July 2013 - Goings On

Hello again! 

We thought we would keep you informed with a few of the goings on here at The Patchwork Gallery quilt group. 

As of next month we will be holding our meetings in Lower Plenty.  Everyone is excited at the prospect of our new venue and the spacious room it will provide the group with to move and grow in its creative journey.

We also had our youngest member attend our meeting today, Caillou.  He is 10 years old and has already created an award winning quilt (which he made when he was 4.5 years old!!!).  Have a look at the previous post which showcases Caillou's quilts in show and tell.

An important event to remember to diarise is the Victorian Quilters Inc. Quilt Showcase 2013 being held at the Melbourne Craft and Quilt Show at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, South Wharf from 25 - 28 July 2013.  Two of our group members, Deb and Robyn, will have quilts exhibited in the Showcase, and our quilt group will also be represented.  So please come along to our table/stall and say hello while you are visiting the show.

We also have an excerpt from the latest Banksia Palliative Care Service Inc. newsletter which referred to our May quilt show.  We were able to raise over $2,000 for Banksia Palliative Care! (click on the photo)

And that's about it until our next post.
Thanks for reading!

July 2013 Quilt Group Meet

Hello everyone! 
 

Challenge Blocks

Today has been a really cold and wet day here in Melbourne, but the group braved the weather and met up to show off the latest round of challenge blocks.  Most were the stained glass effect - and boy are they stunning!  There were a few crazy blocks on show as well from April's challenge. 

The last challenge block will be "tessellations".  Ruth (the convenor of this year's challenge) explained that tessellations are created when one or more geometrical shapes, such as hexagons, squares, triangles, diamonds etc are used to form patterns.  Here are the samples that Ruth created:

Deb also gave us a sample of tessellations achieved through applique:

As this is the last of the monthly challenge blocks ALL blocks must be completed by our next meeting in August!  It will be fantastic to see them all complete and awaiting the next creative chapter of turning them into quilts!

Show and Tell

Items for show and tell at today's meeting included the following:

 Jen's Hunter quilt

 

 Linda's "practice" hand applique lorikeet mini quilt

 

 A close up of Ruth's cupcake quilt

 

 Another close up of Ruth's cupcakes

 

 the whole of Ruth's cupcake quilt

 

 Therese's Roses quilt

 

 and a close up of those roses

 

 This is Caillou's first quilt.  Caillou is our youngest member at 10 years of age and he completed this quilt when he was 4.5 years old!!!  It also won an award at Jeff's Shed!

 

 This is Caillou's second quilt with lots of colourful dinosaurs.  He completed this one when he was 7 years old!

 

 Sarah's WIP dragon blocks

 

 and some more hatching dragons

 

 Heather's incredibly textured landscape quilt which was completed at a workshop with Caroline Sharkey, textile artist, at recent Ballarat Fibre Arts workshops

 

 and a close up of that texture!

 

 Heather's mini folded fabric flowers

 

 Helen E's jelly roll cushion cover

 

 Margaret's completed Mocha quilt (TPG class)

 

 Deb's lorikeets and silver princess quilt

 

As you can see the lorikeets and flowers have been thread painted and extra dimension has been created with the lorikeets being 'padded out'

 



As usual, the quality and variety of everyone's work was fantastic and it will only be a matter of time for next month's show and tell.

Thanks for reading!