That's it.

Some of the quilts were hung over the rails - in total 79 quilts on display - not bad for a group of 17 ladies.  Everyone displayed something.  If you missed us this year, you will have to wait for a year or 2 before we build up enough steam to do it all again.  Thank you again for everyone who supported us.

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Mary's Quilt - we had an outdoor pergola area that allowed us to hang some of the quilts.

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Some of our Challenge quilts.

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The Raffle Quilt!



More on our Quilt Show

Part of what was on offer on the sales table.

ICC Quilt Show

This was the setting - sun was shining, visitors kept coming, everyone was smiling, food was good - thank you to all who made it & helped raise funds for Karuna Hospice.

ICC Quilt Show

This was our Quilt Show in 2011 - rain, rain rain!  Our show is on NEXT Saturday, (31st August) at Milton State School, Bayswater Road, Milton from 10.00am - 3.00pm.  We are hoping for a really sunny, warm day. Demonstrations on felting, photo transfer, re-purposing clothes & tarting up t-shirts start at 11.00am & again at 1.00pm.  Purple Paddo Patchers are making a Quilt in a Day.  $5.00 entry & there is also a great sales table and raffle quilts & of course, a cuppa & a plate of goodies to eat.  Join us!

Quilt for our Show

Inner City Circle will be holding their biennial show -  "Quilts & Textile Temptations" - at Milton State School on Saturday, 31st August from 10.00am - 3.00pm.  A challenge was issued to make 2 x A3 quilts using any 2 of these 3 themes - Shapes, Seasons or Favourites.  Above is my take on  Shapes.

This one is Seasons - my interpretation of Summer & Sunflowers. 

Members from Purple Paddo Patchers & Inner City Circle have been making a sampler quilt under my 'instruction' .  I did not like the blocks I had made - thought the fabric was so dull but it's ended up being quite a sweet quilt & I'm now happy with it. My bit of wisdom for the year/decade/century - Quilts can be a bit like children - they grow into what they should be & are often quite a nice surprise for all.

Quilt Group Meetings

This week was my week for Cottage Group meetings - Inner City Circle on Monday night, Sherwood Stitchers on Wednesday morning & Purple Paddo Patchers on Wednesday night - why am I exhausted? The photos above & below were from ICC girls - same pattern, different fabrics & both just gorgeous.

These photos are from the Sherwood Stitchers girls.  We support Linus Quilts & a few of these will be donated to that project.  Not this lovely brown one - who thought brown was dull - this was a delightful quilt.

Wendy had done a few small pieces of stitchery.

Olive made this for Linus Quilts - cute lady birds/bugs.

Gayle has been stitching this - mattress ticking, add ribbon & fancy stitches - not sure what it will be - don't think she knows yet, but it's good hand sewing to take to meetings. 

Another Linus quilt - the panel has a misprint or 2 - can you find them? It was sold off cheaply - makes a cute quilt so easily.

Purple Paddo Patchers is holding its exhibition "Glad Rags" on the weekend of 13th & 14th October at Gallery 159, 159 Payne Road, The Gap (open 11.00am-4.00pm both days).  Gold coin donation at the door with proceeds aiding Angel Care.  We were organising the event at our meeting so photos will come from the opening night  with all of us in our glad rags!  Wearable art, soft sculptures - in fact all manner of textiles will be on display.  Please join us for the weekend - we'd love to see you there.

Shop Crawl

On Saturday, our cottage group, Inner City Circle, indulged in a shop crawl to Ipswich, 30 minutes west of Brisbane. We visited a couple of quilt shops and the old Flour Mill - the above wheel is in this building along with a a number of shops.

This beautiful period dress was outside one of the shops.

The Community Arts Centre was having a Fibre Festival.  An old bike was being decorated and everyone was encouraged to add something to it.  Some of our girls obliged.  This display was my favourite - just loved the hats.

We finished off the morning with lunch at "The Fourth Child" - food was delightful and the company for the day was just great - wonderful way to spend a Saturday.