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Old October 21st 13, 05:32 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Patricia Storey
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I went to a local quilt show yesterday and had a lovely morning. The
group has a biennial show and they always manage to produce a hall full
of very high standard quilts. One of their members is Liz Jones, who
regularly shows at Houston. Her work is always amazing. It is
interesting how many different 'looks' she can make, while using the
same technique. They always have at least one challenge. This time
there were two (which we visitors can vote on). The A4 challenge this
year was 'The seasons'; the second one was a 'scrap' challenge. The
scrap challenge was amazing. One exhibit had nearly 300 different
fabrics! A Christmas themed one, that I particularly liked, was really
beautiful. The creator had used many fabrics with large seasonal
motifs, so it didn't really give the impression of a scrappy quilt;
though, when you looked carefully, it most certainly was. The use of
large print appliqué was inspiring. One of the others that was a toss-
up for my vote was very clever. She had used masses of different
prints, in a row style. Each row was a different pattern. So, not only
did she have different fabrics, but also different patterns. There were
about a dozen rows (varying widths, too).
The cushion, bag and other small items table was full of amazing things
as always.
My friend and I had a really enjoyable morning, thanks to our
neighbouring town's group.

What have you seen lately that impressed or entertained you?

Pat on the green
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Old October 22nd 13, 02:29 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Taria
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there is a homemade lemon meringue pie in my fridge right now
Pat. That is about as entertained as I have been lately.
You show sounds like it was wonderful. I need to go look
Liz Jones up.
Thx for sharing, Taria

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I went to a local quilt show yesterday and had a lovely morning. The
group has a biennial show and they always manage to produce a hall full
of very high standard quilts. One of their members is Liz Jones, who
regularly shows at Houston. Her work is always amazing. It is
interesting how many different 'looks' she can make, while using the
same technique. They always have at least one challenge. This time
there were two (which we visitors can vote on). The A4 challenge this
year was 'The seasons'; the second one was a 'scrap' challenge. The
scrap challenge was amazing. One exhibit had nearly 300 different
fabrics! A Christmas themed one, that I particularly liked, was really
beautiful. The creator had used many fabrics with large seasonal
motifs, so it didn't really give the impression of a scrappy quilt;
though, when you looked carefully, it most certainly was. The use of
large print appliqué was inspiring. One of the others that was a toss-
up for my vote was very clever. She had used masses of different
prints, in a row style. Each row was a different pattern. So, not only
did she have different fabrics, but also different patterns. There were
about a dozen rows (varying widths, too).
The cushion, bag and other small items table was full of amazing things
as always.
My friend and I had a really enjoyable morning, thanks to our
neighbouring town's group.

What have you seen lately that impressed or entertained you?

Pat on the green

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Old October 22nd 13, 03:54 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Polly Esther[_5_]
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I think my favorite event at a quilt show was where they made 6 Irish chain
quilts - just small ones. Then they had 6 members of the guild quilt them
using different methods. I was charmed. Amazed. Delighted to see what a
difference each manner of quilting made. NOT that I'm going to try the
experiment myself, mind you. Polly

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Old October 30th 13, 07:55 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Tutu Haynes-Smart[_2_]
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What have you seen lately that impressed or entertained you?

Pat on the green


Hello all

Haven't really seen or done anything quilty for what seems ages! (But am
going to my guild's quarterly meeting on saturday so maybe will see
something there).

My excuses? Myriad (well, I think so anyway).

My husband has had health issues for the past couple of years so we
decided to do the BIG move and get out of the old family home where we
had lived for a nearly a quarter of a century. Oh gosh, the packing and
chucking (the latter of which we didn't do half enough of). Anyway, that
all happened in May and June (we were also doing the transfer of the
property as well, so weren't able to leave that to the lawyers!!) and we
are now in rented accommodation. Even that is not as settled as we had
hoped. Having been offered a long-term rental, our landlord who was
living in a small part of the house, upped and died after we had been
here for 6 weeks or so, and now his heirs want to sell. We'll see what
happens about that!

Eddie has been spending his time finishing off his thriller which we are
putting up on Amazon very soon - that little operation has taken up
quite a bit of time and taken me into the murky depths of HTML and so on.

Anyway, perhaps this will kick off a "catch-up" thread here - that would
be nice.

In the meantime, best wishes to all:-)

Cheers for now
Tutu
Cape Town, South Africa



What have you seen lately that impressed or entertained you?

Pat on the green

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Old November 30th 13, 11:32 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
amy in SoCal
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Your show experience sounds wonderful. I did get the chance this summer to go to the Quilt show in Long Beach (CA). It was just overwhelming. Some of the quilts were spectactular! I did get to "test drive" some new machines and of course, buy tons of fabric and a few notions.
I also found a used sewing desk. I have been unable to sew as I did not have anywhere to put my sewing machine! So now I am happily back to quilting.
Other life and work things interfere with that, but most are happy things. My big news is that I will be a first time Gramma in January! It's a girl and everyone is thrilled!
Hope everyone here is doing well and happily quilting!
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Old December 22nd 13, 11:23 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Jo Pender[_2_]
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I have fallen into English paper piecing scrap quilts. My sewing room is covered in small hexagons and diamonds, about 1000 to date, and I don't seem to have dented the scrap stash yet! I just need to finish some time sensitive projects, then the fun begins of trying to make them look like a quilt.. I can't wait.
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Old December 24th 13, 01:56 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Jo Pender[_2_]
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Sounds like fun, what kind of shapes?
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Old December 24th 13, 11:07 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Jo Pender[_2_]
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Yes, that's me, though I'm not in Malvern any more. We moved to Banbury last year. A change of job can work miracles! Is there still an RCTQ meet up at the Malvern show? I didn't go last year, I was job and then house-hunting. Glad to see there are some familiar faces still here
 




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