And yet more from Flowerpatch exhibition 2023

 My final post about our Flowerpatch Ruby exhibition shows all the smaller wall quilts, etc.

Our Chairman's challenge this year was "Ruby Red" and there were lots of entries. This is a pic of them all -

Iris L excelled herself by making 4 small quilts - she had been inspired by a Flowerpatch evening meeting when we viewed the miniatures from the Quilters Guild Special Interest group. Other entries included wall quilts, cushions, a bottle bag and even a "Ruby Red" cow.

Pippa made two miniature quilts to exhibit. The first is "Spring Flowers" and uses hand dyed cottons.

The second is "Seminole Miniature" and for this Pippa used Liberty Tana Lawn fabrics as they are fine and cut down on the bulk in seams.

Pippa also made a Shibori Quilted Jacket having dyed the fabrics herself.

Karen's wall quilt is called "Lola Llama" - made for her grand-daughter and inspired by a Laura Heine pattern.

Iris M is continuing with her wall quilts representing the months

From left to right and top to bottom they are April - Easter, November - Fireworks, March - Spring Leaves and May - Maypole.

Lois sewed two pictures featuring houses. The first is "Cornwall"

and this is "Amsterdam Remembered".

Jennie used inktense pencils to create the first of her "Little Blue Bird"

and metallic fabric paint for the second.

Many of us made teddy bears this year as Jennie C had donated two huge rolls of fur fabric. I was completely out of my comfort zone with this, but found that I actually enjoyed it! Chris's instructions and tips were brilliant. I'm only sorry that I didn't get a better pic of them having their picnic.

Finally, at our October meeting we gave Children's Hospice South West a cheque for £1500 which was the money raised with our Ruby quilt raffle and sales at the exhibition, etc. Such a good charity to have supported. This is the link if you'd like to read more about them - CHSW

Thank you for reading and happy sewing

Anita x

More Quilts from Flowerpatch 2023

Here are some more quilts from Flowerpatch Quilters, August 2023, exhibition:

This is a very special quilt, made by Marie, for two reasons. It is her first quilt - and what a difficult pattern to be starting with! Also it is in memory of her Father who served in both the Merchant and Royal Navys. Well done, Marie.

Next we have two quilts by Elizabeth. The first is called "Something Blue"

and the second is "Rainbow Moments" - lots of scraps from 20+ years of quilting.

I complimented Elizabeth on her unusual whipped quilting in circles and she said that it was to hide the marking which she couldn't remove!! Now there's one to remember :)

This is Chris's "The Quilt the Grew" - she just couldn't bear to leave any of the cat panels out and the quilt "grew" to accommodate them all.

Here is Anita H's "Round Robin" quilt. she made the centre square and her friends sewed the borders. I love this soft green.

This is a quilt that we made for the Linus Charity. We started it at one of our Flowerpatch evening meetings by sewing the small circles divided into quarters. Once we had all these and the larger quarter circles I sewed the quilt together. I quilted along the seams by machine and around the circles by hand.

Next is Iris L's "Buds and Blooms" which is based on a design by Angela Attwood

and Margaret's "Hearts and Flowers" made for a grand-daughter and quilted by Sandy Chandler

These two are both made by Ruth. the first is a "Softly Falling Snow" - a pattern by Fi Bowman

and this is the "Alphabet Quilt" which is a pattern by Helen Godden and is painted using inktense pencils.

Finally two from Jo - "Zarafa" the giraffe who I just had to look up on Wikipedia having not heard of him before. It's a wonderful, true tale which you can read about with this link: Zarafa

and a medallion quilt "Regency Blues"

Two lovely quilts both beautifully quilted by Sandy Chandler.

More smaller sewing from the exhibition next time

Anita x