Raffle Winner

Congratulations

Kylie Thomas 

of Narre Warren

on winning our lovely Queen size quilt.

Teddy bear

Sonja loves appliqué. She found the picture of a teddy bear sleeping on a moon, enlarged it and copied it on to Vlisofix. In a box she found some different colored squares and put them together as the background for a charity quilt.  As the backing fabric she decided to sew rainbow colored fabrics in the diagonal together. The quilt was quilted on our frame in a star pattern.

Because Sonja liked the pattern a lot she just made an other two quilts for a few friends who going to have babies soon.

Sudoku- Quilt

Mary used colorful fabrics to make a Sudoku-Quilt, she quilted it on her domestic sewing machine. Looks great.

Days for Girls

We helped out in a community working bee for an international project called ‘Days for Girls’ to make sanitary supplies for the days of their menstruation. This means for girls that they miss out on school days every month and women can’t go to work and don’t receive an most needed income during this time.

This time it was for women’s and girls in East- Timor which is supported by a local lady. We used our sewing skills to make pads, shields and bags, that involved cutting fabrics, over locking, ‘normal sewing’ and packing ready to go bags.
If you like to find out more about the project go on to their web side

www.daysforgirls.org

Pinwheel Quilts

Made after a pattern from Marion Patterson.

Sonja chose some animal printed fabrics and combined it with bright colors. It is made out of 2 ½ inc strips. Aren’t those monkeys lock great? For the backing she joined strips in rainbow colors. One of the Kids at Monish might like it.

Because it was fun to do she decided to make an other charity Quilt. This time she chose purple, white, yellow, blue and spotty fabric and to make it a bit bigger she chose 3 inc stripes. She quilted it on a domestic machine with walking foot in a zigzag pattern. A girl might like it.

Lady bug

Sue B quilted one or our charity quilts on the frame. The top was donated to us so we just had to finish it of. The quilt comes with a bag and this time Sue appliquéd a beautiful lady bug on it, very cute.

Trucks

This quilt top was donated to us for our charity quilts. So Sonja did the quilting on the frame and finished it of. A little boy will be in haven around all this trucks.

Fund Raising Quilt Raffle

We are now raffling this beautiful quilt,  Funds raised will enable us to purchase fabric tool and learn new techniques so we can create more quilts for children with disabilities and cancer both locally and for Monash Children's Cancer Center Clayton.

Tickets are $2 each of 3 for $5

Drawn 21st November at the Mansfield Show at 4pm

A game of chess

Thinking of what’s the best thing to kill some time in a hospital Sonja came up with the idea of a chess quilt. The board was made quick and easy out of black and white fabrics. Then she appliquéd some figures on the quilt to make it look a bit fancier. the job wasn’t finished after quilting and binding some playing pads had to be made. Adding a few basic chess rules to the bag and a kid can start playing chess while having its treatment at the monish hospital.

Animal squares

This charity quilt was made by Sue G, she put together colorful animal printed fabrics.
It was stippled by an other member of our group.

Shoulder Bag

This bag was made by Roslyn. She sewed some small triangle pieces on special bag interfacing by using a zig-zag stitch, then to she sewed some black ribbon on top of the zig -zag stitching. A
pair or leather handles finished a great bag.

Pink and red Quilt

 Robyn made a Quilt for her daughter. It’s made out of black, red and pink strips. It looks absolutely beautiful.

Bangello Quilt

Nina tackled a Quilt made out of lots of little squares. It just looks great.

Dinosaur Time

This is a Charity Quilt made and quilted by Merran. A kid will like the Dinosaur and the Jungle theme at the back.

 

Batik Quilt

This Quilt is made by Robin  and lives on her bed. She used  batik colored fabrics.

My first Quilt

This is Elis very first Quilt. She wasn’t scared to tackle a King size Quilt and quilt it on the frame. Supper!

Drunkards Path

Sonja used the Drunkards Path to make a table runner.

Pastel hearts

Eli’s first quilting on the frame. After a few “upsies” it went really well.
 Good job!

3D illusion in Essendon Colors

                                                     Kathy made this stunning 3D Quilt.

Vintage Quilt

Robyn made this lovely Charity Quilt ,she introduced some laces in to the pattern. As a backing she used

big colorful blocks.

Enjoy a game of Cricket

It’s soon time for some Australian Cricket. This quilt was perfect to try some Kangaroo quilting.

Bags for our Quilts

All our Charity Kids Quilts come with a bag. Here are a few examples.

Windsurfers

It’s windy !

 Surf’s up!

This is one of our charity Kids Quilts, it is made out of a blue Jelly roll. Then some  Windsurfers were appliquéd. To make the Quilt reversible a Formula 1 theme was chosen for the backing. 

Dinosaur quilt

Nina has made this beautiful quilt.

Purple Heart Quilt

Merran  practiced her quilting on a Charity Quilt, well done !

Star Quilt

                                          Robyn mad a Kids Quilt in rainbow colors.

Quilting is back for 2015

We are back at quilting for 2015

Where:  We meet at the Craft Room at the rear of the Mansfield Men’s Community Shed

Day Group:   Tuesdays 10 am – 2 pm
 

       Night Group: Tuesday evening’s 4 pm – 8 pm School terms 1 & 4.    Terms  2 & 3   Weekends by mutual arrangement by the group.

We are all keen to start our charity quilts again.

Jelly roll Quilt

Ruth won a jelly roll in our last years exhibition challenge. So she tackled it and turned it in a beautiful charity quilt.

Roslyn quilted this great boys quilt

Sue R made this quilt late last year and Roslyn was keen to quilt it on the frame.  It was Roslyn's first time quilting on the frame and she did a wonderful job.