Blue Willow Quilt

This is a sample square of the Blue Willow Quilt which we are presently working on for the end of 2009 raffle. The 20 patches have been distributed and I hope to have this quilt finished by end of July. Our youngest sewer is Harriet - my niece who is 13 years of age - go Hat!

The name of this quilt comes from a Liberty fabric called "Willow" which Liberty of London Prints Limited adapted from a William Morris design. This is one of three quilts that we will make this year. All three quilts will be smaller in size than last year's - finished size to be 1500 x 1250 which is perfect for a single bed or it can be used as a throw and fits long ways over a double or queen sized bed.

Please contact me Amanda Wilson after hours at home (03) 9889 4672, or on amanda@thewilson-s.com if you would like to be involved.

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Congratulations Ruth Lowen of Glen Iris. Ruth was telephoned last night after her ticket was drawn by Don and she was able to call into our house on her way home from dinner to pick-up the quilt.

By 8.30 pm last night all the tickets had been received and monies collected so I am able to confirm that we raised $1856.00 in total. A great effort for the 30 people who undertook to sell 900+ tickets! Most of this money is already with the Cancer Council Victoria.

Photos of the drawing of the raffle will be published on this blogsite shortly.

The sewing of our next quilt/s will start just before Easter 2009 so in the meantime, thank you to all those people who helped me work on the quilt, organize the raffle, got involved. Hope everyone has a relaxing and fun Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.

THANK YOU!

The following businesses have kindly allowed us to leave raffle tickets at their premises:
Somerset Patchwork & Quilting, 491 High Street Rd, Mt Waverley - they have beautiful fabrics and quilting supplies;
Ashburton Fish and Chips, 297 High Street, Ashburton - our regular fish &chip shop!
and from Burke Rd, Camberwell -
Camberwell Sewing Centre at No. 849 - from where the red border fabric was purchased;
Sew Quick at 933 on the corner, and
Biba Hairdressing No. 730
Dianne Lea Unisex Hair Salon, 2A Prospect Hill Road

A BIG THANK YOU !! from us.

we're at the market!

We are at the Camberwell Market for six sundays - 19/10, 26/10, 2/11, 9/11, 16/11, 23/11 - unless it is raining heavily! Thanks to The Rotary Club of Balwyn who fitted us in to sell tickets when they are completely booked out for the rest of the year!

THE FINAL QUILT

Yellow Flower Quilt shown on a double bed.

The Royal Melbourne Show 08

The quilts at the Royal Melbourne Show were absolutely beautiful - hope you got a chance to see them. I've been very inspired for our next quilt after seeing the work on show.
These photos are OK left small - but very blurred if you double click on them.

thanks to Barbara Ann, Jane, Deb, Deidre and Jill, we managed to do all the quilting in three weeks!

Basting The Quilt