Inspirations from Linda Steele at melbourne quilt Show

Lucky for me Linda Steele was the profiled quilter at Vic quilter's showcase this year!
Enjoy!

Ballarat Icon Challange

The current project is for my local patchwork group. I drew from the lucky envelope the theme Miner's cottage, and decided to use crazy patchwork as the medium to interpret this for my Icon quilt. How naive I was! I had no idea where it was going to take me!
After reading and researching, buying and a class with Judith Baker Montanno at Houston festival last November, I finally started

I like to challenge myself, so I chose to use jewel bright colours. Then I started to embellish.
The first unveiling is this Saturday. More later. love Karen

Walk America

See the new button to the right, click on it to go the the blog site at Tallgrass Praire Studio. I am going to cyber walk across the USA to improve my fitness. anyone care to join me?

Yesterday's achievements and Todays challenges?

I did manage to get some work done on those cream crazy patchwork blocks and 2 were sent off in the post yesterday afternoon along with the 1940's atc's. These 2 blocks are for Phyl and Margret. I embroidered their initial in the center, but cream does not show up well!

     Today is a wonderful Ballarat day for winter, sunny, little wind, but still cold., so today like alot of other people who live in my town will be spent filling up this!

This is the week to catch up on everything!

Today I managed to finish my 1940's past decades ATC's ready to post off first thing tomorrow.  I chose Vivian Bullwinkle to represent the best of the 1940's decade. Tonight I will working on my cream crazy patch blocks, hopefully I can finish another one so that I can post off more than ATC's in the morning.

Ballarat Quilter's with entries in Vic Quilter's Showcase 2011, some of them!

 This is Dawn and I infront of Neil Chisholm's quilt.  One of his civil war series.

 This is Janice Perry's japanese quilt, she is one of my favorite members!  Suzanne's eagle quilt is the one that you can glimpse the borders on.  I am so dissapointed that I cannot show you it!

 Jenny Bacon's minature view of her trip to Japan and what she noticed on a temple gate. And lastly our beloved quilt president's quilt based on what she sees from her window, I am sure that Trish was estatitic to see her quilt in showcase.

Melbourne Quilt Show 2011

See for yourself, the quilts that I found lovely at this years show.

I had a great time shopping and viewing.  I have included some photo's of the entrants who are members of Ballarat Quilter's but unfortunately did not get a good shot of Suzanne Lyle's eagle quilt.  New camera equals blurry images.  Lucky for me Linda Steele was the profiled quilter! The Internet wowser has just returned home so I will have to post more later.