Jelly roll challenge

Ruth tackled our first Charity quilt of the year. She chose to sew a jelly roll together in no particular order. For the quilting she chose to run a line in the ditch.
The black outlining just finishes of a beautiful picture. The secret pocket at the back can be used for secrets…

Quilting Return for 2016

We are back quilting.

Tuesday 12th January at 10 am

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.