Quilters Show and Tell

Bluhm Homage

Submitted by elizbowm.

This quilt, entitled 'Bluhm Homage' is the result of an intensive 2 day class with Irena Bluhm, hosted by our Gammill Dealer in SE Michigan (USA) in 2008.

We started with a blank slate, used Blue washout marker to place main design elements (graciously shared by Irena, from an extensive library of her designs), quilted those in, then backfilled with freehand background(s) of our choice.

Dark gold So Fine thread was used for the main elements of the quilt, and a cream So Fine for the background quilting.

We were sent home with our masterpieces, and instructions for using colored pencils to add color to our wholecloth projects. What a great twist on wholecloth!

Skating on the Pond

Submitted by One of a Kind.

This quilt is an original, hand painted, thread painted, applique, and machine quilted. It represents Skating on a pond when I was young. I painted the sky and the buldings, as well as part of the skaters. I thread painted the trees in the town and the two trees in the foreground.

 

Coloured Quilt

Submitted by Waterfall Manor Quilts.

The fabric used is Sheridan bedspread fabric, beige and silver colours reversed on the other side, silver and beige.The outer borders were turned over from the back to the front and the middle section quilted, coloured and over quilted with metalic thread.

This quilt recieved a second prize last year at NSW guild quilt show at Darling Harbour. I was inspired by Tracey and Helen's Daisey Dance quilt many years ago and decided to give the coloured pencils and pastel a try out. I was too stingy to by a pattern from Tracey at Mittagong conference and just played with fabric medium and Derwents and chalk pencils, heaps of fun but very time consuming. I also love bling and the hot fix crystals just give it all a lift.

The Unthinkable Has Happened!

We have run out of quilts! Oh dear - that didn't last long.

I love, love, love that so many of you have shared your quilts with us and I can't thank you enough for making this blog such a great place to visit. Thank you!

I would love to keep it going but I can't do it alone. So, time to go to the cupboard and take a few photos please, otherwise you will be subjected to an endless parade of my quilts and nobody wants that ;o)

I've used my meagre computer skills to make a nice form to submit quilts with so no more excuses; time to share some quilts with us! With over 230 visitors every day I know there must be lots of quilts out there that we haven't seen yet. Off you go - snap, snap.

On a side note, you have probably noticed that when I write something on the main page I put it in pink - that's so you can destinguish my "house keeping" text from the "tell" in the show and tell.

Here is another one of my quilts to get us going again:

Submitted by Hermione Agee.

See more of Hermione's work on her blog and shop for machine quilting patterns on her website.

This is my latest finished quilt.

It's a wholecloth quilt that I quilted using a panto (surprised?) and then I coloured it in using a technique I learned from Kim Bradley when we were at the New Zealand machine quilters conference. If you ever get a chance to do a class with Kim I highly recommend you grab the oportunity.

It looks pretty good in the photos but it didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to - up close the colouring is a bit messy but I'm getting the hang of it.

There are more than 170 flowers on there so by the time I got to the end I was much better at it than when I started. Practise makes perfect, right?

It was hanging in the Australian Machine Quilters Exhibition this weekend and it was awarded a Highly Commended ribbon. It's a great show to be a part of (and they have an edge to edge category!) so if you are a quilter or if you will be having a quilt machine quilted in the coming year don't forget to enter it in next years exhibition.

Sunflower Log Cabin

Submitted by Folkquilter.

I have been attempting to use up some of my scraps of fabric, so this quilt started with the small log cabin blocks and grew from there.

My goal was something simple in the center so that the handquilting - a 3/4 in. grid could surround it.

I love the way this quilt turned out and think those little log cabin blocks make the quilt.

Lace 2

Submitted by Tracey Browning of Constantine Quilts.

You can view lots more of Tracey's quilting at Constantine Quilts in her quilt gallery.

 

This original wholecloth quilt was inspired by a picture of a piece of lace designed by Anton Unger, Germany in 1898. I have redrawn this design, with artistic license, then quilted it on my longarm machine. The delicate design was then enhanced by Helen Stubbings of Hugs 'n' Kisses  using her Colourque(R) technique. This quilt won a top 10 award at Paducah in 2007. The Brother Wall Machine Workmanship award.

It now resides in my studio on the farm .....and Helen also teaches Mini Lace workshops to students wanting to learn how to complete the colouring process. Our own wonderful Hermione Agee has digitised a scaled down version of this design that I then stitch out on my Intelliquilter computerised system so that all students have their pre quilted Mini Lace Quilt to colour in a class with Helen. You can view more details on Helen's website.