~South Coast and Country Quilters Guild Inc Quilt Show 2016~

Last weekend I popped on along to the Bi-ennial exhibition of the 

South Coast and Country Quilters Exhibition

I walked past the Trading Table and picked up these little items along with a few others

Now down to the serious business of checking out the quilts!!!

I took pics of some of the quilts as I was wandering around

This one is 'Friendship'

Hand and machine appliquéd, and quilted by Dorothy

I'm only a beginner Quilter but I just love doing it so much

I just can't keep up with making the tops lol

Plus I shop quicker than I sew......saw that line somewhere and oh so true

'Around the Garden'

A Wendy Williams design made and quilted by Lorraine

Wool Felt applique, hand embroidery

This fun quilt 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas'

an original design by Margaret with the exception of Flying Santa from

 Friends for Christmas by Lynette Anderson

Hand applique and embellished, machine pieced and quilted by Margaret

'A touch of Renaissance'

Designed by Michelle Hill

Made by Helen - Raw Edge Appliqué

Quilted by Christine

'Pemberley (sans bird)'

Designed by Katrina Hadjmichael

Made by Marietta - appliqué and machine piecing

Quilted by Maxine

'Birthday Wishes'

This quilt had its start at a Beth and Trevor Reed Workshop

Hand Drawn, Painted and dyed Iris

Made and Quilted by Beryl

'Andrew's Universe'

This quilt is reversible, has Glow in the Dark fabric included and has a map of the Constellation of Norma on the reverse

Designed and Machine Pieced by Norma

Quilted by Debbie

This fun quilt 'Bird Dance'

Designed by Sue Spargo

A Bird and Stitch Sampler in the American Folk Art style

Wool Felt Appliqué with stitched embellishment

Made and quilted by Margaret

A close up of the birdies

'Diminishing Circles'

Hand Applique

Made and Quilted by Robyn

'Framed Fassets'

Kaffe Fasset fabric

Quilt and Bind as you go

Made and Quilted by Daiva

'Callum's Dinosaurs'

Combining Painting and Quilting

With thanks to Helen Godden for technique 

Hand Painted and Pieced

Made and Quilted by Christine

'Celestial Dream'

A Susan Powell design

Hand applique and machine pieced

Made and quilted by Jennifer

 (I thought of you with this one Rachaeldaisy)

Bright and Happy

Oh my, I fell in love with this one

'Hocus Pocus Village'

Hand Embroidered

Made by Susana

Quilted by Narelle

 'My Garden in my Dreams'

McKenna Ryan Design

Raw Edge Applique

Made and Quilted by Lena

Oh dear I had to come back for a closer look at Hocus Pocus Village

Witches, Stitches, Quilting, Needlework

Fright Nite, Stitch and Witch, Sign up Now

Four floors of black fabric, Magic Beads

I want to go in lol

The Black Cauldron, Authentic Witch Cuisine

Spidey Soup 

Worms Alfredo

A little closer

 I can't keep away

Pumpkin Latte

 Anyone for Bat Wing Mocha

 Frog Leg Espresso

I went home for say, 5 minutes

I got Mr Armchair to take me back and the Ladies were packing up for the day with 20 minutes to go

The Quilt  kept calling me and I had to do it lol 

*S O L D *

 Now that it was mine I quickly lifted the Quilt up to see the underneath

 So so happy with this one!!!

Thank you South Coast and Country Quilters for another fantastic show

And Thank You Susana.....you made my day!!!

