Display Day

 Last week the Westbourne Uniting Church Thursday Craft had an open day with a display of all the work done from the different crafts groups that meet. 

 There were lovely stitchery, paintings, woodwork and lots and lots of different needlework's on display.

 I loved this handbag, from its stylish design to the cute newsprint fabric.

 The cross stitch was lovely.  Something special about blue and white china isn't there!

 I love wool embroidery, these native flowers are gorgeous...I wanted to touch but didn't!

A cute wool blanket was on my agenda when I was pregnant, but it never happened, perhaps when I become a grandmother!

 There were lots of gorgeous quilts, but very hard to get good photos in the crowd. 

 Every year the teddy display is special.  This year the theme was cruise ship/maritime.

 Such cute facial expressions!

The teddy ladies sit next to us (Quilts from the Heart) and help us in lots of different ways.  It was nice to see their show and tell.  Now display day has come and gone we are ready to donate the next lot of quilts, hopefully I will have pictures in a week or so.  Happy quilting Sue.

Quilts for Catherine House

These quilts were all delivered this week...

 A scrappy warm flannel quilt using left overs from someone else's project.

 Scrappy blue rail fence.

 These are the scraps that Debbie rescued, made a lovely quilt from and donated to Quilts from the Heart.

 A vibrant red, string pieced quilt.

 Another of Alan's scrap quilts, above and below, same pattern, but different looks with 

different borders.

 

A string pieced quilt, doesn't show up well, but the centre blocks have cat fabrics in them.

Pink and floral one patch quilt. 

 This fabric obviously appealed to one of my fellow quilters so much it never got cut up!  

Borders + groovy print = funky quilt!

 Wow this is actually one I made.  I started it back in the summer, but never got around to finishing putting it together for quite some time.  I ran out of the pink check and had to dig through the stash to find more.  These fabrics all came out of a donated stash from a lady going into care.

 A very soft floral print mixed in with some plain blocks, all cleverly laid out in a pattern.  

 More one patch, but love they way the made the first and last row half size!

 

And finally the quilt top that my mother donated.  She started this quilt for a friends grandson, then decided it wasn't right (butterflies?) and never got around to putting the border on it.  When she had a clean out she gave me the backing, border print and I put it all together. And then of course our very talented Elaine quilted it, along with all the others!  

These quilts were all sent to Catherine House, a centre that specifically helps homeless women in Adelaide.  Go to this link HERE if you want to know how YOU can help Catherine House!

Women's refugee (part 2)

The final installation of quilts donated to the women's shelter.

A donated quilt top, lovely pink pattern Garden Trellis (well, I think that's what its called!)

Another scrappy blue single patch, effective and perfect for a boy.

 

A donated top, with gorgeous owls and forest creatures, very cute and love the orange!

 Gorgous floral pink and green top, so lively and fresh, sure to bring to joy to someone's life.

 A good quilt for a teenager with strong and bold colours, machine pieced hexagons.

 Scrappy single patch green quilt, just a change from the blue ones! 

 A cot panel enlarged with borders.

 Delightful fairy fabric, carefully cut, sashed and joined by Shirley, who is new to quilting.

Bev created this lush quilt, made with non cotton fabrics it has a rich hue and is much admired!

Women's refugee (part 1)

All these quilts were donated to a women's refugee centre.

 A soft and warm flannel quilt for a young child.

 Scrappy blue rail fence with four stripes.

 One patch quilt, but on the diagonal, suitable for a double bed.

 A donated quilt top, made in the most beautiful soft grey/blue and pink floral.  Love those stars, and its a BIG quilt!

 A cheater cloth quilt, this William Morris look a like piece of fabric was extended with borders and quilted.

 Left over blocks and fabric from another donated quilt top was extended with complimentary fabrics.

Another single patch quilt all in blues.  These are often the most admired quilts, seems blue is popular with most people.

Single patch quilt in cheerful colours made from scraps.

Winter warmth for refugee arrivals.

 Today we tackled the pile of quilts and photographed them, these 10 quilts went off to assist newly arrived refugees cope with our winter weather and of course as a welcome gesture!

This quilt started its life as a doona cover, so it has a sister...what a great marine theme!

 This quilt was cut from a narrow roll of fabric that was originally used to make matching kitchen accessories and cafe curtains.  We have more then one roll, but this is one of the least offensive patterns, as the colour is not so 1970's!

 Simple blue squares, set off with some great machine quilting by Elaine.

We all liked the bird fabric, but took a long time to decide what to do with it!  An interesting quilt at least!

 A Teddy bear eye spy quilt, all the fabric was from Helen's stash and she generously made us two tops, which Elaine quilted.  Helen assures me that it didnt make much of a dent in her collection of teddy fabrics! Helen sits on the table next to Quilts from the Heart and is a member of - you guessed it the teddy ladies!

 I love this quilt, there were lots of squares all cut the same size, but someone got down and worked out a colourful placement, which gave it a pattern and I think they did really well!

 Another favourite quilt, fairly sure June made this one...she'll be apples!

 A great use of half square triangles, this quilt was given to us to donate, a nice blokes lap quilt.

 One sock bunny rabbit, made and donated by June.

 And finally two lovely warm snugly knitted blankets.  These were also given to us to donate, apologies because I cannot remember who that generous person was.