New Bag Workshop

This is the bag that I designed for my next workshop. 

The workshop will be held on

Saturday 22nd June 2013 

from 10.30am until 4.30pm

at St Columb's Parish Hall, Chapel Road, Derry.

 

I made my bag with La Belle Fleur by  French General 

{always a favourite}.

 

Come and spend a fun day with other quilters.

 

If interested, just contact me.

 

Bye for now.

Sandra

Bits & Bobs Charity Night

The group that I belong to in Limavady, Bits & Bobs, organised a charity night in aid of The Dorcas Project, Kenya last Thursday evening.  We put on a Quilt Show and provided tea, coffee and home bakes. We all had a wonderful evening for a very worthy cause and both old friends and new came to see the quilts.

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed seeing all the beautiful things everyone has made.

 

Bye for now.

Sandra



 













The End of Term

This term I taught one of my own designs, Friendship Quilt, and the classes finished this week in time for Easter.  I thought I would let you see all the beautiful things that were made this term, so sit back and enjoy.



Magdalen

I have to apologise to Magdalen for the quality of the photograph but I took it with my phone.




Pauline

Alison

Caroline

Edna

Philomena

Philomena made her quilt bigger.  It is the first one that I have quilted for someone else on my frame.



Elma



Margaret



Pat

Pat was finishing off some Christmas projects for herself after having made lots as presents.

As everyone had time to spare after making their quilts, they decided that they wanted to make cushions.

Caroline, Alison, Josie

Anna Rita

Edna

Mary

Majella

And finally, two of the girls who had attended my Bag Workshop, weren't content with one bag.  They had to make more.

Edna

 Philomena made a tiny one for her little granddaughter.

Philomena

I hope you enjoyed seeing all the pretty quilts, cushions and bags. 

Have a Happy Easter.

Sandra


 




 

 







Playing Catch Up

I can't believe that I haven't blogged since January and now March is almost over.  So sit back and play catch up with the photographs of the beautiful quilts made at my classses.

These are from the class using Kim Diehl's book "Simple Graces" and the quilt is called Bittersweet Briar.



Alison

Anna Rita

Bridie

Caroline

Edna

Josie

Majella

Margaret

Philomena

 

Sadly, I haven't got a picture of Mary's quilt but I'll try and rectify that later. 

 

The next one is my Country Sampler design and Bridie's quilt wasn't photographed at the end of class.  So here it is.

 

Bridie

 

This quilt is my log cabin design Past & Present.  It was taken with my phone so the quality doesn't show just how nice Elma's quilt really is.

 

Elma





So I think that's a lovely collection of quilts for tonight and I'll post some more soon, I promise.

 

Bye for now.

 

Sandra

 



French General Cushions

Firstly, I must thank my young brother for coming to my aid.  I wasn't able to upload my photos on the blog and so he changed me over to a new browser so now I'm up and running again.  Thanks Stephen.

For a long time, I have meant to make new cushions for my home from the remainder of the French General fabric that I used for my Stepping Stones quilt. 

So, I finally finished them before Christmas and was very pleased with how they turned out.

French General Cushions

They're a nice mixture of brown, red, beige and cream.  The backs of the cushions are French General fabric too.  Well, it is one of my favourites.

Churn Dash Cushion

Eight pointed star

Squares and triangles

Pinwheel cushion

 As I'm already talking of things French, I thought that I would show you some more of my photographs of Paris. I would highly recommend the open top bus tours and we were able to get off and on whenever we to explore.  It also gives a good vantage point for taking photographs.

The Pont Neuf

Notre Dame Cathedral

The doors on this imposing building were quite amazing.

One of the doors

Whilst we were queueing to get into the cathedral, I couldn't take my eyes off the hinges on the doors.

Intricate leaves, birds and scrolls

The metalwork was just so beautiful and delicate looking.  All I could think of was trying to quilt or applique something like this.  Amazing! Very inspiring.

The Rose Window

We found the prettiest sweet shop ever.  It is called La Cure Gourmande and it is impossible to walk into it without wanting to buy everything before you leave. 

Boxed chocolates and nougat

There were a few different designs for the metro signs.  Maybe if you lived there you wouldn't notice things like this anymore but I found everything very beautiful.  Hopefully I will be able to return to Paris again.

I could go on forever but that wouldn't be fair on you.  So I'll call it a night.

See you soon.

Sandra