Caverswall Quilt Cave

This is Shirley Lerly's quilt top... isn't it absoluuuutely lovely... Shirley's a meticulous patchwork piecer... she loves the precision, loves for all her junctions and points to be perfect and will not leave a seam if it hasn't worked out 'just so' or should I say 'just sew', ha!.. it might not be the way you work... that's why we are all allowed to practice PMS (Pleasing My Self)... She's had to stay very focussed to get all the pieces in the right order, the right way up with the fabrics in the right places, quite brilliant... time for borders now, starting with a crisp white....

This is Early Sue's Bento Box quilt top laying on the stage while she pieced together her backing fabric. Lovely fabrics purchased from My Very Own Quilt Shop, he he I still love to say that! Later we grabbed a few tables and made a sandwich so that Sue can start her quilting.. we talked about designs but I don't think Sue decided which to choose, next time....

Marisabel also used the stage to lay out her block rows, it's much easier to keep everything on track if you can lay your project out. She added all of her setting triangles and I'm quite sure she got it all stitched together, next round is the gorgeous inner, rich purple border followed by the focus fabric... it's going to be a stunner!

Helen made good use of the stage too... now the stage is small, these pictures were taken at different times... if we could fit all of these projects on the stage at the same time it would be called Caveswall Quilt Stage... ha ha ha. sorry, back to Helen.. she has completed enough blocks to be able to lay them out and give us an idea of how this quilt is going to look... Wow it's huge!... so much work has gone in to making the blocks, it's looking great but there's a long way to go yet...

Wendy, we've decided, needs to be called Wendy Wizz... Last week this stunning cushion was a bundle of fabrics, a table covered in pieces of paper with tiny fabric bits stitched to them.. This week a WOW cushion, please believe me... this picture doesn't even begin to show how beaytiful this cushion is! Wendy started a Ricky Timms Convergence project this week, I didn't get pictures though, darn!

Rowena joined us for the afternoon session. She's been working on this quilt top for a few years.. she mentioned 20!! I believe her you know... I have used some of the fabric in this quilt, I was given mine back in 1998 when I first started quilting!! Rowena decided it was high time she got on with it and quilted it. We helped her make a sandwich, just as soon as we finished talking about the beautiful blocks...