My 4 days retreat & FNSI

I have had a great 4 days away with 31 other women.... The Kilmore Quilters were on retreat at CAMP TOOLANGI. The company was great as was the weather. The food was amazing and there was plenty of it....
So my FNSI started a day early and finished on Sunday.... How fantastic.
It was very successful... I got 4 quilt tops finished and a small quilt quilted and bound...
I still haven't got a photo of the 4th quilt top I finished. It was the Spring Row by Row SAL with Deana over at         http://dodmystery.blogspot.com.au
Clearer photos will be shown when I have finished them completely...

My spring quilt

My Australiana quilt

WILL BE FOR AN AUSSIE HERO

Americana/Australiana row QAL
http://dodmystery.blogspot.com.au

Have a look at when I started this quilt..October 2014
Glad it's finally a finish.

http://jobutterfield.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/fnsimy-test-pattern-quilt.html
http://thecolorfulfabriholic.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/successful-pattern-test.html
http://thecolorfulfabriholic.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/plus-dash-tutorial-draft-pattern.html

Completed small quilt, trellis quilt by Andrea,
 Australiana quilt, curve quilt. 

FNSI

4 day retreat with friends PART 2

To continue with more sewing....

I was able to get another 7 Wonky stars blocks done to add to the collection.

I now have a total of  34 blocks out of the 48 I need.

Can't wait for the next month to start then we can get a new colour from Angela over at Soscrappy 

We also had one of our members, Andrea, show how to make the 3d Bow Tie block. Quite a few ladies worked on these for the weekend.

I also worked on my Xmas in July Swap projects. I can't show you full pictures yet but here is a sample. I manage to get 1 finished, another ones machining done & the 3rd cut out and started.

Here  is all my little squares put together with more to come.

There is a nice range of fabrics that look great together. 

A close up of some corners.

What is it?  Mmmmmmmmmmm

Then I have something with embellished stars

4 Day Retreat with friends part 1

I was lucky enough to go away with my local quilt group, Kilmore Quilters last weekend. Our 4 day retreat was to the Alpine Ash retreat at Toolangi. We had a great time with lots of laughter and fun, of course, some sewing too.

This is what I got up to.....

 

5 BLANKETS OF LOVE  for CHERYLL

Another jigsaw puzzle quilt for the boys. This one is a little different. I ran out of some larger fabric and was left with smaller pieces. So I decided to cut some 6" squares and fit them into a 12" to give a different look.

 And of course we visited The Patchwork Teahouse in Warburton for lunch and shopping.

We also had Anna's Patchwork Quilt shop from Taggerty visit us