Avonleigh Country Quilting

A Dramatic Kaleidoscope

Lorraine learned how to make the kaleidoscope block in a class with our Wendy Arnold and went on to make this dramatic quilt. Yes, you're right - I helped Lorraine choose the fabrics.  I'm loving the quilts with a "wow factor" at the moment and this is certainly one of them.
	A close up of one of the blocks.  What's not to love about the variety of blocks one gets from a kaleidoscope?  I know they take a lot of fabric but they certainly are worth it. Well done, Lorraine.  It's fabulous!

Born to be Wild

  
Heather adapted a Smee design pattern to make this gorgeous quilt for her grandson.  Isn't it just wonderful?  She wants to quilt it herself and attended Wendy Arnold's beginners quilting class last week to learn the basics. 

Needless to say, Heather has fallen in love with quilting and booked herself in to Wendy's advanced quilting class to learn more.  What a fun day they had last week learning to quilt and everyone loves how much they learn from Wendy who is so generous with her knowledge - so much so that I sometimes have to be very firm with everyone and make sure they get their tea and lunch breaks.  :-)))  Always a sign of a great class!!

 

Quilt-as-you-go class with Wendy Arnold

Make this gorgeous Christmas quilt with Wendy while learning the quilt-as-you-go technique.  I took the photos while the quilt was still under construction - which is why the quilting papers are still on the quilt and the borders haven't yet been attached!  I was a bit impatient to get the photos onto the blog for you all to see. :-)))

More details from the quilt:

   

 

 

The borders will be added to the quilt using the quilt as you go technique. 

 

 

 

 

A detail of the quilting. 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: Thursday, 8th September 2011

Time: 9.30am - 4pm with a break for lunch.

Cost: $50 per person.

Learning Machine Quilting with Wendy Arnold

This class was so popular that Wendy had to run it twice!  Everyone wants to learn to machine quilt their smaller quilts themselves at the moment.  And the results were stunning.  Everyone had great fun and tapped into Wendy's mine of information.

Hard at work practising new skills.

Gae gets a helping hand from Wendy.

Loving the kaleidoscopes...

I don't know about you but to me there's something almost magical about a kaleidoscope block or quilt!  They're so vibrant and just plain gorgeous and so many variations in the blocks out of one piece of fabric!  So I wasn't exactly surprised when Wendy's kaleidoscope class filled up within days of us announcing it!

 

 

 

 

And just look at the blocks that resulted during the day!!  How wonderful and how different is each from the other.

 

 

 

 

 

 
Certainly has the wow factor!  

 

 

Two completely different blocks from the same fabric.

Inside Out Bricks with Wendy Arnold

Make this gorgeous Inside Out Brick quilt with Wendy Arnold.  Finished size is 57" x 43".

These flannel quilts are so cuddly, you'll want one for each member of the family!  Quick and easy, this is a perfect beginner's class.

 

 

 

Date: Saturday, 3 July 2010

Time: 9.30am - 4pm

Cost: $50.00 per person.

Closer detail of the quilt.

Quilt-as-you-go

 
I love quilt-as-you-go!  My neck and shoulders don't cope with large quilts on my sewing machine as well as they used to, so working on smaller blocks at a time is fantastic!

Heads down and working hard at the Quilt-as-you-go workshop with Wendy Arnold. Blocks are being put together, prior to doing the quilting.

 

 

 

Hmm, is that ironing board free?

Wendy helping to pin some of the blocks for quilting.

 

More blocks being prepared for quilting.