Cow Paddocks Patchwork

Newest Clover Club Member

Yes yesterday we had the chance of welcoming the newest (& youngest) member to our Clover Club Group. A BIG welcome to William Lucas Hughes. He is the now 7 week old son of Clover Club Member Anna (and her husband Lachlan) and is just too cute. He was the perfect visitor and enjoyed his cuddles from other Clover Club members and hardly made a peep!

It is great to see young mums join in on the fun at Clover Club! It was also great to catch up with the other girls and of course we enjoyed yummy goodies for morning tea including one of my favourites - homemade lemon butter!!!!!

Clover Club Delights

OK after a month of organising the WHK Toomba Ladies Day/Craft in the Country (posts to come on that yet!) I am back in blog land with some bits from recent clover club visits. Now these are from a couple of the groups and they have been busy as usually creating beautiful things!Now for some reason I am having trouble uploading photos so I will come back to this a little later and try again!

Ok back and the photos are uploading - this is Jo Beil's from Tara from the workshop there in November - so vibrant!

Karen from a Landscape workshop in Hannaford last year - hasn't she doen a fantastic job!

The shop was quite full this day with lots of visitors and bits - here is the cross bred quilt top finished - yeah! Now off to the quilter!

This is Jill's rich reproduction quilt.

Maibry's twist on the twisted bargello class I taught in Roma a little while ago - I loove it with the separation sashing through it!

This is debra's so soft and lovely quilt and she pieced the back too!

Much much more to come so stay tuned!

Xmas Break Catch ups

Well we did finally get our Xmas Clover Club break up happening - even if it was a little later than first planned. The girls as usually have been busy creating beautiful "things" and it was great to see each other again!

Here is a pic of the day as we were about to start cleaning up - what does it tell you about the Clover Club girls I wonder..........

One thing for sure it definatley isn't just about the sewing!!!!

We also spent time with my friend Cathy's daughter Claire who came out for a little visit and kep the cherubs busy giving me some time to parcel up some goodies and clean out the "magic cupboard" in the shop.

Now the kids & Claire made use of the wonderful Accucutter machine - as you can see here -

These are my scraps - and they made LOTS of things - funnily enough I don't seem to have pics - I will have to check on Miss H's camera (that she got for xmas - sooooo exciting I was told) but they made dragonflies, beetles, butterflies, flowers and soooo much more - Master L also got right into it making a butterfly with swords as features on the wings and a pirates skull.....mmmm..... not sure about his creativity - maybe it was after seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 4?????

Anyway as you can see they had LOTS of Fun and thankyou so much to Claire for keeping them amused!

 

 

Clover Club Girls - at it Again!

We have had a couple of groups of the clover club girls visit since my return from Quilpie and they have been sooooo busy!

Here are some pics of what they have been working on!

 

This is a converging quilt that Virginia made and her mum Karen is holding it. Karen did the quilting on it with her new long arm machine utilising a pantograph that was very simliar in design to the print on the pink fabric. For a beginner long arm quilter - lets just say we are impressed!

 

 

Gwen's Star made from the gorgeous Aster Manor Moda range.  

Here is Pat's lovely star - can't wait to see them finished!!!

 

Here is Gwen's Stack N Wack - Gwen is our quiet Achiever of the Wednesday Group - she says she doesn't do much - just have a look at these amazing finished projects!

 

This is the quilt Gwen made for her grandson who is a mad fisherman - it has panel pieces but also photographs printed onto the Inkjet fabric of special fishing memories!

AND Rosalie from Rose Quilting did the quilting on it and it is just AMAZING!

 

This is a lovely soft kit that Neitta and her sister In Law Gladys have been working on one each.

 

 

Then our other groups have produced some amazing things too and here is Debra's latest projects!

 

Its hard to beat the classic black & white - and one other colour -  rumour has it there may be a challenge at a nearby club with this as there guide!!! Can't wait to see what comes from that!

