos of.

The Blue Lady (Rosalia) made binding and attatched it to her table runner quilt.
Sofia also got the binding finished and sewn on, then chose fabrics for her next two projects... colourful and lovely.
Ana came, she was working on the black and red quilt. She hasn't been able to come for two months but has done her homework very well, her hand stitching is so good it looks like she used a machine... but no. Well, she made the pieced backing and a quilt sandwich by the end of class.
Ines was designing a village scene to make up as a quilt.
I demonstrated paper pieceing.
Alda was working on a baby scrappy bargello.
Rosario was making a patchwork bag.
Anita finished the top of her table runner, including the borders.

It wasn't until everyone had gone home, when I was showing off the pockets in my new Amy Butler shoulder bag, that I found my flippin' camera.... it had been there all along... I am such a fool!!


So this time I leave you with only one photo.... of a piece of fabric that followed me home today. It is a beauty and might very well get made into a bag, with not such deep pockets this time!!!!


The Blue Lady allowed me to take a few snapshots with her camera, when she sends them, I will post them for you... sorry.

Packing fun....

I am slowly packing up my fabrics getting ready to move house. It's taking a very long time to do as I re-fold and re-discover fabrics almost forgotten. Planning projects as I go, my head is so full of ideas now, for a change!

I found an Amy Butler bag pattern in a drawer and stopped packing to make it... obviously.... here it is made with fabrics that I bought at Paula's last week.

back to my packing...

My Mum's Lace

My Mum sent this photo of her next project.

She is pricking out the pattern in this picture... only about 3000 pinholes!
The pattern is called Fleur and uses 33 pairs of bobbins which she already wound, so everything is now ready to start.
She will be using Finca No. 40 thickness thread. Mum says "It feels nice although I haven't used it before". She started the pattern on Wednesday night at lace class, but hasn't done enough to show us yet..... watch this space......

All Day Sewing

The morning started with tea, coffee and cheesecake... in the kitchen..... funny, is this becoming our new custom? This time the cheesecake was made by Jutta, it was delicious.

getting closer to the work now, Therese has all her chunky churndash blocks sewn together again, this time they are all turned the right way. She still insisted on unpicking one row to sew it on to the side to make the quilt more square.
Jackie and Arabela, our expectant mothers, laughing along with Therese, no-one tells a tale like Therese!!



Soon Jutta was hard at work making millions of half square triangles....







Ronny was here to visit from Holland, it was just like old times...






Ronny was making a very complicated childrens game, the bright work belongs to Susan, nearly finished now... and a great view of Arabela's baby talking to Alda... ha ha ha


Lunchtime... we had a fabulous feast, Pot Luck lunch is always fun with so many nationalities, we did miss Luisa's spring rolls though!!



After lunch and Arabela finished the top of her baby quilt, really for her baby this time.



Milly also came to visit, here she is talking with Jackie and Therese.
Jackie, left, is stitching the binding on her kaleidoscope quilt.



This is the teacher quilt, now quilted and finished, that Arabela bought in last time.

Quilt Class

We had two new ladies join us this week.
Lucilia, here in pink, has so many projects already planned, her head if full of ideas for quilts, she already does brilliant embroidery and hardanger work.....
Anita, to the side of Lucilia, has been watching the blog from a distance and could no longer resist the temptation to join us.


Paula saw many chickens at our Quilt Show and figured out how to make one for herself.....
Here she is preparing paper to show Noemia how to make them, seems all quilters love these cute chickens.

Dorila couldn't stay for class toady, she teaches art and had a student waiting for her. She has been doing her homework though, her baby quilt top is complete.


Rosario and Alda completed their table runner tops today, they pieced the backing they will start quilting them next class..... if the batting and walking feet arrive in time? This photo is Rosario's work.


Sofia was tying off the ends of the many threads from her quilting, she said that in the future she would save this job for the winter months, it was hot enough without being wrapped in a beautiful quilt!!


Lucilia's strips were a perfect 5" she got all the blocks cut and here is planning the lay out.

Pick of the week... these fabrics for only €4 per metre!

MORE FABRICS!!!!!

Today I received a telephone call from Park dos Tecidos. I have been asking them for almost four years to pleeeeeease stock 100% cotton quilting fabrics.
Well, they have just, yesterday, received a shipment of fat quarters. I went to visit with the fabrics today (he he he just to visit!).

The owner allowed me to take photos to share with you... free advertising too eh!
The fabrics are all top quality, lots of Hoffman. I hope you will visit if you can, if the fat quarters sell well, he will stock more!

Giant Daisies

I love this.......

A few applique daisies... that was my idea. They are all stuck on with sticky stuff, I will sew it with lovely blanket stitches later.