Sunday 13 July 2014

NEW PROJECT FOR RETREAT

We have had an idea in our heads for a medallion quilt since we fell in love with the Marcelle Medallion quilt designed by Alexia Marcelle Abegg for her book Liberty Love. Ours has turned out quite a bit bigger & a bit more involved but we think that it offers a great opportunity to learn some great new techniques. The design is called 'About Town' & centres around four paper pieced houses & each layer builds a town around them


We have trees made from half rectangle triangles, houses with rooves made from flying geese blocks, butterflies & flowers using half square triangles, leaves & petals & finishing off with a brick path border. We even managed to squeeze in some cute envelopes in the corners.

Of course this all became very easy to do as Jemima discovered Bloc-loc rulers, a great little tool to ensure perfectly square HST & flying geese blocks that all line up perfectly when joining them. The beauty of a medallion is that you can build on it as much as you like simply by adding or reducing the number of borders. 


Now it may look all a bit tricky but honestly it is not at all - all it needs is patience at the cutting stage, as there is a lot and being well organised (but as Jemima will be there she will be on top of that for all of us!)

We will be running workshops on this quilt all weekend at our up coming retreat. Kits are available & can be made to your colour choice.


COMPLETED QUILT WITH ALL THE BORDERS
BLUE/ORANGE/GREEN COLOURWAY

BLUE/PINK/GREEN COLOURWAY


Nearly done . . . a few more borders to go or leave it at this size!


Thursday 26 June 2014

Sew Along Retreats for 2015 - What fun!




Following on from the fun we have had in the past few years with our Sew-Along Retreats at the beautiful Avalon Homestead in Toodyay, we have organised more for next year & we would love you join us! These events are planned to be a great opportunity to relax, unwind and get creative and if the past few years are anything to go by the weekends are always very productive with mountains of gorgeous projects completed by everyone.

ACCOMMODATION
All accommodation is twin share, all with their own ensuite facilities. Linen & towels are all provided so plenty more room in your suitcase for fabric!

MEALS
A buffet breakfast, cooked lunch and dinner are all provided for you. There is access to limitless tea and coffee during the day as well as a fridge should you wish to bring your own refreshments. You are welcome to BYO wine, beer and bubbly.

ON SITE EXTRAS
There is an on-site craft shop so don’t panic if you forget scissors, needles etc. The shop does also
have a small supply of fabric and wadding.

TO BOOK
We are always over subscribed for every retreat so in an effort to make it fair for everyone we will open bookings at 10am on friday July 25th. Submit your booking request by email or fill in the booking form found on our retreat page & email to Jemima on Friday July 25th. Unfortunately we cannot except any bookings prior to that date and time.

Bookings open at 10am on Friday July 25th and will be done on a first come first served basis.

You will find cost information & more details on our Retreat page here.

We look forward to you joining us in 2015

Jemima and Claire

If you are interest to see what we have been up to in previous years click on the link for Claires blog to see some recently posted photos.

Sunday 16 February 2014

2014 first weekend retreat is coming!

It has been a while since our last post but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy at the sewing machine.

The next Sew-Along retreat is just over a month away & we are busy getting everything organised for what should be a great weekend. We are thoroughly looking forward to catching up with some old friends as well as welcoming along some new faces, and we are definately looking forward to being looked after by Peter & Delveen at the Avalon Homestead in Toodyay - yay, no cooking for a whole weekend!

We have a few new patterns available for this retreat, for those of you you joining us all the shopping lists can be found on the drop down menus on the right side of the blog.

happy stitching!


confetti floor cushion


liberty chevron cushion


suger flower quilt


harlequin quilt