Lyn from St Ives - Hexagon Star Quilt is moving along very nicely with only it's three points to be added.

Ros from Berowra - Double Wedding Ring Quilt for DS2's wedding has grown a lot since we last saw it.


Bec from Ryde - Star Quilt - Bec has to quilt two and a half stars every night to have this quilt ready for the Eastwood Patchwork Quilters 2009 Exhibition from May 1 - 3... Will she do it... that is the question! Come along and see if she makes it, click on the 'red' for more details.

Cath from Minchinbury - I Spy for a special child in her life.

Cath from Minchinbury - Star Quilt for her SIL... Cath needs one 8" square of the border fabric to finish it off. Do you know this fabric?

It was 'That' time of the month once again and the photos below are of our 'Show and Tell' at our day at the Pub!

Heather decided to do another Bonnie K Hunter quilt and chose Star Struck, I loved it so much I decided to do it as well.Heather's little girl quilt.

Pennie's finished Hexagon quilt... the side of each hexagon measures 3/16th's of an inch.

Pennie's Star Struck using scraps of blacks and brights.

Above... Bec stoically quilting her stars for her local Quilt Show in May...

What you may not have noticed in the photo above is Bec's clever eye ware. Bec needs bifocals to hand sew but they will cost about $500 so she thought she'd try these $10 specs over her normal specs and they work a treat... and with a saving of $490 she's a real winner! LOL

Lyn's hexagons that will one day make a big star.


Lyn's little boy quilt.

Jean's little girl quilt.

Jill's Hexagon Stars.
Penny S

Marilyn's Scrappy Quilt.

Two Charity quilts made by Marilyn.

Liz didn't have any hand work so just grabbed some squares on her way out.
Kath's little girl quilt.

Check out this amazing quilt of Gay's, we've been watching her hand sew these reversible blocks, with wadding, over the last two years when she comes to Australia... this year she got all the blocks together. I've photographed them with the light behind so you can see what's on the other side... and if you look at the bottom of these two photos you can see what the quilt will look like on a bed.
The other side of Gay's quilt.

Gay's St Ives 'Currency' Challenge... A map of Zimbabwe with currency notes ranging from 50c to 100 Billion Dollar notes.

Competition Results for February!

There were several guesses as to who was holding these beautiful beads from Dyed and Gone to Heaven... but one SCQuilter... who has never been to the Blue Gum really pulled out all the stops... here are copies of her emails.

'Could it be Jill from Thornleigh?'
Lindi.

Then when I asked how on earth she guessed correctly this is her reply...

"I went back to 2007 Christmas photos (couldn't find her in the 2008 ones) and compared them with the little bit that we could see in last Saturday's photo. That was the most likely candidate! Don't tell me I'm right? If I am, let someone else win. I promise I won't tell!" Lindi

There was nobody else who guessed correctly... well there was someone who knew but I wouldn't let Lisa have a go because she sold them to her!

So this is Lindi's prize, a fund raising Thimble for the Bathurst SCQ Retreat 2010 and a little quilt I made from a pattern I won from Lindi's Blog...

Thanks for the fun Jill and Lindi I'll do something similar another month.

Southern Cross Quilters enjoying the day at The Blue Gum in Waitara.

28 of us here today... Pennie from Turramurra, Penny from Pymble, Irene from Pymble, Jan from Turramurra, Gay from Romsey. UK, Robyn from Pymble, Lyn from St Ives, Kerry-Ann from Gorokan, Kath from Minchinbury, Elizabeth from Hornsby, Simone and Baby Grace from Hornsby, Christine from Bathurst, Lisa from Kareela, Jean from Terrigal, Erica from Parramatta, Heather from Thornleigh, Irene from I've forgotten but I hope she will remind me so I can correct, Kate from near Camden, Ros from Padstow, Liz from Denistone, Mandy from Ryde, Sue from Kings Langley, Bec from Ryde, Lyn from Waitara, Glynis from Berowra, Jill from Thornleigh and Marilyn from Bungan.
So you see we do come from far and wide.
I have another Guessing Competition... scroll down through the photos below to find it...
Some of us bought our Double Delight Mystery quilts or blocks... all agree that we love them and all of us agree that it was mind numbing work but well worth it. Some SCQuilters who couldn't make it to the Blue Gum sent photos which I have included. Enjoy... cheers Pennie

P.S. Comment from Bonnie... Thank you so much for sending the link to your blog! I am SO SO SO impressed with the quilts!Please tell the ladies that I saw them, and I love them each and every one! (And yes, sometimes mind numbing is WORTH IT! *LOL*)In Stitches ---Bonnie

Bonnie K Hunter - Double Delight Mystery quilts... above top was made by Jean from Terrigal... the below top was made by Heather from Thornleigh...
And the third top made by Pennie from Turramurra.
Here's all three quilts together at the Pub.
Lorraine Bradley from Victoria made this Double Delight.

Double Delight top made by Lyn Shipp in Perth...
Blocks in progress... Christine from Bathurst above and Marilyn from Bungan below.

Blocks One and Two from Bonnie Elvey in Bendigo, Victoria.

Gay's Celtic Knot quilt about to go to Nic for quilting, they won a prize at the Sydney Quilt Show last year... so look out for this one this year.

Heather's circles.
Irene Long's hand embroidered baby animals... looking great together.
Jean is so prolific here's another wonderful child's quilt for a niece.

Jan's Japanese fabric quilt.

Kerry-anne's double sided quilt.
The other side of Kerry-anne's double sided quilt.
Glynis' Pickledish quilt... she collected scraps of fabric thrown out from a class she attended many years ago... clever eh!! I'm impressive, very Impressive.
Guessing Competition... Guessing Competition... Guessing Competition...

There will be a lovely prize of a Bathurst SCQuilters Retreat 2010 Thimble for the first person who can guess who's been shopping at Lisa's... and sorry Lisa you can't enter. I thought the beeds looked so lovely against what this SCQuilter was wearing I just had to photograph them.

Erica was making sure she remembered how to knit squares for Wrapped for Love a class she will be facilitating for at Ryde Library this coming Thursday...

Bec is moving along slowly hand quilting her stars... she did stop to help Mandy baste a quilt and show her how to quilt it today though.
Kath's Nursery Rhyme machine embroidery blocks.
One little two little, three little Indians, four little five little, six little Indians... oh how I remember it well... this is one of the blocks on Kath's quilt above.
Kath's Aussie house machine embroidery blocks.