We are a community promoting quilting and related crafts.

Kilmore Quilters provides a social environment for us to get together and share knowledge, learn new skills and create wonderful pieces of art that you can throw on a bed, hang on a wall, or present to someone you love.

Monthly gatherings are held on the following days : Our evening gathering is at 7pm, on the 3rd Wednesdayof the month at the Kilmore Memorial Hall, Kilmore, in the supper room.

The day gathering is held on the following Tuesday at the same venue from 9am-12pm.

PLEASE NOTE,THERE ARE NO GATHERINGS HELD IN JANUARY.

Thursday 26 February 2015

Fantastic February

February is the beginning of our quilting year. With a busy year planned we eased into the start of the year with a couple of well attended gatherings and a 12hr Sit n Sew.




Our first Sit n Sew was a great success with plenty of ladies taking advantage of the extended sewing times, coming and going at times to suit their needs.... some even managed to stay for the whole 12 hours. 


During the sit n sew progress was made on our two raffle quilts and plenty of items were made for the trade table.






This month also marked the end of the Honour Quilt challenge with many of the ladies showing off their finished quilts. 



Although all the same blocks have been used within these quilts each quilt differs in the colours used, the layout of the blocks and choice of sashings and borders.

Our gratitude goes to Maree for running this very worthwhile and at times emotional challenge in Honour of our fallen heroes.  These quilts will be displayed both during Anzac ceremonies and at our quilt shows.

Our group president Karin gave us some insight into her recent journey through quilting and her discovery of the type of styles and fabrics that have reignited her joy for patchwork and quilting. 


She encouraged us to experiment and find a style that makes you happy and not be drawn into styles which have us feeling stagnated and left with plenty of UFOs (although this does occur regardless of our level of joy).

 



Liz showed off some charity quilts she has been making and pointed out that these little quilts make great use of orphan blocks and are great practice quilts for your machine quilting. 

1 comment:

  1. Lovely work ladies. Yes the 12 hour sit n sew was great

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