West Australian Quilter’s Association Raffle Quilt

I'm always delighted to see the quilts that others make from my designs. This is a real beauty! It's from my paterrn "To Everything There is a Season" and I love it in these colours.

The quilt has been made by Barbara John and her sewing group, fabric selection was made by Barbara and 2 of the QuiltWest committee early in June. Several people helped Barbara make the quilt and the quilt was longarmed quilted by Barbara

The Quilt will be exhibited during the West Australian Quilter’s Association’s QuiltWest Exhibition in May where raffle tickets will be available. Raffle tickets will go on sale at the beginning of March. Funds are being raised for the Royal Flying Doctor and Breast Cancer Research. It is very likely that the quilt will tour a few Perth Metropolitan Quilt shops when tickets go on sale. Watch out for the article in "Australian Patchwork and Quilting" magazine.

Wouldn't you like to win this beauty?

Anniversary Knit along shawl

While I still can't manage the cutting and sewing required for patchwork and quilting, I have kept myself amused by getting involved in a Mystery Knit-along from Goddess Knits. The mystery is now finished and the pattern is available from here. It's a fantastic round shawl using the "Pi construction" method. Each of the 5 clues had 4 choices of patterns and this is my finished masterpiece:). I used JoJoLand Harmony yarn, which is a lace yarn with gradual colour changes. It's not perfect but I love it :)

Thanks again Anna for modelling the shawl!

Happy knitting and quilting

Colleen

New Quilt, Sun Time, Fun Time

I've received many requests for the pattern for this quilt, called Sun Time Fun Time. It was photographed in my profile in Australian Country Threads magazine. In the new year I'll get the pattern ready for sale....but for now here's a preview.

A preview of a wallhanging project

Happy New Year!
I hope it's a good year for all.
I'll start the year by showing some "new" projects. Today it's this one:

My sister Lynne is a quilter, too. She use my wallhanging "Children Bloom with a Mother's Love" as the basis for her Christmas stitchery quilt. Isn't it great? I love the verse. Thanks Lynne.

Autumn in New York shawl

Over some about 4 weeks, Andrea from BadCat Designs posted the instructions for this shawl. I had fun along with hundreds of others, knitting along and sharing the experience through her yahoo group and Ravelry. I used 2 balls of Noro Kureyon sock yarn and 4.5 mm needles. You can find the instructions at Andrea's blog.

That's lovely Anna from The Yarn Barn modelling the shawl so well!

Of course I'll have to wait until winter to wear it. Thanks Andrea for the great shawl pattern.

Yeah! A little Quilt finished!

Well I'm pleased to say that I've finished making this little quilt. It takes just one pack of 5" charm squares and with the little bit of applique it makes a quick not-so-shabby quilt. Oh but it is sort of shabby chic though. It finishes at about 33" square. There's no binding involved. There's some of that lovely large ric-rac sewn around the edge.

Hope you're ready for Christmas:)

cheers

Colleen

What does a quilter do when she can't quilt?

For a while now my body's not being cooperative in the quilting department. I'll spare you the details, and just say that it's ..not...very....good...and....I'm...sick... of.... it.

OK, so what does a quilter do when she can't make quilts? She knits.

I found a wonderful knitting designer who shares her designs through her blog. http://badcatdesigns.blogspot.com/

She's known as BadCat, and she designs fantastic shawl. Thanks BadCat.

This is the first project I "knit-along" with BadCat and hundreds of students...the Summer Sampler Project.

Each week for about 20 weeks Andrea would post part of the pattern, each week a new stitch, until we had a complete shawl. I've learnt something new every week and thoroughly enjoyed the whole process. Of course I love the finished project.

So quilters can sit down and knit when they can't make quilts.