The Quilts are all Quilted!

Thank-you to everyone who helped quilt the three quilts! We spent all weekend sewing and finally we are all done and ready for the raffle night on Monday 18th of October!

On the Crafty Ladies & Gents Quilt we simply sewed around each patch creating 25 square boarders of stitching. We used pink embroidery thread to knot each corner of each square on the Heart Quilt, we tied them off at the back to create a little pink pattern of tassels. For the Triangle Quilt we found a diamond pattern within in the triangle design on the front of the quilt, we have quilted this pattern creating a traditional quilted look on the back of the quilt.

I think they look great and am so proud of all my little sewing angels! A special thanks to Mum, Alice & Emily! Look at what an amazing job they have all done..

Back of the Crafty Ladies & Gents Quilt

The Back of the Heart Quilt

Back of the Triangle Quilt

Crafty Lady #22 - Carmel McKie

Next up on the bio roll is the very gorgeous Carmel McKie, Craft Victoria Retail Manager. She is the main reason behind why the CV shop Counter is filled with so many beautiful bits and pieces. I have always known that Carmel has a sharp eye for design, amazingness & beauty. BUT when I received her patch I found out she is also just as great at creating design, amazingness & beauty, a whole patch of it!

Patch by Carmel McKie

This is Carmel's patch above. Oh my goodness i could stare at it all day. If you can't see the detail in the photo (you'll just have to come to the raffle night! haha just kidding, i think if you click on the photo it will open up bigger) she has sewn the most lovely little patterns in the panels of colour within her patch. Its so beautiful thanks Carmel!! 

Carmel's Insert Coin Here necklace

Carmel was also involved in Insert Coin Here and made the most beautiful necklaces to fill her pods. See the photo above. Oh! and if you go visit her in the CV shop soon she might still be wearing one of her own hand knitted scarves, featuring the very beautiful moss stitch (which I am yet to try myself)! But you better hurry up, as the sun is coming out more often then not these days! What a crafty lady, i'm so excited we have a piece of her talent in our quilt!

Crafty Lady #21 - Anita Cummins

I have another very talented and lovely crafty lady who gave up her precious time to sew a patch for PP. Her name is Anita Cummins and among many other pretty endeavors, she is the Craft Victoria Assistant Retail Manager.

Patch by Anita Cummins

Anita is also a very talented textile maker/creator/designer. I was so excited to discover that her gorgeous patch she sewed for PP was made from fabric she designed and printed herself! Wow! So much love in a 30cm square! You can see from the image of her patch above that she cleverly integrated the PP fabric into her design by sewing on little triangles that fit perfectly into her fabric pattern. She has also embroidered little circles with pretty coloured thread, creating lovely little soft textures.

In June last year Anita had her first solo exhibition called Pantone Pom Pom at Mailbox 141. I adored her beautiful idea of filling each of the mail boxes with different Pantone coloured pom poms. I think she made around 700 pom poms!! That is a lot of prettiness in such a tiny space! There is a really great interview on Anita and her exhibition over at the CV blog. You can read it here. Thank you CV for the photos. 

Photos above are from Anita's exhibition Pantone Pom Pom at Mailbox 141.

Anita also knits the most stunning scarves which are for sale at CV. She has and eye and knack for knitting, i remember her showing me a baby blanket she was knitting for her brothers new little bub. Oh my goodness her tension was beyond perfect, not to mention the pattern she was knitting, not one mistake in sight. wow! Thanks Anita for your beautiful patch! x 

The Crafty Ladies & Gents Quilt

As promised, here is the final sewn together Crafty Ladies & Gents Quilt! My gorgeous cousin Alice and beautiful mother Amanda and I have been madly cutting, arranging, sewing and finishing off the quilt this week.

Today Alice and I will be sewing on the back (scroll down to see the backing fabric) and batting. Tomorrow mum will help us sew on the edging, which will be a thin strip of the striped backing fabric sewn diagonally to create a candy stripe/air mail envelope edge. We have used little squares of the backing fabric in the corners of each border, hopefully it all ties nicely together. Then we will get to quilting around each square. Such a big job, but we are nearly there!

Thank-you to all our seamstresses who came to Tuesday night sewing group. You were so great and we couldn't have gotten this far without you. Thank-you to all the ticket purchases! They are still rolling in gracefully. AND we have another absolutely gorgeous donated prize which I will announce on Monday.

I hope you all have a really great weekend, whatever it may bring.

 

Sixth Prize! Donated by Pink Snow Flakes!

And we thought this raffle couldn't get any better! The lovely Laura Mah, seamstress behind the absolutely gorgeous Pink Snow Flakes handmade toys, has donated the very beautiful and very soft Velvet Verity the Owl to be our sixth prize at the Project Patchwork raffle night! Wow!

As Verity's babysitter until the raffle night, I have become a little attached. She looks just so lovely amongst my cushions, but I know she will find a comfortable happy new home where she can make a nest amongst a new cluster of cushions. Laura makes such beautiful toys, have a look at her website here for photos of some of her other creations. Oh my goodness! Laura, thank-you so much for donating Verity, she is absolutely stunning and a ticket seller for sure. Thanks also, for the kind mention on your blog. What a happy Monday! x

Crafty Lady #20 - Nella Themelios

Here is the final patch!! Sewn by the very talented and lovely Nella Themelios, coordinating curator at Craft Victoria. Such bright and pretty colours, in such cool geometric shapes. The hot pink piece is even made out of lycra!! Nellas patch is the sprinkles on the cake/our quilt.

Nella is such a busy girl, curating exhibiton after exhibition at CV, yet still managing to find time to curate shows in her personal time. Insert Coin Here was one show Nella and Kim Brockett curated earlier this year, which was a cute travelling exhibition held in vending machines filled with many talented arstist capsules. You have to read more about it here.

Another recent exhibition Nella co-curated was The Sound Project. An exhibition series of performances of experimental instruments which was held at fortyfivedownstairs in July. Pretty amazing looking instruments! I can only imagine what they may have sounded like... super sonic!

Nella is one talented young lady and I feel so lucky to have her sewing a patch for our quilt!! Scroll down to see the complete quilt mock-up!

 Patch by Nella Themelious

The Crafty Ladies & Gents Quilt

Now, this may or may not be the layout the quilt will finally be in. Alice Jones and I have been working really hard this week sewing together the Crafty Ladies & Gents quilt. We have added little linen boarders around each patch and chosen a really lovely striped fabric for the back to tie it all together. Photos of our progress will be up tomorrow!

My Patch

I have been working hard on my patch this weekend. Finally! So, here it is!

Patch by Lizzy Wilson