Jane's Spanish Quilt

Jane went to Spain - lucky woman - and she found, surprise, surprise, a fabric shop.  Not necessarily quilting fabric, but some she thought she could use.  This quilt is her reminder of a lovely holiday.  The roundels are fussy-cut, which simply means that she has carefully cut round them leaving enough fabric round the edge for her to turn under to sew (applique/apply) down.  It's a very striking quilt and destined for their bed. Hand quilted.

Chris's Dresden Plates

Dresden Plates by Chris.  She has finished it now, I think, but was just doing the binding when I took this pic.  Chris made this using the quilt as you go technique; I think she has decided to make all her big quilts this way as each block is quilted on the way and when they are all put together, the quilt is more or less done.  The thin blue strips inbetween the floral borders are the connecting strips.  It is a clever technique and when done badly a quilt can be quite stiff but Chris is a master at this and the quilt drapes beautifully and looks fabulous.

History of the Dresden Plate Quilt Block is here http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/colonial_revival/dresden-plate.htm

If you visit you tube you will find many different video tutorials for making and joining quilt as you go blocks - there is more than one way to skin a cat!

2014 catch up. All out of order, sadly and some names missing. Let me know my errors.

Linda's beautiful silk quilt - it glows and is quite gorgeous

Sheila's

Rosemary's

Raffle prizes - thank you, Jane

Sheila's winnings

Norma's

Rosemary's

...and perhaps this is the one won on behalf of Elaine

Chris's beautiful star.  She will teach this in October

Rosemary's work, also the one below

This is the pillow part of Steph's quillow (a quilt in a pillowcase, basically)

This is the quilt part of Steph's quillow.  The design is by Jane Andreoli, road tested by the Breakaway Quilters (including Steph), published by British Patchwork and Quilting as a much bigger quilt.

Rosemary's

Janet's - first one with us

Jane and Wendy layering and pinning Jane's quilt

One of the raffle prizes where Jane tried out quilt as you go

Seomone will have to remind me about this one - maybe Steph or Sarah

One of Jane's newer pictures

Roosting robin but not sure whose

Raffle prizes on display one evening

Totally back to front series of pics - thanks, Blogger.  Sam's new bed quilt was so huge there was a bit of re-jigging to get the wadding and the backing to fit.  You will have to work backwards

Janet made some dogs....

Lynne made several of these

Sian's hearts finished just in time to go to Essex for Christmas!

Sian's heart quilting

and the back as a whole.

Sian's hearts at Breakaways before Christmas

 These 2 are of a quilt which went straight onto our bed as we were getting a little chilly.  Chris also made one which is much more beautifully made but she hasnt decided what to do with it yet. Light is rather washed out because our bed is directly underneath a window

Hopefully I will be better at this in the coming year and as Blogger has changed a bit I am finding it a little difficult to figure some things out..

Anyway, if you got this far, thank you for visiting and if you are not one of us but would like to be, please come along and give us a try - Wednesday evenings 7-9.30 in the Annexe at the top end of the car park at Denmead Community Centre, School Lane, Denmead, Hants.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!