June 8

Just a quick posting this morning before I get into the day. Am sitting here by the heater in my dressing gown still, it's rather chilly outside and still dark.
Had a day out to the city yesterday, left here just before 6am and arrived back just before 7pm.
Attended 2 meetings in Adelaide, had a shop for some fabrics, picked up my 2 special passengers and drove home again. The trip went so fast, and not because I was speeding,                                           but because we talked all the way!
The Sanctuary is home this weekend to 9 girls who are sewing away on their own projects, enjoying the company of each other, and keeping warm by the fire. I shall post some photos later. I did head to bed earlier than the others last night and I think I am the first one up this morning.

Just a quick quilt show this  morning, with Helen's quilt. She had a pretty piece with butterflies on it, and combined it with some of her hand dyed fabric, made a Convergence from Ricky Tim's book and this is how it came out. She was battling with a shortage of some fabrics, so has been creative with her corners, in that they are not all the same. Which of course, then posed questions for the quilter in how she should treat them!? So this is what it looks like after quilting. Helen brought it to me for an allover quilting job, with butterflies! Sorry Helen, but I thought that your quilt was a bit special and needed something more in those "empty" corner triangles. Hope you are happy with it.
(And before you all think that I always do my own thing on a customer quilt, I don't. Usually I follow the customers instructions.)


Below a photo of the back.

I think that's about all for now, better get to the shower and find some clothes. And then decide just what I shall work on for the weekend. Lots of projects I would like to finish.

And thankyou also to another friend, who kindly lent me her DVD of Downton Abbey, series 2.
I had watched Series 1, and was rather "into" it and it came to a halt. I have the 3rd series lent to watch, but need the second before I do. I had not watched any of it on TV, as I don't watch my TV very much, but after hearing people talk about the show I was curious. Thankyou Sue.

Bye for now, enjoy your weekend, and stay warm (well those of you who are in winter!)

Blessings, From Jude

June 7th

This is the last of the quilts for May, so am almost up to date now.
By the time this posting is scheduled I will have returned from a trip to Adelaide and brought back 2 special passengers and we will be settled in at The Sanctuary with our feet up and relaxing! More about that in due course.
Below is June’s Kookaburra quilt, a pattern by Heather Ridley.



And I know its not a quilt photo, but this is what happened in my bathroom recently, had a water leak in the wall of the shower. By the look of the pipes, it had been leaking for quite some time. Hopefully it will be ok now, waiting for the grout to dry and will be using the shower again soon. It was fortunate that there were spare tiles left in the shed which matched. And also fortunate that this house has 2 bathrooms! The house would be close to 30 years old now. And that’s probably rather obvious by the dated tiles of my ensuite!





Above is another quilt by Sherrel, made with fabrics called Jewels of India. I quilted it with a Lotus pattern.
And below is Cynthia’s quilt, a snail trail quilted with a swirly e-e. Very striking colours, the black and white.

I do hope you are having a good weekend, it is a long weekend here in Australia, with Monday being a holiday for the Queen’s Birthday! I wonder if this country ever becomes a republic, like some politicians want, whether they will take away this holiday? I am taking the weekend off, to do some sewing for me, and to spend time with good friends. The retreat is called “Finished is Good”, now if only I could decide which PHD would be good finished. There are so many of them, and I know some people list there projects on their blogs, but I am not going there. They would be on the list too long!
Enjoy your weekend, hope you have enjoyed the quilt show every day, just don’t get used to it, as I shall probably fall back into bad habits again very soon.
Blessings, From Jude

June 6th

 

Another quilt show today, did not realise just how far behind I was in posting quilt photos.  

This is Jenny’s Hungry caterpillar quilt, quilted with an edge to edge with the same name. Our pattern designers do a great job, enabling us quilters to find just the right patterns.

Below is another one from Jenny, she is in the process of finishing lots of PHD’s.

A Jelly Roll quilt made by Pauline, and I love the texture this pattern gave to the quilt.

Above and below are 2 of Di’s quilts, a jelly roll quilt and one made with Christmas fabrics. I am so pleased with the pattern above and how it turned out, and the Christmas one was quilted with a Holly e-e.

Bye for now,

Blessings, From Jude

June 5th

 

Hopefully you are getting a post each day, and I don’t need to worry, think, about it for another few days.

I have a busy, full week ahead, with more quilting, an 80th birthday cuppa, a 60th birthday lunch, a trip to Adelaide on Friday and a retreat at The Sanctuary this weekend. And I need to catch up with my bookwork, as the end of the financial year is coming fast, and I have been so slack for almost a year!! But with a little bit here and there over the next few weeks and I should almost catch up.

