I’m off to “Quilt Camp” at the end of month and participants are encouraged to make a quilt for a children’s charity organisation. So here is my contribution:
Chartreuse Liz – the Queen in Green
Today was another day in the city processing quilt show entry forms. I didn’t get to see Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II while she was in town – she was too busy at official openings and Commonwealth Day church services to assist me. However, David is one of HM’s greatest fans and he recorded one […]
Bubbling Along
The celebration quilt commission is coming along nicely. I have now appliqued all of the “champagne bubbles” onto the outback palette background and have joined together the background blocks. Being blue tones, the “bubbles” look more like floating clouds but this outcome is quite serendipitous as the clients operate an air charter business and are […]
Secretary Daze
It’s been a little quiet on the quilting front lately as I have spent 5 intense days out of the last two weeks processing entries for the Sydney Quilt Show – a members exhibition of The Quilters Guild of NSW Inc. Yet again, we have received a record number of entries (350+) across all categories […]
My Treasure Drawer
As a child, at the instigation of my mother, I had something called a “treasure drawer” – a special place to keep all those little trinkets and mementos and drawings that often accumulate. An important feature of the “treasure drawer” was that I was the sole curator of its contents. I knew that anything I […]
Caught
Today was the closing day for entries to the Sydney Quilt Show so I am off to Sydney for a couple of days to process the entries that have been received and to attend a committee meeting. (I am Exhibition Secretary of The Quilters’ Guild of NSW Inc.) While I am gone, I thought I […]