Kaniva Quilt Show..............

 

Last weekend Pat and I headed to Kaniva to set up my table of 'wares' at the Windmill Stitchers Quilt show. There were 4 shops there to tempt visitors and we had a lovely weekend catching up with local and distant quilters. I met up with quite a few people that I had not seen for ages. 

Here are a few photos taken during the weekend, and I shall let the photos tell the story, as I did not take pics of the labels. The first photo is of some of the charity quilts made by the group, and there were more at the other end of the hall.

That's all for this post. I still have to process photos from our last couple of trips away, so hope to get to that soon. 

Since the show I have been busy in the kitchen, decuttering and clearing out things I no longer use, and I can report that there is space in the cupboards. I still have more to do yet. Today I have been out in the pergola tidying the garden there. It feels good to get some of these long overdue jobs done. 

I have been trying to catch up with blog reading and have left comments to a few, and had an email telling me that the comments is undeliverable?? Not sure what is happening with that, but it seems that the comment appears on the blog. 

Hopefully I will get back to work on Max next week.

Blessings, From Jude

I am still here!!........

 In case you thought I had left the country, I decided it was well past the time to do a blog post!! Life has been rather full lately. We had another trip away in the caravan in September, and I hope to get around to telling you about that soon.

 Since we returned there has been customer quilts to catch up on, more sorting of house 'stuff', trips to Naracoorte, a 21st birthday party and engagement party, another 4 day trip away, a family reunion, and the usual domestic chores. 

At the moment I am inundated with fabric, as I prepare to take my 'wares' to the Kaniva quilt show this weekend. Lots of sorting, cutting, pressing, and folding of bundles to tempt quilters.

Please find the notice below, and it would be lovely to see you there. Come and say hi, browse the shops and check out the fantastic array of quilts hanging in the hall.

I'll be back again soon, with a more comprehensive update of newsfromjude.

Catch ya,

Blessings, From Jude

THE LATEST NEWSFROMJUDE............................

 This post has been mulling in my mind for the last 3 weeks, so perhaps it's time to write it?? We drove to Murray Bridge one afternoon to pick up my mum and bring her to Bordertown for a few days........ 

We had a very special reason for her visit, which was very hush hush as not many people knew............

There is only one way to say it.........Barry and I were married on the 9th of August, in a quiet ceremony in our local church. We did not want a fuss .......and it was just perfect for us and very meaningful. My 92 year old mum gave me away.....we had 2 good friends as witnesses, our local minister officiated, his wife took photos and another friend did the sound, playing pan flute music in the background during the ceremony.

 Here are a few photos..................

It just so happened that it was Barry's birthday that week, and we had planned a gathering to celebrate that..................and we managed to surprise a few friends there with our news........ the birthday cake turned into a wedding cake!!

We never know just where life will take us, and this is not where I expected to be in my 70's!!! 

As happy as we are, we are saddened to hear of good friends that are dealing with illnesses at present and our hearts go out to them.

Blessings,

From Jude

Customer quilting.................

 It is time for an update of customer quilting, and first up is one I did earlier in the year for Sherrel. She brought me her quilt, called Stair Bender as in the photo below...........

............this made me think a lot, as she wanted to enter it into the Victorian Quilters Showcase Exhibition in Melbourne in July.....which meant it was to be custom quilted...........

I eventually came up with a plan for quilting, as in the following photos........

Sherrel picked up her quilt just before we headed off on a trip, back in April. Then we went away again in June and July. I received a text from Sherrel just after we arrived home, that she had received a call that her quilt had won something in Melbourne!! It was  few days later that I received this photo from Sherrel with a photo of her and the quilt with a Highly Commended ribbon!! (Note that Sherrel is colour coordinated with her quilt!!)  Congratulations Sherrel, the piecing accuracy in this quilt was amazing.

Now onto some more quilts........................

Earlier in the year, Jill sent me 4 large quilts, all with amazing needleturn applique. After consultation she decided that 2 of them would be quilted allover and 2 would be custom.......... 

This one, an Octogan quilt, made using William Morris fabrics, was quilted with Leaves and Loops..........

.........and this Starry quilt was quilted allover with Meander...........

Helen has made 2 quilts recently, the first being a pretty floral quilt for her daughters' friend, and this was quilted allover with a floral pattern............

.....and this king size quilt for her granddaughter, was quilted, again with Meander.

Cheryl makes a lot of handpieced hexagon quilts and this was another of those, and is simply quilted with a pattern called Rhapsody...........

Jenny has been busy finishing off a lot of quilts, in readiness for her groups upcoming quilt show, in October. This is a Ricky Tims design, Convergence and is quilted allover with a Modern Maze pattern.

This churn dash quilt was also made by Jenny, and is quilted edge to edge with Baroque Swirls.

Also getting some quilts finished for the quilt show is Sherrel and this top was made with Dragonflies and water lillies fabric. It was quilted allover with a dragonflies pattern.

And another quilt made by Sherrel is this flying geese top, called Flying High, and  made with fabrics she purchased on a recent holiday to Singapore. It was quilted allover with a pattern called Augusta.

This is another quilt made by Jenny, using Tim Holtz fabric range Electic Elements. I custom quilted this one as you can see in the following photos using a lot of geometric patterns as I wanted the texture to show as the fabrics were all rather busy.................

I will finish this post here for now. There are other quilts to show as I have been rather busy in the last few weeks. They can wait for another post, one day.

I still have another post to write soon, with the latest newsfromjude, so will be back soon.

Have a good day. It is the first day of September, so that means the first day of spring. I see the trees are blossoming, the wattles are starting to flower, and yesterday on our drive to the farm, we noticed the canola crops mostly in flower. We do urgently need some rain, as it has been very dry so far this season.

Be back soon

Blessings, From Jude