With the end of April comes the end of the Quilt Trail for 2011. As it is each year, it is a great time to go trailing with friends to visit 9 quilt stores within South East Queensland. On spending over $10 in a store we were given a piece of the pattern plus some fabrics for the Trail Quilt Project. This year's theme was Beach Party, and the pattern makes into a beach scene, with lots of applique and a little embroidery if that takes your fancy.
The patterns:
And below the patterns are my background fabrics and backing:
For the past 10 days I have squirreled myself away in my sewing room every spare moment to trace, press, cut and position the pieces of my beach scene. I am making it into a row by row quilt (king single size) for one of my grandsons. Now comes the fun part - stitching. It is looking really good, and colourful. We were given pieces of fossil fern fabrics in beautiful colours for the applique, to which I have added some beautiful batiks. I will be able to show the first strip soon.
Apart from that I came home with lots of other goodies:
The fabrics on the left are for this month's club project.
Got to love the Noddy fabric !!!
Some canvas fabric from the Pure range to make a bag.
And there were more bits and pieces to add to my stash and my pattern collection - but no pics of them yet.
Quilt Muster is at Clontarf on 29th May. Wonder if I will have the quilt made by then.
I am hoping this little guy, Sammy will get lots of enjoyment from the quilt when it is finished.
1 comment:
You have some nice fabrics there. What a great idea for the quilt trail- will be waiting to see the end result. Noddy just keeps on keeping on-it's funny how so many things we grew up with are still popular today!
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