~South Coast Quilt Show~ (and some sad news)

On Thursday I received the new Blogger dashboard....still learning my way round it

Let's hope I can get through and work out how to post pretty quickly...

Last weekend saw Batemans Bay host the South Coast and Country Quilter's Guild (SCCQ) 11th Bi-Annual Quilt Show at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club

Above is the striking quilt that showed us the way

The stage was all set for the beach

I took a few pics of some of the quilts that took my eye

This one is Log Cabin by Jenni Miller ~machine pieced and quilted~

'Joelle's Quilt by Tricia Wheeler

Made for a lovely French lady that Trish met in Nice in 2008.   Lucky Joelle is to receive this next year in Turin where she lives......and Tricia is going to hand deliver it to her

Lucky Joelle......and Lucky Trish
I love it Trish!!!

Of course there has to be at least one quilt at a show by Anni Downs

This one is 'Angel Story' hand and machine pieced......machine quilted by Oriel Smith

'Kaleidoscope' by Rebecca Baumgartner 

This one by Martha Trimmer 

Summer Palace by Liesse Chandler of Chandlers Cottage with lots of adaptation

Machine pieced and quilted

'Earth Lines' by Margaret Foster

This reversible quilt was designed to show off a striking indigenous hand printed fabric.  It is coupled with abstract furnishing samples and uses a quilt-as-you-go method

Machine pieced and hand quilted

'Our Harvest Spice' by Robyn Sammons

Machine pieced and quilted

'Chocolate Truffle' by Maggie Froggatt

An Ann Sommerlad design.  Made with the Moda range of fabric called 'Chocolat'

'Monarch Paradise' by Lois Dibeler

Monarch and Blue Emperor butterflies in a garden setting including Monarch life cycle

Machine pieced and quilted

'Kyoto' by Barbara Steller

Machine pieced and quilted

'Eva Trahern' by Margaret Herzog

Paper piecing and broderie perse around a central appliqued panel

Hand Pieced

Designed by Sue Cody

Quilted by Christine Fahey

'Summer Circles' by Irene Coburn

Machine pieced

Margaret and Trish in front of the Raffle Quilt Autumn Leaves

The view looking across the road to the Clyde River from inside the Dining area of the club

I made some small purchases.....above some Christmas fat 1/4 by Lynette Anderson

and some lovely batiks

My hand is doing really well now

Last weekend I was till trying to limit water on it still and not bend the finger area too much 

Mr Armchair thought he'd give making berry muffins a go and here is the result 

Recipe can be found over here

These flowers were bought home to me by Mr Armchair as a bit of a cheer up

My beautiful Brother has been diagnosed with prostate cancer which if he does nothing about will get him in about 10 years time.  He also has diabetes.

He underwent a stress test to see if he could undergo surgery as he has an irregular heartbeat 

He failed the test and the Dr has said he would be more worried about the heart than the cancer

Now he has to see a Heart Specialist ..........