Dzintra xo

~South Coast Country Quilters Quilt Show~

Last weekend I went to the South Coast & Country Quilters Biannual Quilt Show

I took some pics of a few of the quilts that caught my eye

Dragonfly Dance by Sheila Williams

The Golden Domes

The Golden Domes of Terem Palace, Moscow

Photos taken in 2008

Jenny Cantrill

My Favourite Things designed by Anni Downs

Needle Turn Applique and Hand Piecing

Margaret Herzog

Winter Wonderland

From a Crab-Apple design with some added Appliqué

Features Red Work Embroidery and some Embellishment

Pieced by Marilyn Gibson Redwork Embroidery, Machine Piecing

Quilted by Marilyn Gibson

Dalmeny Quilters

For Sam

Quick Irish Chain

Pieced by Barbara Steller

Quilting by Allison Willis

Barbara Steller, Tuesday Twitterers

I absolutely loved this one

Disappearing 9 Patch

Inhouse Workshop

Machine Pieced by Liz Perry

Quilting by Debbie Adam

Liz Perry

Night Owls

For Zach

Scrap 16 Patch Quilt

Machine Pieced by Margaret Browning

Quilting by Debbie Adam

Margaret Browning

Night Owls

And Autumnal Pinwheels

Scrappy Quilt

Machine Pieced and Quilted by Patricia Chanter

Red Berry Quilters

Another great Quilt Show SCCQ.........Looking forward to the next one!!!

~South Coast Quilt Show~ (and some sad news)

On Thursday I received the new Blogger dashboard....still learning my way round it

Let's hope I can get through and work out how to post pretty quickly...

Last weekend saw Batemans Bay host the South Coast and Country Quilter's Guild (SCCQ) 11th Bi-Annual Quilt Show at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club

Above is the striking quilt that showed us the way

The stage was all set for the beach

I took a few pics of some of the quilts that took my eye

This one is Log Cabin by Jenni Miller ~machine pieced and quilted~

'Joelle's Quilt by Tricia Wheeler

Made for a lovely French lady that Trish met in Nice in 2008.   Lucky Joelle is to receive this next year in Turin where she lives......and Tricia is going to hand deliver it to her

Lucky Joelle......and Lucky Trish
I love it Trish!!!

Of course there has to be at least one quilt at a show by Anni Downs

This one is 'Angel Story' hand and machine pieced......machine quilted by Oriel Smith

'Kaleidoscope' by Rebecca Baumgartner 

This one by Martha Trimmer 

Summer Palace by Liesse Chandler of Chandlers Cottage with lots of adaptation

Machine pieced and quilted

'Earth Lines' by Margaret Foster

This reversible quilt was designed to show off a striking indigenous hand printed fabric.  It is coupled with abstract furnishing samples and uses a quilt-as-you-go method

Machine pieced and hand quilted

'Our Harvest Spice' by Robyn Sammons

Machine pieced and quilted

'Chocolate Truffle' by Maggie Froggatt

An Ann Sommerlad design.  Made with the Moda range of fabric called 'Chocolat'

'Monarch Paradise' by Lois Dibeler

Monarch and Blue Emperor butterflies in a garden setting including Monarch life cycle

Machine pieced and quilted

'Kyoto' by Barbara Steller

Machine pieced and quilted

'Eva Trahern' by Margaret Herzog

Paper piecing and broderie perse around a central appliqued panel

Hand Pieced

Designed by Sue Cody

Quilted by Christine Fahey

'Summer Circles' by Irene Coburn

Machine pieced

Margaret and Trish in front of the Raffle Quilt Autumn Leaves

The view looking across the road to the Clyde River from inside the Dining area of the club

I made some small purchases.....above some Christmas fat 1/4 by Lynette Anderson

and some lovely batiks

My hand is doing really well now

Last weekend I was till trying to limit water on it still and not bend the finger area too much 

Mr Armchair thought he'd give making berry muffins a go and here is the result 

Recipe can be found over here

These flowers were bought home to me by Mr Armchair as a bit of a cheer up

My beautiful Brother has been diagnosed with prostate cancer which if he does nothing about will get him in about 10 years time.  He also has diabetes.

He underwent a stress test to see if he could undergo surgery as he has an irregular heartbeat 

He failed the test and the Dr has said he would be more worried about the heart than the cancer

Now he has to see a Heart Specialist ..........