 

And using the Accucutter - XLarge version Debra cut these Ricky Tims designs in a gorgeous pearlescent black (which I loooove) and put them onto a classic damask linen tablecloth - The photo just does not do it justice!

And of course it was great to catch up with all of the lovely ladies over the last few weeks. Now coming up is LOTS of new fabrics and SO WE NOW HAVE LOTS IN THE SPECIALS!!! So call in and have a look at the gorgeous fabric that we have placed on sale just so we can fit in all the new stuff - I just couldn't help myself - it was sooooooo nice.

Anyway here are some pics of the newest to arrive!

Clover Club

Well the clover club ladies have been very busy - all of the groups of ladies have been visiting lately with their beautiful creations - so I have put them all together in one spot for you to have a look at. Now some you may have seen before in stages and we may be showing the more"fininshed" product!

 

This is Virginia's gorgeous quilt which has been quilted by her mother Karen. Karen has just purchased a fantastic Long Arm Quilting Machine - and while she states her quilting is still in the learning stage (she has only had the machine around 2 months!) we think she is doing amazing things!!!

 

Here is some of the glorious detail!

 

These are Virginia's oh so trendy pyjama pants! Notice the cute little ruffle on the bottom using her new hemming technique on the overlocker!!!

 

This is the lovely Kate's quilt which she is hand quilting - she is from Warwick and popped in for a visit the other day with her also lovely sister Anna!

 

Here is Kate (owner of the above quilt) with her cutesy yo you clown she is working on as a gift!

 

We also had a visit from the Injune girls with Miss Mia holding this fresh quilt by Debbie!!!
 

Here is a notehr Karen creation using the ranges of Verna & Sunkissed from Moda
 

This is the pretty n pink quilt by Neitta just soooo nice!
 

And we are so proud of one of our new members Megan in completing her first official quilt top - and what a top it is ! "Out of Africa" uses Brandon Mably fabrics which blended in perfectly with fabric that she brought back from Africa when she and her husband "Lethal" travelled there for the Codgers Rugby tour last year! Set on point she has done a fantastic job and really speaks of her travels!

So as you can see we have a very industrious lot that visit us here and we love seeing what they are up to.

I am at present working on some submissions for the up and coming "Quintessential" Gallery Exhibition so I will show you some sneak peaks soon!

Keep Stitchin!

Clover Club Bits

We haven't had an update on what the girls have been doing of late so I thought I would put together a "montage" of a few visits for you. Please forgive my blogging as the worse I feel the less I am typing but I have come back into this post to see if I can give a little more info.

 

Karen's Moda Martinique

 

Neitta's Back to the Farm McKenna Ryan BOM done through the Cow Paddock Shop This is totally in batiks and is raw edged applique - and is to die for. Just gorgeous.

 

This is the hanabi star done with a template by Karen which won champion piece of needlwork at Tara Show !!!

 

One of our new clover club Member's "OUT OF AFRICA" Quilt - by Megan. While Megan did do an amazing patchwork jacket some time ago, now through a "crossing of paths" she is well on the way to being as addicted as the rest of us. She has used some amazing Brandon Mably Fabric with her own fabric she picked up while in Africa which was - and I do apologise for not remembering the exact name but it is the apparel the tribal women wear. She cut this up for the outside on point border. It will be a quilt that will remind them of their wonderful trip over there for years to come!

 

Gwen's flood quilt donation which she made from her scraps and a simple yet very effective pattern has made this a beautiful and heartfelt gift for someone.
 

Karen's Moda Verna Quilt
 

Karen's scrappy quilt - as Karen will tell you she LOVES Scrappy!

 

Another of Virginia's creations! So soft and gorgeous !
 

Karen's garden gate quilt nearly finished!

So as you can see they have all been very busy with more to come no doubt!

Clover Club Girls

Yes the clover club girls have been busy even though they haven't had their own post for a while. I must admit they keep me hopping when they are here between us all sharing ideas, and bouncing ideas from one to another - it is so inspiring and we eat a few goodies along the way too!

