Show and Tell Continues

Our ladies are continuing to produce some wonderful quilts through the month of February. This is Gerry's version of the twisted bargello by Chris Timmins which was published a few years ago now in Patchwork and Quilting mag.
Good work Gerry!
Heather has finished her top from Robyn Ginn's workshop last year and is in the process of hand quilting it. This is a marvellous feat from Heather as she is recovering from a broken arm. She is the first to finish, so well done Heather.
Here is a close up of one of the 'tiles'. The quilt blocks are a combination of hand qpplique and embroidery and take design elements from the feature fabric.
Judy with her fabulously colourful strip pieced blocks. The remnants from her wonderful "chook quilt". We look forward to seeing what Judy makes with her strip blocks.

Show & Tell February Part 2 - Mermaids a swimming

This is such a fun and colourful quilt! Put together by Judy F. Judy is so creative.
She has put all the hexagons together by hand.

This mermaid becomes this:

This single mermaid 'chopped up' forms the following kaleidescope blog.











Isn't this swirling mermaid just the cutest block?

Clever ! Well done Judy.

Show and Tell February Part 1

Oriental Mosaic by Marilyn C. Marilyn appliqued by hand and put the blocks together by machine and machine quilted it herself.

Show and tell at February's meeting was colourful and abundant. Members have been very busy over the summer break and the heat hasn't deterred them one bit!


Log Cabin with a Twist by Patricia R. Patricia found this one a challenge as she had never tried the paper piecing technique before and this one was complex.


Sharing Australia with Alexander by Diana R. Diana has made this for her grandchild Alexander who lives in England but loves all things Australian. This is her own design and depicts the various landscapes of Australia. Alexander will receive this soon as Diana is about to jet off to England.

Bali Stars by Marilyn C. Marilyn had this lovely collection of batiks and wanted to make a star quilt. Stunning.

Part 4 of The Largest Hexagon quilt which is being constructed for possible entry into the Guiness World Records. Many of our members have made flower hexagons for the quilt. The quilt will be completed by May.
This part is 5.5 mtrs long and contains 21,743 hexagons. Wonder who counted them? Maybe it was our member Lyn C who quilted this section. Well done everyone and good luck with the judging.

This little fellow was checking out all the colour and he was given to Lyn L at Christmas at her Doll's group break-up. He was made from instructions from here.



There is more fabulous finishes to come. Look out for Part 2 coming shortly.

Stack & Whack!

Some of our members were very productive over the festive season. (Some of us just didn't managed to get anything much together!) Diana brought this finished quilt along to our last meeting. It is one of two that she started and completed in recent months for her grandchildren in England.

The blocks for this quilt were started at the "Stack and Whack" workshop held in November last year. Club members who attended managed to complete one or two blocks during the workshop. Our patient tutor, Fay, is sitting in the front on the right (holding my block.)

Everyone, especially Fay, is looking forward to seeing some more completed "Stack and Whack" quilts that were started at the workshop.

25 Year Celebration

On the 5 December 2009 members of the Toowoomba Quilters Club Inc. celebrated their 25 year anniversary in conjunction with their annual Christmas luncheon.

Approximately 45 members attended, and the club rooms were festooned with members’ Christmas Quilts and other Christmas items. The theme of the day was ‘silver’ and some of the members brought along creative hand-made ornaments of silver paper and foil.

As part of the proceedings, our 2009 raffle quilt was presented to the winner, Hannah and we also handed over a cheque (proceeds of the raffle quilt) to the manager of the Blue Care Therapy Centre Toowoomba, Mrs Jill Cory.

The day was filled with fun games and competitions, block swap, secret santa, raffles and lucky door prizes. Any monies raised on the day went to our Christmas charity, Spiritus.

Two of our long time members - Alys cutting the cake and Margie telling stories

Our cake made by President, Marilyn and decorated by member Judy. Judy has decorated it with 'quilty' type items - scissors, rotary cutter etc. and 25 cotton reels.

Some silver Choristers made by our wonderful events co-ordinator, Lyle.

The lucky Hannah

Happy smiling faces

Show and tell adorning the walls

Quilting Workshop

Last week a group of lucky club members attended a full day workshop with Angela Langdon who provided a wonderful opportunity for beginners to learn how to use their domestic machines to quilt their own projects.

Open Day

We were delighted by the number of visitors to our Open Day on Saturday 17 October and look forward to seeing some of them at our regular sewing sessions on Tuesdays &/or Saturdays. (Check out our website for details.)

Ailleen Collins(far right) was thrilled to be the winner of this "heart quilt", the Lucky Door prize, drawn at the end of the day. She was so excited she jumped into her car and immediately came up to Jellicoe Street to collect her quilt!

This is a photo of Fay Suley, Secretary, Toowoomba Quilters Club, in her corner on Open Day, happily sharing her knowledge and expertise with visitors and club members.

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2009 Exhibition - Viewers' Choice

This is the beautiful quilt created by Robyn Ginn that won the Viewers' Choice vote at our Annual Exhibition last month. Lots of people were heard to comment on the difficult task of choosing their favourite quilt from the many that were on display but at the end of the week, this quilt entitled The Brevity of Life was the clear winner. Congratulations to Robyn who is a prolific creator of wonderful quilts and a lovely person who contributes much to our club.

Happy Days

Here are some happy ladies welcoming guests to our exhibtion last week. We had some lovely visitors from all over the country and overseas.

Our next event is Open Day (see sidebar for details). If you would like to know more about our club, we invite you to our Open Day to meet our friendly quilters, see demonstrations and displays, partake of a complimentary scrumptious morning tea and an opportunity to win a beautiful lap quilt.

One week to go!

Our thanks to Di who is doing so much work for our quilt exhibition that opens next Saturday.

Thanks also to Alison and Loretta who set up this display in the Toowoomba Library to assist with promotion of the event. (I failed to get a photos of the previous display last week.)

We have a wonderful array of quilts to exhibit and we look forward to seeing you in the TAFE building next week.

Every Picture Tells a Story

The annual retreat organised by Toowoomba Quilters Club Inc was held, again at Perseverance Dam, in early August 2009. This selection of photos taken over the weekend tells some of the stories.

Remember you can click on the photo to view a larger image.

Show and Tell

Thanks to Di for taking these photos at the last Saturday "Social Quilting" gathering.

Patricia's Mouse Housewives wall hanging.
Lyn's purple Stop the Recount quilt from a pattern by Debbie Caffrey.

Angela's Strings on Blue.
Rosemary's Flowers of Friendship.


The range of colours and designs that we see on these Show and Tell days is truly amazing!