Orpington Quilters
Show 'n Tell 2022
In November, a few members showed their creations from the Face project that Jennifer led at the October meeting,
By Karen
By Jenny
By Chris
By Jennifer
Also, the following pieces were displayed........
Karen made this lovely example of quilt-as-you-go hexagons from Daisy and Grace. It was created in response to a "Give Us a Clue" Challenge, and of course it was the Bee Movie!
Penny presented these two beautiful Kaleidoscope quilts, also know as the Stack and Whack technique. She was told they were too difficult, so obviously she had to have a go!
Chris has been busy making these two quilts for Afghan refugees, and the incubator quilt below.
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At the October meeting, some members presented quilts made from scraps, following the previous month's talk from Pamela Egan-Wyer on Scraps and Stash......
Diane has been as busy as ever, firstly showing a Block of the Month Quilt above and then the front and reverse of a quilt she made for a carers group on the right.
These beautiful table runners were created in a foundation paper piecing project by the Colour Wheel group.
By Yvonne Stafford.
By Diane Brown.
These are mats made by Yvonne Stafford from Daisy and Grace templates.
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In September the below items were presented.......
Chris showed these three lovely incubator quilts, destined for Kings College Hospital.
And Susan, a new member of the group, presented a quilt made of her grandson's old t-shirts. It came as a request from her daughter as a present for his 18th birthday. This gift was very cleverly put together and Susan added her own contribution with advice for a young man coming of age on the reverse. Such a brilliant idea and beautifully executed!
Although not actually shown off this month, Yvonne Stafford did submit this picture of a cushion she had made for her daughter's friend.
It is a Delphine Brooke's pattern made into a 22" square cushion.
I love his cheeky smile!
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These lovely items were presented at our August meeting.....
Here are just a few examples of the catheter bags for children made by various group members following a request from Great Ormond Street Hospital. Over 200 bags were finally despatched this week
Norma presented this beautiful ceremonial Japanese rice bag, known as a Komebukuro. It is a cotton drawstring bag that was used to carry offerings of rice to Japanese temples or shrines. The word literally means rice (Kome) - bag (bukuro).
This lovely quilt was recently completed by Diane from a Canadian Quilters Guild block-of-the-week a few years ago. Coincidently, she is taking it back to Canada next week as a wedding present to a couple in Vancouver.
Carole and Mags ran a workshop on creating a Hunters Star Quilt and here are two examples from our two Yvonnes!
from Yvonne Stafford
from Yvonne Seymour
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In July, there were some rather lovely quilts presented.
Anna was first up, with a quilt started at a class with MC Quilters from many years ago, finished at last!
Sue then showed a quilt she had made for her new grandson. The pattern came from Kids Quilts in New Zealand. It is made up of bondawebbed pieces with hand blanket stitching and hand quilting around the shapes and machine quilting on the borders.
Diane finally completed this beautiful Linus quilt of blocks and handed it over to Norma for distribution.
Norma showed this Carolyn Forster quilt that she started years ago. Still a work in progress but Norma had hoped to finish it in time for tonight's talk from Carolyn.
Robbie made this lovely incubator quilt, which she then handed over to Norma.
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In June's meeting, Jennifer and Yvonne showed their latest completed pieces.
Jennifer made this wonderful example of Hunter Star as a Linus quilt.
Yvonne showed this lovely frog quilt, which she will give as a present to a friend. The applique pattern was provided by Mags to the Colour Wheel Quilters Group.
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At the May meeting there was only one contribution to the Show 'n Tell. Norma finally completed the rice bag that she made as part of the Spring Fat Quarter Challenge. Click here so see all the challenge results.
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Gallery 2022
We held our AGM at our April meeting. In addition to the usual business of administration, another excellent display of recently completed quilts was exhibited.......
Carol showed a quilt, named Grandmother's Garden, that she completed on behalf of Olive, a founder member who had sadly passed away.
Sandy brought in this excellent example of various blocks, to which she planned to keep adding other blocks.
Chris must be one of our most prolific quilters and this month she showed her latest Linus quilt, front and back.
Carol also brought in this Pinwheel quilt that she has finally completed. In our February meeting, she showed this as an incomplete project but said that now she had got it out, she would finish it.
Here are a couple of small quilts from Jennifer.
Anna is currently working on this quilt, which will be a wedding present for her nephew in New Zealand when it is completed.
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In our March meeting there were many examples of excellent quilts displayed in the Show n' Tell...........
Jennifer showed this lovely Square-in-Square Linus quilt
Norma created this incubator quilt in a Disappearing 9-patch design
.....and showed off a couple of quilts made by her friend Jenny
These images are the front and reverse of a wild animal quilt by Chris, with fabric donated by Mags on the back of the quilt.
Chris also showed this colourful incubator quilt, with the Flying Geese strips provided by Mags. Lovely example of collaboration!
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Unfortunately our January 2022 meeting was cancelled due to the rise in COVID infections so our first opportunity to get together in the New Year took place in February.
Diane brought in a couple of incubator quilts that she has made from materials in her stash.
She also showed this lovely doll's quilt that she made in a machine-embroidery workshop.
Yvonne created this fun felt animal from a Warm Hearted Penguin kit
Jennifer showed these four, as yet unfinished, quilts for premature babies.
She also presented these two beautiful quilts.
Left is an excellent example of a Heart pattern quilt from Norma. On the right is Chris's version of the same design. Both brilliantly executed.
Chris is one of our most prolific quilters and she presented another two fine examples.
Norma displayed two quilts she made for the Quilts for Afghanistan Refugees project.
Jenny Steward is working with the Afghanistan Association of London, Harrow (AAL) to provide much needed quilts that can be given to Afghan refugees in the UK. Her appeal is for groups, or individuals, to make single-bed size quilts that can be donated to this charity for distribution. Jenny will act as conduit to deliver any collected quilts to AAL.
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