Sewing ,postie and rosettes.

 

The autumn temperatures are creeping in, so time to do a little garment sewing.
 This is a favourite jacket pattern that goes together so quickly and easily. These two helped me to use up some more fabric.
The first is a sort of brown marl. (That is a very straight coat hanger so it looks a little wavy!)

This one is a navy knit fabric with a bit of a pile so it looks almost like velvet.
Both very comfy and cosy. :o)

Postie delivered my three quilts back from Great Northern Quilt Show,Harrogate complete with their rosettes and awards. I knew that two of them had rosettes, but didn't know until I opened the parcel that the third one had a Judge's Merit rosette too! What a pleasant surprise!
There were also some Lilian Hedley books and a cash award too! It is raining today so maybe I can  curl up and get some reading done this afternoon.

 
This is the third quilt which I entered ,at Harrogate, into the theme competition "Illusions". A difficult one to photograph with that black background. The colours are more true in the picture above this.

 

The rosettes just squeezed onto my board.
 Think they are all going to have to cuddle in closer now.
:o)
The silverware I am afraid sort of disappears into a drawer.

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Linking this to Esther's WOW

Rosettes at Great Northern Quilt Show Harrogate.

     

 

Last Thursday evening I got a lovely phonecall to say that "Just Doodling" had won the wholecloth award at the Great Northern Quilt Show. I had great plans to go over there on Sunday but unfortunately life got in the way and I missed it so I never got to see the show or my quilts.





                           This is a photo I took when it was just finished and some pictures of the quilt in progress.

                         

 

 

 

I was thrilled with the news but imagine my delight when I saw photos of "Just Doodling" and "Northern Spring" on Fiona's blog and saw the caption saying that it had got a rosette too-----looks as if maybe two of them! I was having a coffee whilst I was scrolling through and nearly swamped the keyboard with the surprise. :o)

 

 

 

A good surprise though-a really good start to the day. :o)

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Linked to Esther's WOW

Just found out---

I got a ribbon at the Great Northern Quilt Show at Harrogate last weekend with my wholecloth quilt!

I had forgotten to ask anyone to take a picture of it hanging at the show so the first I knew about the ribbon was as I unpacked it when it returned this morning!

Made my day :o)

Finished wholecloth

I should have taken a picture of this hanging before sending it off to Grosvenor Shows for the Great Northern Quilt Show this weekend. This was it blocked out on the carpet a few weeks ago.

Would love a picture of it hanging if anyone spots it at Harrogate?

Great Northern Quilt Show in Harrogate.

I wasn't able to get over to Harrogate this year but Jenny and Peter kindly took pictures for me. No prizes but delighted to receive Judge's Merit rosettes for Crazy Paisley and Ring-a-Roses. I saw pictures of many of the other quilts and really wish I had been able to go as they looked stunning!

Fabrications magazine.

Whenever you have a quilt shown in Fabrications magazine they are really kind and send you a copy. The current issue has two of my quilts shown in the Sandown/Hoffman Challenge article. Neither of them will bring home any prizes or rosettes but it is rather nice to see them in print :o)



The picture below is of the full page advert for this years Great Northern Quilt Show in Harrogate. Last year my Coneflowers quilt was the overall champion winner which of course was a wonderful feeling! What didn't sink in at the time was how many times I would see that quilt in print and on flyers for this year's show. I daren't even begin to think how many pictures of it there are or even how far they have travelled!