My Red and White Quilt at the Show

I left Australia for France on the first day of this year Sydney Quilt Show, so missed out on  seeing my own quilt hung at the Show. This is the second time that I missed the opportunity since I started entering my quilt to the Sydney Quilt Show in 2011. It won't be the last time, so I have to get used to the idea of me not always being around locally while the Show is on.! My drop-off lady, Kaye Graham, and my SYD-SCQuilter fellow, Marianne Roberts, kindly took a few photos of my 'Winter Star Quilt' while it was on display at the Show. I am very grateful for the photos taken by both Kaye and Marianne.

 

The Quilters' Guild of NSW has 'Red and White Online Gallery' in its August 2015 e-Newsletter. My 'Winter Star Quilt' is on page 5. 

Nearly done....

Considering that I have been kept very busy with quilting for other lovely quilters, I'm pleased with the progress up to this point, knowing for sure that I will be able to enter my quilt to this year Sydney Quilt Show by the closing date in a week or so from now. :-)

I was actually trying to get the quilt top, my 'Winter Star Quilt', for the Show done yesterday, but spending time outside with good company and beautiful afternoon weather was hard to resist.... The quilt top is kind of done this evening and ready to be quilted - a quilting pattern has already been chosen.

  

I had to buy the backing fabric from Hawthorne Threads in the US after trying unsuccessfully to find fabric that I had in mind for the backing locally.

I know too well that it would take a lot longer to get the binding done after the quilting if I didn't have the binding ready to be attached to the quilted quilt. I like to handstitch the binding down on the back of the quilt and this step actually takes the longest time for me to complete a quilt.!

Happy Christmas and New Year 2015

Early December 2014, we travelled from our cosy home to places that I'm very much fond of after my first visit/stay almost two decades ago. A very happy white Christmas and New Year, and a lot of fun we did have in the snow land....

The trip has inspired me to start working on a red and white quilt, intended for this year (2015) Sydney Quilt Show's 'Red and White Quilt' Theme Category. I have chosen a variation of the classic 'Friendship Star' block, one of my favourites, as a pattern for the quilt. I put together the fabrics that I have collected from different places. It is a work in progress. When the quilt is done, its name will be 'Winter Star Quilt'....