A Cover, A Show & lots of quilting....

The last month has been rather busy.

 

As always there are lots of customer quilts to get done. There are too many to post here but you can see them on my facebook page.

 

 My quilt Dorothy is on the cover of Issue 157 Down Under Quilts...Woohoo !!!

 

 

 

The weekend just gone I attended the Central Coast Charity Quilt Show where I had a stand selling my quilt patterns and promoting my machine quilting business.

What a fantastic time !! I got to spend two whole days with the beautiful ladies I work with at

 All About Sewing. Jody, Robyn, Ally & Susan always make it fun whenever we are together. Lots of fun and laughs and a croaky voice the next day from too much talking...

 

My Stand with Dorothy and Supernova in the background...

 

Myself and Jody.

 

 Jody has just celebrated 7 years since her shop, All About Sewing, first opened its doors. I started teaching at the shop about a month after it opened. Time sure does fly by when your having fun. Congratulations Jody and I look forward to the next 7 or 10 or 20...hehe 

 

 

Back to quilting

Leanne xo

 

Yes, I've been terrible at updating my blog recently. I have been so busy quilting and I have 2 magazine deadlines that I have been pushing to get finished that I have only been on my computer to write patterns...yay... and pay bills...yuck...

Back a couple of weeks myself and my "sewing sisters" attended the Central Coast Charity Quilt Show.

All the girls from All About Sewing  BackL-R Jan, Jody, Ally,Robyn.

Front L-R Ange & Myself (Gail is missing)

We had a fabulous time. We met some lovely new people and the whole weekend was really relaxing and fun. I did a demo on improvised block construction. I was really nervous and did the whole thing way to fast.

Me doing my demo...

My friend Jan from Red Shed Quilting did and awesome demo and talk on domestic machine quilting. Jan really is a quilting guru and she has been a fantastic mentor to me and is more than willing to share her expertise. Thanks Jan...

Jan has them enthrauled...

The Quilts...
There is Sabrina on the right...

Beth is Jan's daughter. She won the Junior section...

Charlotte is another one of our Juniors. She got second for her 1st quilt...

The whole thing was to raise money for the local hospital oncology unit. The Show raised just shy of $10 000. WOW!! That's amazing!!! Yay for the quilting community...

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Next up was Mothers Day...

Look what my Hubby pick for me...from the garden at his work...

It was a relaxing day. First up was breaky at Maccas, next flowers at the cemetary (on my mother-in-laws grave), then to the hardware. All I wanted for Mothers Day was to get a bunch of stuff hung on my studio walls. That's why we went to the hardware to get hanging stuff. All done and now I'm happy...

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On to quilting... This week I have done custom quilting for Gail. Two customs in a row, I really am ready for that massage now...oooo my aching back...

Phew, that was exhausting but fun...

Happy Quilting
Leanne xo

A Bit Carried Away....

I spent today on Dudley custom quilting. Sam needs it for this weekend so it need to be done fast but whatever I wanted to do was fine. As always, once I set up to do custom I just can't help myself. It's a sampler quilt so I tried to do each block differently and I also did some designs I haven't done before. It's turning out great. I'm about 2/3 through it. I hope Sam loves it like I do....

Another full day should see it finished. I might have to go for a massage after this one...

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo



A little something I'm working on. It's an improvised wonky sampler.

I am doing a demonstration on improv blocks at the upcoming Wyong Quilt Show. Later in May I am teaching this quilt in a BOM class at All About Sewing.

Sorry for the photo quality. I took it with my phone....

The blocks still need the white around them. I love blue and orange together.

Have a Happy Easter.....

Leanne xo

Work in my studio has been crazy for the last couple of months.

I have deadlines for magazines, samples for classes and the upcoming Wyong Quilt Show, long arm quilting to get done on some beautiful customer quilts and I really need to take some time to clean up the studio. Fabric explodes from the cupboards and the faeries never come to clean..... haha

I have a few things to share.

Oscar's dinosaur quilt is all finished and washed. I love the quilting. My Sister, Monique, designed the edge to edge t-rex skull. She is a very talented artist. It looks awesome and Oscar loves it. 

A close up of the back.....

Before the binding went on. The weather is awful at the moment so no outside shots for now....

A stack of blocks ready to be a yummy quilt....

Some more delish fabric, Good Fortune by Kate Spain, getting cut up for a Mag....

On another note a friend of mine, Ally, has a new fun blog.

It's called "Quilting Mumma". Go over and check it out..

Til next time

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo

Wyong Quilt Show - Day 1

Today was the first day of our local quilt show.It is a charity event for the cancer care services of Central Coast Hospitals. It is a lot of work but alwasys ends up being fun.
I was promoting the Central Coast Modern Quilt Guild. I met heaps of people who are interested and we had a few sign- ups right on the spot. So the word is spreading. All the usual suspects were there.All About Sewing, Blueberries, Cherry Pie Designs, Floriani, Red Shed Quilting, Down Under Quilts Magazine and a bunch of other talented people. I met Kate Conklin, a local quilt designer, whose blog I have been following for a while. She is just as passionate about fabric as I am and she is very excited about the Quilt Guild. 
My Aunty Judith came all the way from Parramatta on the train to check things out. She was happy that I showed her how to use the stitch regulator on the Bernina 440. She owns one and hasn't yet used this feature. There will be no stopping her now. Happy Quilting Aunty Jude.
Tomorrow is Mothers Day so we are not sure how the day will go. We have heaps of machines on the All About Sewing stand and we all bought something to sew if it gets too quiet. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

More to follow tomorrow

Happy Quilting

Leanne