Marisa showing us the details of her quilt

At yesterday’s sewing day we were treated to an amazing quilt.  Who would think of using old tweed jackets to make a stunning quilt?  That would be Marisa Valentino!

After putting the pieces together, Marisa stitched the top using a Sanshiko stitching approach.  With that done, she appliqued Daisies over the top.

The end result?  Stunning!!!

The Daisy Quilt label tells the story

Flower and stitching detail

• Willagee: Patchwork at Homespun, 6/8 Harrison St, 9337 7182 http://www.homespunworkshops.com.au

• Midvale: Carol’s of Midland, 47 Farral Rd, 9250 2722, http://www.carolsofmidland.com.au

• Albany: Patchwork Place, 109 Lockyer Ave, 9842 1466, http://www.patchworkplace.com.au

• Bunbury: Bunbury Patchwork,  2/15 Mummery Cres,  9721 2400

The 1st prize quilt is still at Quintessential Quilts in Morley but it will move again soon so do get out to see it.

Posted by Jan Ring WAQA Webmaster

2012 Badge

For those of you who need extra copies of the entry form it is now available online at: http://www.waquilters.org.au/pages/quiltwest.htm.

You can download a printable PDF form that you can print and fill in or you can download the editable Word .doc version.

The whole 2012 QuiltWest handbook is also there so you can check out essentials like how to make a quilt bag, what size the sleeve on the back should be and the all important where to drop off your quilt.

Good luck to everyone who is putting in an entry!

Posted by Jan Ring WAQA WebMaster

• Sewing day and sewing night

• Albany

• Narrogin: Patch ‘n Paint for Pleasure 100 Federal Street, 08 9881 5044  http://patchnpaint.weebly.com/

• Geraldton: Finch’s Nest Quilt Shop 40 Sanford Street, 08 9921 5455  www.finchsnest.com.au/

• Busselton: The Blue Box, 51 Prince Street,  08 9752 2313  www.thebluebox.com.au

• Morley: Quintessential Quilts, 8 Dewar Street, Morley WA 6050  08 9276 2201 www.quintessentialquilts.com.au

Posted by Jan Ring, WAQA Webmaster

QuiltWest 2012 Raffle Quilt - 1st Prize

Our ‘to die for’ raffle quilt has started its shop tour and is currently with Sue Drill and her crew at Quintessential Quilts in Morley.  It will be there for three weeks.  Sue has raffle tickets to sell as well.

If you have never been to Quintessential, then go now.  They have a fabulous range of fabrics (take a look at the online video to get the drool going), a great book collection and lots of notions and must-haves.  While you are there, check out the classes and the Loyalty Club too.  I can recommend doing Robyn’s applique class. You might as well learn from one of the best!

They are at 1/8 Dewar Street, Morley, Western Australia 6062, near Galleria, and they are open from 9:30 am Mon – Sat.

2012 Badge

The  2012 QuiltWest badge went on sale in January and is selling quickly. Our webmaster Jan has done a tremendous job designing the badge, it is one of my favourites. Badges are selling for $5 each and there are only a limited number so get yours soon. Prepaid tickets go on sale from our February meeting. Tickets can be bought for $12 each, this is a saving of $3 on the door price.

Ready for Work?

QuiltWest 2012 bookmark

Here is a sneak preview of the 2012 QuiltWest bookmark designed by our webmaster Jan. Isn’t it just gorgeous? All the QuiltWest committee are now rolling up their sleeves to begin working on the various tasks that will see the exhibition come to fruition.

Tomorrow Jan, Margaret and I are getting together to stuff the 2012 handbooks into envelopes for mail out. Expect to get your handbook by the beginning of next week.

Badges will go on sale at the January sewing day and night for $5 each. Jan designed these and Marion liaised with the badge maker to make sure that we will have a top quality product. There are only a limited number of badges so get one soon in order to avoid disappointment!

Tickets go on sale in the middle of February with all proceeds going to The Royal Flying Doctor Service of WA

The Blessings Quilt (valued at $5000)

Designed by Robyn Falloon. Quilt Size:  81” x 81”, 206cm x 206cm

You can see the other prizes at: http://www.waquilters.org.au/pages/quiltwestraffle.htm

Another weekend and another workshop. This month we were so lucky to have Robyn Falloon visit us over here in Perth. She was such a kind and lovely teacher and her applique is amazing, the colours she uses in her quilts is so inviting, you just can’t stop looking at them.
Friday was spent learning Needleturn Applique techniques, plus we all went mad buying up all of the templates and patterns that Robyn had brought with her. Saturday and Sunday we designed our own applique patterns using Robyn’s templates and our own drawings. Of course everyone claimed they couldn’t draw but from the results they clearly had talents they never knew they had.

Trish and Michelle with Robyn’s Quilt

Robyn helping Val

Thank you Robyn for a really enjoyable weekend of stitching.

If you want to buy or see any of Robyn’s quilt’s visit her website www.bonbondesigns.com

I had a wonderful weekend, sewing, sewing and more sewing. We had the retreat for the WAQA Committee members. It was held at the St John of God Retreat Centre in Rockingham. The venue is such a lovely place the gardens are beautiful and the best thing about the whole weekend was that we had all of our meals cooked for us and they were so yummy plus desert with every meal sent me home with a very big tummy.
Here are a few pictures of everyone enjoying themselves in the conference room that we had our sewing set up in.