S. O. S – Double Bed Size Quilts Wanted Urgently

Dear Members and friends,

Our community quilting group is putting together a parcel of quilts for the St George flood relief. The people of St George had had one flood after the other in the past couple of years,  and many have lost valuable possessions.

We need approximately 15 –20 double size quilts.  We have already made some smaller and single size quilts and they are ready to go, but we urgently need the bigger size.

If you can help us out in this regard, please email to our community group leader, Lyle,  at

toowoombaquiltersclub@hotmail.com

Your support would be most appreciated.

Strings Attached

During the month of March, each Tuesday, our string quilts lady Angela is instructing some of the members on making their own string quilts.

We all have lots of scraps and these can be cut into strips from about 1 1/4 “ and 2 1/2 “ wide to make up these fabulous and colourful string quilts. Angela has put together some interesting patterns for the ladies to follow.

 

Some lovely samples from Angela hanging behind the ladies to inspire them.

A bright and cheerful string top completed by Marleen K.

We have had some more show and tell hanging on the club walls lately.

“Jaffa” by Marilyn C. 

Glenda T with her little Japanese lady wall hanging.

Another expertly made quilt by Marilyn C.

New member, Vicki L, brought in this stunning butterfly quilt which her 25 year old son quilted on a long arm machine.  You can see the lovely quilting work on this close up of the butterfly.  Well done!! 

Lorelle C has made this lovely quilt for her grandson.  Lucky boy!

Dianne S made both of these wonderful children’s quilts.

Recent Show & Tell

More community quilts have been completed by our hard working ladies.  It is good to have a ‘stockpile’ of quilts on hand for any future worthy recipients.

Members busy at work on the community quilts.

A work in progress.

This is a delightful quilt which would be very suitable for a little boy.

Members, Leanne B pieced and quilted this lively community quilt.  Thank you Leanne.

Fabrics for this quilt were donated by the lovely ladies, Sue and Colleen of “Indigo Niche” and the quilt was made by Dot C and quilted by Angela Langdon.

Once again, fabrics from “Indigo Niche” and the quilt was made by Fay S in this wonderful lattice pattern.

Lyle with the star quilt finally completed.  This quilt top was donated to the club by a Toowoomba resident during the floods of 2011.

Angela has quilted it for us in a delightful star pattern.

Fabrics from “Indigo Niche”.  Quilt made by Vida Glenn and Fay Suley.

Community Quilt made by Sue S and Colleen L and quilted by Angela Langdon.

This colourful string quilt was made by Lyle Y.   She has called it “Wish upon a Star”, and saw the pattern as she browsed the internet.

This quilt is a Monica Poole pattern and was made by Lyn L after completing a workshop with Monica.

Joan B had lots of sashiko pieces left over after her Sashiko workshop with Indigo Niche so she has made up another delightful quilt.

Work continues on our Raffle Quilt for 2012. 

These bright and cheerful placemats would brighten up any kitchen table.  Made by Marleen K. 

Bag of Stuff

The Toowoomba Quilter’s Art Quilt Group meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month.  It has turned into a very proactive lively group.

This past Saturday some members of the group exchanged a “Bag of Stuff”.

The bags were numbered and then each person drew out a number and received the corresponding bag.

Now the member will make a small art quilt no bigger than 20 inches on each side and the resulting quilt will go back to the original owner of the bag.

There were some very interesting contents!!

Next month the group will be playing with some washable solvy and trapping threads.  Other workshops are being organized for the rest of the year.

Community Quilting–Full Steam Ahead

There have been some finishes on the community quilts and the ladies have been busy working on getting some stock together.

Our friends west of us may be in need of some quilts in the coming winter months after the devastating floods they have experienced in the past couple of weeks.

Some cute little motifs put together in a log cabin style.  This would be perfect for a little girl.  One of the members will now put the layers together and quilt it.

All of the fabrics in this quilt have been kindly donated by members and it has been beautifully quilted by Fay.  Dianne C is finishing the binding off on it.

This gorgeous little bunny quilt will be ideal for a little tot.

Fay and Helen busily working on the charity quilts.

Thank you to all the members who are giving their time and material so generously to the community quilts.

June is happily working on the paper pieced Reflections quilt for our 2012 raffle quilt.

Here is Joan R with her magnificent hand pieced Tumbling Blocks quilt.  It took Joan some 3 –4 years to complete this quilt.

She had beautifully machine quilted it herself (see below)

Bravo Joan!!!

Heather R also had some show and tell for us..

Firstly, this sweet stitchery quilt.  The stitcheries are from Julie Lovell’s “Sweet Inspiration” designs.

Very cute designs!

The second quilt was a Lady Bug quilt.  Heather did this quilt from one of our books or magazines out of our library but can’t remember which one??

Lovely work, Heather.

This is “Lady Jolene” with her maker, Lyn L.  Lyn does some very cute dolls and this one is from a design by Jill Maas.

Looks like 2012 is going to be the year of mass production at TQ. 

Happy quilting……..