January and February items from students patchwork

Vivienne has made this bag and it is bigger but similar to the small marble bags we made before Christmas.

Leza has made this memory quilt using her past husbands shirts. Sue from Quiltessense has made a super job with her long arm quilting pattern.

Sharron made this quilt started at the equilateral triangle workshop.

Jayne has made this pretty pink cot quilt. The strips did not take long to make but the hand quilting took longer.

What a lovely cushion. The worry is I can not remember who made it. Please give me a clue.

Was it Margaret? Lyn has made her first bed quilt and its really well made.

Andrea waited for January to prepare this bowl ready for christmas. She blames it on the snow.

Margaret had fun with this kaleidiscope quilt. Not the easiest pattern to follow.

Elsie made this lovely bag. She should be very proud of it.

Jenny has made this delactable mountains lap quilt.

Prairie Braids workshop 29th Jan

Carol chose similar colours as Rory and the braids worked really well.

Sharron made this braid but the green was not strong enough and distracted the lovely patterned materials.

Rory started on this braid at the workshop and soon you will see her finished quilt.

This is Sharrons secon braid without the green and looks really good now. Its worth changing it before you do too much.

Lyn chose these lilac colours and we need to see more soon.

Margaret really liked the idea of making a bed quilt with her materials and is going to make 10 braids to make the whole quilt with different centre squares.

Betty went bright this time andsince the day she has changed this by removing the bright blue and turquiose and using the flowered materials instead. betty was so pleased with the change there are now 5 braids and soon they will be joined.

This is the sample for the Prairie Braids workshop. It can be simplified if you ignore the black and that is an option.

Crazy wedges workshop

My samples for inspiration for the Crazy wedges workshop. None of these were finished items but possibilities for future ideas.

Carol chose purple for her wedges.

Estelle matched her materials with some of Marion Jacques salmon pink material.

Mary's is on the left and Gill's on the right.

Betty used a pale where I had used black and it worked out well.

December 2011 Class Items

Here are some of the students bags. There are many more that were made during the last few years.

Suzanne has made this for her daughter.

Val has made loads of bags and this Christmas tree.

Jean had some super material which have turned into a pair of cushions.

Linda has made up this super Christmas runner with some foundation pieced trees.

Janet showing Jan her finished quilt. It had just been returned from Sue Quiltessence and a lovely job was done.

Jan also had her brown quilt long arm quilted by Sue. The students are really pleased with the result.

Jan also made this crazy quilt and had Sue quilt it. Its so colourful.

Dawn made this small bag having been encouraged by Val.

Ah! Snow can make the garden look magic but where were the students. Whoops our road was really bad.

Thursday 2nd December.

November 2011 class items

Rory has made a bowl one Thursday Afternoon

Linda joined Rory in bowl making

Linda has also finished a second bag

Rory has finished this log cabin. The blocks were small so a good finished item. Rory found the Janome 1/4" foot was not 1/4" so has adapted hers.

Jacky is a happy person as this quilt was started about 20 years ago and now it is finished after hours of hand quilting.

Dawn has finished her bag. I am sure she was happy to finish it.

Dawn's bag was a challenge for a teddy bear expert but it got there.

Stars and stripes crazy squares turned into 2 cushions.

November 2011

Jean has finished this large double quilt

Mags has finished this Penquin quilt

Mags has made this bag although it was intended to be a wall hanging