A Festival, a Market and moving on.......

I can't believe it's already the start of March 2015.

I will give a little recap of the end of 2014 so we are all up to speed before I continue being a regular blogger this year......well that's the plan anyway ...lol

 

In October I headed once again to the Australian Machine Quilting Festival in Adelaide. It's great to catch up with old friends and make new friends from all over the world!  I was very excited to be doing a bunch of classes with the incredible Judi Madsen of Green Fairy Quilts. Her quilting is amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute with her.

Judi Madsen and myself at Australian Machine Quilting Festival

One of the best parts of Festival is the friendships made. This year I roomed with Jenny, Jen & Michelle.  Oh wow !! I found my people. They are all from different parts of Western Australia and they are just as crazy as me !!  I had only met Jen once before but it was like we had all known one another for years. I've got my roomies sorted forever now !!!

 

One of my roomies Jenny at AMQF, Adelaide

The excitement of winning a ribbon in Sydney was reaffirmed with both my quilts, Metro Medallion and Spinner,  winning ribbons in Adelaide. I couldn't contain myself.

 

She's done me proud again !!!!

....and I'm a little excited about it !!!

And Spinner got a special  Highly Commended award....How exciting !!!!

In all I had the most wonderful time and I look forward to next time .....

 

The rest of the year has been chock'a'block full of quilting for customers. There was a couple of trips to Melbourne with my sewing sisters.  Once was to attend Australian Quilt Market.  Once again catching up with many great people in the quilting industry. I'm always so inspired when there is this much talent in one place .....

 

Susan and I at Australian Quilt Market in Emma Jean Jansen's gorgeous booth
 

This brings me to the end of 2014. I have spent some much deserved time off with my family and regrouping for this year. I already have many quilts booked in so I'm hitting the ground running .......

Also keep an eye out for a project I have in Quilters Companion precuts edition. Should be out in about April ......
This year sees me teaching more too. I will be at All About Sewing on Thursday's and Friday's,  also 1 Saturday a month. I head to Sydney on the 3rd Saturday of the month to teach at Kim Bradley Creations......

I hope this finds you all well and finding time to be creative. I have been super creative, but more about that later ...

Happy Quilting
Leanne xo

Australian Machine Quilting Festival....

Wow, what a week !!!

I went with Jan and Clare to Adelaide for the Australian Machine Quilting Festival. The first day we went to a Ricky Tims seminar. He is a quilter and musician and a very funny man. It was a huge day and I learn lots about his techniques.

 

 

All the crazy quilters at the Ricky Tims seminar...

Ricky's Caveman style quilt...

His beautiful Rhapsody quilt... I love this...

 

Day 2 we started the classes...oh so many classes!!!

 

Jan and I....Oh yes, we look really happy here. It is our first class. You should have seen us at the end of the day with our bloodshot eyes... 

Some designing I did in class...

Sharon Parkinson's class. She had tonnes of helpful tips...

 

There were tutors from Australia and the US. I did four classes on the first day, three on the second day and two on the third. The end of each day was a huge blur....

I met so many fantastic people and some very talented quilters. My 2 favourite tutors were Michelle Turner and Vicki Jenkin. Both local girls with loads of talent. I got to spend a bit of time with them both out of the class. I was very chuffed that they both knew who little old me was. It made my day.

 

Besides the classes there was a vendor mall and quilt show. I spent a little to much at the shops and the quilts were amazing...

 

I love this quilt. I have always wanted to make one similar to this...

This is a snippet of the Best of Show quilt. All done on a domestic machine by Rachel Denneny. It is a queen size quilt with the tiniest stitching...

 

For 5 days I didn't go out of a 100 square meter radius. On the last morning we had a bit of time to walk through town. Adelaide is a beautiful city.... there is loads of inspiration for quilts everywhere.

 

Tessellated Floors...

 

 

Beautifully patterned ceiling...

 

 

The architecture is quite German...

 

In a little arcade there was this button shop. Absolutely chocked full of the most amazing buttons.

 

 

Thanks to Jan and Clare for being great roomies and the 2 year countdown is on til next market.

 

Back to reality and the studio...

 

Happy quilting 

Leanne xo



1 Week....

In 1 week, myself, Jan and Claire are off to Adelaide for the Australian Machine Quilting Festival.

I am starting to get a bit excited.

I may have gone a little overboard with the amount of classes that I am doing but I figured that it only comes around every two years and I had better make the most of it.

There are tutors from all over coming to share their expertise in machine quilting on both longarms and domestic machines.

We are gone for 6 days and 5 nights. I've never been away from my family for that long before, I wonder if they will cope. I bet all the washing is waiting for me when I get back...haha

 

Before I leave I still have tonnes of quilting to get done. I have been quilting like a crazy lady lately, although, I did take last weekend off so I didn't actually go crazy.

 

Here is some of what I've been up too...

A nice loop the loop quilting pattern...

 

Chantilly Lace on Sarah's gigantic quilt....

 

At one point Dudley had had enough and he need a little timing and a little love. We are on good terms at the moment...touch wood...

timing time....

 

I've had another one of THESE quilts....this was quite bad and I couldn't do much with it. The owner was fine with it so I didn't stress too much.

look at that wavy border.....

 

This last one was great to quilt. I forgot how much I love this quilting pattern...scrollwork...

 

 

 

Back to the studio

 

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo