Art Group Display

In October last year an Art Quilt Group was formed under the umbrella of Toowoomba Quilters Club Inc.  The group meets once a month on the 3rd Saturday,  and shares techniques and ideas.  Mini workshops are also held.  It was decided that we might like to do A4 journal quilts trying out different techniques and materials and show them at the next exhibition.  The theme chosen for our journal quilts and the subsequent exhibit was “Discovery”. 

As many of our members were new to the textile fibre scene we went on a journey of discovery.

The following art journal quilts made up our display.

Quilts by Linda Wrench:

“Garnet”                                       “Sapphire”

“Quartz”                                         “Zircon"

Quilts by Dianne Cahill:

“Dream Weavers”                    “Viva Valentino”

“Inland Tsunami”                         “Going Around in Circles”

“A Cockroach Changed my Life”       “Ankh- Life”

“Sun, Earth, Moon”

Quilts by Ann Jones:

“Boots and All”                              “Threads of Nature”

Quilts by Christine D:

“Discovery 1”                               “Discovery 2”

Quilts by Judy Donnelly:

Judy has put her pieces into this wonderful installation.

Quilts by Dot Cottee:

      “Glitz & Glamour”                         “Coming Home”

“Memories of a Journey”

The following art quilts are from the group’s lutradur experiment.  We painted lutradur with acrylic paints and then chopped it up and embellished it.

“Woodlands” by Chris Jasper (Also part of the “Discovery” Exhibit.)

Designed by Ineke Berlyn.

“The Good Earth” by Dorothy Cottee

“Brolgas” by Linda Wrench

“Coloured Sands – Rainbow Beach” by Dianne Cahill

Other art quilts in the small articles area:

Bean bag by Frances Mullholland

“Sunshine on Water” by Cheryl G

by Christine D

“Bay View” by Chris D

“Leo” by Chris D

 

“Outback Dreaming” by Jan G

“Let’s make Music” by Glenda T

“Ayer’s Rock” by Linda Wrench

“Vivid” by Linda Wrench

“Under the Wave” by Frances Mullholland

“WMD’s – Weedy Marine Dragons” by Frances Mullholland

Not only this – There is MORE.

Stay tuned.

Opening Night

Our opening night for the Exhibition of Quilts and other Fine Arts was held on Saturday night and one of our members and quilter extraordinaire Robyn Ginn - OAM. (Order of Australia Medal) performed the official opening.

(L-R) Robyn Ginn, Diana Rayward (President) and Marilyn Cooper (Treasurer). 

Robyn gave a delightful and entertaining talk on her life in quilting.  Robyn has taught her hand applique and embroidery techniques  throughout Australia and has taught in outback and rural communities. 

After the opening, members and their guests and invited guests, enjoyed a delicious supper and were then able to view the quilts on display.

Thank you to all our hardworking members who made the opening night of the 2011 exhibition such an enjoyable and successful evening.

First Day

Teresa and Marilyn C at the front table selling raffle tickets.

First Prize:   HUGE basket of sewing goodies.

Second Prize: Selection of Fabrics and sewing goodies

Third Prize:  A beautiful iced cake done in club colours.  Made and iced by Stephanie who is the daughter of Colleen Shepherd from Indigo Niche.  Thank you Stephanie.

 

Just $2.00 a ticket.

Looking fresh on the first day and waiting for customers at the sales table, Joan B, Dot C and Marleen.

There are some beautiful items for sale, all made by club members. Just the right time to do some Christmas shopping.

In one of our displays this amazing teddy bear’s picnic.  All knitted by a member of our club, Sheila D.  One clever lady.

We have many displays, works in progress and demonstrations.  If you would like to know more about our club and what we get up to, pop in and see us at the quilt show

St Ursula’s Salo Centre – Rome Street, Toowoomba

Opened 9.00 pm –5.00 pm

Refreshments available

Entry $5.00 (Children Free)

Ready, Set, Go…….

Our quilt show opens at 9.00 am tomorrow morning. (Saturday 17)

St Ursula’s Salo Centre, Rome Street  TOOWOOMBA

and check out the wonderful display of quilts.

Stop for refreshments in the cafe and browse our sales table where there is lots of handmade items made by members.

BEFORE

AFTER

OUR SALES TABLES

FLORAL DISPLAYS

OUR BEAUTIFUL RAFFLE QUILT

Hand Appliqued and Hand Quilted by members.

 

SEE YOU THERE!

Raffle Basket

A  popular raffle at the Quilt Exhibition is the raffle basket.

It is chock full of goodies and is only $1 a ticket at the show.

Our members and sponsors have very generously donated items towards this raffle basket.  (More about our sponsors in a later post).      We thank them very much.  Joan B will be putting the finishing touches to it on Tuesday.

So, if you get to the Exhibition be sure to get your ticket in this beauty.

Toowoomba Quilters Exhibition of Quilts and Other Fine Arts

Saturday 17 Septermber – Friday 23 September                                   

St Ursula’s Salo Centre, Rome Street, Toowoomba  Qld

Opening hours 9.00am – 5.00pm.

Refreshments available.

Some spring time colour in this gorgeous wall hanging by our intrepid Exhibition Co-ordinator, Angela Langdon.

It’s Show Time

Spring has sprung which means it is time for our annual

Exhibition of Quilts and Other Fine Arts

Opening Saturday 17 September through to Friday 23 September   9.00 am – 5.00 pm

St Ursula’s Salo Centre, Rome Street, Toowoomba 

Our raffle quilt this year is a stunning Dresden Plate.  A queen sized bed quilt, hand appliqued, machine pieced and hand quilted by members.  Tickets are only $2.00 each and proceeds to go to “The Bush Connection”.

“The Bush Connection” supports rural families who are suffering financial difficulties.  Some of our rural families have been hit hard this year with the extensive flooding within our region, so we hope our funds from this quilt will help alleviate some of their distress.

Busy Quilting Bees

Our Annual Exhibition of Quilts and Other Fine Arts is fast approaching and Tuesdays in August have become a production line.  The members have been busy making items for the sales table.

If you are in Toowoomba during the Carnival of Flowers be sure to visit us at

The Salo Centre, St Ursula’a College – Rome Street – Toowoomba

Saturday 17 September to Friday 23 September. 

We would love to see you and can assure you of a spectacular quilt show as per previous years.

Some of the ladies busy at work

Madeline working on sales table items.

We also had some impressive show and tell.

Sheila K is leaving us for a couple of months to travel over to England and see her family.

She has made this bright and beautiful Australian bird quilt for her visually impaired Mum. Each bird is bordered with an Australian floral fabric.

Congratulations Sheila.  The backing is oh so Aussie too.  Mum will really love this one.

Also, congrats to Marleen who has finished her Sashiko quilt. It is quite spectacular.  Lots of beautiful sashiko pieces. 

Here is Vicky with her hand stitched hexagon quilt completed.  The photo does not do this quilt justice, the colour is much stronger ‘in the flesh’  It is amazing and very neatly stitched.

These and more wonderful quilts, both traditional and contemporary, will be on display at our quilt show. 

Pink

Pink Quilts……..

When we had our cuppa for cancer fundraiser in May we were asked to make up a pink block and bring it along for a lucky draw.  Many people who won blocks donated them back to the club to be made up into charity quilts.

Our community quilting ladies have put together 2 quilts and did a fine job.  Thank you to those members who donated blocks and thank you to the community quilting members who gave up their time to put together these quilts.

 

(Vida and Lyle)