I almost forgot Show and Tell from Gay in Romsey. Hampshire. Gay lives in Sydney for almost 5 months each year but her home is in England and she's just gone home to a beautiful Spring. Here are a couple of photos she sent me.

Our Show and Tell for April is very different and varied... Enjoy!

Jan from Sylvania - Show and Tell from her recent trip on the Queen Mary 2, sailing from LA to Sydney. That's Jan in the white blouse. We saw many photos of many special evenings with the men in black tie and Jan in lots of very flash formal clothes borrowed from daughters and friends... very amusing it was. Heather from Eglinton near Bathurst was on the same trip as well as my baby brother Nick and his wife Kaye... somehow Nick didn't find the SCQuilters... I wonder how he missed them LOL

This doesn't happen very often so I just had to take a photo... Jan and Lisa enjoyed one of these EACH! We all ooohhhhed and aaaaahhhed! It put smiles on our faces that's for sure.

Heather from Thornleigh - I Spy for a niece or nephew, fabulous blocks aren't they.

Heather's Circle Blocks, we've seen some of them before but the one on top is just finished. I'm looking forward to seeing this quilt when all the blocks are done.

Pennie from Turramurra - Bonnie K Hunters Star Struck Quilt top. These quilt designs of Bonnie's are very rewarding to make because you can use up all sorts of scraps, my pile of blacks has now gone and are all in this quilt. Time consuming and a tad boring to make but... No fabric was freshly bought for this quilt! :-)

Lisa from Kareela - These blocks were crocheted while sitting on the sidelines, watching her children's sporting activities. Lisa has used up all sorts of scraps of wools, cottons and even bamboo.


Glenys from Berowra - I can't remember what this block is from but it's very WOW isn't it.


Erica from Parramatta - More of these wonderful hexagon stars. Erica has a brilliant idea about putting these blocks together... I for one can't wait to see them.

Cate from Cherrybrook - Hexagon blocks that she started before her first child was born, she now has two children :-) the oldest isn't three yet so that's not a long time for blocks is it! She has many many more that aren't in this photo so we might see a quilt yet.

Irene from Thornleigh - is always making some fascinating blocks.

Rebbecca (aged 14) from Como - We've been watching Rebbecca over the years but this quilt is just amazing, her machine applique is so neat and precise... Just wonderful!

Sarah from Como - has all her Double Delight blocks ready to put together.
Sarah from Como - Quilt as your go Log Cabin - I know a lot of you, like us are amazed to see the size of this quilt we all know Sarah for her miniatures don't we :-)
Back of Sarah's Log Cabin Quilt as you go.

Joy from Ryde - A Dolly Quilt for someone special.

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.