Geralton Club's Anniversary Fair

Quite a few of our members made it to Geraldton today for a lovely day of quilts and shopping at Geraldton Patchwork Club's Anniversary Ffair.
The crowds were kept busy admiring the quilts and the stocking up on crafty goodies from the stalls.
It was great to see the display of "Challenge" quilts and the variety produced from the one pattern.

Field of Quilts...Boddington

Sunday was a beautiful day. The weather was perfect for a drive to view The Field of Quilts in Boddingtion. We'd gone south to visit the Grandies for the long weekend and decided another hours drive would be fun.

This hexagon quilt was my favourite. It got my vote. I loved this little wall hanging of houses on the hill too.

The two together were the raffle prizes. No phone messages when I got home ...so I guess I didn't win.

The Quilt Top is ready

Loris was busy finishing off the piecing of this raffle prize quilt.
So as promised here's a pic to show off the lovely lattice pattern.

Gone to Geraldton

This Little Quilt of Love has gone off to Geraldton as Mary's entry to their club challenge.
It is destined to be judged before finding it's way to a worthy cause.

A raffle in the making

Loris is in charge of deciphering the pattern.......are there 88 units in orange and navy?

Or was that 36 of those and 88 of the yellow ones? Are these blocks 9 inches or nine and a half?

Donna can smile now, she is a perfectionist and some of those pieces were not exactly square.

Dilemma...do we re-cut the fabric or teach Donna to "fudge"?

Now production is underway......Teena has the goods rolling out of the sweatshop.

Who would have believed it. The pattern works, the pieces fit and the seams are straight.

Another day's work and it will be ready for quilting.

You'll have to wait to see the finished pattern and then the search for quilters will be on. Any volunteers?

Donna's quilt

Back a few weeks ago I tried to take a picture of Donna's "Breaking the Drought" but the photo was so blurry I couldn't post it.
Now the quilt is nearly finished, just a little of the binding still to go. Isn't Donna's colour selection fabulous. Reminds me of fields of pink everlastings out in the bush.
BTW...the girls in the background are not exceedingly tall, they just happened to be sitting up on the verandah watching the photo shoot.

Our "Round Robin" projects travel far

I love this photo of my "Round Robin" quilt top on Eileen's gorgeous wingback chair.
A few years ago about 11 members of our club made these quilt tops, each secretly adding a border to every quilt in the circle.
I chose a Christmas theme for mine and was thrilled at the final presentation to see all the lovely Seasonal fabrics and cheery colours the girls had used in it.
Well of course I put it away planning to quilt it in time for Christmas....didn't happen.
Then I won a PIF gift from Eileen at Robin Hill Quilts  and she offered to quilt a top for me. I was blown away by such a generous offer. So into a postbag and off to USA where Eileen photographed and posted it's arrival on her blog. It looks so at home on her lovely red and white plaid chair. I'm so excited about this, Eileen is a magnificent quilter. How lucky am I?