There is good news on the weather front, and last weekend saw the heavens open and 40 ml of rain fell. The best rain in months, certainly filled the tanks,and watered the land. Thankyou Lord.

Below is another quilt from Kath.

And above and below, 2 from Teresa, who makes a lot of children’s quilts.

Above is Vals quilt, the dresdens all made from Australian printed fabrics. And below is a quilt from Sandy, made in a mystery quilt class.

Hope you are having a good week, whatever you are doing. And making the most of my daily blog posts, all scheduled on Sunday evening. (That’s if it works!!)

I am so looking forward to the weekend when a few of us are having a retreat at The Sanctuary, working on our own projects. I have so many, I am not sure which one to work on first. It is a shared catering weekend, so I won’t have to cook and can relax and sew!!

Blessings, From Jude

June 3rd

 

I shall try to post more often to make up for my neglect, and I certainly have lots of quilts not yet shown, these go back to April.

A simple jelly roll quilt, which always look great.

Very effective layout, and i love the colour combinations of Sherrel’s quilt.

This was made by Erica, using the range of fabrics called A walk in the Woods, by Aneela Hoey. Managed to find a pattern made for this, which had little red riding hood, and the big bad wolf depicted.

Above is Di’s amazing embroidery work. Her stitches are so tiny, way out of my zone! And below is 2 of Di’s quilts, the first one had cute pictures of little girls making out to be grown up. Sorry about the orientation of the photo.

Well I have set this to post on Monday, so hope it works. I shall now get back to the bookwork, which is calling my name, and needs to be done as I am way behind.

Had a lovely lunch out today, to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of 2 good friends. Wishing you many more years of happiness, BJ and Dot!

Blessings, From Jude

More quilting

 

A photo of 2 of my grandson’s hiding under the table, taken while they visited for Mother’s Day and a birthday, both on the same weekend. Was good to have some family home for the occasion. Not looking forward to the next birthday, which has on “O” on the end of it!

And continuing on with the quilt show, below one from Teresa, a flannel cot quilt.

And Merridy’s quilt, stunning in the orange and white colours. The white border looked quite stark until the orange crosshatching was finished, and that tied the whole quilt together.


Above a quilt made by Sandra, in Oriental fabrics, and below Jennifer’s quilt with birds. Jennifer Meek Giftware is the place to go at Nhill, Victoria if you are interested in this quilt kit.

That’s all folks, until next time,
Blessings, From Jude

Pendleton retreat

 

And again, I must offer my apologies for a lack of blogging. I will tell you that I sat down last Tuesday morning, and spent AWHILE spouting forth about our group’s recent weekend retreat, and clicked the Publish button and it told me there was an error!!! Was not happy, I can tell you, so have sulked all week, and thought that today I better try to catch up, or there will be another 2 weeks without posting. I managed to find all my text in the drafts file, but no photos, so not sure what that means.

I will try again and hope that it works this time.

A lot has happened since the last post, have churned out a lot of customer quilts, had a trip to the city to see family, been to our group retreat, worked on more customer quilts, worked on the planning for future Sanctuary retreats, and started cooking for an afternoon tea that’s coming up.

Our annual group retreat,attended by 28 ladies, is held at Pendleton Farm each year and is always a good time. It is only 20 minutes drive from here, and enables some of our girls to attend just for a day if they prefer. Lots of girls were finally able to finish some PHD’s (projects half done), and there is always advice from other members. This year we were joined by some from the Naracoorte group and also some Adelaide friends!

Below is a finished top for Pat, a candlewicked quilt made for one of her daughters, (she has 5, and they will all receive a quilt).

Below is Heathers quilt as you go, a workshop from Mary Williams workshop in Bordertown last year.

Pat is laying out her Bedford quilt, from a few years ago, and is colour blending her blocks.

Above is Lois, trying out her new Bernina machine, and below is a group of ladies, hard at work!!

And Jean looks cozy, while stitching the binding on her dotty quilt.

Lots of advice for Rae in the layout of this quilt.

And above, another group offering advice and opinions.

Saturday evening and time for a wine or two.

Saturday evening meal was a delicious Chinese Banquet, which you can see displayed above, and below the happy diners tucking in.

Well that was it for another year, we all packed up and returned to reality, and having to think about what’s to eat and cleaning up the dishes again.

I think that’s about all for now, I do hope this posts ok, and I shall try to get back a bit sooner with a back log of quilting photos.

Blessings,

From Jude