October - purple

 Purple was the colour this October's Challenge at 2QAQ.  The one above I called "Petals on the Footpath" - free motioned quilted with purple thread.  One below  is called "Jacaranda Seeds" and the bottom one is "Purple Tree".  Only 2 more months - November's colour is Rainbow (think Melbourne Cup, jockey's colours) and December is Black (bush fires).  Nearly there.

Photocopied images of seeds on to fabric, hand appliqued on to purple background, single lazy daisy stitched to emulate the seeds.

The tree is an image from the internet, copied on to fabric, then I over stitched (by hand) the purple blossoms.  The trunk was machine stitched.

A few more quilts

There were 600 quilts on display & there are just a few - hope you like what we produce here in Queensland.

State of the Art Exhibition (SOTA)

A small selection of the 45 quilts in this year's SOTA exhibition.

My friends were winners

 Margaret won 4th in Amateur Pieced

 Merody won Best Amateur

Jane won Best Qld Quilters Theme - this year 2 block quilt.  It's really great to have such talented friends.

Qld Quilters Show 2019

 Each year we have tables to represent the Special Interest Groups within Queensland Quilters.  This is out Art Quilt table.  Talking to people about what you love doing is sooooo easy.

 More of our display - our colour challenge is highlighted in our displays.

More of our colour challenge - it really looked great

Playing this afternoon

Made up this little piece (5 1/2" square) as a practise for a much large piece - just laid down torn strips of fabric, free motion stitched over the pieces then added the grasses and trees.  The large piece won't be anything like this apart from probably same techniques (maybe).  The large piece can't be shown when it's finished as it's being entered into a juried competition.  Really enjoyed this.

Yellow - Challenge colour for September

 Daffodil - thread painted, trapuntoed & added to collaged background. If you can enlarge the image, you'll see the stitching.

Lovely yellow flower postcards - daisy & sunflower - tick, September done!

Qults for the Qult Show

 Really Goosey - finished & entered in to our Qld Quilt Show - October.

 Detail of Really Goosey

Wonky Log Cabins - finished & entered for display in the quilt show.  My scraps don't appear to have been depleted by these 2 scrappy quilts.  I'll keep trying to empty the bins.

August Challenge

 Blue was the colour for August - managed to get these done.  Blue & White China postcard.

 Blue Bird of Happiness - looks a bit dopey, doesn't he? Postcard.

Blue Skies - A4 piece of collage