Here are their latest completed projects!

 

This is Anna's second quilt - using the Mill House Inn range in a jelly roll and yardage. So soft and lovely!

 

This is Pat's gorgeous country quilt - with lovely stitcheries - some done by her mother in law. Using the lovely butterfly garden fabrics by Moda!

 
This in another of Pat's when we were having a bit of a French Braid thing happening at Clover Club - this one is from the book French Braid Obsession and using the Maywood range Return to Romance. Soooo rich. The photos just don't do these quilts justice!

 

Clover Club Updates

We haven't had much on clover club of late but you can be assured the girls are still busy pumping out gorgeous creations in the amount that never ceases to amaze me!

This is Neitta's gorgeous quilt that she purchased as a kit - it has just come back from Kathy Adams - KoolKat quilting with beautiful feather quilting throughout!

This is a gorgeous quilt - the photo definatley does not do it justice. Karen had made this for Cate who obviously loves these devine colours! Some include fabric from the Moda range Rouenerries.

And here is Pat finishing her second braid quilt - and if you notice she has used the maroon backed roses as her feature fabric as seen in a couple of Neitta's quilts. It is amazing the amount of different quilts that have been based around this fabric! All gorgeous and all totally unique! AND Pat is a relative new comer to patchwork - hasn't she done well!

This is Karen's jelly roll and ric rac quilt - again the photo doesn't really bring up how beautiful it is. The white has a lovely tone on tone daisy and the ric rac just makes it all work together. This is the Moda Eva jelly roll.

This is Virginia's gorgeous black and white quilt (our long distance clover clubber)  She has used fabrics from the shop in a mix of black and whites and accented it using the hot pink from the Flora & Fauna range we have. Just WOW! Kits are available for this quilt however this particular border fabric is running very short but we do have replacements - of course!

And talk about WOW! Again. Virginia used the same black and white fabrics throughout the centre of this quilt but accented it differently and of course a different pattern. The book with this pattern is available for $29 and includes lots of other great designs. We are doing kits in this also but the teal border mix is unavailable but Sandy from the Silver Thimble may still have some. A kit has recently gone out using an electric blue as the feature fabric - I can't wait to see it made up - anytime soon Sandy????????

So as you can see Clover Club is full of inspiration. We are now running another group on the Second Thursday of the month if you are interested and more depending up on numbers.

Thankyou again for your ongoing support of our business - we do sincerely appreciate it!

Keep Stitchin'

Julie 
  

 
 

Biggest Morning Tea Cancer Day

We had a lovely day at the Uebergang's property "Tinobah" yesterday with the Biggest Morning Tea. The clover club girls did a fantastic job on the quilt which we donated to the day. Lots of raffle tickets were sold which was just wonderful in aid of this cause.

Unfortunately not all the ladies could attend but here are a couple of snaps!

Anna, Noela (my mum!) Neitta & me!

And of course the completed quilt!  

Clover Club

Again we had another great few days with clover club and again lots of projects from the ladies!

The ladies who also attended the Hannaford workshop had their completed or near completed projects with them (refer to the Hannaford workshop post).

These are Gwen's sweet treat bags using the Sweet treat bag pattern by Moda which can be made like this or with the 1 1/2" sweet roll strips!

Another gorgeous quilt by Neitta based upon the wonderful Willowberry Winter Border Print. If you scroll back through the clover club posts you will see another 2 quilts completely different but all based upon this gorgeous border print. We only have a very limited supply of this left so if you are inspired to use it be very quick!

As we have different clover club days now - we have a few "Double Up" attendees and a few that make it when they can. Anna made her first quilt a little while ago and now has just finished this bag and below she is sorting her Mill House Inn fabrics from  a Jelly Roll to start her new quilt! Can't wait to see it!

Keep an eye out for more great projects from the girls!