ByKathryn
You’re Famous!
You are such a talented group, and now some of you are famous too!
Congratulations to Corinne Dupont who had her group, Des Petits Bouts de Fils, and her fabulous 365 Challenge Quilt, Mon 365, featured in Quiltmania Issue #158.
Congratulations, also, to Sharon French who had her gorgeous 365 Challenge Quilt, A Labour of Blue Love, included in the Sydney Quilt Show write-up in Quiltmania Issue #159.
If you get kudos at a quilt show, or feature in a magazine, please let me know, so I can share the joy.
ByKathryn
New 365 Challenge – Star of Wonder
Registrations are closed now, but if you are interested in joining future groups, express your interest here, and I’ll let you know when it is available again.
New 365 Challenge!
Block-of-the-Day
Star of Wonder
Make a quilt block every day for a year to build a masterpiece sampler quilt! AGAIN!
Celebrates all things celestial, astronomical and heavenly.
ByKathryn
Re-register to continue getting your blocks!
Important Notice:
You must re-register at my new teachable.com website to continue getting your blocks.
Re-register HERE
April 30 is the last day for the daily emails and the maintenance of the 365 Challenge through this website. Blocks from January will be there a little longer this year – until the end of May, instead of the usual 3 months – to assist you to stay up to date during the change over.
Teachable does everything that I have been trying to achieve with the website and the mailing list, as well as giving us a place to have our little community.
I spend so much time answering your emails about website issues, and maintaining the website, that I’m not getting time to design new quilts! For your benefit and mine, Teachable will now take care of all that, as securely and with faster servers. More time for me; less frustration for you.
The new arrangements mean I can save dozens of hours a week on IT and administrative tasks … meaning I can design more quilts for you!
Hugs,
Kathy
ByKathryn
365 Challenge is Moving!
I’ve been working my heart out to make the new website work, but I know many of you still have login and lockout problems. So I am taking the challenge over to a new platform for you.
Re-register HERE
Teachable does everything that I have been trying to achieve with the website and the mailing list, as well as giving us a place to have our little community.
I spend so much time answering your emails about website issues, and maintaining the website, that I’m not getting time to design new quilts! For your benefit and mine, Teachable will now take care of all that, as securely and with faster servers. More time for me; less frustration for you.
April is there for you now, and each new block will come out daily, as always. ‘Block-o-clock’ will be a different time, though.
I know that many of you have not been able to download the past blocks. Over the coming weeks, I’ll put up all the blocks back to January, and leave them there until the end of May, giving you heaps of time to catch up. I’ll transfer all the yardage information too, so everything is together.
Happy Easter!
Love,
Kathy
ByKathryn
Chimney Swallows Quilt
So excited to have my quilt published in Quiltmania Issue #135. Not only that, it graces the cover.
I share this thrill with my fabulous quilter, Terase Munnerley from Cooee Quilting in Yeppoon.
ByKathryn
Zwolle Handwerkbeurs February 2020
Exciting news! I will be at the Craft Fair (Handwerkbeurs) in Zwolle, the Netherlands, in February 2020. I will have my Aves quilt on display, as well as Cold Chimney Swallows and my 365 Challenge Quilt.
And here’s a cringeworthy video, telling you all about me:
More news later about demonstrations and workshops.
I’ll be at Mikilon’s Workshop‘s Stand 101, with Dineke Achterkamp. I hope to meet you there!
ByKathryn
Merry Christmas
Dearest friends,
A huge thank you for your support during 2019! Especially during all the fiddly changing over of the website. I appreciate your patience.
I hope you’ve enjoyed your quilting adventures this year. Thank you for letting me be a part of that; I feel very grateful and privileged.
As a thank you, I’ve put together a pattern for a Christmas ornament I made last year. I made a few to poke into the envelope for family members who were getting a gift voucher to make the gift a little more heart-felt.
Download ‘Merry Christmas 2019’ Felt Heart Ornament as a PDF.
Here’s to a magnificent 2020 … and lots more quilts!
ByKathryn
Congratulations, Barbara!
Barbara Gillespie and Frances Meredith’s quilt took centre stage in the write up about the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK, in the most recent edition of Quiltmania (November – December, 2019, #134).
Congratulations, Barbara!
Unknown, (2019) ‘The Festival of Quilts Birmingham’ in Quiltmania: The Quilt Magazine, p. 26 – 27, November – December, #134
Quiltmania Editions; Saint-Etienne de Montluc, France
ByKathryn
Another Award Winning Aves Quilt!
Congratulations to Mary Kennedy who took out the Amateur Award at Canberra Quilters Members’ Exhibition 2019 at the Canberra Craft & Quilt Fair. This category was sponsored by Bernina Australia and Mary is the well-deserved recipient of a BERNINA 215 value $1,299!
ByKathryn
Aves Quilts in the Birmingham Festival of Quilts 2019
Congratulations to the quilters who hung their Aves quilts at the recent Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK.
Barbara Gillespie
Birds of a Feather
Quilted by: Frances Meredith
Photo by: Barbara Gillespie
This amazing variation, overlaid with a hummingbird:
Kristen Selbmann
HB and Friends
Quilted by: Kristen Selbmann
Photo by: Barbara Gillespie
This inventive variation, using both BONUS blocks and her own to add a border:
Brenda Clough
Quilted by: Brenda Clough
Photo by: Barbara Gillespie
Brenda’s quilt also won a blue ribbon at the Sandown quilt show!
Congratulations!