I've been a little bit fancy with making quilt labels lately. I received the embroidery attachment for my Bernina 570QE from a former student and have been playing around with making quilt labels. I'm quite slack in labelling my quilts, but these have been a little bit of fun.
Hexamondo is a magazine commission quilt, which I will share next year once it's published.
Wayward is my Winding Ways quilt in blues and lights, quilted in orange
Bigs & Smalls has been around for a couple of years now and it spent a while hanging in the classroom of the store where I worked.
It's been a couple of months now since the quilt store where I worked, closed. It had been open for over 20 years and servicing the local community. It was a shock when we were advised of it's imminent closure as the store was doing fine, but the shopping centre in which we were housed, didn't renew the lease and went in a different direction. From the rumours I've since heard, a medical centre will be going in to the space. The owners decided that rather than look for a new space to move to, they'd close the shop (they have multiple other locations around the country). Oh well. As the owner said on the day that he came down to tell the staff (the ones which were on duty that day - me included) "all good things must come to an end."
I've since joined a number of regular quilt groups and am enjoying my early "retirement". I still get to talk about quilts and fabric and be inspired what everyone is making and planning.
Now speaking of inspiring, a couple of weeks back, some of us ex-staff when up to the Sydney Quilt Show together. It was such a fun outing. We bought a few bits and pieces and saw a lot of absolutely beautiful quilts. Here are a few of my favourites.
Abundance by Susanne Cody (below) was my favourite quilt at the show.
I was surprised that it didn't win any awards.
I voted for this one as my Viewers Choice and hope the maker received votes.
It's a scrappy stunner with lots of bright fabrics and beautiful big stitch hand quilting.
Wash away the Blues by Tania Tant was also a stand out.
It was a very small quilt with a lot of delicious stitchy texture.
Slow Stitchin Gustav Klimt by Bob James is another beautiful textural quilt.
I'm a sucker for a dimply quilt.
And you can't go to a quilt show and not buy a few little bits and pieces, can you? Here is my very restrained little stash of goodies. Some new patterns, a new clamshell stamp and fabric, of course.
I love your quilt labels. I have just ordered the Boardwalk quilt pattern too.
ReplyDeleteYay! It looks like it'll be a wonderful scrap-busting quilt.
DeleteLove those labels. And thanks for sharing the highlights of the show.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Lou. They’re fun to make and a good thing to do when the inspiration isn’t there for anything else.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm sure sorry to hear that "your" quilt shop closed. What a surprise for you, yet an opportunity for other, fun, quiltmaking activities. I'm glad you've joined a guild (or two). No doubt you remain as busy at sewing and quilting. How nice to have been gifted an embroidery machine for your Bernina! I've never used one, but also never really wanted one. It's great that you're labeling your quilts - a very important thing to do! How lovely to attend the quilt show in Sydney. I appreciated seeing the quilts you most enjoyed viewing. I am predicting, right now, that we will see Tania Tanti's quilt at QuiltCon (the Modern Quilt Guild show) in Atlanta, next February. Any bet-takers? :-) Keep enjoying yourself, and putting your free time into fun activities!
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